Only if you've clicked through directly from a Google search result page

Only if you've clicked through from a Google search result

"My privacy is *very* important to me. Who wants to look after my email?"

Yes, that was the point of the parent post. Hence the CISCO/"cisco dog food", LUNS/"boobies" and BBC/"bbc1" examples too

On iOS in order to update any of the apps Apple must release a full package (600MB+) and you must connect it to a computer and sync to receive these updates

This certainly *was* true, but iOS 5 will update using deltas (incremental updates), and without any requirement to ever link to a computer - it can be set up and run completely standalone. This addition is late to the party, and likely only available because of the competitors, but it is a moot point now (sorry).

Fair point, it never crossed my mind that the editors actually put any input in, so I just assumed the comment was the submitter's. But as for placing the comment, the reference to Carl Malamud makes it pretty US based

Actually we Brits don't. The service is based on the same system which already exists in the US and Australia.

Even the *submitter* didn't RTFA, which I think is a new Slashdot low.

Maybe the patent office have realised that, rather than pay someone for their hard work producing patent reports, they can download them for free over the Internet from a P2P network?

There's no point listing them. It's trivial to set up a new alias so there would never be an up-to-date exhaustive list.

The only solution is to follow the trail of redirects until you reach a real site, and look at that URL. Even then, there are ways to mask that if the spammers really want to.

It closes the hole where the unencrypted *password* can be discovered, leading to not only that one session being compromised, but other sessions being compromisable too.

It's not *perfectly* good to only encrypt the login request, but it's certainly a lot better than "not much good". Security is all about layers, remember. Like an onion.

The sleeping quarters on submarines are often *always* in use, one shift replacing another regularly.

As Phil Karlton once said

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things

You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.

The citation was given as the wordpress.org website

Or even that *possibility*. Very difficult to develop an iOS application using iOS