Posts by johnny raindrop

Gmail is secure. Netflix is secure. Together they're a phishing threat

I immediately assumed "well, gee; the RFC (2822) should answer this definitively". So I looked and found out that "The local-part portion is a domain dependent string. In addresses, it is simply interpreted on the particular host as a name of a particular mailbox." There is no definition of how that interpretation works. I also thought emails were always lower case, but then realized that _my_ ISP says it translates to all lower case, but there is no such requirement in the RFC.

I still think it is bad practice to blur something that people think of as a unique identifier.

Google's 'fair use' mass slurping of books can continue – US Supremes snub writers' pleas

Re: "Out of print" is a mortal sin

"As an author, I think it is disgraceful that Google can do whatever they want with my works and not pay me a penny."

Yes. People should only be able to look at the cover of your book before buying it. No sense in letting any freeloaders see what you wrote.