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Be fair; anyone who wants to send me a "top secret" email, but has to go to facebook to find my email address; I don't want them sending me their "secrets".

Ctrl+U, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+S

target="_blank" on next page links; that's "special"

All UK schools are more than a 'wee bit twitchy' about random adults on site AT ALL.

Apple has been doing this for years already. Want a 15" screen? You WILL be having an i7 then. (which might account for why Apple's 'entry' level 15" is 3x the cost of its competit…

I do. 5 overall states for email: unread read+star (urgent/reminder) read (todo/reference for current tasks/projects) archived (done + keep for reference) deleted (done + not neede…

Don't know about NewEgg, but I have personally received a windows PC from Staples (UK) that already had a user account for 'dave' on it. I am not a Dave.

Actually I think (for me at least; also a web dev that does unix based stuff but also needs photoshop), the lower-friction route is to run Windows as the native OS, and virtualbox …

You're right; the RF anechoic chambers are designed to absorb differently. However because they still do that at least partly through thick walls and foam cones; RF chambers are al…

Indeed; it seems every interesting question on there is removed as off-topic. Sounds like a key indicator that S-O is ripe for displacement...

But the title of your submission retains the use of the word "my" which implies (no; states) ownership by the author of that title...

IANAL - but with the DPA and other EU data/privacy laws: at the point that the data was collected inside but transmitted outside the EU. Its treated somewhat like an export, or a b…

You've appeared to miss the fact that the OED lists as definition 1 the COMMON usage, and further definitions are LESS USED. Ergo; using an uncommon usage, you have to accept that …

Irrelevant. That the possibility for an email client to be so configured that it would AUTOMATICALLY process a false positive validation, makes this system utterly unusable for any…

"If I send a secret to you in the post, and you put the envelope in the recycling unopened, have I disclosed a secret to you?" Oh god yes. Everyone who reads your comment is hoping…

Charging in Dollars is /precisely/ something that changes every time the exchange rate moves. It also makes you look like: A - amateurs B - you don't understand or care about marke…

"Is there any front where google managed to beat a good established product (except Android) ?" Are you serious? Try WEB SEARCH. Actually; Web Search Web Advertising Web Based Emai…

You're not wrong; I'm still eagerly awaiting a Google Reader account that uses my actual email, rather than dumping me out to the root Apps address! (I've been eagerly waiting for …

"It looks like certain accounts were compromised, how? I don't know, " Maybe they all had Playstations?

"This could get to the point whereby the skill level required to protect an application or server goes way higher than the skill level of many developers." We reached that point qu…

"So, really, what does this mean to LockInfo…" I'll tell you what it means for LockInfo; I was, seriously, about to buy LockInfo (my trial runs out on the 12th, and I'd made the de…

"While I don't like to attribute a book's content to it's author" Where else should it be attributed?

Simple; PHP is everywhere. Meaning; you must go out of your way to find a host which supports Django (not far out of your way, but still) You would have to go out of your way to fi…

Venn Diagrams are like Irony - far more people use the term than actually understand what it means. Most of the diagrams on that site aren't Venn Diagrams at all - some are just...…

Certain I'm not the only one who raised an eyebrow at "it's a matrix problem" and the cranking out of Matlab to find solutions to x+y = 6