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I'm unsurprised people are unwilling to pay for this service: InboxCleaner provides very little added value on top of a service which is free. Further: it's trivial for a competito…

I'm not defending Google, I'm just pointing out that, unlike Facebook, their founders haven't declared the "Age of Privacy" as over. FWIW: I dislike Facebook but I use it anyway be…

Are suggesting that the personal information you upload to Facebook isn't available to random strangers at that particular corporation? At least Google has aspirations of not being…

> on a unix server, you have to be root to read everyone's data. > on an os x laptop, you can be the logged-in user and read everyone's data Shenanigans. Unless you have the passwo…

Commodore USA have been promising this stuff for ages and nothing has materialised. It looks like vapourware to me.

I think Google went about this ass-backward. I can seldom judge the usefulness of a site just based on a list of returned results -- however -- I can often filter out junk (anythin…

To sum up a needlessly long piece: manufactured candy became an institution in the 1970s amid fears of homemade sweets being unsafe. In Romania we have a night for carolers in earl…

I don't see the point. If you want a "receipt", read a Budget overview article.

Why do I feel like my WP blog is suddenly contaminated?

So it's not enough that I spend hours working and tailoring my CV and cover letter for every job application and hours more writing answers to selection critera. Now you want me to…

I've written some software which I occasionally receive emails about. I'll say this: if you ask an intelligent question, I will very likely help you. However, if you follow that up…

For some weeks after I stopped drinking coffe each time I had a cup of, say, barley coffee (which is caffeine free) I would get a buzz. It's an interesting experiment that demonstr…

On the east coast it tends to be true. As others have mentioned it might not hold on the west coast. I just wanted to give a counterexample that shows how shallow the OP's argument…

In Australia, where the prevailing winds are also westerlies, the opposite is true. i.e. the east of most cities is more prestigious than the west.