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  1. Re:Thunderbird is awesome on Windows on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thunderbird is the ONLY mail client which handles IMAP properly on windows in my opinion... sure Outlook can do it, but it's very painful (delete, then purge for example, who's dumb idea was that). Also, components like Enigmail are awesome... nothing on outlook compares in my opinion... I really hope the old tbird continues...

  2. Re:$2000 guy not the "worst offender" on Getting Gouged by Geeks · · Score: 1

    I agree, $2000 is not beyond the realms of imagination for a decent hard disk recovery service.

  3. Re:Link and Driving Directions on A Coveted Landing Strip for Google's Founders · · Score: 1

    That 15 minute ride from San Jose must be a bitch...

  4. Won't someone think of the heatsyncs... on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    Actually, my crappy Acer AMD64 laptop overheated constantly (to the point of crashing out and shutting down) whenever I ran Fedora on it...

  5. Re:Hope the get a jury award ... on Google Sued Over Deceptive Search Results · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've run adwords campaigns before, very useful things. The best thing about them is that they're cheap as chips, and they're instant.

    If it's just one company hogging the sponsored links with fakes, then it's more than likely this is a tiny portion of their advertising budget, so probably doesn't stretch to much... have you actually seen the keywords involved here... they wouldn't exactly constitute a major investment on the part of the advertiser... (well, not until about an hour ago anyway)

  6. Re:Hope the get a jury award ... on Google Sued Over Deceptive Search Results · · Score: 1

    Wow, that would be like a couple of hundred dollars or something for the adwords involved...

    Think of what a car dealership could do with that... like not rip someone off for a change?

  7. And this is google's problem how? on Google Sued Over Deceptive Search Results · · Score: 1

    With the speed that these things need to change to work, it would be pretty crippling if Google needed to check every single adword purchase for trademark infringement before it was published (and this would open up more cans of worms than I can be bothered to think of right now).

    Surely this is simply down to another company using deceptive practises to earn trade, or just a knee jerk reaction by the victim to shoot the messenger.

  8. I predict this story will be.. on Tech Companies Draw on 'Wisdom of the Crowds' · · Score: 1

    .. 23 popular

  9. Cardboard cutout of myself on Computer Voodoo? · · Score: 1

    The number of times problems have disappeared just with my mere presence, I considered printing up a proxy.

  10. Re:Just direct the sound better! on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I wonder what you could do with a parabolic reflector (e.g. break a window or two)?

  11. Just direct the sound better! on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds of this frequency are very easy to block as they're extremely directional.

    If he wants to keep people off his lawn, just stick a cowel over it, so that it directs the sound down. If he has grass on his lawn, that should damp it down enough so that you have to physically be on his lawn to hear it.