We have a national Insurance number, which I believe is a bit like the American SS#.

The one feature Xmarks had (apart from cross browser syncing) that Chrome's built in sync doesn't do is let you control which bookmarks each of your PCs get, for example at work I have a few local only bookmarks, I don't want these on any browsers but my work ones, likewise I have internal links to a couple of boxes at home. This also allowed me to have a link to a box at home link to the 192.168.1.x address and at work my external ip.

Incompatible yes, idiot proof no. I have seen a couple of people who managed to jam a USB plug into the network socket of their laptop.

Out of interest, what has happened to stop you playing HL2? My pre ordered boxed copy is still working fine on steam, and I've gone through at least 3 PCs in that time.

I'm slightly confused as to how being banned from online servers has anything to do with DRM, given that a game with no DRM could still implement a similar anti cheat system to Valve's VAC.

Assuming MW2 works anything like the Valve games with VAC (I'm thinking this may be unlikely as it has no dedicated servers), when you get VAC banned your account is prevented from playing on VAC secured servers (although the unsecured servers tend to be crap and full of people using cheats).

I have a personal account and a work account.

The work account is mostly used for Analytics, but I do occasionally use docs (mostly for collaborative work on a spreadsheet).

I prefer to keep the two separate, one reason being I don't want coworkers/bosses having my home email address(es).

It was a phone number you could call (at least in the uk http://www.shazam.com/music/web/pages/2580.html) long before the iPhone even existed.

Thats simple to get round, you just don't release a dedicated server for your game, and force everyone to use your matchmaking service for P2P play.

I just had to do some reading up on the Volt, you do realise after the first 40 Miles it has to switch to a petrol powered engine to generate electricity to drive the motor/charge the batteries.

I will admit it does have a higher MPG than most petrol cars, and is similar to most Diesel car's MPG.

I wonder if all the plastics in a Volt are recycled, and on that subject (but perhaps less importantly) if the lubricants it uses are made from crude oil?

Disclaimer: I should probably be doing things to reduce my use of oil, my car only gets around 35 MPG, and I drive the mile to work each day, and I guess I could probably shop a bit closer to home instead of the 40mile weekly round trip to Tesco.

Apparently not using Garry's mod, seems it was with the Source SDK.

Well there have been 2 official EVE books, EVE: Burning Life and EVE: The Empyrean Age, which admittedly I haven't read so I can't comet on their suitability for conversion to a movie. However there is the fan made Clear Skies, using a combination of footage from EVE mixed with footage shot using Garry's Mod (Source engine sandbox mod) for interior shots, which I think could very well be expanded to a feature length movie (hell Clear skies 1 and 2 together are 1.4 hours long) and seems to capture the universe fairly well.

A while ago they added NoAI which allowed for user coded AIs. Several of these user coded AIs are quite good and certianly much much better than the original.

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewforum.php?f=65

Well apart from anyone who wants to host video on the web, who will have to either transcode on the fly (is that even possible?), or store 2 copies of the video, taking up around twice the space (assuming both formats produce the same filesize for the same quality , which as I understand they don't). And then what happens when Microsoft brings out IE X.X (Now with HTML5 video tag support!) which will only play back wmvs, thus requiring a third copy of the file.

Unless I'm missing some sarcasm,

Porky Pie = Lie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_pie#Names_and_references

Exchange has both POP3 and IMAP servers available (at least in 2007) but both are disabled by default.