That's why I liked Crashplan when i first saw it. This may sound like a sales pitch but I'm just a happy customer.

With Crashplan you can have multiple destinations for your backup set. I usually have three:
- same HD in case I accidentally deleted some files.
- USB HD for faster recovery in case my primary HD breaks.
- Online "in the cloud", in case my house burns down etc.

Crashplan detects when I plug in the USB HD and automatically starts running updating the backup on it. If there's no internet the first two destinations will still keep me pretty safe. Once the internet is back it catches up on the cloud destination.

It works just fine on my Linux Mint laptop as well as my Windows desktop pc.

They can. However the recent Hotmail spam I've gotten actually seem to originate from Hotmail servers. In addition the spamming stops once the user changes the account password, which wouldn't happen if they spoofed the sender address.

Big difference: you don't have to know the details for everyone in the group. It's enough that at least one member of the group knows the details, but it doesn't have to be you. And different people can know the names of different people, and invite them to the group.

Due to this I'm now effortlessly chatting with my gaming clan from 2004, which split up many years ago, and I only recalled the name of one of them.

Can it be done via email and such? Yes. But I must say Facebook makes it a lot easier and more convenient in this case.

You do know that you only need to get one of them right, right? And that one is usually pretty easy.

I find reCAPTCHA to be one of the easiest captchas to get correct. Sometimes you get an oddball one, but I've never gotten two such in a row. Why all the hate?

Funny, because that's exactly why I ditched Chrome and went back to FF. They changed and removed functionality several times in the year I used it exclusively. And extensions couldn't access the relevant data to replace the lost functionality. Finally grew tired of this and the lack of cache settings, and I've been using FF again since.

I'd do what Wikipedia does, turn it into a disambiguation page, listing all relevant pages.

This is entirely up to the publisher.

For example most, if not all, games from Codemaster uses a reasonable conversion. F1 2011 costs $37.50 or 29.90 euro, depending on if you're in the US or EU. Ok so it's not perfect but it's at least reasonably close.

I saw the episode when it originally aired as well, and I quite distinctly recall mentioning to my buddy that it was silly to estimate the range by the usage on a race track, since nobody would, or should, drive like that on public roads.

I think you're mixing it up with the part that comes a bit later, where he says

I haven't followed the case closely, I have no idea how this specific segment holds up.

He said no such thing, at least in the episode I watched. What he did say was

Emphasis and errors are mine.

So yeah, the images were overly dramatic which makes the whole thing seem bigger than it is, but that's not really that uncommon in the news world now is it.

Reference: http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/electric-shocker