My semi-public address - the one that I use for sign-ups to sites and things - has only had ten spam messages since 2006, and my private address doesn't get any. The only address I've ever gotten a surplus of spam to in the past few years was a public-facing one, used for domain registration and thus visible by…

@Rose Tyler: If you do most of your browsing inside a VM, you probably won't a keylogger on the host machine, and if the VM is running Linux, you probably won't on the guest machine, either. Short of rebooting that's probably the safest thing you can do.

@CanuckEh: I call bullshit on that, sorry. I've known people from various non-Christian beliefs that had absolutely no problem with Christmas in its modern, not-overly-religious form. Leave out the nativity stuff and what do you have? A day about friends, family, gifts, and pretty lights. Most people don't have a…

@Anonymous: Glad you took it in good humour. I couldn't resist getting into the discussion when I saw your comment, and I hoped the correction wouldn't make me sound like a jerk. ;)

Interesting idea, but wouldn't an iPad do a better job? Maybe it's because my eyesight is terrible, but I'd hate reading prompts off of an iPhone at a recording-appropriate distance.

@Anonymous: Just to be pedantic, I should point out that Tux isn't a logo, it's a mascot. Furthermore, it's the mascot for Linux - as in the kernel - and not GNU/Linux. I believe Linux itself has no logo, and GNU has its own logo, which is displayed at the top of the site you linked.

@sandeepdeepak: If you're thinking of installing a version of Windows in a VM, make sure the licence allows it; Microsoft doesn't consider virtualisation a portable device and usually has separate licence terms for it. It's hard to give a definitive answer for Windows because Microsoft releases a slew of variants,…

@Yay Taco: It's one of my favourite uses of multiple logins so I like sharing it :D

@CamJN: I agree about that, and I think they probably would if they thought they could get away with it. MS is probably cautious of pushing it too aggressively and risking monopoly lawsuits. They're under a tighter set of rules than other companies due to past litigation, after all.

@TheFu: I should probably clarify: totally not stalking or anything with the whois ;P

@TheFu: Go ahead and drink one on my behalf; I've never liked alcohol very much, for some reason. :) Friends and family have gotten me to try all kinds of alcohol and I just never liked any of it. Maybe I just didn't try enough of it?

@Matt Hamer: I figured that might be the case. I just assumed the restriction only affected older passwords that hadn't been changed and wasn't necessarily a current problem.

@TheFu: I was going to suggest the same thing but you beat me to it.

@SWarnock: I don't know enough about the software to give opinions or suggestions, but this might be a good place to start: [en.wikipedia.org]

@OrtensiaAgricola: Steam mostly works fine without a reinstall, but you'll have to make any desktop/menu/taskbar shortcuts yourself. The only weird thing I can recall is Left4Dead2 didn't run properly until I ran steam with some command line switch to make it re-register a service with Windows.

You don't need multiple machines to split things up. Try using your operating system's ability to add multiple logins to split your work and focus more, instead.

@Pete Venkman: Things like that are why Egon and Ray are the brains of the group. ;)

I haven't even missed the search; I've been using Google exactly like this for a while. The site search Gawker sites use is terrible and never finds what I want, so I quit trying to use it at all. It only seems to search tags and maybe headlines, which limits its usefulness. Instead, with Google, I can search…

@PdxPhoenix: If you're using a fake answer it just means you're making two passwords for every site, which is pointless. Better to fill the answer with gibberish and forget it, or maybe make the question some kind of vague hint to the password that only you would understand.

@invisiblemonkey: The other guy knew too much; you're just covering your tracks, now. ;)