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And thus, my dream of finally getting a Sparrow native client for iPad is crushed, like bug.

Who wants to build a really super good Gmail client for iPad? Both Google's web-based version as well as their native app are pretty feature-light, and slow, so it seems like there's definitely a market there.

> In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.

Somebody read 1984 and rooted for Big Brother.

Google makes the lion's share of its profits from ad revenue. Chrome is a big billboard. A shiny, speedy billboard, but a billboard nonetheless. It's no big surprise for them to want to monetize it eventually.

I would imagine the reason Microsoft never entertained that idea with IE is because Microsoft's core business is selling software, not selling ads. If you're running IE, you already gave MS money, either directly or indirectly.

I also used to run a BBS. We had a small enough userbase (a couple hundred folks, with maybe 30-40 real diehards) and modem tones were unique enough above 14.4K that I could tell with reasonable certainty whom was calling in at any given time. I don't know if this would scale but it was pretty handy for freaking out anyone who happened to be hanging out in the computer room.

Also, at no point did I abuse my local console access powers to cause people to fly into heavily fortified sectors in Trade Wars. That would be mean.

Absolutely I can relate. You seem to have distilled my head.

I have, unfortunately, never discovered a solution. If you figure it out, remember to share.