I ended up just restoring off a backup and re-updating bit defender. Whatever update I got no longer had the faulty code in it. I emphasized to my friends and family the importance of having a system backup available for just such emergencies.

If everyone who signed the petition canceled their pre-order and/or boycotts the game, that's already over $5mil in lost sales. I'm guessing that through word of mouth that number will certainly go up.

I'm agnostic about Zeus. You got proof Zeus does not or never did exist? Maybe the judeochristian god was Zeus. Didn't consider that one, did ya? From wordnet: a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist). That says it all about my position, and given the state of our sciences I dare you to prove the absolute non-existance of God.

I share wikipedia's aim of freely redistributable content and images, so when I have a photo that's helpfull I upload it. I'd like to think that a few of the photos I take are better than what someone took with a little digicam. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soarin'_Over_California.JPG It might be quite soft, but the wide angle can't be beat.

And I suppose you know how an FTL drive powered by a matter-antimatter reaction which pushes a ship outside the normal space-time continuum will react with a singularity?

For now, sure, but there are numerous android devices coming out and in development. When android devices outnumber iphones 5 to 1, we'll see which platform gets more love.

This is GPG's own fault, I've read the post and the comments, and having the game connect to the servers on launch was a mistake. War3 doesn't check for updates until I get signed on to battlenet, and that's how it should have been here. The pirate/customer ratio does indeed suck, and they have my condolences, but this problem isn't entirely of the pirate's making.

It's stories like this that make me glad to have Verizon FiOS. In the years we have had it, I can't remember if we have ever had a service outage, the speed is always outstanding, and I have yet to find even a hint that Verizon is going to cap, limit, throttle, or otherwise impair the service. If you ever get the chance, switch to FiOS right away.

So you're saying you've Googlefacevidtubetwatted?

That's assuming it forgets you were just on the server. If it assigns each steam id as being able to contribute a max of 45 points per server per week, or per server per day, etc, then that sort of trick wouldn't work.

Well, that's a bummer, but it wont shut down TPB, might even turn these guys into martyrs in the eyes of their peers...

And what's the judge going to do if the bulk of the operation is outside his jurisdiction? Last I heard was that American banning online poker didn't also kill it in the UK.

As I recall, one of the guys running the site said they had made arrangements such that the actual hardware is no longer under their direct control, so even if they are all found guilty, it would be outside their ability to shut it down, even if ordered to do so by a court.

How many gigaquads does this translate to?