I know, right? I never get the good emails. I just get continual emails from GM about some guy's onstar and service appointments for his minivan - none of which have an unsubscribe.

Lol. You're a lot meaner about this than I am, though I did get a certain pleasure in cancelling the facebook account that someone opened with my address.

Now we just need the FBI to vet all our politicians. It'd be interesting to see what our government would look like if noone lied.

Real drag racers already have to contend with getting detached retinas, and I don't think there's a solution yet.

Another poster commented that trolls were a problem back in usenet days. Trolls were just a lot more limited in what they could do.

Since you brought up politics, this harmless "words on a screen" sounds a lot like what resulted in the shooting of Senator Gabrielle Giffords. There are way too many crazy people in the world to be putting people's personal information out there. This is also much like what happened to Valerie Plame during the Bush administration.

Why post AC? Are you afraid of the same thing happening to you?

Words on a screen with her address, social security number, and a made up story designed to manipulate the public into wanting to do something to her? I can imagine a campaign like that being rather frightening.

Mainly because it looks bad ass.

With that mindset, we might as well be driving gas guzzlers from the 70s and never bother with trying to conserve anything.

Another poster mentions that a 16 bit function consisting of "15 AND gates" takes 31 GB of space and takes 3 hours to process. That actually does seem beyond a human to unobfuscate, but I bet a well written tool should be capable (if they can actually find the part that matters in that 31 GB).

Instead of shooting yourself, try a vacation to Vegas or Thailand and partaking of available services. Or hell, quit your job and explore the world.

I work at a non-profit and have installed win 7 on machines with as little as 512MB ram. As long as you don't run any antivirus, they are usable and a 1GB machine is just fine for internet browsing and office apps. Now if you want to install an antivirus, you are talking 1.5GB minimum for a responsive system. I'd bet your wife's laptop had a bunch of always running corporate junkware on it and it may also have full disk encryption to deal with.

That may be so. How long do you think it took DOS to boot up then?

Maybe he only has 512MB of ram and antivirus running. That'll cause a fair bit of hd thrashing.