What you described is the behaviour of every company I've tried to cancel an account with.

I generally just avoid websites that have annoying ads. If they really value their ads over their content, I don't really care about their content. I generally like how Opera does it. Ads are allowed by default, and if you see an annoying you can just right click and block it!

Goldeneye.

I ran the Vista beta on my 1 gig machine (ati radeon 9700 graphics card) and it ran quite well. One thing is that Acer's bloatware tends to be absolutely horrendous in bogging down the computer it's absolutely disgusting they decide to throw all that crap in there...and it's Acer's own software, not some demos or trials that other companies pay them to throw in. I can't fathom why they would do that, and pretty much refuse to buy an Acer laptop because of that. They even threw it in on their netbook!

Regarding the recovery partition...one of the bloatware apps (Acer Recover something or other) can burn a recovery DVD disk out of that partition. You can probably redownload that app off their website to burn the recovery disk and throw Linux on it if you want.

Didn't you hear? Congress is too busy these days. They don't have time to do any of the trivial stuff.

Because I have to unlock my iphone to get it to work on my network. The one app I use that needs jailbreaking is one to disable the Edge on my phone, since I don't want to pay for data.

Don't worry. A whole ton of crap programs in the marketplace isn't a symptom of it being open source. You should see the gems on the iPhone Appstore. The choice of fart apps is outstanding.

Using jailbreaking as a justification for the iPhone's limited features doesn't really work. I have an unlocked and jailbroken iPhone, but I almost never bother to install any jailbroken apps. Everytime Apple does an update, I have to re-jailbreak and reinstall the jailbroken apps I downloaded. It's annoying.

Someone needs to recheck their math.

84 / 24 = 3.5 days of downtime.
3.5 x 50,500 = 176750 tweets lost in a year.

Not that it matters, since it's useless.

It's so we have an excuse to flame Microsoft, as per usual.

I really have no problems with multiple versions, however...I do think Microsoft needs to cut down on the number of versions they had. The need for 'starter' is for netbooks or 3rd world countries, sure. Other than that, there should be just "Home" and "Business".

I was NOT prompted when I logged in. Also, where does it say passwords are not encrypted?

Microsoft didn't really have much choice with Bungee. Sure, they were in control of the company, but they weren't in control of the people working there (ie, the creative talent). They could have held on control to Bungie, with the creative talent choosing to leave to be in control of their own fate, or release control of Bungie back to its talent, foster a relationship with them and make sure they continue to use their talent to support their console.

You're right though. Ensemble Studios doesn't make much sense, neither does this.

Hopefully at at least get a new set of bunny suicides out of it

I wasn't saying I'm sure account A infected files on account B. That's what the guy I was responding to seems to believe, that the exploit occured due to a badly written PHP script. It's more likely that it was the PHP server itself that had the exploit, or something else entirely at the website.

I'm not blaming Linux at all, nor is that what my argument is. I'm just saying that exploits can occur regardless of operating system, and just because you're on Linux does not necessarily mean your machine will not get compromised. Often, it happens because of an app, NOT the operating system. Therefore, one should blame the app, NOT the operating system. Sometimes, the OS does something stupid that allows the app to fuck up when it could have easily stopped it, and then the OS is to blame. (Not saying this was the case in my situation). However, whenever an app has an exploit in Windows, people automatically blame Windows, regardless of the situation. Whenever an app has an exploit in Linux (as was the case in my scenario), well...you could tell how everyone jumped and said it MUST be my fault, or not my fault, then the php's script's fault, and if it's not the php script's fault, then the PHP server's fault. It could never, ever be Linux' fault.

It's called sarcasm for effect. If you noticed, the person I replied to said the solution to stopping malware is to "stop making the product so absurdly exploitable". I was responding in similar fashion.