I'm surprised to see so many people had issues with their OCZ SSDs. I've been running my 256GB OCZ Agility III for over a year with zero issues. I use the drive strictly for the OS partitions though, all my games and media are on my 1TB & 2TB drives. For what I paid for it, I feel like I've already gotten my use out of it. If it does fail on me, that's what backups are for.

Don't know why I'm bothering to respond to an AC but what the hell, I'll bite.

When was the last time you actually used a good install of Windows, that is one that isn't full of malware/crapware that comes pre-installed from OEMs? Windows has been pretty rock-solid since XP SP 2 (skipping Vista of course). I'm currently running my gaming desktop dual-boot with Windows 8.1 (with Classic Shell of course) & Linux Mint no problem.

I admit that Windows lacks a lot of the things that make Linux great for power users, but at the same time I virtually never have issues with Windows. I've never once had issues with multi-monitor support and I run a dual, sometimes triple monitor configuration.

But go ahead and spread your FUD AC, what do I know?

As far as ways to communicate online goes, I'm not sure how useful of a tool this would be. I can definitely see how this could easily become the best way to learn sign language though if paired with Rosetta Stone-like tutoring software. My wife has been planning to learn sign language soon, I'm sure she'd love to have something like this as a learning aide.

I'd gladly have spent an extra $20 on this if they'd stuck with a sane form factor. The pictures of this device look horrible, this is possibly the least convenient design I've seen for a device that claims to be portable.

If a user has a website remember their login via a cookie, and I make a copy of that cookie and put it into my browser, I will be logged in as that user? I am shocked...

It doesn't take much to be considered an "hacking professor" now days, does it?

I see a lot of people here saying how Americans don't care that their rights are being violated and that we're too stupid to realize it, this is true in most cases, I agree. Let me be clear, it's not that I am not aware, and it's certainly that I don't care, it's that I am a realist. My opinion isn't going to amount to anything to the powers that be that are able to get a project like this underway, so I don't generally vocalize my opposition to horrible abominations such as this when I see them.

I have enough going on in my life right now that affects me everyday as it is. I don't have the time to protest this, and if I did have the time, quite honestly I'd rather spend it doing something that I enjoy with the people that I love. I am completely opposed to the Big Brother direction that the US government has taken. If I thought I had a snowball's chance in hell of having an impact on whether or not this project would take place then I would gladly try to do my part to protest it. In my logical mind though, I know that in all likeliness, this data-mining operation won't end up having a direct impact on my life and I have no say in whether or not it takes place anyways.

It's getting to the consoles now as well. I was fully intent on purchasing Battlefield 3 for PC, but I'd already gone well over my gaming budget due to good Steam deals. Some friends and I went out and rented a copy of BF3 on Xbox 360 instead just to find out that you need to enter a one-time use code that comes with the game to access the multiplayer. I fully understand the used game market hurts the developers; however, would it really have been unreasonable to include a 3-7 day trial for renters like myself.

I'm glad this happened though, after playing the single-player campaign instead I deemed the game not worthy of a purchase. EA had a definite sale with me and managed to mess it up, my how these DRM schemes save them so much money.

Anyone who thought the idiotic DRM schemes from Ubisoft were really going to stop was delusional. I've been boycotting Ubisoft ever since their "always on Internet connection" DRM for Assassin's Creed 2 was introduced. Once they pulled that move I trashed all my Ubisoft products (of which I had many) and haven't so much as touched a demo from them ever since.

I suggest any of you who like to play your legally purchased games how/when you want to should do the same. And to those of you who say to just go pirate the game, you're simply treating the symptom & not the problem. Let them know that they can't pull these sorts of things or it'll catch on to other developers soon enough (I'm looking at you EA).

Does this have something to do with the stupid EA Origins tie-in that caused Valve to pull the stupid game from Steam? http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/16/crysis-2-steam-removal-not-an-ea-decision/

A few friends I know on AT&T used to do that, then they started getting letters from the carrier to cease using the unauthorized thethering application or they'd start getting billed for an upgraded data plan that included tethering in it's cost. It's not exactly difficult to tell PC traffic from smartphone traffic & they're not afraid to do so if it means extra cash for them.

No need to launch CloneZilla, all the bash script would have to do is:

1. Get confirmation from the user to perform the restore
2. dd if=/path/to/backup.img of=/dev/sda1(or whichever is the main partition)
3. Reboot