Just click "Quit asking me" and ignore it. Or determine the offending script and NoScript it.

Or just avoid any site stupid enough to try this idiocy.

You're not looking in the right places. Heck it doesn't even have to be torrents or anything overly illegal. Here, I'll give you some suggestions.

www.redtube.com
www.pornhub.com

(Absolutely NSFW, needless to say)

I think there needs to be some clarification as to the nature of why the game thinks it needs to be always online. Some people have suggested that ALL the computing and simulation logic happens on EA servers, but this isn't true.

It has been shown that if you lose a net connection/connection to the server, the game will continue to run offline for about 20 minutes. During this time, YOUR city will continue to simulate properly. However, neighboring cities being developed by other people will freeze in time and be held in this state until such time that your connection is reestablished (if it doesn't before the timeout, the game session ends). Once it reconnects, the state of your neighbors is synced with your city and hence any changes to your neighbors' cities during the time you were offline will immediately be represented.

If you connection drops, your city lives in isolation. Once it reconnects, it returns to the world and is affected by the effects of your neighbors. If you happen to be developing a city next to a tard who is polluting like crazy, your city will suffer the effects. That's the whole purpose of the always-online feature - to provide this MMO-style relationship between players. BUT, given the game runs fine with your city if the connection drops, this is bullshit because it means it should be trivial to enable the player to just play on their own.

The simulation logic is there, available on the installed game. EA just doesn't feel it's worth having an offline mode despite it basically being readily set up for it - it thinks being interconnected with other players who might be dicks and ruin your city is much more important.

People are DESPERATE for a game with meat and depth like the old RPGs of yesteryear. There are too many games with more concerned with quicktime events and cinematics than there are with story and character development. The big publishers seem to think that fluff is enough, but a gamer cannot survive on fluff alone.

That's nice. Can you add those properties in Nautilus as a column in details view and sort by dimensions so I know which images have the highest resolution? No? Explorer can, and it's a feature I use on occasions so it's nice to know it's there when you want it.

As for USB3, don't worry about it. It's for a Renesas controller with a chip model I can't quite remember, but the computer's from 2010 so it's doubtful (hopefully) that you'll have to deal with the problem. There are bug reports which I'd search for if I cared anymore, with some people reporting a fix but only for a slightly newer revision of the chip. The rest of the reports are not addressed by a developer. Yay for Linux, whoo! *

* Yes I know it's not a "Linux" problem so much as a manufacturer not bothering to support Linux properly. It still means I can't use the hardware to its fullest extend and hence makes the decision to use or not use Linux a little easier.

Wait, do you mean Dolphin? Apparently I HAVE tried it and you think just because I still prefer Explorer that must mean that I haven't.

As for Dolphin, it's overly complicated and has trouble quickly connecting to Samba shares (seriously, it's a bug that keeps cropping up, at least on openSUSE). Explorer isn't perfect (click on a bookmark to a shared folder that's not mounted and the whole window freezes until a timeout), but we choose our level of pain I suppose.

Weird how you can't get it to just work.

So it works for you? Great. Don't denigrate others if it doesn't work for them; computers are complex beasts - they don't work the same for everyone. Fuck I hate Linux users sometimes, basically suggesting it's odd if it has problems. It's still code written by a human.

seven cats and one dog.

Not sure how that's relevant to a discussion about an operating system. Though maybe the cat enjoys sitting on your laptops more in winter because of Linux's poor power management capabilities (read: runs hotter) compared to Windows.

If that's the direction which Apple takes, it would be a shame and he can change to something else, but again, until such that that this actually happens or is announced, OS X is still a traditional OS running anything you want.

I guess it's insightful that a lot of people know what could happen, and yet won't use Linux out of choice until their other choices (OS X/Windows) get so bad that they're basically forced to switch. That's at least what I'm going to do if I can't deal with the proprietary systems anymore - for now the (occasional) pain is worth the overall benefits compared to those in Linux, and I'm not the only one.

At least there's one sensible poster here on Slashdot. Thanks.

As for the reaction to Canonical, I think people are just getting frustrated with their frequency of behind-closed-doors development and the number of projects they're taking on despite still being a very small company which has still not turned a profit in 2013. Ubuntu TV, Ubuntu for Android, Ubuntu Mobile, Ubuntu for Tablets - lots of announcements but lots of uncertainty if they can do anything meaningful with them. And now with Mir and Canonical's clear "Not Invented Here" syndrome, it seems as though they would rather do their own thing than work with other developers such as those working on Wayland. Nothing worse than making it harder for application developers to have more platforms to target.

I like the fact that I don't get regressions with Windows updates, whereas my USB3 ports which worked upon the initial release of Ubuntu 12.04 no longer work after several kernel updates. I could stick with an older kernel/distro (and miss out on useful updates) and worry that another update will kill things again... or just stick with Windows.

I just don't find Linux to be the miracle savior to the issue of Windows anymore. Everything sucks now - just in different ways.

Nope; it would be suicide for a computer running a traditional operating system.

If that happens, I expect he'll cut his losses and move to something else. UNTIL that happens (since we're dealing with hypothetical here), he can use OS X and enjoy it I expect.

Life is uncertain. You just deal with bumps as they come - they're not life threatening.

And yet MY experience is also very different... to yours. I cannot rely on Linux simply because its user-base is so small that the niggling issues which crop up often don't get reported enough to grab the attention of a suitable developer, or are swept under the WONFIX rug. There's no point mentioning them because everyone has their own set of issues, which they either work around or go back to Windows for. I'm tired of workarounds.

I can trust a finely tuned Linux system for a mission critical task, but not for a general purpose desktop.

To clarify my post - it might sound like trolling, but only because it appears to be bashing Linux even if it deserves it sometimes. In reality I kinda like Linux. We use it at work on our servers (CentOS specifically), it has its uses on things like the Raspberry Pi and as the basis for Android as well as plenty of other applications. But as a desktop system it's just woeful IMHO and I'm fucking tired of so many half-baked components that crop up which don't get supported or tested sufficiently (mostly in consumer-focused distros) that it becomes disillusioning after a while. Windows has its problems too, but everything does. Fanboyism doesn't and shouldn't elevate an operating system over another.

I found myself moving from Linux back to Windows 7. Turns out I didn't actually care what fanboys proclaimed Linux could do if the software I wanted to run didn't exist in Linux. Or that my USB3 ports were busted in Linux due to a regression in the kernel that no-one bothered to fix. Or that there aren't any GUI file managers that are as quick at displaying info (and enough details including bitrates and resolutions) that are capable in Explorer.

Shame. But I think I've rid myself of the fanboy stink and use whatever the fuck I want now.

I dunno, anyone who just clicks the Desktop tile and uses it the same way they always have.