Let me fix that for you: "US More Expensive than Other 1st World Countries". I am in Brazil and I pay U$ 160,00 for 50 Mbps. In fact, I pay that for a 50 Mbps last-mile link, because my real Internet download performance hardly comes to that. We have a national regulation / monitoring agency (Anatel) that watch broadband services and, surprise, carriers always miss their monthly performance targets.

Just upgraded two PCs. a Sony Vaio VPCZ2290X legacy PC (with TPM) and a HP Envy2. *BOTH* were configured to use BitLocker Drive Encryption. Both were configured to ask for a PIN at boot. Guess what? Windows 8.1 upgrade not only booted the machine lots of times but it didnt ask for the PIN, not only once.

I dont know if I should worry. Guess that I should, only if I have something private stored on those (and I mean... something I dont want Microsoft or any government to get their hands on).

Once the upgrade completed, it started asking for the PIN again. Please correct me if I am wrong (I want to be!!) but, in my head, that means only two possible things:

1. Windows stores my PIN or
2. Windows has a key to secretly access bitlocker drives directly

I dont know what is worse.

To be honest, if I had any doubt about the complete lack of security, privacy etc on the platform, this simple thing just washed it clean.

Does anyone know when TrueCrypt will be available for Windows 8, with PBA?

Years ago my life used to be a mess. I started playing EVE-Online. Played for years and, during that period, my life got messier. I just got transported to the MMOG world for good. Used to play 16 to 18 hours a day at peak. But I don't regret it. It was not the root cause of my depression, but something else. In fact, I've made some really nice friends I talk to even years after that. In fact, the game, the people involved, and lots of other game related factors made me feel "useful" again. I mean, It is just a game, but those accomplishments got to the point where I asked myself: "if I'm able to accomplish things in a game, and have a social life inside an UI, why can't I have this IRL ?" Well, now I have it. Now I can say for sure that EVE helped me a lot. I have an active account (in fact, 2) and I simply don't have the time to play anymore, of course, due to real life. But tbh, I would like to have the time to play again somehow.