There's not excuse not to back up ALL your files for that matter. lol

Get an external hard drive and use Time Machine. Time Machine can also encrypt your backups using CoreStorage - the same technology used in FileVault. If something happens, as did with me recently, and your encrypted drive is inaccessible, restore from a backup.

I'm afraid you are a bit misguided. If you use an encryption solution such as FileVault on the Mac, your data is protected with the keys generated from the password you chose. Nobody can randomly change the password you supplied without having that password to begin with.

It depends on the model. Once you have accessed the internals of the Mac, it's not that difficult to locate and remove the battery. After all, if you're aware of how to reset the firmware password by pulling the battery, chances are, you're knowledgeable enough to enter the system and find it without much trouble.

False. If FileVault is used, even legacy FileVault, the only contents available to you would be those not encrypted. With FileVault 2 and full disk encryption, your attempts to view someone's data with Linux or anything else would be futile without first breaking the encryption by either obtaining the password or…

Apparently TrueCrypt wasn't quite as rugged as we thought, now was it?

My Beagle, Snoopy... (shut up), has countless problems. He showed up malnourished, covered in ticks, has been abused, likely had a car-related injury, been attacked twice, and has mental problems. He's the only dog I've ever had that loves to snuggle under my blanket at night. I'm looking for a sweater for him to help…

format C:\

Fair enough. I usually ignore the posts that don't interest me. Guess I never paid attention before.

Why, exactly, is this filed under Evil Week? Dafuq?

Programs like that are best done with a professional around. They can be your lifeline to push you past whining like a baby while stopping you from over exertion suicide.

It's always wise to slow down and see if it eases up. If so, you can start pushing again. If it continues, it's likely time to call it quits and get checked.

Another fine article from the lousy team at Gawker...

You can message me and we can test it if you'd like. (hi at cedwardsmedia dot com)

Typically, messages deleted from one device are not deleted from all devices. That being said, if your iPhone or iPad is the only device you use a given Messages account on, then yes, they're gone for good.

Ironic, I don't know of any OS that can run an app for which the APIs are not available on. Last I checked, the only time you're "really" prevented from running an app is when the OS doesn't provide the API needed for it.

Ok forget LastPass and go get Dashlane, it's ten times better and more reliable, not to mention safer. Secondly, how about Privacy Badger from EFF? It's still in beta but it's better than most alternatives.

You hit the nail on the head. The KERNEL is Linux. However, the OPERATING SYSTEM is technically GNU (everyone tends to forget/overlook that these days). So technically, he's using a flavor of the GNU operating system utilizing the Linux kernel. :p

Guess what.…you're gonna die anyway. I'd rather die tonight at 27 staring into my microwave watching my artery clogging burgers get reheated from the night before than to die 102 sitting by the fireplace in a nursing home slurping down cream of broccoli soup.

Be careful if it's from Microsoft, they're likely full of bugs, trojans, backdoors, viruses, spyware, adware, and will require a 305862834-long serial number that won't work unless you use it on the right version of the book, and then you'll likely have to reinstall the book every few months because the registry will…