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Immediately after installing Google Chrome a few days ago, my firewall started reporting that GoogleUpdate.exe was attempting to connect to the internet — specifically to an-in-f***.google.com on ports 80 and 443. I thought to myself “Fine” and permitted the traffic. However, about 5 minutes later after I had already exited Google Chrome, I got the same alert. I continued getting this alert every few minutes until I got pissed off and uninstalled Chrome entirely. After restarting Windows, GoogleUpdate.exe was still requesting Internet access every few minutes. Next I found an entry in the Startup tab of msconfig, removed it, restarted, no dice. Long story short, it wasn’t until I manually removed all instances of Chrome and GoogleUpdate from the registry and cleared out Documents and Settings\***\Local Settings\Application Data\Google that this madness finally ceased.

Google Chrome: promising browser, ridiculous updater.

dreamt of meteorites. was awesome.

how is it possible that i set an alarm to remind myself to bid on something and *still* forgot to bid?

Today on 3W I spotted a special New York license plate: “ACIDBRN”

I tried to catch up to the guy but lost him in traffic. But even if I did catch up to him, what was I going to do? I wonder if there is a universal hacker signal to go along with the universal hacker emblem.