Source? Not at all. Cause? Yup.
Wikileaks is undeniably in the chain of events that led to the "revenge" DDoSs. However, claiming that they "caused" the attacks implies that they are partly responsible, which I don't feel is accurate.
Summarised chain of events: Wikileaks releases big leak > governments complain > Amazon, Paypal, Visa terminate Wikileaks's service; Wikileaks gets DDoSed > sympathetic third parties DDoS Amazon, Paypal and Visa.
That's quite a few steps to imply causation. To use a car analogy, it would be the equivalent of claiming that one traffic light's timing caused an accident three intersections down the road.
The TSA isn't the problem. Politicians scaring the public, and a public easily scared are the problem.
Politicians scaring the public, TSA scarring the public.
I firmly believe that the way the products we have are going, they need to be connected online...
... in an attempt to curb piracy. This has nothing to do with actual multiplayer.
I wouldn't mind more games with full campaign co-op, though.
Did you actually think about how others use the keys before you so cavalierly decided to banish a key? And why pick on insert delete when there is so much more low hanging fruit? Why not pick on F9-F12? Scroll lock?! Or the duplicated forward slashes or pipe key? Who uses tilde or grave!? And I guess we couldn't get rid of one set or the other of the windows keys?
Personally, I cannot dispense with a single key for me or my clients.
I agree fully with keys being indispensable. But even removing the "low hanging fruit" is likely to make a lot of people very angry:
F10: used in many games to bring up the menu.
F11: very common shortcut key for switching an application to fullscreen.
Scroll lock: occasionally useful to pause the pages of text running through your console (Linux). On windows I remap it as a PTT button on my mouse, but that's just cause it's the least likely button to interfere with games. Second most likely key to be banished.
Forward slashes: left one is for typing/coding. You may notice the right hand one is part of a calculator-like arrangement. It is definitely useful.
Pipe key: Mainly used in coding environments. On my keyboard it's shift-\, so if you're using a Microsoft OS, I wouldn't recommend dumping it since you may need it to type paths.
Tilde/grave: Non-English languages, programming.
Windows keys: If you absolutely must drop a key, the right hand windows key will have to go.
tl;dr - all keys are used by somebody, so lets not go dumping keys just because we don't use it.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
