Evaluating the merits of a language within 5 minutes, a brief article, and personal bias... seems legit

UltraLaser... DoctorDoom...

Most set to smart media players are shipping with Cinavia. Roku, Netgear NeoTV, now WDTV Live, to name a popular few implement Cinavia protection. Going forward it will eventually be all of them.

I'm not even going to comment on your other "solutions".

The torrented version up to this point had 3 ways to go with this:

1. - Rip from bluray and tell people trying to play it on a smart appliance that detects the cinavia watermark "lol ur stewpid. Get real hardware loser" or "OMG it plays on my laptop via VLC fine. Shut up n00b."
2. - Maim the audio stream to an unintelligible mess to the point the water mark isn't detected, but deal with the fact that you can't even tell what you are hearing most of the time
3. - Rip the audio stream from the DVD copy and match it up with the bluray video stream

The last was the most popular until recently where they are putting cinavia in the audio tracks of the DVDs as well now.

"Audio outputs temporarily muted. Do not adjust the playback volume. The content being played is protected by Cinavia and is not authorized for playback on this device. For more information, see http://www.cinavia.com./ Message Code 3."

Never going to happen. DUIs of people at that level is very very lucrative

The cops and psychiatrists do it all just the same.

No one WANTS VNC. The very idea of POLLING for changes is pretty much the worst approach to a remote display that you can come up with.

No, no they haven't. If you google search, you come up with "Something something someone somewhere greasmonkey".

No, see, everyone that is displaced by automation should "Quit being lazy and find a job!" :| There will be an ever increasing pool of jobless folks competing for an ever shrinking job pool. This is why the welfare and healthcare issues right now are so important. If we allow them to scale them back or even terminate them, imagine when a majority of everyone needs it.

By the time a CPU submits a share it is stale. There are much more profitable ways to use a botnet

They certainly won't have access to the 3rd party widget X that they are using

Sure. Kylix and Quake 2 are the first that come to mind (in terms of commercial software). But if you want to see something more GPL/Open Source originating, take, say, XFree86 from Slackware 4.0 and try to run it on Slackware 14. Same thing.

Man, you are making a HUGE assumption that the binaries are accompanied by source code. If it was a contracted piece or a commercial piece, this is certainly not the case

Because of Visual Studio, that's why. Diebold in particular has a few in-house devs that exclusively use Visual Basic.