I was concerned about this as well, and frequent crashes on my laptop (battery empty) can ruin a file system (I have made some bad experience with reiser4 in that regard).

However, I tried it, including forced poweroffs while writing, many crashes, etc., and it is fine. You mount the encryption, and recover the file system as usual, and the encryption layer does not influence the recovery at all.

I can recommend ext4 with LUKS (cryptsetup). It is very easy to set up for a single partition. You can choose AES or TwoFish (512 bit key).

The other thing I was worried about was read/write throughput. There is a benchmark utility that will tell you how how different cyphers perform. However I have never noticed any difference when working with encryption, probably because data comes in blocks and is cached efficiently by the kernel. Today, I do not see any obstacles for encrypting some partitions.

No it's not because you can add your own, or third-party repos, without needing authorisation.

To install python libraries like scipy, matplotlib, etc. Apparently that is such a pain in MacOS, and there are so many half-assed distributions methods that you can really botch your system. It makes sense to run a Virtual Machine with Linux on it.

So you have not read any, and have no idea what you are talking about. Start with the open source definition (opensource.org) and the Free Software Foundation (gnu.org).
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...
http://opensource.org/faq#free...

You are making, unintentionally, an excellent point that one should refer to gratis software and libre software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
GCompris is always libre software, but sometimes not gratis. That is OK with both the FSF/GNU and OSI.

The president on Friday argued there must be a technical way to keep information private, but ensure that police and spies can listen in when a court approves.

If the court approves, they can just go and obtain the computers. That is already solved.

If the hard disk is encrypted (very rare I suspect), the expectation of legal costs or indefinite holding at Gitmo without any trial are already there as motivation to comply.

No, better spying is not what we need. It destroys our freedom of speech and quality of life. We need due process. We need protection of all those not proven guilty yet, because it could be any one of us.

They probably try to avoid torturing with Tasers. This happens when the Taser is activated multiple times or for extensive durations (e.g. 3 minutes, causing death)

That would be great, but it is currently not possible to run a mobile recording camera 24/7 with the batteries available today.

Noise could also be proportional to the unresolved intensity. However, you can see that the dots are actually round, and thus resolved stars, and not simple individual pixel noise.

So someone without money, shopping, hygiene and a job is not a person. Wow, it doesn't take much to see that you are a hard-on capitalist.
Apes were doing their care and feeding just fine before humans came along. Why should they have to fit into our society if we didn't make an effort to preserve theirs?

You know nothing. You put the cannons at the windows, and shoot at the wings of the other planes. Once they are hit, you throw hooks to hijack and loot! That's how to pirate an airship.

Anytime you are afraid, the terrorists win.

So is ShellShock fixed now?
I gathered the basic variant is, but then people developed other variants.

The point was more than any request for data my bittorrent client receives from a peer, I can also request from the network. So nothing is secret.

Isn't this a usual risk-cost calculation? Every building can decide whether the risk (probability times loss) is greater then the costs of avoiding the risk.

There are Earthquake *cycles*?
[citation needed]