The only consideration done is with respect to the budget. Usefulness or purpose? Nope, they just have to sell it.

How exactly do you solve the problem of metadata on TCP/IP networks? Metadata is how these networks operate.

Every packet has an origin that will be traceable to the source ISP. If you're on your own connection, you're fucked.
If you're on your own connection and you VPN to some other connection it's just a matter of how much effort the powers that be want to waste tracking you down. Any schlub can run a Tor node, so you get nothing there. And of course, you have to initiate that connection from somewhere.

The only way to truly hide is to use someone else's connection (without their knowledge), with a different spoofed MAC every time. Everything else is just obfuscation. We already know every fucking packet touching a major telecom is logged in the US, and we have damned good reason to believe it's true world-wide.

Hating things is your right. Whether or not someone is doing something wrong is a matter of opinion.
You call it common decency, yet you don't realize that it's merely an opinion.
Go ahead and pass out those pamphlets. I disagree, but I don't care if that's your opinion and you express it. I'm not going to cry foul and organize a hate campaign to stop you from having or expressing an opinion because I disagree with it - that's your SOP.

So, your ideal VR headset is blank glasses frame with no lenses?
Works for me - VR is trash.

Who gives a shit? I have a false tooth with tighter tolerances than that.
It's not a matter of being hard, it's a matter of being fucking pointlessly absurd.

I never liked Logitech's shit.
I wish MS would go back to making keyboards again, and real mice too. They had some great shit, now it's all hyper stylized / "ergonomic" (unusable, completely non-ergonomic) trash.

Gay bashing is still socially acceptable. Just step outside of New York, San Francisco, and Hollywood.
It's not "homophobic", either. Homophobia would be the fear of homosexuals, not the hatred or mistreatment of them.
Guess what - most of the nation hates Jews, too. It's not racist, either, it's anti-Semitic.

I don't hate gays (or Jews) but I sure as shit hate fags like you that try to tell me what's acceptable and what isn't, as if you speak for the majority of the world/nation/whatever, and as if such a majority (if it existed) would be any authority on the matter that other people had to give a shit about.

Wrong. The only thing I'll reconsider is visiting those sites.

None of that shit is "content" that I want to load, and most of the time blocking it all has little to no effect on the content I want to see.

Trusted computing was always destined to be vaporware. Nobody wanted it.

"Citation needed" is the internet equivalent of "Nuh-uh! PROVE IT!" and "LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!".
Go look at the Wikipedia page, the kind of drivel morons like you slurp up.

You lose.

Emulate (verb)
1 - To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation.
2 - To imitate.

WINE is an emulator. It is not emulating hardware or an instruction set, it is emulating pieces of Windows. They initially claimed it was an emulator because it was. They later claimed it wasn't an emulator because they didn't want idiots (like yourself) to think that meant they were emulating hardware or an instruction set, and thus incurring a severe performance penalty. Emulation is absolutely not restricted to hardware or instruction sets, using recompilers, interpreters, or anything else.

Have they? Do I care?
The point is that the LAME developers made the claim that LAME wasn't an encoder in order to skirt the patent infringement issue.
First they claimed they were only releasing changes, which was true. Then they were releasing a full encoder and claimed they were only releasing source code as as an educational effort and were not actually distributing an encoder so they weren't infringing on the patents (which is obviously bullshit). I don't think they were ever really pursued by the Fraunhofer people but I don't really care either way/ The fact is LAME is in fact an MP3 encoder, despite the name.

Here's why:

Because I'm tacky!
Wear my Ed Hardy shirt with fluorescent orange pants.
Because I'm tacky!
Got my new resume - it's printed in Comic Sans.
Because I'm tacky!
Think it's fun threatening waiters with a bad Yelp review.
Because I'm tacky!
If you think that's just fine, then you're probably tacky, too.

WINE originally stood for Windows Emulator.
WINE is in fact emulating bits of Windows - it is an emulator.
The backronym comes later.

It's a shitty name and propagate a shitty belief that it is not an emulator, that an emulator has some strict definition relating to hardware or instruction sets, etc.

I included it on my list for precisely these reasons, and your ignorant post validates those reasons nicely.

I don't know if you're joking or not.
LAME is in fact an encoder, and it infringes on tons of the MP3 patents held by Fraunhofer.
Originally, LAME was just a set of changes to existing encoders, and you were expected to provider your own copy of the encoder. That scheme went out the window really fucking quickly, though. LAME quickly became a full-fledged encoder in itself, infringing on many patents. I don't give a shit about the patents, but I do give a shit when people claim it isn't an encoder when it is.
Shitty fucking name.