Dude, get off are lawn

But I use PS/2, you insensitive clod.

(Fair enough.)

And what makes the software interrupt "fire"?

So what is gonna reset the Program Counter back to refer to the boot ROM, when everything is nonvolatile, including the PC? The physical reset button they'll re-introduce? Keep dreaming.

What makes you believe you couldn't run a wireless network inside a faraday cage?

That's probably because you're an idiot.
You don't get to execute that memset when the machine is in a bad state. If you could, you arguably had it under control.

That practice is virtually nonexistant in free software

Might that town by any chance be Bonn, Germany? Sounds familiar. OTOH I suppose quite a couple of places do that

Eh, that's the default etc directory for programs which use the GNU Build System (autoconf and friends), i.e. nearly all. It's your package management which chooses the /-prefix instead of the default /usr/local

no, you're simply not understanding the conventions which apply here.

/etc/foo is the global/system configuration of <foo>
/usr/local/etc/foo is the same, but <foo> was not installed via the package management (but rather by the user extracting a tarball and running make install after building it)
~/.foo is user-specific configuration of <foo>, configuration settings specified here will usually take precedence over the global configuration

Hope that helps

Consider the following.

I'm at a loss to understand how that giant huge mess called "Registry" could be labeled "nice" by anyone...

Would not deceive me; babies don't walk.

The nice thing about one time pads is that for any ciphertext there's a OTP which produces any (alibi-)cleartext you desire.

ICMPv6 != ICMPv4

Hm. The other day I read an article about how Germany is reluctant to deploy more of ze "Fluesterasphalt" (basically an anti-noise road surface), because it only lasts about a decade, whereas conventional roads typically need resurfacing after about two decades