I thought Classic Shell fixed the "user perspective" part of Windows 8.1.

Probably for the same reason that Layne Thomas gets the credit for all debates being ultimately over defining a word. It's been around longer: "misunderstood words" in Hubbard's Study Tech method (1972) and "rectification of names" in Confucius's philosophy.

I'm referring to Alexander P. Kowalski, a frequent contributor to Slashdot's comment section who is often seen advertising his Windows-based tool for aggregating hosts files. His initials happen to be the same as the end of the filename of an Android app package.

So if you root, does that mean you can get an APK to add a layer of security the APK way?

Don't desktop PCs have a wake-on-RTC feature that will end suspend mode at a given time, analogous to wake-on-LAN but without the network? Or by "no power" did you mean unplugged from AC? In that case, perhaps they think missed scheduled tasks will run at next boot.

Because it was too blurry for me to read at 480p.

I followed the link to the trailer for Blackhat, but it was only 1 minute long and I couldn't seek in it. Then I realized it was showing the trailer for Blackhat as the advertisement before the full trailer for Blackhat (but why?), so I pressed Reload. I had to watch another ad because somehow YouTube couldn't save the fact that I had already watched an ad before that video, and it showed me another ad. And after skipping that ad, it would pause and play only audio whenever I would try to seek. I tried again later and it worked, kind of. At 1:45, all I saw on the screen was blur, not readable text. Even going up to 480p didn't make it exactly readable without squinting and puzzling out what each letter is.

That comment didn't have a $29 byte before it, did it? That'd be a length-prefixed literal string, which a lot of Pascal implementations and classic Mac OS used heavily.

If it's more than just debugging symbols or Script Host introspection data, then there are plenty of comments in compiled code in Tetris Worlds for Game Boy Advance.

A laptop plays PC games. It doesn't play PlayStation 4 exclusives, Xbox One exclusives, or games released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One but not for the PC.

I left out four and included two. I don't see how that amounts to having "left out all the examples". The assertion was that all of the six examples were about power. Even if the four that I left out are about power, the two I included are about freedom for the reasons I mentioned.

Half of it is akin to the difference between CD-ROM Mode 1 and Mode 2 Form 1. They hold the same amount of data but have slightly different physical sector layouts, with certain fields moved before or after the data.

In addition, data on a DVD is XOR'd with a linear feedback shift register whose seed changes every sector. This isn't encryption but instead a way to "whiten" the spectrum. That's where the Burst Cutting Area (the "barcode") on a GameCube disc comes in. It encodes not only constants used to compute the LFSR seed but also the logical position of six more holes in the lead-in.

Wii discs are exactly the same, except the entire disc content is encrypted, hashed, and combined with hashes of nearby sectors, and then the hash at the top of the tree is digitally signed with RSA.

Sources: GameCube, Wii

We've seen what sort of "serious work" consoles can do if they're not locked down, back when PS3 used to have Other OS. So either it is about freedom, or you're using a definition of "power" with which I'm not familiar. If the latter, could you explain further?

How many households in USA and Canada have a game console near the TV (or a TV-sized monitor)? How many have a gaming PC near the TV (or a TV-sized monitor)? I'm under the impression that gaming PCs tend to be confined to desks, with the differences in genre selection that that entails.

Which mobile platform were you referring to? iOS has lockout, Nintendo 3DS has lockout, and PlayStation Vita has lockout.

You jest, but I seem to remember that some jurisdictions in the United States actually do have restrictions on which names they will count for a write-in ballot.