You may not like it (maybe none of us do), but ask Sony how suing GeoHot worked out for them...

I remember the Acer netbook had a metal housing so the WiFi didn't work almost at all. I bought an Asus instead. I'm still running it (7 years later) as a low power server.

Yeah, but it's a laptop, so those specs are pretty darn impressive.

For the American president? Yes. Much worse.

No. I'm sure that nobody ever got anything that wasn't a perfect copy of the show from the Pirate Bay. They never got viruses, malware, fakes or any other bad thing. Only perfect episodes every single time.

People have already stolen bitcoin keys with a similar attack, so encryption keys are a definite possibility.

People have stolen bitcoin keys with a similar attack in the past. Bitcoin keys are just another form of encryption key. There are serious risks here.

C# and Java also solve the leaky memory problem and are much more popular.

I had the same thing on Time Warner. I thought it was part of their dispute, but disabling IPv6 did the trick. Seems to work now, though.

Then you would expect it not to come in last place on a Windows boot, but it did.

Jesus said, "Those who have been saved from much, love much." IMO, this is more an indictment of the years of suffering in Objective C than anything else.

Other than working with interfaces, where C# will build a framework for you and VB will not, I really see very little difference to account for the hatred. In fact, the string functions in VB are actually preferable.

And again, turn off any feature that you don't need. Especially things like public FTP, configuration from the internet, VPN, WPS setup, etc.

I had no issues with Asus except my hard drive (which I was using for file sharing and UPnP) dying. Also, all access to that USB-attached drive was slow and would slow down the router, meaning that any attempt to access a large number of files (such as an in-place backup) would slow everything to a crawl. I recently moved my drive to use an old netbook as a server (14W) and it's much better now.

I used to get 100 Mbps on SpeedTest.net, but the most I've ever seen in the real world is 40 Mbps. I've never seen more from anyone, no matter what. So I recently reduced my internet speed to 50 Mbps and saved $30/month. Why pay for "ludicrous speed" when no company can actually give it to you?