Depends on your county :)

We had 'em in Los Angeles Co., and also here in Montana. Here it comes thru about every two months.

Which I think sounds like a really good idea, either way you do it.

And if it just hoists the whole to a VM, no need for config dumpster diving for individual programs that may not play nice with Wine.

Or, why running Win9x is pretty durn safe. Malware that expects XP-or-later networking just gets confused.

. I have seen Open source code which looks like shit if you take 10 Minutes to look into it.

Of course you have - anybody can open source anything.

Have you seen major, mature, popular projects with code that looks like shit?

Agreed, but SN is unlikely to give up his key passwords without torture, so the random thieves aren't really so much of a risk.

I can't see how he can get out of the country at this point. It's logical to assume that the things he'd need to reconstruct his keys are not in the same jurisdiction as he is.

1) There is no evidence that they internally account for software as you say. It's speculation.

Not really. We know for a fact that they charge labor to install Firefox. There's no way around this - the numbers are what they are.

The null hypothesis should be that things are the same - the onus is on the claimant to prove a difference. Besides that, they certainly have incentive to structure their offerings to maximize their profits - giving it all to Microsoft doesn't do that.

Office Home and Business directly from Dell for 219 USD.

That's a different product. Retail (even download) is always more expensive than OEM in the Microsoft ecosystem. I'm spec'ing a Windows 7 PC and the retail price is $379 while the OEM price (from Lenovo) is $50.

Bruce used to say that HP gets Windows for $14 a copy.

That's funny since there was plenty of "social pressure" on GnuTLS about its crappy code and yet it had unfixed security flaws for most of a decade.

You'll notice that FileZilla is the only major app that uses it for online work, and that's mainly used by Windows people.

The 'society' knew to use openssl.

I think the point here is more like: should a North Carolina-based company be doing business with countries that the U.S. government is sanctioning?

Of course they should - for all the reasons Americans hold dear.

Would the US Government think so? Probably not, but look at the shit going down in Venezuela as a direct consequence of Kennedy's EO on Cuba - they have no idea what they're doing (or are at least in severe denial about free markets and trade's effect on freedom because they want to be central planners and pretend like they value freedom).

If he attempted to get cash for 5% of his holdings, the market price would likely crash

Yeah, but none of the drug gangs demand $10M for a ransom payment. The real SN could get $200K easily enough.

Besides, his keys are more valuable than his cash, to the most violent gangs on the planet.

It's not likely that hard drive is in his home somewhere. It's probably in a safe deposit box

At this point, it's far easier to get a warrant to empty a safe deposit box than it is to search a home. Banking privacy was eliminated by the Patriot Act.

Protection from what? Bitcoin is not that big of a deal and I cannot conceive of a reason why anyone would care if he invented it or not other than idle curiosity.

Because [the "real" Satoshi Nakomoto] is known to have about $400M worth of bitcoin, which criminals erroneously think is untraceable.

I very deeply hope that none of the people this man cares about are threatened (or worse) because of this Newsweek story. If Newsweek is wrong but some kidnappers get the wrong idea anyway, then they're doubly screwed.

I can't think of who benefits from this story aside from the author and Newsweek. Before anybody says that he might get some job offers, none of us can presume to know better for him than what he knows to be best for him.

What's wrong with them taking it back and apologizing?

If it was a real apology they'll never file similar charges against anybody else. I wouldn't take that bet.

What's a bios parameter?

On a more serious note have you in the past 5 years used a computer where the default bios settings weren't correct?

Only very recently have I seen any BIOS'es default to AHCI. Running drives in IDE-compatibility mode in 2014 is just silly. If I were buying a thousand PC's from Dell, I'd give them a list of BIOS settings to configure.

Any source for this?

I don't know about LSD, but it's definitely true for MDMA and PTSD. Google it.