I believe the suggestion was a parallel diode that would be reverse-biased in normal operation. If a cable was connected with the polarity swapped, it would clamp the negative voltage and trigger the overcurrent protection on the driving end.

The word you are looking for is "through".

The machine from 2005 isn't even enough for web browsing, though.

Black market Starbucks. Now I've seen everything.

In practice though, I though GPG was used to encrypt a randomly generated AES key, because symmetric ciphers are much faster than most asymmetric ones. There's no way to conduct a chosen plaintext attack, because the plaintext is a tiny fragment of random data with no particular significance.

Compressible data should never hit disk. For your scheme to work, the OS's encryption layer would have to detect runs of your magic byte and send them through unencrypted. Much easier to just use an out-of-band method like TRIM.

You are either mistaken or lying. There is no way in hell you are playing games on high settings on a 2560x1440 display with a laptop graphics card.

wat

Well that's a silly assumption...

I don't. Every time I open an app on my phone, it has a non-negligible probability of causing some other app from being evicted from memory. Web pages seem to be mostly immune to this problem. I tried several different Reddit apps, but I always end up going back to browsing Reddit with Firefox, because it's so much less of a hassle to pop open another tab and look something up on google or Wikipedia.

Adblock Plus works just fine in Firefox mobile.

The Windows key has summoned the start menu since XP at least.

This is not so. Linux did away with file extensions for executable programs years ago. =P

All 6 of the hobbyists that actually did so will be very glad to hear of that change.

Are you sure it's actually resuming from hibernation and not hybrid suspend? Even with a fast SSD, reading a moderately sized memory dump back in could take more than 10 seconds.