Well, I wouldn't be switching away from Ubuntu if they hadn't pulled the exact same Windows 8 "I shit all over your standard desktop workflow! Ha ha!"

XFCE forever. It Just Works (tm).

For some reason I just imagined a sexual encounter with an AI from the way you worded that....Winning?

A homosexual robot?

Unfortunately, their votes count the same as anybody else's, i.e., not much.

Have you actually disassembled (de-assembled?) anything before? Admittedly, I haven't, but I *have* done assembly programming, and there's no such thing as a trivial assembly program that does more than print "Hello world." Yes, maybe it's simpler than a commercial game, but you're still dealing with completely unlabelled registers and memory addresses in most commands and almost total lack of syntactic sugar for readability.

I take issue with your flippant use of the word "easily" but acknowledge that it could be done.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Don't be a bigot--they totally have crime over there.

You're one of those people who mis-/overuse the word 'hypocrisy' that I want to stab in the face.

One of the very mechanics that TrueCrypt relies on for its plausible deniability for hidden volumes is that mathematically it is very difficult to prove whether the data is random or encrypted...not to mention the difficulty with computers and ever generating "truly random" data, which I believe there was just an article about this week.

If they had the ability to break TrueCrypt encryption, they would want people to keep using TrueCrypt and thus not say anything.

But both that, and the "doubling hard drive capacity" bit is ignoring the possibility of ridiculously expensive tools that allow one to laboriously do thing normal people can't.

Well, technically there's nothing stopping people from "decompiling" the binary to its assembly code, but of course that's a massive pain in the ass for any non-trivial program.

Pretty much precisely the reason that everybody gives me weird looks when I talk about Assange being cornered, I think; apparently people think it would be okay to bust in, drag him out, and have him convicted for rape and extradited to the U.S. and vanished forever. Not that it seems like he has a lot of other options than that or spending the rest of his life in the embassy, though...

Seeing as he's the commander-in-chief, it has been the tradition lately for him to send the boys into the not-wars without having them declared at all, I think. And yeah, I'm not a fan of the drones either.

I wouldn't call any of those but the first a 'blade failing' as you did above, though.

Makes me glad I'm not one of the engineers tasked with making these things stable.

It takes a special brand of incompetent to that obviously fuck up an article *headline.*

I would rather be legally convicted of something else than illegally convicted of the main thing.