Hidden containers are less useful than you might imagine in practice for a variety of reasons. Some of these points are relevant. I don't have any use for hidden containers, although I do use LUKS on a large number of systems.

Given the fact that projects like this have a tendency to shut down in the middle of security audits, it must be curtains for OpenSSL. Just look at what happened to TrueCrypt!

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I cannot deny this truth. Sir, you are a champion.

Allow me to quote exactly what I said:

Reality hasn't changed. The statement continues to hold true. You are confusing ideas (and their relative merits) concerning genesis of features with factual data on conveyance (or demise) through populations over time via certain mechanisms. We can even take the greatly stretched approach of assuming that various features only persist because individuals somehow communicate a desire to manifest them subconsciously. That would be a discussion on a specific causative effect, not the observed outcome.

Read the other replies I linked. Seemingly disadvantageous traits can and do propagate through populations along with advantageous traits, a condition which tends to confound people who are resistance to examination of complex systems on the whole.

You've completely misrepresented and/or misunderstood everything I've said, and oddly enough you've wasted a fair number of keystrokes partially agreeing with me at the same time. Rather than waste more time repeating myself, I'll simply direct you to the following related replies to other posters:

• Exhibit A
• Exhibit B
• Exhibit C
• Exhibit D
• Exhibit E
• Exhibit F

I also noted that selection of genetic traits over generations based on fitness/utility is a fact, but again, this is not under dispute. Again, I pointed to the formal definition of "theory" with specific emphasis on its expansive context, with particular regard for the fact that no single circumstance accounts for "proving" or "disproving" of evolutionary processes on the whole. Apparently this is difficult to understand.

You've missed the target again. I noted that matter-energy equivalence is a fact, which is not under dispute, and this point was used to demonstrate the formal definition of the term "theory." Why are you running in circles?

I'm certain you just agreed with me, but I'm left with the lingering feeling that you intended to convey disagreement.

No, that does not invalidate the point regarding fitness/utility. You have once again failed to read what was written and consider the larger picture. Conveyance of disadvantageous traits is not in opposition to conveyance of advantageous traits; you seem to be unwilling to accept the complexity of interactions with regard to all traits and environmental conditions. Again, there is no invalidation of fact happening here.

Ongoing discussion of noncoding DNA is useful as a backdrop here, as even the most generalized discussion on the topic sheds insight on the complexity involved with postulates and testing of effects related to genomic sequences, complexity which is greatly extended via consideration of environmental factors and data on observed behavioral patterns at various scales of populations and individuals.

I'll buy you a couple of texts if you'd like. Open offer.

If we're going to head down that road, we might as go ahead and note that time as humans perceive it is a purely fictitious construct based on limited perception (dimensional constraints). However, that's not a terribly good foundation for justifying failure to simply state things in terms that apply to our particular experience as a species.

You must have missed Perl. It's remained remarkably consistent across major release versions when compared to many other languages, including Java and Python.

Backward incompatibilities are very real issues affecting a very large amount of code.

You're confusing reinforcement of a prediction made in line with a theory with reflection upon other aspects of the theory and consequent predicts/projections/theories. There's no hair splitting involved here; you've misunderstood the entire definition of the term "theory."

Proper astronomers, like proper programmers, have their own coffee pots. This is doubly true for astronomers who happen to be programmers. What's a coffee line?

I just saw the reply from dave420 after I submitted my own; he and I are essentially painting the same picture. I really would encourage you to pick up a few modern works on this topic and a couple of good mathematics texts to serve as references, to include at a minimum a text which includes a decent discussion of nonlinear regression.

Your perspective is naive, but I'll err on the side of caution with regard to possible explanatory factors and simply assume ignorance. You forgot to account for the totality of advantageous traits in your hurry to point to "disadvantageous" traits. The fitness of an individual is not gauged by individual traits, but by the holistic picture of the individual and it complex interactions with other organisms in a particular environment over the lifespans of all involved entities.

In other words, "it's a tad more complication than your portrayal," and formal mathematics quickly becomes useful in viewing these things at any scale.