Cox is one of the larger US cable ISPs. This is certainly regional to the US, but not exactly a minor detail.
Also, you may want to check on that 60 billion years. That's a bit longer (over 45 billion years) than the age of the universe. You want "million".

Well, in the case of the high end 'scopes it tends to be because most of the cost is in the initial engineering, and very little in the hardware. Many companies start small and need more features later on, and it's wasteful to replace all the physical equipment to upgrade. So the 'scope companies just sell the high-end hardware at lower prices and put in firmware limits, allowing for an easy planned upgrade path.

It's still very, very common in high-end oscilloscopes and such. Pay, load a new firmware, new features unlock in hardware.

No. Never give them a chance to escape, no matter how satisfying it would be to prolong things.

Add Wikileaks to adblock and be done with it if you work for such an organization. Don't ask the rest of the world to censor itself for you.

The size of the fee isn't the issue, the GPL violation is the issue. It's up to the DOSBox developers to decide what (if anything) to do about it.

FYI, DOSBox is GPLed, and both apps in question are ports of DOSBox to Android.

I very much agree with this.

I've used Launchy for years, it's a quick search/start bar for applications similar to KDE's Alt+F2 bar. I still use the start menu (and the Kickoff launcher) to find things that are oddly named. The start screen makes that second task harder. It also arguably makes the first task harder, since the Windows 7 start search can be accessed keyboard only without taking one's eyes off the main screen, while the new start screen's search can't.

SHA-512 will still be quite fast. Even SHA-3 will be quick. A general purpose hash function is designed to be quick, a password hashing function (like bcrypt, scrypt, or PBKDF2) is designed to be slow.

I think stability is very important, finding system instabilities is often an easy way to find security exploits. Also, if the system crashes it's essentially a DOS attack, whether or not the attacking entity is a human or random chance.

And there already is a niche OS that makes all of its trade-offs in favor of security, it's called OpenBSD. It's BSD licensed, so could be a good starting point for an industrial control OS focused on security and stability.

You're also out of luck if the government decides to mortar all unauthorized transmitters.

CIS HAS a game mode. Right-click the tray icon, check game mode. It's my favorite free AV/firewall for Windows as well, it's a well-made product.

Yes. The thermocouples powering voyager (the T part of RTG) are degrading, and currently only producing about half their original output. A stirling engine can be made very reliable, more so than a thermocouble.

You missed the step of "Register a corporation, register that as an ISP with the relevant regulator, and use THAT to run the exit node." Then comply with all laws relevant for running an ISP. Keep your personal and corporate assets legally separate. It may even be possible to register the corporation as a charity dedicated to running the exit node, thereby allowing one to write off the expenses of running it. Consult a tax lawyer before you try that though.

It's not that hard to maintain an LLC and have it own the equipment. Keep the server at a colo facility and use the LLC for all transactions regarding it.