What matters is whether a site gives the user a chance to download the unminified code at all. A lot of sites don't.

How so? A tool should do one thing well. What an assembler does well is generate relocatable object code in a given format. If you're targeting two platforms, one of which uses ELF and the other COFF or whatever, one could use the same compiler to target both along with two different assemblers, one for each object code format.

Yes. When the United States expanded its police state, certain far-right religious fundamentalists in the Middle East achieved their goal of reducing Americans' freedom. The terrorists won.

That isn't "breaking the rules" as much as creating your own ABI. Classic Mac OS on 68K used to do this, where register A5 was typically reserved as a pointer to the program's global variable segment because the Mac OS ABI used position-independent code.

I wonder if ackthpt is trying to mention the script trap (see previous Slashdot discussion). Most graphical web browsers default to automatically downloading and running non-free programs inside web pages.

Among consoles that aren't discontinued or battery-powered, I count Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and OUYA. Of these, two have NVIDIA graphics: PlayStation 3 has RSX, and OUYA has the same Tegra 3 that's in the first-generation Nexus 7 tablet. The forthcoming iBuyPower Steam Machine also has NVIDIA graphics.

When documentation runs to hundreds or thousands of pages, it's hard to read it from cover to cover and reread it when each new version comes out.

Anyone who uses an external USB flash drive, for one.

If CryptoLocker has a chance to run, then the attacker has pretty much owned the machine.

Since 2001-09-12, the day after a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the list of things deemed "giving [enemies] Aid and Comfort" has exploded.

How so? Google returns 124 million results for Jesus Christ and 40 million for Bitcoin.

Then explain Inde, the Apache people's name for themselves before U.S. westward expansion.

That sort of matches the opening of The Bible. Adam and Eve were the first humans, created perfect but they chose to rebel against their creator. Each successive generation picked up mutations. But before a population bottleneck 1656 years in, there weren't enough mutations for inbreeding to have much of a deleterious effect. So Cain, son of Adam and Eve, probably ended up marrying his sister.

If everybody takes intro to computer science in high school, then the user's POV is the developer's POV. Good luck doing even Hour of Code on an iDevice.

Or if you want to run them on an actual iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad. You can run them in the simulator all day so long as you have a Mac, but to run them on a device requires provisioning, which requires a paid-up developer program membership.