Obviously just a bit of a joke. It may be a clue as to some of the contents - but this isn't what they did by any stretch. Firstly, you cannot pipe stuff into an aes256 extension and magically have it encrypted. Secondly, no cracker worth their salt "rm -rf /"'s a server until they've made sure that the regular backups have been corrupted. Third, why would you pipe into a file and then remove it if successful with the very next command?

I'm a seasoned /.er, so I haven't RTFA. But it strikes me that its effectiveness as a point defense system would hinge on the speed at which it nullifies its targets, not just the fact that it can given time.

That's true. A large majority of people would fear this weapon in Chinese hands as they've been trumped up as a threat by Western media. However, Germany currently experiences far less corruption in its leading political bodies than does China right now - that counts for something - something quite important, actually.

"Following the conclusion of this sentence, I will use two words to describe this situation." ...doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Even saying "two words to follow" exhausts it. It's impossible.

Exhibit A: How to miss the point. ;)

Bravo, his plan has worked. Now he can safely plead insanity in the courts.

Or, he could be building a body of evidence to get himself remitted in court on the basis of being 'mentally insane'. Given his predicament, this is a very smart thing to do. Just have a look at Christopher Skase. My friend was one of the QCs responsible for getting him charged in court, the stories he relates about Skase pretending to be mentally insane in the hearing and then everyone listening to him bark orders to his lawyers out the back are quite interesting.

Parent is son. Yes.

...asplode.

It is unity you ninkumpoop. The difference being that it is fully touch friendly and has merged concepts from the Ubuntu TV project (which is also Unity, you ninkumpoop). ;)

Oh, did you also forget that it runs a full linux desktop when docked?

Explain to me how you run your windows desktop apps on your WP8 phone. That's right, you don't and you can't.

However, you can use your Ubuntu Phone to do all your 'smartphone' stuff, then dock the thing and use a full desktop environment with all your native desktop applications - that is something special.

Moron. Nokia N9, WebOS, etc. This isn't WP8, not even close. Copying? Pull your head in, son.

I'm going to assume that you're using 'gnome3 clone' in the sense that they're both failed attempts at a unified interface? Because 'Formally Metro (tm)' is nothing like Gnome 3.

I remember when he first replaced Bill Gates at the head of the company, he cited that it was time for the company to "grow up" and become mature. He's done that, in a sense. What he did was "hedge all bets and manipulate sales". Fast forward to 2013 and the company has grown stagnate and soft. The only innovation coming from Microsoft is from their research division, but so precious little of that makes it into their products.

More and more AAA titles are indeed built with OpenGL support. It also helps that the major development environments for games (for example, Unity) work directly with OpenGL and DirectX. The advent of smartphones and smartphone games has lead to a resurgence in OpenGL dev as well. I think you'll find that the future of DirectX is limited.