Not sure if you are joking? The Soviets actually did that in WWII, "Scorched Earth." There have been many other cases of countries destroying their own resources before the enemy can steal them.

You are a moron. You are completely glossing over the fact that the experiment worked.

No. First of all, half a million in assets does not make you a billionaire. Second, if all of your assets are illiquid, you are either terrible with money, or you think your assets are worth far more than they are. "Someone will pay $500 million for this SOME day, but today, I can only get $200 million."

Some people may have a problem with this one.

They don't minimize it, they delay it. If someone offloads 100k shares of IBM into a dark pool, that pool is going to eventually want to remedy the sudden glut of IBM shares, and minimize their exposure to the level necessary to provide liquidity their clients demand. The converse is also true.

Loss of reputation. Also, he probably violated laws in the process. Lastly, there's a risk he screws up enough that the US Gov't not only disavows any association with him, but also prosecutes him to prove even more that he's not a co-conspirator.

$5,000? Seems like quite a bit of work and risk for just $5,000.

Of all of these, the most dangerous is "uploading files," assuming you mean music or movies.

Even if you can't get separate ones, you can disable the router part and use the modem as a bridge. I have a combo modem/router from my provider, and I disabled the router part to use my own.

Maybe not if you adjust for inflation, but it is certainly more than could have possibly been laundered. Even at a 1% fee for laundering it, which I imagine is on the low end, HSBC would be the largest organization in the world, by far.

Considering these are probably VMs that have their own machine to play on, you'll need one hell of an exploit to have a fork bomb impact the performance of another VM.

OP

I was not replying to the "OP" I was replying to the parent post referencing "some companies already require this kind of software to be installed by employees". (Quoted from memory, not source)
Also this isn't 4chan.
/Or Fark.

Not a problem, should have made it more clear that my "fact-check" comment was meant to be taken as gentle ribbing. Now that I re-read it, it looks angrier than I intended.

Why assign a hotkey to such a rare task? Make it a checkbox, two tabs away from the password field. Default: Mask the damn password.

Bitcoin mining is not efficient. The cost of the mining was more than $3,600, therefore it was a reduction in the wealth of players of more than was gained. A reasonable user would not have agreed to the mining.