Hopefully none of the malware was none of the "jump the airgap" sort. :)

Agreed. Seems more than a little silly to change currency just to placate a group that will simply use this "victory" as leverage to shoehorn more of "their agenda" later on down the road. Ultimately it may amount to little, my experience is that the largest group of hard currency users are criminals and poor people. Anyone serious about wealth will have invested in more tangible assets such as metals, gems, etc.

One would think that, given the near disaster Obama has been that changing up something simply for the novelty value is shortsighted at best and very damaging at worst. Make no mistake, that is all Obama was, a novelty, which is how he was elected. It is the novelty value factor that ones such as Hillary and Cruz are betting on. First woman, first cuban, etc.

A bad trend has been building in this country. Any who wish to take issue with my comments or downvote it, feel free, it changes my opinion not one bit.

Sure MS would endorse the registry "fix" as they could've, and have, easily circumvent it. I never have bothered to remove the KB update, just booted from a Linux LiveCD and changed the name of the GWX executable so it never runs. Problem solved.

Not really contradictory. If i'm reading correctly Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy which is South American soil, Europe would have no say about him being there. My speculation would be that the EU does not wish to threaten its position within 5 Eyes by taking a stance favorable towards someone (Snowden) the United States Government wishes to get its hands on.