Why can't I feed the trolls? With proper care and feeding, we may be able to get them to breed in captivity :)
Mr Hedwards, I have an excellent education thank you. Please allow me to further yours. The GP was calling out a private institution for advocating business interests, as if this was somehow a terrible thing. Oh, and he used hyperbole, which I did as well in referencing Lenin.

Someone is standing a bit to the left of Lenin. Oh, and as far as cyber wars go, the one between 4chan and Youtube seems to be heating up!

You just described most of corporate america with your six steps.

Step #1 is very very plausible. One develops a potential working relationship with the target company and crafts an email to contain an innocuous looking document or link requested by the target. The link/document contains the latest exploit that has not been patched. The email is not suspicious because who would attack a potential business partner after all. It is an exploit that is preferably zero day and not yet in the virus/malware databases. Also, a new shell for the attack could be devised from the original code to insure it would be unrecognizable.

Step #4 can be obviated by infecting an admin's computer, and if I was targeting a company with a zero day unknown exploit, I would aim it at their IT guys.

Step #5a all networks are vulnerable to this sort of exploit, especially if the exploit is unknown to scanners & filters.

Step #5b if you root an admin's box, you can piggy back on him next time he does maintenance on *every* server and device he maintains.

I am surprised the list was only 100 companies. I assume every S&P 500 company has been penetrated to some degree.

Same thing with car and homeowners insurance. Both are a total waste of your time. You never need them and the insurance companies win. Just avoid having bad things happen to you and you will come out ahead.

Yes I was kidding.

If you must stay in the USA try the following: kill and eat the hearts of republicans (if you can find any that have one). Then you will gain their powers and be able to ignore your health problems until they go away. Do not move to Canada, their hockey team is bad. I recommend Switzerland or Sweden. If you don't like white people, try Singapore, Morocco, or Columbia. They all have better health care than the US. If you are picky about a country, check the WHO website. They have a list of countries with good health care.
If you have reached this point and are frothing at the mouth or hurling your mouse, lighten up and ebay yourself a sense of humor.

When you conflate 47 million uninsured with 9 million who "want" insurance, sure Issa's bill makes a little bit of sense. It wasn't extending Medicare it was extending the FEHBP to cover them. SEC. 8925 of HR 3438 says that non-federal employees have to pay the entire premium, which is a problem for the poor since there is no way in hell they could afford it. There is nothing wrong with making this plan available to non-federal employees if they want to pay for it, it just doesn't solve the problem of health care for poor people.

FYI, we pay for the uninsured health care already, when they show up to the emergency room. Only, when it is a chronic condition like diabetes it now costs 100 times as much to treat the disease with insulin than if they were detected as a borderline diabetic and could control it with diet. If they don't treat it with insulin, it will cost 10000 times or more since they will be getting ambulance rides with the following conditions: heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, blindness, and nerve & circulatory damage that can require amputation. Since 24 million americans have diabetes, it is kind of a problem if 2 million of them never see a doctor about it.

I know I will never convince you, but others who read this will be.

20 grand should just about cover 1 ambulance ride and 1 emergency room visit if you break a bone. A stroke, heart attack, serious car accident, any form of cancer would wipe out that little nest egg you have in 2 weeks flat. Then you would be broke and still have no health insurance. Thank you for illustrating why nobody should listen to you about health insurance.

You mean like Pinkerton guards and Blackwater? The government could EASILY outsource their police organizations to private contractors and in fact did for many decades. We can and do outsource a lot of our military work abroad to Blackwater and dozens of other companies like them. So, given that it can be done, by your argument it should be done.
Mail could be carried by Fedex & UPS.
Agriculture could be handled by Mosanto.
Treasury could be done by Goldman Sachs.
Justice could be handled by National Arbitration Association.
The interior could be handled by Six Flags & Exxon.
Commerce could be handled by Bloomberg.
Labor could be handled by the AFL-CIO.
Health and Human services could be handled by Kaiser Foundation & Blueshield.
Transportation could be handled by the Teamsters.
Housing and Urban development could be handled by Toll Brothers.
Energy could be handled by Exxon & Chevron.
Education could be handled by Harvard and Yale.
Veterans Affairs could be handled by Alderwoods Group Inc.
Homeland Security could be handled by the Mexican Drug Cartels.

His business owns a pile of newspapers, TV stations, and movie studios and wants to own more. In this day and age, that to says to me "early onset altzheimers" or he is an idiot.

You might not be able to say anything else, but I can QUOTE you and then laboriously collect pebbles and present them to you as a penguin would to his mate!

Seriously, News corp is trash. I am about to drop my subscription to the Wall Street Journal because I am finding too many factual errors and biases in their business news.

Except for the part where they can modify the constitution to give themselves the authority. I know, I know, inconvenient facts should be left where they cannot damage your arguments. Sorry.