Awesome, thank you!

The reason I use shred is because it fills the drive with random data faster than badblocks does. I do this because I do whole disk encryption.

badblocks -t random /dev/sdX && shred /dev/sdX

Badblocks checks for bad sectors while writting random data to the drive and after all is good, I run shred once or twice to fill the drive with random data. You can probably get by with just badblocks tho.

I wish I could convey in words how obvious it is that you have no idea what you are talking about.

I completely agree with the Gentoo devs, udev is getting problematic, for starters, there are a lot of gentoo people using AUFS and squashfs to reduce the size of their /usr. Well if /usr is on a different partition, udev freaks out. It got to the point where I didnt' want to update udev but I ended up reverting my AUFS/squashfs /usr partition because of it. Can't wait to go AUFS/squashfs for /usr again!

I might get two...

Take your ill-gotten monetary gains and anonymously deposit money into a bitcoin wallet
(If you have a lot, pay a team of people to just go to Walmarts and banks and deposit money, yes anonymously, for now)
Tumble/fog your bitcoins a bit. Never use the same address twice and make sure your wallet has the "Use TOR network" checked.
Buy gold and silver with them (there's a website that takes bitcoins for gold/silver and they are not that much over spot. Comprable to gettting them off Ebay.)
If you really are chasing the money, take that silver/gold and sell it on Ebay, you'll probably make a small profit.

Amazon is starting to block my reviews.

Reconsider supporting this author.
Author had a direct role in having Lendink, a legal ebook lending site shut down for piracy erroneously. If you can't even legally borrow their book using Amazon, why should you support them financially?

No problem. If it's one thing the human race is good at, it's making bigger and better bombs.

Maybe this is more of an issue with machines that have Windows pre-installed but I'm upgrading my motherboard and it has UEFI and the gentoo wiki doesn't make it seem so bad.

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/UEFI

Laptops, of course are going to be an issue.

I bet this didn't make the slightest dent in book piracy either.

Sure but why would you want to?

Cash directly to the wallet addresses from Walmart or 7-11. Wear a hat. Do you really think they are going to canvas every 7-11 and Walmart in North America (assuming that's where you are) for their video logs of who did a moneygram? Walmart at least doesn't require ID. Fake all the info and be on your way.

Scamming may be common in the, get in your car and hit some street corner for some random dealer mindset but no one I know operates that way. They all have a "guy" who they call and it's usually in the "guys" interest to formulate a good relationship, it benifits both, you know you can trust this person so you'll continue to do business with him, and the seller grows his client base. Same thing here.

You are oversimplifying greatly.

Following the money. So you are saying that if I go to instawallet.org from a library, a wifi spot or though tor, create a wallet, anonymously send money to that wallet, bitinstant.com, make another, and another and another, series of one time use bitcoin wallet addresses, before it gets sent to SilkRoad, which tumbles that, they are going to track that? How? You can set 6 one time use wallets up and transfer random amounts.

Intercepting packages. Wow, someone sent me drugs? Why would they do that? Oh, you think I was on SilkRoad? Well, if I were to do so, I would have a truecrypt usb key with portable firefox and tor on it, and I dare you to be able to prove that I was ever on SilkRoad.

As for the bitcoins on people's computers, personally what I like is the place that converts bitcoins into silver and gold. That would be the payout method I would chose. Besides, you do have to have a certain level of expertise to access and operate here, and most of the community seems to be very well aware of the need for encryption.