The party that wants government to fail knows how to make government fail.

... is not interested in you ... unless you have done, or are doing, something that interests them. Now what might that be?

This advice does not apply to Tor sites run by the NSA.

I'm a Python programmer, not a Ruby programmer, you insensitive clod. And what about my Java programmer friends?

Greed ... like government officials and one percenters in every country. The US is pissed because the gambling is competition of lotteries.

And that includes a certain person that taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law school from 1992 to 2004. They understand the US Constitution. They just don't want to follow it.

... could arrange a couple billion dollars donation every year to the Greenland government to bring the bans back.

Or being smart enough to install Linux is being smart enough to exploit Aaron's.

I have set up my DNS to block lots of places that have abusive ads (like Flash, animated GIF, etc). It seems that once I did that, almost all the other ad places disappeared, too. But if a web site hosts their own ads for themselves, they can get through (hint to Slashdot admins).

Can a rented PC install Linux? Or have they modified it to keep its insecure spyware?

You cannot have cyber security by having some software (or hardware) around to just do it for you. Real security is about HOW you do everything else. It appears someone thinks all security exploits are just badly implemented API calls?

Use in-house employees instead. Hire well-qualified experienced employees, paid well (considering the costs of living in DC if they are not working from remote).

I also blame the fact that these 55 contractors were businesses. They should be experienced developers. And 55 is too many even so. The web site could be done with 20.

They will never get it right. That's how they keep the dump trucks coming in.

Sounds like a security hole to me.