TOR worked pretty well for Snowden.

It boils down to how interesting you are. Unless you are already on their radar and doing something extremely bad they probably won't even try, and certainly won't want to reveal their capabilities just to get at you.

As for GTA, violence against both sexes is equally bad. However, there is a problem with violence against prostitutes in real life, and it's fine for people to be upset about that. It doesn't mean they don't care about violence against men, which is also a huge problem, it just means they identified a specific issue to tackle. I don't know why that is so hard to understand.

As for GoT, the guy is clearly evil, period. Both acts were sex crimes, and if we are making a comparison it seems like mental and physical torture over a period of years is the greater crime.

You don't need a licence just to own a TV. You only need one if you watch live TV. Simply watch recordings on iPlayer and other streaming services and you don't need a TV licence.

As a bonus if you don't have one the TV licencing authority will send you a free supply of kindling every month, in handy paper format. There might be some vague threats printed on it, but you can ignore those.

How about IoT development? Lots of devices can run Perl and Python, and it seems like the industry badly needs some experience on the security front.

Where are you?

Currently in the UK it isn't easy for developers. There is a lot of downward pressure on wages, and insane house prices make relocating difficult. The possible exit from the EU has thrown things up in the air too, with my own company already seeing European customers hold off until they know what is happening.

Wages have only just reached 2008 levels again, but growth is very slow. For older developers it's hard to convince employers to meet your needs.

Charging at petrol stations isn't very practical. The best thing about EV charging is that you don't have to go out if your way. Charge at home or work, or at your destination. Shopping centres and car parks are where you need chargers, and they can be fairly slow 7kW ones too so infrastructure is less of an issue.

As well as cutting down the kernel as much as possible they have a compressed boot image. That has to be loaded into RAM and decompressed to be much larger before use.

It's China. What makes you think that a BSD style licence, or any other licence based on western copyright law, would make any difference?

Do you understand the difference between "targeted at" and "exclusively for"?

EV subsidies are a red herring. They are there to promote s new technology that we went but would otherwise take much longer to arrive.

I've been thinking about writing a scraper for a while now, to gather some stats on Slashdot and do some analysis. It's not really my area but isn't exactly difficult. I think there would be some very interesting data in there. You could see what periods people were active, and how moderation changed over time, and maybe even how the political centre ground shifted.

What do you expect when apparently money is the only language that the US public understands? Climate change is all a scam, pollution is someone else's problem, so what other option is there?

If you were not so ideologically opposed to any kind of socialism you could subsidise improvements to people's homes that would make them more efficient and dramatically cut their energy use to European levels. You won't do that either, so there really is only one option left.

If you are not being down-modded you are not saying anything controversial. Particularly anything that suggests that there might be some sexism in CS, as an example, will be hammered down fast and hard by MRAs. If you are lucky you might get some counter-mods and end up in the black.

I think that's what has screwed up Slashdot's moderation system. There are now organized groups moderating in concert to push a particular point of view. Look back at some of the threads about GamerGate, for example, and you can see the block vote in action. People getting modded "troll" for posting links to GamerGate's own material that happens to contradict the point they are trying to make.