As a security guy who has also been on the short end of legal threats too I feel for this guy. He's burned out and could use a year on the beach. Take a year or two at a cushy corporate security job but please keep the list alive - there are plenty of other moderators who would pick up the slack.

The silliest thing about this press release is that it seems to ignore the fact that most car batteries (and certainly almost all large battery packs) are recycled and scrubbed so their components can be reused in new batteries.

I went to RSA on my company's dime for about five years, but was always asleep on a plane before Bill Clinton, Tony Blair or whoever else was there said their piece and collected their fee.

Now that I'm more selective about which conferences I attend (I've already "seen the show" at the big ones), hitting alternative conferences like DEFCON (instead of BlackHat), and Thotcon (Chicago) and now TrustyCon will continue to be my focus.

>> credible hulk SMASH!

Um...yeah. I'm sure you really have been, uh..."spend(ing) the last 3 months breaking down ACA numbers and running comparative studies on current cost due to ACA"

>> I think your stupid...Post AC becasue (authority) wouldn't be too happy

Are you sure you're not posting this during your fourth period study hall? I kind of feel like I'm talking to my kids' friends right now.

>> both Democrats and Republicans are seriously delusional about how much the free market can magically solve a lot of the problems with our current health care system

One of the key requirements of any free market is free information. If you're familiar with "Medicaid oversampling" I'm guessing you're already affiliated with a health care provider. Are you currently pushing your provider to publish its prices? If not, why not?

>> but for you it's actually a great deal

Now there's the BS - you sound like the people who encourage everyone else to ride public transportation (without riding it themselves) right now.

Trust me - I did the math. ACA's benefits, including access to providers, were well below what I was getting with my expensive individual insurance policy a few years ago. With a couple of kids doing sports and the occasional illness, the difference between paying out of pocket for my own health insurance vs. snuggling back up to a megacorp (and dodging the self-employment tax) made it a no-brainer.

Before we continue, please tell me that you already signed up and paid for your ACA policy, and love what it does for you.

>> few hundred bucks a month for health care

You don't have a family with kids..who occasionally get sick and broken bones, do you?

I was on my own with a full-time consultancy, but I scaled it back to off-hours and went back to a forty-hour-a-week corporate job for the health insurance. The cost of individual health care plans was insane, and the crappy ACA plans provide worse coverage with fewer providers - and they're even more expensive!

I really think what the feds are up to here is trying to kill off as many individual and small business operators as possible. After all, it's a lot easier to monitor and tax large corporate entities than it is to chase after a bunch of little ones.

Here's how I read that:

>> "$19 billion for 50 people? Good for them."

Which really means: "If Facebook wants to eliminate themselves as a threat to Google (and Google+) by peeing away mound of cash on stupid deals, I'm all for it. Meh heh heh heh ha!'

...I have a feeling I could sell the the number.

I chuckle when people tell me they're paying $50 or more a month for a fricken' phone.

>>...new $360 million mini-refinery...demand for simple, one-step plants capable of transforming raw crude into exportable products such as propane is feeding a construction boom along the Gulf Coast.

Call me cynical, but it seems that most legislation aims to protect the existing jobs of stalwart political supporters in sponsors' districts. (e.g., Obama's first term "stimulus," which was mostly used to shore up the existing salaries and pensions of his political base.) Perhaps the intent of this bill was to continue a Gulf Coast construction boom, leading to more voter, er, labor-intensive refinery jobs?

It always makes me chuckle when one of my self-anointed "green" friends whips up a cup of Keurig and then chucks the plastic container in the trash.

Pot meet...

His best years are about 50 years behind him?

Who needs advertising when you can sell the company for $16B? They'll just punt the founders and add in-stream/in-text ads related to the content of the text streams the user recently engaged in. Done.

>> The difference with capitalism is that there is no big investor owning the company, doing what he wants and (the most important part) living from your work.

And in the Soviet Union...the party bosses did what? :) Time to re-read "Animal Farm," I think.

>> A cooperative is the best example of people working in those conditions.

As are churches, many charities and other groups where the membership is small and motivated to achieve a common purpose (as typically demonstrated by a large body of volunteers). The model falls apart once applied to government of any size, however...