The company was having trouble in 2013 so it laid off some employees

In 2014 the company started doing better

The employees who were laid off in 2013 sued and won

The cost of dealing with the lawsuit caused the company to again experience hardship. This time they closed there doors.

So it had nothing to do with a severance package. When the company started doing better they were forced to compensate employees that were fired when the company was doing badly.

I assume that whoever is speaking in the article has a job / contract to prepare these photos for clients who have requested that they upload the photos to the service. In that case leaving them off the Internet is not an option.

Probably only when that stock is worth billions of dollars and its decline could send the whole market into a tailspin.

There are law about that though - a warrant is required for the police to enter my home. DHS is not going to get a warrant to snoop on me.

I would think that bullet proof will not bend. If it was able to bend a bullet would go through it.

The same can be said about everything that Apple makes; none of it is needed and there are better / cheaper alternatives.

The point of the article is not the Pentagon saying that they need more money to thwart future attacks. It is to let people know that attacks like this do occur and are being handled swiftly.

I think that the submitter used the wrong phrase. They probably mean "Starting down a slippery slope."

That sounds suspicious as they are used extensively by the airline industry.