Does it count as FUD if it's really something worth worrying about?

It's really hard to say what makes a good hackathon. But, you can judge your success easily enough. If within two or three days, the FBI, CIA, ATF, ICE, and other government agencies kick everyone's doors in, and confiscates everything that everyone owns prior to flying everyone to Guantanamo, you KNOW you had one hell of a hackathon!

"If there's a hackathon heaven . . . "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IEemZ6-LZc

Bless you my son.

It only guarantees that you will have a number that is not divisible by any of the numbers you multiplied together. Thus if you multiply every prime number in existence together, and add 1, you will end up with a number indivisible by every prime number in existence.

Do you have acceptance tests define before farming out a project to contractor? Are the bugs outside of those caught by these acceptance tests?

Probably not.....you don't need autonomous charging stations for city-wide surveillance. You can just fly the drone back home.

It fascinates me that they think they could make a profit with something like this.

The report mentions there has not been a single instance of damage caused by cyber-attacks.

There has been damage, however, " the only physical attacks experienced on their systems seemed linked to acts of vandalism and thefts of copper. Most incidents appeared unrelated to terrorism. However, one federal entity that owns a major piece of the bulk power system reported a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a dam."

I have no idea what to think of that.

The report doesn't say what kind of attacks, it could have been an attack on the secretary's computer. Here is what the report describes: "cyber attacks ranging from phishing to malware infection to un-friendly probes.....Much of this activity is automated and dynamic in nature able to adapt to what is discovered during its probing process.” Someone is running nmap.

"Able to adapt" does suggest that an intelligent agent is behind it, but it's hard to know without more detail.

Iran had airgaps too, but that didn't protect them against Stuxnet. Air-gaps are good, but not sufficient.

Nah, there are both kinds of companies:

Those that don't have benefits because they are ripping you off,
those that provide entertainment at work because they are hoping you will get distracted from how little you're paid.

Oh man, if I can crack the window open, it'd be heaven.

Why do games need to be backward compatible. It's not as if you will throw away your XBox360 when you buy an XBox One.

I'd rather have a larger paycheck.

I agree with you that seems like a reasonable course of action, but if that were what congress was trying to do, they would have tried to ban pistols, not assault rifles, since handguns are by far the most common weapon for impulse murders.