I think it is great to question Schneier, for the same reason we do security audits. You need to examine your trust anchors from time to time. So for Schneier, we ask ourselves a simple question, is the advice sound? The idea that the math is sound, but the implementations are broken has been a constant refrain from everyone for decades. There would be no benefit to paying or threatening Schneier to make him say that, as it has been his refrain for ages. Tomorrow the people in the field with the skills to attack the math will do so, just as they were doing a year ago. The people with the skills to attack the implementations will do so like they did a year ago, but with a few more obvious targets. We'll all continue to harden our security the same way we have for ages, by assuming that there is a flaw and that it must be found.

Read point 5 of the supporting facts in the search warrant http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/628278-search-warrant-dated-december-14-2012-redacted.html

Damn right real men aren't afraid to order fruity drinks because they taste good, they are afraid because those things bring a nasty hang over with them.

The only statement from the summary I kinda disagree with is the following. "Turns out AMD's Phenom II X4 980, which is over a year old, offers lower frame latencies than the most recent FX processors."

I only mention this because I replaced a Phenom II X4 980 with the FX 8150 last year which increased my average frame rates across the board. Oh well what do I know?
Not like I've experienced the exact opposite of their claims or anything like that.......

Perhaps they are too close to an open flame.

Henry Bessemer revolutionized a bunch of industries. Andrew Carnegie was less revolutionary. Walk out in the street nearest you and ask which one people are familiar with.

Even if a majority of p2p traffic is legitimate, some is copyright infringement. More legal sources for the content that would be pirated would lead to a decline in overall p2p.

Police generally don't play along with attacks currently in progress, especially when it vastly increases the chance of greater harm.

What word would you suggest in place of denial? Skeptic doesn't work, as you you don't actually react to the evidence.

The reason people are suspicious is that a group with a bad track record is encouraging something dangerous. Sure the Chinese, the Iranians, hell the Canadians are looking to access systems in the US, but that isn't a reason to trust DHS. What we know about this one incident is that DHS made a rather unorthodox request.

Yeah, but China and Iran aren't the ones saying to let the attackers hang out for a while.

Not enough for his consistently terrible civil rights record.

Well I really don't think we have time for a hand job, Joe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam%C3%B3n_ib%C3%A9rico

Centralia is only the best known coal fire in the US. Some are not mine related, some like Laurel run PA are. Centralia is a mix. The fire was started at a landfill, but that landfill was located in an abandonded strip mine. The natural coal seam wouldn't have been near the surface had it not been for the mine.