It may not cost much to the industry, but it also isn't very profitable in comparison to many other things either. US mobile carriers generally don't have a good public image but everyone uses them anyways since there's only a few major ones and a smaller amount of MVNOs that run on the major carrier networks. But back to why they don't do it voluntarily: It's not profitable enough for them to consider making the changes necessary to it, and PR isn't a major concern either, so it won't be done unless it becomes legally required.

Half of the community leaves, and what was once a unified group of knowledgeable people is scattered across smaller, harder to find and search across communities. Not to mention rotting of previously posted information as the maintainers and posters of the information abandon the site, leaving out of date and incorrect information still drawing searches..

And this is where Valve's stance on VAC being zero tolerance, permanent, and in place regardless of if your account was hijacked or not needs to be addressed. You get a VAC ban, you're not going to be able to participate in the Steam community or any online game in any fashion without being harassed endlessly, or repurchasing all games on a new account. Seen it time and time again even if VAC is not relevant to whatever discussion is at hand. I can only hope that with all the security I've set up on my Steam account, it never gets hijacked and exploits to get around all that are never found, as I'd never be able to afford to repurchase all my games on a new account.

"This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent," Scalia wrote in a 2009 dissent of the Court's order for a federal trial court in Georgia to consider the case of death row inmate Troy Davis. "Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged 'actual innocence' is constitutionally cognizable."

Source - Business Insider.

So, no, you'll have to forgive a lot of people who can't say anything nice about a person who said this.

In theory, it could stop the Crashplan service, manually edit your backup set settings to have no versioning, and no deleted file keeping, restart the Crashplan service, and let it run through and prune all the files it thinks it should be pruning, then encrypt your files, let it back them up, and Crashplan dutifully prunes the old versions like the hijacked config file says to.

I can confirm it does not.

This works until you realize the ransomware could go into your Crashplan settings and turn off versioning and keeping deleted files.

As someone diagnosed with Aspergers/ASD, I would rather be rid of this disorder. It has not been kind to my life, and the disadvantages far outweigh any advantages. No soft skills means your other skills are much more difficult to use and made much less useful since you can't interact with others.
Obviously, vaccines don't cause autism, but I would like a cure to see what it's like to not have a meltdown every other social interaction. It is not a good way to live.

Maybe it's to give undercover agents in training some semi-real-world experience with giving false names with confidence?

You're in luck then, Debian is still way back in the days when GNOME 2 was new!

My guess is the file hash matched a known file that contained the offending material. Google does scan your email for virii, so it's not unthinkable that images, a possible threat vector, are also scanned and hashed, and can be compared to a database of offending image hashes as well as virii.

Er, wouldn't it be easier to put sugar pills in the bottles that have the appearance of pain medication? If a robber wises up and checks in the bottle before leaving and sees nothing, that pharmacist is going to be in trouble.

I agree with this. In addition, you can also backup to local folders, and have different backup sets so the really big stuff will be backed up online, but the smaller, more important things can be backed up both to a folder and online. That, and they let you control frequency of backups, and never delete anything unless you set it to remove deleted files after whatever period of time you say. Lord knows how many TB I have backed up there that is just deleted files and their daily versions.

Downside of using shared DNS servers is that some servers, like those for Sony's PSN, try to get you to download from servers based on your DNS server.

Why? I have no clue. However, it kills your connection speed until you reset it to your local ISP's DNS servers. Be wary.