That would be weird. Security professionals get CE/CEU/CPE(s) for attending such conferences. Maintaining baseline DoD Directive 8570.01 require such certifications. Good security requires up-to-date training and conferences such as these provide a wealth of information.

Cooking devices and Linux torrents a domestic terrorist do not make. You must be a little on the (possibly overly) cautious side to use Tor (private) for torrents (public) in the first place. FOIA requests would probably work. But a cup of chamomile tea might do you more good in the long run.

There are plenty of tools that automate the process. I recently did a fresh install to clean out my system and used ShutUp10 but it's far from the only one.

Either abstract it, contain it, or visualize it. Using a poorly maintained platform for the games doesn't mean you have to use it for everything.

Also, were/we're. Sue me. It's the vodka.

I uninstalled Flash about 4 months ago. Guess what...the web still works. Even the questionable video sites I use work (or at least > 50%, which is enough). Sites that insist on requiring flash in 2015 probably haven't been relevant since 2010. Sites that require wonky plugins had better be for work and get relegated to a Microsoft browser product I don't use for anything else.

If you care about the American worker, advocate to make them the better worker. Maybe if we'd put less faith in unions and the old "Made in America" campaigns (which cost Americans money to produce and advocate) and more faith in education, research, and competition we'd have been better off. We've got resources some competing countries don't have (or don't have as much) and if we can't successfully leverage those resources then perhaps we don't deserve them.

Or perhaps...they'll wait until we misuse the current batch of antibiotics so much that we truly and desperately need a new antibiotic. Throwing a portfolio of effective pharmaceuticals at the market when existing drugs are reasonably effective and profitable might not be in everyone's interest.

The TSA is not simply security theater anymore, it's social welfare.

You should qualify that. Some drivers have sued and won. My roommate happens to drive as a FedEx contractor and FedEx clearly offers contractor opportunities.

Too old school for most of the remaining readers. Slashdot, a site that initially attracted a high number of reasonably highly technically skilled readers, remains at the brink of irrelevance. That's a headline. Pandering to the lowest common denominator was cute back in the day when we all knew it was an inside joke. The typos and overt clickbate along with the inside jokes were fun. But after a while when a friend doesn't grow with the rest of his peers...eventually the ole hijinx get old. Nobody should want to be a 40 year old stoner journalist failure or to emulate one.

Hate to be a dick, but you DID charge admission using another company's IP. I won't say you "deserve all you get," but you had to know that a huge party would have attracted attention. It's not "maximalists" and "gangs" and "fighting the good fight," they're a company protecting their IP. End of story. Good luck to you, honestly, but next time check out the rules and regulations first.

Lawl.

Cricket Wireless (subsidiary of AT&T) and MetroPCS (partnered with T-Mobile) provide pay-as-you go service for both companies.

I've used both since I bought a off-contract phone and had no problem with either. I settled with Cricket because of coverage where I'm living in central Texas.

Slackers.

Wars of attrition can be economic. In fact the result of heavy equipment losses and the potential for a drawn out, likely bloody, messy old-fashioned war could result in considerably less popular favor.

As for the crass and nasty, there will probably always be people harmed in war and I imagine we are all a long way off from the level of sophistication required to avoid secondary casualties.

And we can't even simulate weather (admittedly horribly complex) properly.