It appears that none of the major cards are requiring signatures any more:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.creditcards.com%2Fcr...

So instead of Chip+Signature, it's just Chip vs. Chip+PIN.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbc.com%2Fsaturday-n...

Other sources, like this article
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.nationalgeographi...
have more images.

You're off by a few decades. Per Wikipedia, Def Con started in 1993. The San Diego Comic Con goes back to 1970, but didn't use "Con" initially.

Dictionary.com indicates that using "con" for convention dates to 1940-45.
Possibly Phillycon (1940), a science fiction convention.

We want no muffins, no toast, no tea cakes, no buns, baps, baguettes, or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes, and no hot cross buns, and definetely, no smeggin' flapjacks!

The cited article is a little ambiguous. The author refers to a "DHS officer". At no point is "TSA" mentioned.
The DHS includes both the TSA and US Customs, so it may very well have been a customs agent doing the searching.
The photo in the article is of a US Customs document and refers to "CBP officers" (Customs & Border Protection).

It's possible to create an AppleID without a credit card.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fen-u...

So actually, they have to do more than just cut a check. FCC Press release
In its consent decree with the Enforcement Bureau, Verizon has agreed to:

• Pay a fine of $2 million to the U.S. Treasury;
• Commit an additional $3 million over the next three years to address the problem of rural call completion on a company and industry-wide basis;
• Appoint a Rural Call Completion Ombudsman within Verizon to centralize analysis of rural call completion problems;
• Develop a system to automatically identify customer complaints that may be related to rural call completion issues;
• Limit its use of intermediate providers, i.e., telecommunications providers between the Verizon network and the local rural provider, that are often the source of call completion problems;
• Monitor its call answer rates to individual rural areas and conduct an investigation when rates to an area fall below a set threshold in any month;
• Host industry workshops and sponsor an academic study on methods to detect and resolve rural call completion problems;
• Provide quarterly summaries of its investigations to the FCC and meet periodically with Commission staff to identify lessons learned; and
• Prepare a report to be publicly filed with the Commission at the end of the three-year compliance period.

Agreed. It's sort of like saying "The water in NYC tatested about average for West Virginia"

About 0.0000000000002 Pacific Oceans.
Hope that helps.

Nonsense. 2.99GJ is simply 1.21GW over 2.47 seconds.

Even without Doxygen's specific format for comments, you can use it to graph object relationships, call-trees, etc.

You can generate docs limited to a few files or classes if you just want to focus on them.

www.doxygen.org

Dollar coins have been in circulation since 1794, predating the Carter administration.

In the Government's Reply in Support of Motion to Compel, it states that

... petitioner is a telephone company ...

Google results like this one?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-teenage-mind/201102/does-marijuana-cause-cancer

or this?
http://lungcancer.about.com/od/causesoflungcance1/f/marijuana.htm

At best, you can say that there are no definitive studies linking the two, but it appears that most combustibles emit carcinogens when burned.

I'm not saying that's a reason to ban marijuana, but, like with tobacco, users should really make informed choices.