Really? Like we did not know before?
I don't think anyone in the industry who is both sane and honest ever pretended that FOSS was bug-free.
We know that software, ALL software, contains bugs.
Also, plenty of projects don't have too many contributors, so the "many eyes" principle hardly applies.

But if you've got the source at least you can have a look, (and really should, if you are considring using something for a mission-critcal application).
Then fix, if required,and contrib back.

Certainly, vulnerabilities in FOSS stuff tend to get fixed pretty quickly when found.

I know you're baiting, but for heaven's sake, which part of Europe are you in? Most of my family is scattered around Europe and I know that we all "enjoy":

1. Very high direct and indirect taxes / social charges, which fail to fully finance,
2. Massively oversized and inefficient public sector organisations, especially in healthcare and education, (tip: if you want "good" either of those two over here, you'd better have plenty of cash),
3. Zero or negative growth, leading to,
4. Massive public debts.

Yeah, we like it that way...

So that's what, a little more than 20Km per side; if it's a sqaure block? Not happening anywhere, especially in Russia since the currency tanked.

Also, storing something as tiny as DNA requires little space...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

I'm sure there's a Burma Shave in there...

OK, sometimes quoting your own work may be legit, but this sounds more like simple boilerplate cut and paste

I guess you've never heard that very old GA joke, "I'm from the FAA and I'm here to help you..."

Or they'll double-down and use the subsequent tanking of their sites as "proof" for the EU Gov that Google is an "unfair monopoly".

How could this play out?
Step one : We poor, highly-taxed Europeans will be asked to dip once again into our empty pockets, this time to fund a bunch of over over-paid bureaucrats while they "investigate" Google,
Step two: They'll recommend that we subsidise a state-sponsored European alternative to Google, which will fail.

Don't laugh - they're mad enough to try it.

Sure, people at all levels should be encouraged to say "no" if other things are wrong too; for example choice of architecture, data model, choice of development environment, language or database...

Unfortunately, I've seen too many projects where people - including me - said "no" very loudly on these and similar issues and...were ignored.

Hilarity ensued.

"I can't wait until some foreign court rules that all of some American official's stuff should be siezed because he's been tried in absentia for war crimes."

Well, to this and other points above about trying Bush et al., there's a reason why the USA - together with other shining examples of democracy such as China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Israel etc. - have NOT signed up to the ICC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Do as I say, not how I do

Here here.
Instead of getting some advice from someone who understand stats, he just vomits out a crappy "justification" as to why his bullshit....erm...is not bullshit.

C'mon Haselton - start here, it's all free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Let me see, who's going to go an explain to the boss that we should (a) allow users access to FB on work boxen, then (b) encourage them to share business documents on it?

Not me, thanks.

"Yes, I'm sure that when they sat down to formulate legislative regulations on corporate finance records, they thoroughly intended that it be used for punishing fishermen who caught undersized fish."

No - for catching undersized fish, the fishermen would have got away with a fine.
But they were dumb / dishonest enough to tamper with evidence, which is another offense entirely.
(Although asking for 2 years in jail seems excessive...)

Agree about CC protection, but I've also been impressed by PapPal when used with eBay.
I know it's fashionable to hate 'em here, but my experiences - including refunds when goods were not received etc. - have been uniformly positive.

Hardly "prosaic"; Sounds pretty damn ambitious to me.
OK, they had access to some of the body of knowledge so expensively won by the Germans, USA, Russians et al, but they're still privately funded, developed in-house a working product that's much, much cheaper than the competition and employ nearly 4000 people.

Like Musk or not, he made it work so far.