Easily avoided. Just stop selling a product with a known failure.

I can see the battered remains of Steve Jobs in a high-tech wheelchair with various wires and bits of technology embedded in him rolling out screaming in a ragged ring modulated voice: "Extirpate!...EXTIRPATE!!!!!!!!"

Generally bricked means the device cannot be recovered using a normal end-user procedure. Needs JTAG to recover (especially if you must solder the connection in) ==bricked. Needs to be turned on while holding volume up key == not bricked (wedged hard). Needs reset button or power cycle to recover == wedged. No procedure can recover it == dead.

That tells us only that it isn't the water itself that the witcher can locate. It says nothing about the ability to find a geologic structure that will typically have water.

Probably because gas and electric are easy to find using a defined procedure. They are also the most important to find.

I have to wonder why not back to the ocean (sufficiently diluted to avoid a high concentration area, of course) the water the sludge came out of will end up back there, why not the sludge?

They would, but nothing says respect my authoriti like a groping and a rapey scan.

The more relevant point is that we now have the awareness and technology proven to curb the problem. It would be irresponsible NOT to use it everywhere.

That could be solved with a different heat exchange design. For example, one that transfers from metal to a gas loop then to water.

You haven't been reading the news if you don't realize that cops have been beating innocents, lying in court, claiming peaceful protesters are violent, and other such violations of rights that won't be so easy to get away with if the cop has to wear a camera.

A combination of rampant failure to uphold that responsibility and technology becoming available to address the situation.

The 4th, 1st, and 6th amendments. All of which have been regularly violated when nobody was looking.

I could as easily pick apart your arguments. I find it hard to imagine never using code that is shared with other projects for example. Why re-invent the wheel? Are you declaring code re-use dead? What about the system libraries? Do you hack those without notice too?

And what happened to unit testing where you should easily enough shake out cases where people called a function they shouldn't have?

I have argued that the programmer who just takes the IDE's word for it will eventually end up in deep trouble.

You seem to be arguing that duck typing is bad because shoddy practices rule.