Wasn't there a privilege escalation bug in the usb filessystem code in the Linux kernel a few years ago? If it's in space now, it's probably running a 5-10 year old kernel at best, with that vulnerability still there.

Doors that hinge in the back instead of in the front. Won't shut themselves by aerodynamic pressure at speed like normal car doors. Hence, "suicide" doors.

I'm sure you can, for your own personal definition of Better. Then again, the Sheikh probably thinks he knows better than you how to use his people's money because he is mandated by God, fate, and destiny to rule whatever land it is we're talking about here. I'm sure there's a distinction in viewpoints here, but I realize I'm failing to grasp it.

In this case it sounds more like, "we've got to put out fire Z first"

Oh come now. In America, if you've got a beef with the government, you can call up your congressman/state rep/city councillor and either get lip service or occasionally something useful (ie your problem is fixed by legislation or variance or whatever). In Soviet Russia, if you've got a beef with the government, you disappear. A very subtle difference, I understand, but science is the art of making fine distinctions.

To a first approximation, the most dangerous thing under the hood of a gasoline or diesel powered car isn't the engine, it's the battery. It's fuel and oxidzer packed together in very close proximity.

It would be very confusing for a 5-year-old who hasn't figured out that addition and subtraction undo each other and that A + B = C is an identical statement to C - B = A. Even in the Philadelphia public schools some twenty years ago, they *did* teach that, and the lovely technical terminology for it, to first and second graders.

Math with numbers? Where are the Greek letters?

Didn't RTFA, but summary makes me go WTF in several places:
1. Python. I thought all the quants liked C, assembler, and even VHDL for their high frequency stuff. No matter
2. "2nd technician to review". If this were flight hardware or a bridge or skyscraper, there would be a second "technician" to review and at least one "engineer" to personally sign off that what was built/deployed is a) done right and b) is what you want
3. "no written procedures". There are a very small number of things in life about which it is absolutely imperative to keep a rod firmly up one's ass: a. moving machinery, b. formal mathematics, and c: hundreds of millions of dollars of your clients and shareholders' money.

Oh, that's just because their mistakes are in the media cross-hairs. All the preventable and expensive stupid mistakes I could tell you about at my place of employment would give TEPCO a run for its money, but I've agreed to several kinds of NDAs and don't feel like getting sued and/or going to jail for divulging specifics. And I'll bet you even money no place is immune.

Pre-coding? In my line of work, pre-coding is called being prepared.

Video demos? If the code is real, and pre-coded, who cares if the video was made yesterday. Saves on Bill Gates style embarrassments.

Remote teammates? Um. So all code everywhere is written by people in the same room?

The more kids are raised using their own brains to entertain themselves rather than a gadget, the better.

Which has happened once? twice? in the 40+ year history of Unix?

This is true, and it cuts both ways: people are naturally apt to be risk-averse, but you can't really blame them for that and shouldn't try to dissuade them from looking out for themselves, their families, and their stuff; it's a natural instinct. Hence, the ghetto-tracking apps.

Only if it's got a white paint job. If it's painted black, brown, or red, it won't start because it's participating in an act of civil disobedience.