Have you try to read the article?

Hmmm... "http://slashdot.org".

You must be new here.

I thought the included (pre-installed) Microsoft Windows Defender (or Windows Security Essentials) was already good enough.

That, plus not installing every stupid piece of malware-studded "freeware" I come across and being a bit conservative in my browsing, has always been enough since Windows 7.

Windows after 7 also has a built-in software firewall, so wouldn't seem like you'd need one of those either.

I just can't picture needing anything beyond that.

And WTF does a serial port (which may be physically protected) have jack-shit to do with the Internet?

I could be imagining things, but I seem to recall a time in the far-off and glorious past when Slashdot summaries weren't incomplete to the point of being actively misleading.

I am still patiently waiting for Netflix to follow through on a TRS-80 version.

Don't anthropomorphize beer.

It doesn't like it.

I don't know why you think your statement has any relevance here.

Only 22 years ago

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The first rule of business economics club is never talking about business economics club.

The second rule of business economics club is that you never take all costs into consideration. As much as possible, make those someone else's problem: your minions', your successor's, another division's, the great big greater economy, the ecology, whatever. But keep all the success/credit/profit for yourself.

Then cash out and find another place to pillage.

Yes, business economics club is kind of like piracy, but more boring and venial.

I see later down in this discussion that the engine steering is done with pressurized fuel, which is presumably then dumped into the exhaust stream to burn. And the other actuators are too far from there to make it practical to extend the fuel-based hydraulic system to them.

Weird set of engineering compromises, but they make sense. Too bad about underestimating the capacity needed for the upper hydraulic reserve.

Maybe the main-engine vectoring used hydraulic actuators? Internal verniers, nozzle steering, engine steering... something has to push it around, and why would you have two actuation systems? If you're too mass-cheap for a closed-loop hydraulics, a complete independent actuator system for thrust steering seems like a bad bargain.

Steering some blind person like "Twitch plays Pokemon":

users intentionally sending "down" commands to jump off the ledges

Do that to someone IRL and somebody goes to jail.

"We do listen to users."

But if you're one of the rebel scum, you're not a user so I don't have to listen to you. Nyah nyah nyah!

I'd gone years without using adblocking software,

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

-- H. L. Menken

If the local police feel that the world is such a dangerous place, perhaps they would be better employed fixing that, rather than interfering with young kids going out to play.

It's easier to corral the sheep than face the wolves. Even if some of the sheep don't want to cooperate. That's why you castrate them.

Maybe it's not so baaaad.

I think Hanlon's Razor needs an update:

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by greed.