Whether or not ST had "good science" or what their moral, ethical or scientific views were is completely irrelevant.
Even whether the actors in it cared or even agreed with those views is irrelevant if the actor knowingly agreed to do the job anyway.

The producers deliberately lied to the actor.

The point is that the actor was scammed into appearing in a movie they would not have done had the producers been honest about their intentions.

Placebo's have an effect on things the human mind can control.
Medication has an effect on things the human mind can AND cannot control.

Or rather, believing in not having the flu will likely cause you to misdiagnose flu symptoms as being something unrelated to flu, thereby curing the flu in no-time.
"I have no flu because those flu-like symptoms have nothing to do with the flu because I have no flu."

Being able to scale from 1 billion records a day to 10 billion a day does not a premature optimization make.

The simple fact is that there's not enough information to give any reasonable advise.

Basically the question is; what's the expected volume of records and fields per records?

A solution for 100 records a week with 4 fields each would be different from 1000 records per second with 30 fields each.
1000 records/sec with 4 fields would be yet another solution.

tl;ds

Oops. Forgot about the GPU.

Do you need drivers for a CPU?

HFT is a risk to the traded businesses because they deal with relatively large transactions and high speed.
Have a few HFT algorithms misread the market and compete (unless their code is 100% bug-free), and a stock can very quickly spiral out of control through feedback loops.

This.
All I keep seeing is proposed delays in seconds or minutes at best.
Trading shares is effectively gaining and selling ownership of a company.
There is no valid case for wanting to own part of a company for mere seconds.
There is no benefit for most companies either, so why do they allow an exchange to permit these risks to their business?
Are there no exchanges that enforce a "minimum ownership duration" rule for the companies they list?

Never ever have to load a new design or program onto the CNC machine?
Using USB isn't safe from malware either.

The question then becomes; what is "acceptable advertising"?
That is a highly subjective matter, but lets try to set up some rules for what is acceptable advertising on the interwebs:

1. It's shown in dedicated areas, not embedded within the text. Certainly not within user-submitted content.
2. It's clearly marked as advertising, with both text and color differentiating it as such.
3. It's descriptive of the product advertised; no deceptive link texts. People should know what they get before clicking a link.
4. It directly pays for the service offered, no piggybacking on somebody elses website for your own advertising.

These all seem reasonable and stuff like Adwords fits all these rules. I guess we can all agree on these rules, can't we?

Don't take all this personal, but your case is just a good one to use for demonstration.

Are you aware that your signature contains advertising and, by your own standards, you should shoot yourself?
Or is that particular link to a commercial product somehow not advertising?

Pretty high actually.
You're already relying on a lot of electronic systems in a car, and they aren't any less reliable than pure mechanical systems.
Remember this has to go through road safety checks for every individual country they want to sell it in.

Either way I'd rather have an error in my sideview camera's than an error in my power steering.

My thoughts exactly.
Without laws and punishments to enforce those laws, there will be no security.
Just make sure those laws don't have loopholes.