To paraphrase:

IF you can easily find a serious security hole AND IF there are a very large number of other serious security holes AND IF there are also a very large number of less serious security holes, THEN there's no point in offering a bounty because the number of less serious security holes plus the number of more serious security holes is so large you'll never fix them all.

Yes that's true. But it doesn't take a page long monolog to say it.

However, IF your bounty turns up a security hole like Heartbleed THEN the bounty was money well spent.

Actually it's a guerrilla marketing/propaganda campaign to make people accept GMO crops.

It wasn't clear that the seeds escaped. As I recall he had purchased roundup ready seeds in previous years, then suddenly "discovered" that the seed he saved carried the gene. That's how all the cases I've seen have turned out (initial claim that it was wind blown from a neighbor, then admission of guilt), although this might be referring to a special case.

When it was spun off, the value of Palm was something like $16B more than the value of the parent company before the split. Of course we all know how well that worked out.

In Philadelphia the have "roving pothole repair crews". A GPS tracking device on the potholes would seem appropriate there as well.

Every bug fixed raises the bar slightly. Although I suppose if you're pretty sure there are infinitely many security holes in your code that are all roughly equally easy to find then you shouldn't bother fixing them - you should get another job.

You mean like this one from Fox? I guess they don't fit your fantasy of "amerika".

The Economist is a Conservative publication??? You have an interesting perspective on the world.

Probably because that would have cost more than the deal they got from Comcast. There's no free lunch.

Measure the diameter and circumference then divide with a slide rule. And get off my lawn.

Eric Schmidt is a regular visitor to the White House thanks to his generous campaign contributions.

I suppose Google also needs to influence Congress though, since Obama isn't taking the lead in much of anything these days.

Read that more carefully.

Yea, they don't go into details, but this part makes me doubt they're harvesting wild plankton: