"Then again, killing civilians indiscriminately with drone strikes as "collateral damage" is pretty barbaric as well."

You are an idiot. The entire purpose of drone strikes is to carry out very targeted killings. If we didn't care about collateral damage and didn't mind indiscriminately killing people, expensive drones would not be necessary. All we'd need is some far cheaper cluster bombs. Maybe some napalm.

There was a time when you had to patent a thing, as opposed to an abstract idea. Imagine if someone had been able to patent "using a mechanical device to cool the air". Refrigeration technology would have been held back for decades.

I think he was speaking figuratively. You took the parent post way too seriously.

Getting everyone on the ground safely is the pilots' job. Keeping planes in the air safely is ATC's job.

Is this why the entire nation's ATC system limped along at a severely reduced capacity when a single Chicago facility was taken offline for 3 weeks due to a single contractor cutting a few cables?

That's not just Oracle. That's every IT consultancy. I've never heard of a large outsourced IT project that wasn't overbudget, behind schedule, and ultimately did not do what it was supposed to do. Of course most in-house projects suffer the same fate. And there's positively zero correlation between certificationed personnel and project success.

Makes sense, considering their CEO does not have an ethical bone in his body.

It's good enough, until someone discovers the obscurity and then its not so obscure anymore (or secure).

Those of use who have been coming here for a while understand perfectly well why its redundant. We're sick and tired of hearing the 12+ year old joke over and over.

They haven't yet gotten used to a world where security by obscurity just doesn't work anymore.

I wouldn't be surprised if you aren't joking :) BMW has their own brand of expensive washer fluid, for God's sake.

If someone rips you off that badly, you don't need a Yelp review. You need a lawsuit.

The ones who have sometimes been found to not be nearly as impartial as they'd like you to believe?

That and the entire nation of France. Ever heard of the French Paradox?

Because douchebag designers think everyone wants to see their stupid fucking video so it must play as soon as the page loads. This is fine for CNN or similar sites that are primarily visited by drooling morons that struggle to read in the first place, but wholly inappropriate for a "news for nerds" site that Slashdot once was.