No. He doesn't:

What he is saying is: It is fine to use spreadsheets as spreadsheets.
But there are people who can't use statistical analysis tools who use spreadsheets instead.
People who can't program who use spreadsheets filled with little code snippets to do what a program should do.
And in general people who make a mess with spreadsheets getting results that are hard to audit.

In short, business majors should take statistics classes and learn mathlab, or opt out of it by signing a form promising never to publish any paper that deals with statistical analysis of market factors.

Shouldn't his name be Gnu-Linus?

Just saying.

... And that 1 wasn't really female, just happened to be named Jessie.

I just googled "Can Google Influence Elections?" -
Four of the top five hits are certain that it can (the other one is slashdot).

That's alarming. I didn't know that before I googled it.

No. Hulu is Hollywood. Fox, NBC, Disney (a.k.a.NewsCorp, Comcast, ABC, MSNBC,..)

They are a resale platform for slightly used content:
1. Let people re-watch recent shows. (Probably to create additional ad-revenue, stop downloads, and competition.)
2. Create an on-line show/movie portal to stop independent offers (Netflix, and Blockbuster in the past).
3. Find new income sources. (Older episodes only on Hulu plus. Media centers, android, or anything convenient only on Hulu plus.)

Not their fault? These are the people responsible for DVD regions. Think Murdoch wants to lose markets? To maximize profits, it is essentially to restrict the usage of media (and information in general) to localized markets. You don't want a movie to hit the regional market before the population is hyped for it and your merchandise is ready. And in order to control the pundit circuit and the news "outlets", you don't want a significant percentage of the population access outside sources.

That might actually work.
Instead of calling it a "Search and Rescue Drone" call it an unmanned aerial surveillance vehicle that could be used by small units to safely scan unaccessible terrain. Then tell your local senator that you are a small start-up military contractor who needs help cutting some federal red tape to do real life testing of your beta model by using it in cooperation with local law enforcement.

(Be sure to pronounce "vehicle" as Vee-Hee-Kal and the word "federal" always with some disgust in your voice.)

... the coal miner's daughter?

Yes. Unfortunately there are two messages implied in Bloomberg's statement:

1. When there is a major structural change in the industry, some people will get stranded. And retraining/reeducation will not solve all the problems. As a society we should 'have some compassion to do it gently.' Simply suggesting that everyone learns to code is idiotic and could only come from someone like the Zuck.

2. Coal miners are manual labor class beta minus. You can't teach them intellectual things.

Had he simply said "You can't teach every coal miner to code", he could have avoided stepping in #2

(I on the other hand enjoy dealing with intelligent people who do manual labor jobs. It is nice to have a HVAC contractor, who understands physics. If you watch something like ThisOldHouse, you can see what a difference a brain makes in a so called "manual labor" job. )

Ehhh, of course you need a beard. But the article also says, to be successful you should remove spaghetti once in a while:

.. like in Virginia Beach?

The linked Sydney Morning Herald goes on:
"Despite denying he put the bug into the code intentionally, he said it was entirely possible intelligence agencies had been making use of it over the past two years."

One can assume said intelligence agencies would run their own software review and routinely check the source code of critical security software for obvious flaws. And if some agency even states Internet security as one of their goals, one can be certain they audit new patches.

It is very, very likely that they knew about this bug and used it to access servers outside their jurisdiction, where they couldn't simply access it with a letter in their hand. It being just an honest mistakes makes it even a sweeter deal, perfect deniability.

(And no, open source doesn't make a difference, if you wear the right colored tie, you can get any source code.)

Yes, the heartbeat exploit popped up just recently.
But the bug which forces users to keep data in freed buffers has been known for at least 4 years. Tedunangst calls it "exploit mitigation countermeasures" ...

Do not tempt the editors in how to educate the story process!