... anything else would be "inadvisable"?

That'll help against cybercriminals. Maybe. If you're lucky.

If you really have TLAs going after you, expect attacks that are hardware-based or at least have a hardware component.

The whole point of calling something firmware is that the user shouldn't even know it's there and it's actually a piece of software and not hardwired electronics.

So how should the user have knowledge that something he shouldn't have knowledge of is being modified?

Even if there is - cops do not have any authority to influence the sentence in any way. If you want to make deals, you'll have to talk to the prosecutor and the judge. Not to cops. Cops will merely be witnesses during the trial and happily testify that you confessed to them.

He just gave away any bargaining leverage by confessing to a law enforcement officer. Being able to skip a few days or weeks of trial and the associated costs will be the only advantage of a guilty plea.

"if you cooperate with us, you'll get a lesser sentence"

That is a lie, by the way. Law enforcement officers may lie when "interviewing" suspects.

If faced with 50% risk of jail time and felonies compared NO jail time and felonies, the option with the lowest risk will always win.

Confessing a to cop will get you all the jail time, every time. It's among the worst possible choices in such a case.

You plead guilty right before the trial would start, if anything.

pleading guilty can get you a pretty hefty discount on your sentence

And you waive that discount by confessing to a law enforcement officer during an "interview". Because in that case, the court has sufficient evidence to convict you regardless of your plea.

The shit is already inside the meat at the beginning of the process. One little error while separating the two, and you'll end up with some of the one in the other.

Err ... I think you're confusing things here. When a company tanks, its assets get sold off (or otherwise turned into money) to satisfy the creditors (the people who gave loans) demands. In this process, the stockholders shares go *poof*, mostly.

When a company tanks, the creditors are in a slightly better position than the stockholders. In fact, the creditors might end up being the new owner of the company.

It it is irradiated, then it has ben exposed to ionizing radiation.

Something can get irradiated without getting contaminated (easy to see if the source of the radiation isn't radioactive material, e.g. an x-ray tube), but if it's contaminated, then it is usually also irradiated.

You'll be dead in thirty seconds, but it'll take your body a few (fairly excrucitating) days or even weeks to notice that it should be dead.

Because in pretty much every other industry patents essentially prevents that from happening.

I think in the automobile industry, the high up front investment ist a much greater hurdle than any patents.

Jesus was opposed to the kind of divorce that happened back then, which usually left the woman poor, homeless and an outcast from society.

We don't do this kind of divorce anymore.