Ubuntu updates are far less problematic than windows updates in my experience. I have an ubuntu server running with automatic updates for the last 2 years without a problem. I just check it from time to time if it need a reboot for a new kernel. That machine is used by me and the members of my family as file server, web server, mail server, chat server and game server.
I can't say the same with my windows 7 box for who i have bad feelings at each updates because until now 3 updates have broken my machine to a point i needed a full reinstall :-(

In north of france, buildings build after the second war are mostly build from red bricks. 2 to 3 bricks wide for structure walls and 1 brick wide for interior walls.

The problem is that they think that the information they put online is nothing important.... Until their life is destroyed by that same information (Teachers' party picture, tweet with bad words...)

Should we cripple services and/or internet because of some fools. Or let Darwin do its job?

For my part i think we should thank that developer. He show to everyone how data protection laws are too lax or inexistant. He show how some people doesn't understand how a little bit of what seems to them innocuous data can bit them in the ass very hard. And perhaps when a certain number of problem will show up in the news and courtrooms due to the availability of these datas, perhaps then the legislator will do something about it under the pressure of the frightened populace.

The problem is that for the bank the money lost is 'minimal'. In the 50 billion $ a year of CC fraud, most of that amount is lost by the merchants and not the bank. The chargeback is from the merchant to the card owner, but the merchand didn't get the sold product back. Now, if a law say that the fraud should be at the charge of the banks, you can be sure that the fixes will be implemented in the following hour !!!

You are completely wrong. SSN like credit card number have control checksums. Up to 2 errors in the SSN could be detected with 100% accuracy, more errors could still be detected with a good probability.

They were not stupid but blindfolded by the bankers. It was the bankers who have accepted to sign these contracts with these poor fools. But the banks didn't feared anything. And they were right. Now it's you who pay for their errors thanks for the government bailout. The banks won a lot of money in the process and it seems that they are doing it all over again with students loans...

* Lack of powerful libraries
It is not a language limitation but a limitation of the ecosystem around the language

* For a same functionality program writing from 2 time to 10 time more lines of code than dynamic languages like Python or Perl
Being a statically typed language, pascal like any other statically typed language is more verbose. it is not a limitation of the language.

* Languages like Python are better for writing applications and quick&dirty little scripts to help here and there
Here the limitation you suggest is the same for C, C++, any compiled language. It is not "the limitations that made Pascal a good student language but lousy for real work" because else any compiled language is in the same basket.

At school it was Turbo-Pascal. At the refinrery it was VAX-11 Pascal. I never user the standard Pascal. That why I never saw pascal limitations then :-)

Actually most of my programs wait more time for the datas than to process them. And when it is number crunching apps (neural networks, statistics, machine learning), numpy/scipy is here to solve, most if not all, my speed problems.