This event has persuaded me to learn more about the stock market. I know slightly more than the average American. Can anyone recommend good resources to start from? I am already reading some blogs listed here and will look at Google and Amazon to books, but I would appreciate some recommendations here too.

You don't need to personally QA them. We just delay them for a specific time period and let the world test for us. We were not affected by this issue at all because we saw the announcement and blocked the update from going out.

Aside from a segfault, this is about as big of a deal as it gets.

While you are sitting in your ivory tower, consider that every major product out there has probably included a backported feature patch late in beta (likely more than once). Most of the time we never even realize it. I actually applaud them for openly stating they have a problem and taking steps to resolve it.

This isn't a bug. No one except Google knows for sure how they determine whether a message is spam, but it appears that each sender is assigned a score. If that score is low it gets bulked. People clicking "Report as Spam" lowers the score, while clicking "Not Spam" increases the score. Thus, the more people click an email as spam the more likely it will be bulked.

So wish I had mod points. +1 Funny

I am confused. You didn't need the internet to send email or documents because you had internet gateways? Either you mistyped that sentence or you need to clarify what you mean.

He said someone could sniff the traffic. Her personal firewall is irrelevant here.

You act like it is a zero-sum game. The "the impoverished family down the street's daughter" can get the same treatment as GP via subsidized cost. Any national health care system will have opt-out policy too. So anyone with money will continue to get a higher standard of health care. This is the main complaint I hear from England all the time. The best doctors and care are still only accessible to those with money.