For most Security Leak issues, it comes down to a simpler problem.
Most people have crappy computer skills.
You can have a perfect system, but it takes one guy from sales or marketing to take the data, dump it as an excel of csv file and just email it or drop it in a public space because he just doesn't want to be bothered by dealing with IT

XKCD kinda shows this problem. We still don't have a good way to transfer files with people on different network. We have the technology but no clear standard.

Energy isn't cheap, but it is low enough to be absorbed in the price of the software without being losing you competitive edge.
However there is a phrase you need to spend money to make money. Which leads you need to have money to spend money. Which then finally means you need to Have Money to make Money. The sad truth of is the big guys will always have the upper edge just because they are more self reliant on their infrastructure, they can have their own power plants they can cut through regulations, influence governments with the carrot of see how many jobs I can bring to your area if you are willing to ease the rules for me, and if you don't Ill just go to an other area where their government will say yes.

Now these companies are not being green for the sake of being green, they are doing it to cut their costs down, and to get some good PR out of it.

Seems like it will continue - despite any ruling. Look at the overall indicators and trend, not just one specific ruling or data point.

Those cool, adventurous science-fiction dystopias in Bladerunner and the like. Well, they aren't so cool for most people to live in. They certainly aren't cool for the people who witness the transitions - from the 70s to post 2001...

It's a long way from the top, now. And we didn't tie a rope to climbe back.

For these uber rich people, it is not like the fantasy Scrooge McDuck idea, Of a guy with a vault just filled with money. It is spread across many different things and is working for him, moving from hand to hand and barely ever actually reaching Bill Gates. Unless Bill decides to sell it all at once.

The problem is that governments are demanded to give more and more services to the public, however they are greatly limited on how they can get the money.
It is actually a sad state that governments make a good chunk of their money by criminal fines.

I have one of those memories.

All from recollection of Dr. Demento broadcasts, c. 1978-1980 - prior to Bubblicious joining as a sponsor, cutting the show to less than 1 hr, and padding with ads.

If there's Trek goofiness, he'd have to include these chestnuts - and prolly have to add the audio portion of SNLs "Last Voyage" skit, with Elliot Gould as an NBC exec cancelling the show.

That's when I first heard HHGTG, too. I still find the BBC radiophonic original to be the superior of all incarnations. Funniest, too.

The best way to not get caught, is to not do it.
A very few hackers can actually make themselves untraceable. For the most part most of them just don't get hunted down because no one wants to put the resources to find them. Even with tough talk from Corporate Execs, and government officials, They usually just check to make sure the guy wasn't obviously dumb. But if they get hit hard enough to make tracking them down worth it, they could dig down and catch many more hackers who think they are doing a good job, while in truth they just ignored.

Well it is actually an average about 2 years of punishment, with most of them getting time out.

But if you think about it how much time should you really put someone in jail for in a white collar crime.
The idea of a Jail is more about keeping dangerous/people who will run away people in a place where they cannot escape to create more harm to the community.

For punishment a year or two in jail, is often enough to get the idea what you did was wrong, enough time to break you. Especially for kids where a year seems like a much longer time then it would be for someone in their middle adult years.

When I say Large programs, I am talking in an early 1990's mind set. I don't mean things like SAS or Oracle. But things like FoxPro form programs, and VB programs, meant for a particular use.

not a program that takes your text and filters line that contains that text.

Having all these small self contained parts is part of Unix/Linux stability as there are less big parts to fail.

The traditional Unix approach to computing, having a lot of small programs that do simple thing, combined with "Everything as a file" makes these systems very good at automating stuff. While systems like VMS or Windows was designed to run larger programs, and access libraries.

This makes Linux/Unix very good at automation, as it makes it easy to combine a lot of simple steps and get them scheduled and run in order without having to do a lot of extra programming. To automate using other OS's it usually means you will need to write a program to do the work.

"Hydromatic overdrive,
Four-on-the-floor,
Push-button windows,
Push-button doors
Double-barreled carborators,
Rush you anyplace,
But you never can find a parking space!
Highly illogical..."

Statistical aberration.

Isn't that technically regression.