I can't say about MI, but in NC, every pump I've ever seen has a mechanical flow counter... for tax purposes. I can't say the station is recording those numbers on any scale that would help here. (daily, hourly...) If you crash the control interface, the back-office systems won't have a count, but the tax man will!

The "at least 10" part most likely comes from an estimate of security footage.

100L ~ 25gal, so you don't have anything magical. Yes, most autos have a ~20gal tank. This ain't Mad Max; we don't need 100gal tanks. That said, many trucks (pickups) and SUVs will have something on the upper end of the scale, but they also have pretty poor fuel economy.

We recently had a car in a neighbor's lot catch fire. (they didn't lock it, and some heroin idiots set it on fire) A fire truck was there in ~2min, they were actively dealing with it in under 5min. That car was right behind a gas station, so they were likely highly motivated to stop that explosion. Yes, it did take ~20min for a cop to show up to block off the street.

There have been times when I've called the police and it took hours for someone to finally respond. Non-emergencies are zero priority. (they had wrecks, burglaries, and drunks to deal with)

A malfunctioning gas pump that's giving away free gas isn't remotely an emergency. There are at least a dozen different ways to deal with the situation. From turning off the entire station (there's actually only one pump (per grade); the things from which you get the gas is a just a metered dispenser), to padlocking the pump, to parking other cars around that pump to keep others away from it.

In a drill, I can understand that. Go where you're supposed to go. In an actual emergency, do whatever is necessary.

Play God?!? One person is not "god". One review will not get you fired. A PATTERN of bad reviews will get you fired.

There are plenty of ways to secure BGP, and routing in general. However, just like the locks on your house, they don't do you any good if you don't actually lock them. We have yet to see a BGP session be hijacked, or an external attacker inject a rogue route into an established BGP session. What we DO see all the time are flaming idiots accepting whatever the hell someone advertises.

Done. And Done. They took over the address space for Amazon's DNS service (Route 53), so they ARE the DNS for many domains. That gives them 100% control of all DNS answers, including where the server is. That traffic now goes to a server they control. It's trivial to get a Let's Encrypt signed certificate under these conditions.

(Of course, these guys didn't even bother to do that.)

Nope. The issue (ssl certificate) is still entirely a Big Giant Fail(tm) on Let's Encrypt's part. If I can take over your DNS, I can effectively become your server and *poof* now I can those fools to sign a certificate for my stolen domain. Now, these guys didn't actually do that, so there actions where immediately evident.

Yes, they used BGP to announce more specific routes to parts of Amazon's DNS infrastructure so that traffic came to them. They were then in effective control of many domains, but apparently chose to hijack some cryptocurrency site.

There are plenty of ways to secure BGP, and routing in general. However, just like the locks on your house, they don't do you any good if you don't actually lock them. We have yet to see a BGP session be hijacked, or an external attack inject a rogue route into an established BGP session. What we DO see all the time are flaming idiots accepting whatever the hell someone advertises.

Simple. Those aren't new subway lines. They're extensions to, and interconnects between existing subway lines. There's been a lot of construction over the decades, but in total, the entire system is still quite old.

I'd love to fuel the conspiracy of "lab escape", but it's far more likely to be a simple random mutation.

The rapid population growth is mostly due to humans scattering them across the global. (i.e. farmers throwing them in their rice fields as a source of food.)

All too true. Too much of the "product" is a bunch of horrible, bloated JAVA. And way too many "solutions" are collections of acquisitions bolted together poorly.

Or how many are still functional? (answer: their output is a lot lower than it used to be.)

I'm also basing it on the US dollar cost of common cars, and power. Depending on where you are in the US, even those numbers change. (eg. power in Alaska is rather expensive [link)

Go ask NASA about "space dust". Specifically, that space shuttle window with a piece of space dust 2/3 - 3/4 of the way through it. At 25,000mph, even the head of pin can do a tremendous amount of damage.