Or maybe I am just a regular user who does not want bugs in proprietary drivers to crash his system.

Use only hardware with functional open source drivers.

Migrate to what? Postgres admitted that there is a problem. It is not known to be exploited in the wild. Do you really think Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL have no critical security bugs in them? Or even bugs already known to the vendor in the case of the closed source ones?

Your system is no worse today than it was yesterday. You know PostgreSQL has at least 1 bug. So unless you think another system has no bugs, do not switch.

Marketing, not luck.

The investments do not actually need to pan out. The VC firms just need to make their investors think that the investments will return, and the VC firm makes money in fees even if the overall return is low.

It is a casino for the investors. The VC firm is the house.

New York State already has laws to keep some sex offenders incarcerated after they serve their sentences.

You use this test as an excuse to keep certain people in jail for political reasons.

The fewer services the government provides, the less people are dependent on it, the less power the government has.

Taxes and services give the ruling class more power. An increased minimum wage would allow lower taxes and fewer services, thus reducing the ruling class' power.

Fighter pilots are carefully selected, highly trained, and extremely focused.

Drivers are every idiot with 20/30 vision and 16 birthdays.

Consider that people (especially non-violent offenders) come out of prison more likely to commit a greater crime than before they went in.

The issue here is that the US government is not getting (enough) bribes. This probe will make sure that gets rectified.

What should the punishment be? A fine? Prison? Banned from the Internet?

He should be punished. Jail time is expensive for the taxpayers and harsh for somebody who, however misguided, was trying not to hurt anybody. I would suggest lots of community service.

Windows machines compromised via remote exploits in Windows: Windows sucks!
Windows machines compromised via stupid users who install anything? Windows users suck!
Linux machines compromised via default passwords: Administrators suck!

How long ago was that? My 7 year old T43 has only a few more screws than my new W520 and many fewer than my wife's 2 year old Acer. And each screw location is labeled "1", "2", or "3" and there is a big sticker that shows which screw length corresponds to which number.

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