If it's a toss-up between a de-facto Chinese takeover or a de-facto Israeli takeover, then the question is not what the resignation is trying to distract from, the question is why a vital strategic manufacturer is being taken over by a foreign power at all.

(Obviously, there's good reasons for a foreign power to want to have absolute leverage over how US businesses work. Whether those foreign powers are "hostile" or "benign" is irrelevant there and so of absolutely no consequence to the discussion. What matters is that the US should not place critical industries, on which essentially all other parts of their economy have become utterly dependent, in the hands of anyone not subject to US scrutiny or US law. As it stands, I dislike how corporations work, boards have accountability to nobody outside themselves and majority shareholders - which are also usually themselves. That's not an effective system.)

I'd certainly investigate the entire corporation. If the guy is abusing his position of authority (which means that any "consent" given is a fiction) and the employees actively support this, then there's a good chance that the behaviour is rampant in the company.

There is, however, a flip-side. He's undoubtedly led the company to produce some superb products and has pushed them in a well-identified direction. Far more so than virtually any other US corporation. There's very obviously something about his personality and mindset that is actually wanted to have a successful business, and this something is lacking within much of the western business community.

Basically, much of the western world is stuck in Harvard MBA Land, and companies operating under such principles invariably collapse from complete incompetence. They're popular because those with MBAs are usually brash, arrogant, controlling, dominant, and abusive - typical sociopathic traits - and sociopaths in the boardroom tend to be very good at producing stable management structures and very high stock returns. Just not successful busineses. But who cares, if you get rich?

This does not mean we need more sex offenders or Chinese spies running US megacorps. It means we need to find out exactly what in his attitude allowed him to identify successful patterns, we have no reason to want or desire any other aspects of the guy.

Should we email Microsoft and advise them on how to install Linux and FreeBSD on their servers?

This is eerily similar to the marching soldiers' bridge collapse - Broughton Bridge in 1831, often misattributed to Napoleon but happened after his reign.

Lessons weren't learned 180 years later either, for the Milllennium Suspension Bridge, which I happened to work next to at the time and watched the construction and failure unfold. People tend to walk in sync. When things happen in sync, a resonant pattern emerges. It's true for people crossing bridges. It's true for people synchronising machines to exact clocks and nice rounded-off times as well.

It happened in classic Who as well. To Tom Baker I believe, though I might be misremembering the "why don't you follow me up these stairs?" scene. Could have been McCoy. Either way - the line was..."Elevate!".

"Leftists"

Spotted the Russian shill. What's it like sucking Putin's cock?

" The US has backed Iran into a corner"

LOLno. Iran did so much damage the whole world is suffering on petroleum prices right now, and Iran knows what position it holds.

The US is backed into a corner and Trump is about to get his ass reamed by the rest of the fucking planet.

Yes.

Whether I especially want this however, that's a different matter. But for those that do - yes, support efforts have been stepped up recently.

Go to the Mojave instead. Lots of time in the year right now where it won't absolutely roast you alive and camping is fairly pleasant (if a bit chilly at night.)

Plotters could handle it back then.

The most likely interpretation of "reconfigurable flight controls" is that the aircraft can be made to handle like other aircraft through the fly-by-wire control system, so you can see how other aircraft would handle specific situations from the cockpit.

Its been done a few times - there was a Gulfstream II which was designed to handle like the Space Shuttle for training purposes.

"I don't really understand why this is a Slashdot story"

A DIGITAL BANK (aka TECHNOLOGY) isn't a Slashdot story?

Son where the fuck have you been?

Hah - used one for a while quite some time ago. With enough willpower and sufficient hatred of the task at hand, a Corby Trouser Press can also be made to double as a shirt ironer.

" Investigations are under way into how the attack was carried out, "

Remotely, obviously. Get your fucking systems off the internet and quit being lazy cheap-ass humans.

I think it's time Google faced court for the same bullshit.