I believe you're remembering the short story "Why Johnny Can't Speed" by Alan Dean Foster, commonly citied as one of the inspirations for the game Car Wars.

"This makes the 6th data breach they have had."

This makes the 6th data breach that they've detected and admitted to.

Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/3167/

My first reaction to this headline was "Why the hell does a system startup utility need any user records at all?"

"This was no boating accident."

"OceanGate was offering a commercial service."

Well, there's your first hurdle. According to OceanGate, they were *not* offering a commercial service. That's why the two passengers were listed as "mission specialists." So the first step would be proving that they were in the face of OceanGate's counterarguments. I would agree, that, yes, OceanGate was offering a commercial service, but legally proving that fact in face of OceanGate's resistance would not have been trivial.

Broadcom's strategy all along has been;

1. Buy VMWare.
2. Squeeze maximum short-term money out of it to earn back the purchase price plus a big profit.
3. Kill VMWare dead in five years because they'll have their money and they don't want to be bothered with it anymore.

That's a pretty bad case of BDS you seem to have there. You should see a doctor about that. You know you have a problem when you start every sentence with "But Biden..."

"The bribe has to be big enough, or you just have to stroke his ego properly.."

The bribe has to be big enough, AND you just have to stroke his ego properly.

Nothing provokes rage from Trump like saying anything negative about him.

Actually, *this* is capitalism. Deere tried to assert control over their machines in a way farmers didn't like. So somebody else is providing machines that don't include that control, and people who like that feature are buying his instead. Capitalism in its purest form.

Did...you just imply that Israel wants to conquer the Ukraine?

Wow. Just...wow.

And if he's trying to "pare" it, a small, sharp knife would probably work better.

I was just reading this comment on another social site:

"Any statement that starts with "No one would be stupid enough to..." is false."

Amazon: "That makes absolutely no sense. That would lose us money, not make us money."

Tatooine 90210.