Let's assume that the human pilot can outsmart the drone and achieve a firing position. What weapon could the pilot use to make the kill? Guns won't work, because the drone could out turn the human making the straight-line gun ineffective. Similarly, a missile is at a disadvantage (depending on its range, stealth, and kill-radius characteristics) because its smaller control surfaces generally limit its turning capability compared to the larger fighter. So hitting the drone isn't that easy ... unless you were using directed-energy weapons or augmented flight controls that let your fighter take over when you blacked out. As the fight wore on it would inevitably drop to lower altitude as you lose energy. Now you're stuck fighting in essentially 2D rather than 3D space...the human is in real trouble now.

There is some reason to believe that the number of infections per 100,000 is much greater in Sweden than in other locations. For example, 25% of the population infected there rather than, say, 5% in other places. We'll have to wait to see when other locations "catch up" to Sweden before judging Sweden's outcome. And with nothing out there really to stop this virus (it's just being slowed down) there is little to believe that other countries won't in time "catch up".

Baroque, arcane? Unix is only 5 years younger than OS/360. We're talking mid-sixties for both and nothing much has changed since then.

(1) Assembler, of course. There are various documents describing the system...in particular look into the "Red Books". Yes, you in fact modded and assembled (not compiled) the various modules you wanted to change (VM comprises hundreds of individual programs, not one monolithic kernel). Also changeable was the CMS (user VM) and various other components that ran in VM's. (2) Back in the day modifications were distributed by the SHARE user's group. Occasionally something might have been picked up by IBM. For the most part, modifications were made for you specific needs, not so much for the community at large...but they were there for the picking. If I recall there was a 360 emulator "Hercules" that could run both VM and MVS on a PC.

Back in the 60's every piece of software IBM created was "open source" (only it wasn't called that back then). Compilers, operating systems, everything. Only with the rise of Amdahl as a competitor did IBM start restricting the availability of source. z-VM still is largely "open source".

So first off, I am not a developer and have never needed or used any source control system. So no stake in this argument. To the people threatening to leave GitHub...I'm sure MS could care less since you never paid a cent to keep your precious GitHub running. In fact, it is losing money hand-over-fist and not likely to around much longer, anyway. They won't miss you. Now I can sort of understand why MS might want to buy an up-and-running source control shop, but it's hard to understand why they significantly overpaid for it. There's probably a common relationship going on between the current paying GitHub customer base and MS's own base. That could be worth a lot for both parties. Then this would seem to be more of a full-service offering to enterprise. It makes no difference that MS already has it's own service. It's just a choice for your customers like different grades of gasoline (car analogy here). I'm sure the other major cloud players will be either buying up the other small guys or rolling their own soon, so you'll have a really nice choice of which devil will own your soul ... if that's your attitude.

No reason why the HoloLens tech couldn't be adapted to that output. I think the key here is the integrated local room mapping and navigation software. The output could be a combination of anything. Therefore, a practical device could very well be something fairly lightweight since the support for video would probably be eliminated.

"... including the testing."

Somehow making alcohol in Tennessee seems appropriate.

Sounds like this system would have crashed unzipping ANY large file under ANY OS because it was the application that the CPU couldn't properly execute.

I hate to break up this paranoia-fest, but the government --- and the NSA in particular --- has little, if any, reason to want a "backdoor" into generally used crypto system. Since secrets have a way of not being secret for very long, the existance and means of access of such a backdoor would quickly become available to our advesaries. At that point they could pretty much wreck our economy at will. So, as you can see, a "defense agency" would have far greater motivation to ensure a robust system rather than one which is weakly armored.