There's basic engineering concepts such as "separation of concerns" and "redundancy", which the average Slashdot reader should be aware of.

That's a small price to pay when 90% of people are not going to notice the extra $1 tacked on. You only need to screw 2 people to make up for the cost of the cashier's time, and you'll succeed a lot more often.

99% of people will not bother.

Intra-day price changes for consumer products should be banned.

I would be very surprised if someone had that argument when the car was invented. You're really stretching for this one.

Waymo might have done the right thing here. If the car had sped away and accidentally run over the person, that would be a very different story.

The guy in the car was annoyed for six minutes and then it was over. I have some sympathy but not really.

From the article:

There is no world where linear programmed Cable TV can compete with a la carte.

Streaming is just better.

Knowing the exact location of a carrier makes it easier to target. Iran shot missiles at an aircraft carrier, but they missed it because they didn't know where the carrier was (or because the missiles got jammed).

"Don't be Detected" is the second layer of the survivability onion.

I got skills you don't know about, man. I could fix it.

I don't mind sanctions. Any country that doesn't have free elections is a country we shouldn't be trading with.

Governments should not keep their people as slaves.

The US is low on THAAD high end interceptor missiles, and everyone (Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Taiwan, Korea, etc) wants Patriot missiles so there aren't enough for everyone (but production is steadily increasing).

Other than that, the bombs being dropped on Iran can be produced at a similar rate as they are being dropped.

You mean to tell me you didn't like Windows 98 OR Windows ME? How is that possible??

Fix the problem by writing more code? Watch me.

What are you talking about, learn to use logic.

You didn't use logic you just made a list of things you don't like. The question was about history.

Well, the "bus factor" is a real concern that should be dealt with, but there are solutions for that, too. The easiest of course being to hire two good people who can understand the code.