Well, consider search-as-you-type - you're typing, this goes into some kind of a query into a database. How should the whole UI react ? Display entered text, without updating search results ? Reflow it with best match when results arrive ?
Guidance systems were (and are) presumably worse, if one has to judge by officially released data.
Propulsion systems were much more difficult to keep in a ready to launch state, and much more fragile.
In general, USSR preferred less sophisticated solutions, instead making sure they could be easily replicated.
"How do you fight SDI orbital-based weapons platforms ?
Oh, it's easy. launch a truckload of nuts and bolts into orbit, and blow it up" (c) Soviet military cicra 1986
Google CTF event is this weekend, I believe it's not too late to gather a team , register it, and take a part ; such events are a very special kind of fun; I participated in one of CTFs recently, and quickly understood limits of my knowledge, as well as multitude of ways to enrich given context, and exploit it.
I support you wholeheartedly, survival of the fittest and evolution show us it's the only way to ensure getting better as species, but current point of view (equal opportunities, maximum protection) all but guarantees those who scream louder survive, not those whos skills are more useful in a long run .
I wonder what would Tesla owners do during fire-induced blackouts. With wrong combination of returning from long drive to homes without power, and fire hazard warnings, people owning only electrical cars could become trapped really bad. Unfortunately, Teslas are a part of a problem for now, being power hogs .
Why do you even want to know, or judge, anyone's donations ? Do you ask store clerks who did they donate today ? Their manager ? Private life and personal decisions should be left personal.
It very much depends. I've seen too many cases when business logic was moved to the database layer, with absolutely disastrous effects. Scaling application backends doing map-reduce on a pre-filtered datasets is way easier than scaling database to handle five-way joins. Yet,I've seen opposing cases too, when rdbms was used as a huge key-value storage , and was pushing hundreds of thousands of rows to tens of backends, sucking it's bandwidth dry.
CIA-staged gas pipeline explosion is an urban myth. I guess the same can be said about a lot of other casually known spy stories cited in this very discussion