So... it's compiled... like literally every other program every made?

What exactly makes compiled code special? EXEs are compiled code. The term "run-only" is stupid. You have to be able to read the thing to run it, and the computer can read bytes just fine, so... where's the problem?

"Tragedy of the commons".

Building a walled garden can be bad, but allowing free and unfettered access to an open field for everybody's use can too.

Hey now, don't be raging on the white hat for doing white hat things. Not all of us have the meme darkness in our souls.

Had to Google to find out that they actually meant a trolley system at street level.

For everybody in the US: "tram" = trolleys on rails in the street. Just so you know.

Why are you touching all those paper towels? Grab one, throw in the cart, get on with your damn day.

Most people do not take that kind of time to comparison shop. If they can just deliver me the damn towels, then that's fine, I do not have brand loyalty toward most household products, nor do I need to molest my items in order to determine that it's a paper towel.

As in, have they figured out how to make their burger taste like a burger? Or the fish taste like a fish?

Because the burger is straight garbage. I don't understand the hype here, those things do not taste like real meat in the slightest. Texture isn't bad, but the flavor is just wrong.

Tankless systems have the same corrosion problem. They also have the added benefit of scale reducing their effectiveness and eventually clogging them entirely. If your tanked heater was properly installed -- it has a catch pan and drain -- then the eventual pinhole leaks will not be the ruination you claim. Either way, preventive maintenance is necessary to keep them running for years. (my previous one lasted 23 years! The flue eventually burned through -- short of spraying it with the stuff used to protect welding tips, not much I can do to protect the steel from the fire that's supposed to heat it.)

(the ones at my parent's house (electric) have always rusted from the inside out because no one replaces the cathode rods)

who the fuck has a water heater that is network connectable

Mine can be -- iCOMM industrial control system. It's in my house, so it doesn't have one. And it wouldn't be "connected to the internet" if I did, but it would be connected to my leads-to-the-internet LAN.

Having seen numerous documentaries and tours of the UK National Grid, and various US grid operators, nobody runs at exactly 100%. A healthy grid is run with some excess capacity as a buffer -- while small, for obvious cost reductions, it's important to have that buffer to avoid brownouts due to sudden increases is load. (i.e. the exact thing the hacker is trying to cause.) I'll pick on the UK because their load has the grandest predictable spikes... when many "click on the kettle".

Because most people dumped Solaris more than a decade ago?

"Not entirely" as in [in my experience] many former solaris shops still have bits of solaris remaining. It wasn't "dumped", but incrementally replaced over the years. (solaris 10 was the real kick-in-the-ass to start moving... SMF, the systemD of the Solaris world.)

OpenSolaris was as much a marketing ploy as it was a means to remain relevant -- "Open Source" being the trendy new buzz word / business model. You could already get solaris for free -- for "non-commercial" use. (surprisingly, even under the infinite greed of Oracle, solaris is still available for free.) Sun was the only source for sparc hardware to run the OS, so they already had your money. (solaris/x86 never had much of a software market)

(Sure, anyone running x86 hardware is far better off moving to linux or even windows. The few solaris/x86 installs I knew were moved to linux and windows.)

Not entirely. I still run across the odd solaris 7/8/9 system from time to time. I still run one myself. You don't fuck with what isn't broken; there hasn't been a need to replace it, although it has been discussed. (maybe should based entirely on the power bill)

(I have several systems standing by for testing and troubleshooting whatever might come across my desk. But they aren't actually on.)