Yeah, funny stuff. They really should have had a cap on The DAO. It's so high risk. That was a bad decision. It seems they are going to work it out. Geez HN hates cryptocurrencies. Some silly comments there. Bitcoin did some security hardforks in the beginning that would be very difficult if not impossible now. The decentralization comes with scale.
Guess they should have listened to you two weeks ago :) Hopefully no one was dumb enough to put their life savings in there, but I can't imagine that's not the case for some people. Bug, no bug; theft, no theft; it's irrelevant. When any asset increases by 15 fold in 5 months or so, it's probably time to hit the pause button. Anyway ETH is still sitting at $17, which would look pretty attractive by even last week's standards.