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Plug In an Ethernet Cable, Take Your Datacenter Offline
New submitter jddj writes: The Next Web reports on a hilarious design failure built into Cisco's 3650 and 3850 Series switches, which TNW terms "A Network Engineer's Worst Nightmare". By plugging in a hooded Ethernet cable, you...well, you'll just have to see the picture and laugh. They write: "The cables, which are sometimes accidentally used in datacenters, feature a protective boot that sticks out over the top to ensure the release tab isn’t accidentally pressed or broken off, rendering the cable useless. That boot would hit the reset button which happened to be positioned directly above port one of the Cisco switch, which causes the device to quietly reset to factory settings."
Sigh, another "Americans are stupid" joke. Ha Ha, and fuck you.
Either they're stupid, or large numbers of them are so very forgiving that they will reward failure with dollars in huge numbers.
At least the forgiving person understands what they're buying. The average? Ok, if you want to make that argument, I will entertain it, but the burden of proof is on you.
If you really want to get into it, obesity is a form of stupidity, so long as we define stupidity as "an unnecessary practice [series of choices] that causes harm to the practitioner, and also, unlike sacrificial behavior, simultaneously fails to benefit anyone else".