The whole point of a crumple zone is for it to crumple reducing the collision energy which reduces the shock to the people inside which reduces the number of broken bones. In essence you want the new car to be wrecked, if its wrecked that means much of the collision energy was used in crumpling the frame of the car and not in jolting the passengers.
Isn't it ironic that the car called The Smartcar, doesn't have any form of rear crumple zones? there's about 3in of space between the back of your seat and the back of the car. If someone rear ends you while you're in a Smartcar, you're gonna feel every lb of force.
Not so smart if you ask me. I should know, I've been rear ended in a smart car, and I was hit by a honda civic.
By singling out Nazis as forbidden by the government, you have codified them as a de facto opposition group to the state. Those who feel disenfranchised will look to the obvious enemy of your government for support. This strengthens the Nazis as opposed to simply ignoring them. Slashdotters will know this as the Streisand Effect.
So let's see what other groups are illegal? Murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drug dealers....
So we should then legalize these groups otherwise they will grow in numbers. I don't recall all the people that hated George W. Bush becoming murderers, rapists or pedophiles.
I know this won't be popular at/., but I think most people around here would take a phone that "worked" but used non-Linux (OS/2, MVS or VMS). I can't imagine too many slashdotters that would say, "This phone reboots twice a day and the battery life stinks, but it runs linux so they can pry it outta my cold dead hands.
Yeesh, I just want a phone that has good battery life, 3G, call clarity etc etc. I don't care what OS it runs. Hell, if they said it ran Banana-OS, as long as it worked, who cares. It's a phone. Plus even if it ran linux, what percentage of consumers would be able to do anything with any of the source that they provide? Hack all you want, but in a year or two when it's time to renew my contract I'll be getting a new phone anyhow.
Just my $.02, and I'm going back to my phone which runs some random OS.
While I'm not here to debate the existence of god or any such being. There are many that do, and I'm surprised at how low your standards are for calling one "God" compared to what others may do. For example, their "God" created the universe, heavens, man, life etc etc etc. You have chosen to use this term to a composer of Ambient music. This reminds me of the Bill Cosby quote,
Man invents. God creates. Man invented the AUTOMOBILE. Called it AMAZING! God made a tree said it was good. Man invented the REFRIGERATOR. Called it INCREDIBLE. God made a rabbit and called it good. The wheels fell off the car. The refrigerator lost its cool. Tree's still up and rabbit's still runnin'.
However, the real issue that concerned the university was the matter of communication between Google and the CIS department. Before fixing the issue on Tuesday, Google suspended the affected accounts, a necessary step that was taken so no more data was improperly shared. What angered the IT director, though, was that the accounts were suspended without first notifying CIS.
Translation: We sent you an email communicating the issue at hand. However, we had to disable your email account so nobody else could accidentally view it.
"I've spoken very forcefully with the account (executive), my boss, senior administrators at Brown -- including the president. (Google needs) to find a better way to communicate with us," said Tom.
Translation: We told them to stop or else we'll say stop again.
These guys need to advertise inside or be associated with a particular business that people are going to. Take the grocery store. At my local grocery store, the Girl Scouts often set up a table to sell their cookies. This is a brand that people trust for quality. We trust the Girl Scouts that their product is safe for us to consume. On the other hand, I often see a woman that is sitting on folding chair and when you leave the supermarket she asks you, very quietly if you want Tamales. I wouldn't take a Tamale from this woman if it was free, because I do not trust her.
The local supermarkets often have people stationed inside providing samples of various products. Usually a retiree standing in front of a table with a small griddle or toaster oven. While I have no interest in the products they are usually preparing, I would trust that they are safe. These guys should set up their table inside of computer stores (Apple Store, BestBuy etc..), atleast that could add some credibility to their product, or atleast the appearance of credibility.
On the other hand, why should I trust a random group of people on the street? Did we forget the recent incident where hackers mailed malware infected CDs to Credit Unions? The only difference is that instead of pretending the CDs come from some gov't organization, they're coming from some "OpenSource" group standing at a table on the street.
IANAL, but my cousin is and her husband is a police officer, and one of her biggest complaints is that jurors are now expecting evidence to be collected and more importantly processed along the lines of the tv show CSI. Where DNA results are turned around in an hour and even bullets collected in the pouring rain can still be matched to a national gunpowder manufacturer database.
I suddenly felt that millions of voices yelled out and then were suddenly silenced or someth...... NO CARRIER
Y'know, I'm starting to wonder what is the minimum age required to understand the "NO CARRIER" reference. What age does the average person have to be to have never experienced the "NO CARRIER" phenomenon?
Additionally, what's the min age to have actually used a real vt100, 3270 or 5250 and not an emulated one via export TERM=vt100...?
Let's see you close the divide between the "Haves" and the "Have nots." Not every family can afford to send their kid to a $45k/yr school http://www.cushing.org/admission/tuition.shtml. Let's see what would we rather do... spend $500k to eliminate the library, or pay for teachers, licensing fees for books, pencils, specialists (art/music/gym teachers)....
Let me know when you get back to reality from your "let's see students actually put together reagents in a computer simulation such that they achieve the desired result."
Either that or please write to your local Legislator that you're willing to pay 60% taxes.
In some of my classes in the past were "open book." So this made me wonder, if I was at this school and my eBook reader had an issue (crashed/battery dead/accidentally deleted the book) what would happen? With a physical textbook, I'm not sure there's any equivalent, since you're really only allowed the exam, the book and a pencil/eraser.
If eBook readers were allowed, what would prevent a student from carrying a library worth of books with them?
To me this smells like someone got the "Hey! Computers will solve everything!" This is sad since most schools in Mass can't afford paper/pencils/textbooks. Atleast they're not doing it with tax dollars.
I find it funny though that they are replacing 20,000 books with $10,000 worth (or 18) eBook readers from Amazon/Sony. I guess they'll force every kid to purchase their own reader. Welcome to the private school of 2009 which will cost $35k/yr. It's almost cheaper to get your MD from Harvard.
I've got plenty of coworkers around me with iPhones (webex plugin is great and Webex Plugin for Adium is great too) and Macs. The problem is that the mac just isn't as business friendly as the PCs. For example, most coworkers all run XP in a VMware VM in order to have Outlook integration (webex plugin, GBs of.pst files). Most use visio, for which there isn't a version for mac. Also there is not docking station for the mac, so these guys have to plug in a half dozen cables every day, plus a security lock. A few have apple monitors so that cuts down on 1 cable.
Thank you for launching the bandwidth consuming iPhone. We appreciate how it requires massive bandwidth and how users would rather stream music than use an ancient device called A Radio. While the economy has slowed down many other IT companies, your constant sales and increase in bandwidth consuming features have enabled us to increase sales considerably in the Service Provider space.
Due to this generosity by you towards our bottom line, we will now allow our employees to use macbooks while at work. Additionally, we are considering renaming our products' firmware from IOS to iOS in your honor.
That was a better design the the current 3rd party attempts at a docking station which is an automated way (via a handle) to plug in the cables all at once.
What is Apple's resistance to a docking station? One with built in physical security/power/networking/extra USB ports/monitor etc..
I don't believe the parent is a troll. I have one of the Macbook Pros with the coreduo processor. These are the ones that Apple said "we never intended for them to be used on your lap." When people complained that the bottom became to hot to put it on your lap. I'm not talking about bare legs here, I'm talking about resting the laptop on your lap when wearing jeans.
One can install 3rd party plugins/apps like smcFanControl, but why won't apple fix this? Because they removed the term "laptop" from the manual:)
Now if Apple could just invent a docking station... so corporate users wouldn't have to plug in half a dozen cables every day. Of course you could go out an buy the Apple Monitor, which would eliminate 1 cable...
Aren't we already reminiscing about the days of not having to say, "Hello? Hello? You're breaking up... can you repeat what you said?" Half the time when someone calls, I have to tell them "Let me call you back on a landline."
I guess this is no different than the current generation of kids getting used to heavily compressed music (mp3s) over earbuds.
So I work for a "big router company", and like other companies of similar size it has it's own publishing arm. After writing a number of books which were published either for free on the company's website or via their publishing arm. I decided that I had enough of the Editor's, and self proclaimed techwriters. Now my co-author and I wrote all the material and we handpicked our technical reviewers. We have close ties to the techwriters who author manuals/users guides etc. So finding a reviewer of grammar/style wasn't that hard.
In the end we decided to give away soft copies via download, but if the customer wanted a printed copy then we charged them market value for the book. We decided upon lulu because honestly it was an easy to use interface, they were responsive via email, though I don't believe you can call them up and speak with them. In the end we basically shipped them a.pdf, and then ordered a proof copy to make sure all the graphics/fonts came out as we expected.
We purchased an ISBN from them, and now you can find it on amazon/barnes and noble etc. Our audience is pretty specific, so getting word of our book is pretty easy. No need to pay for marketing, and "big router company" doesn't really help us. Just word of mouth of sales, tech support folks and visiting clients/customers.
I definitely like how I can create multiple versions, review copies etc. I'm sure that there are many other lulu.com type companies.
Nicely done China, you have discovered the well documented Pygmalion Effect. This is so common in society. For example, in Chinese culture there is significant attention paid to the oldest son. He's expected to do better, to succeed and eventually become wealthy. So he's encouraged. This encouragement and positive reinforcement can cause the child to succeed. Whereas other children are not given the same expectations and relatively do poorer.
So you these people will take their kid to this clinic, who will say, "this kid should become a scientist." Then the parents will do whatever it takes to make the kid a scientist. Possibly ignoring the signs that he/she might be attuned to being a musician or artist.
In other news... Looks like the Chinese have also watched and decided to implement in real life the movie Gattaca.
Another bill, signed on a busy day where Quinn dealt with dozens of bills, deals with child visitation rights. As of Jan. 1, the law will provide for visitation rights through electronic communication such as telephone, e-mail and instant messaging.
Nice.. now some divorsee might only be able to interact with his/her kids via IM or text messaging...
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act says employees must be paid for work performed off the clock, even if the work was voluntary.
At my employer many of the IT staff are expected to work "on the weekends" with no additional compensation. Especially if they are claimed to be managers. So in essence, my management claims that we're always "on the clock."
Does anybody have any ability to measure how good a particular search engine is? I'm not going to compare total hits, as searching for "linux" on both could result in 100m pages. Taking the reputations of the companies out of the question how do you determine which search engine is better? Do you have to know the inner workings of the algorithm to make an intelligent conclusion?
Ah... pointing the finger at the storage... My favorite activity. Listening to DBAs, application writers, etc point the finger at the EMC DMX with 256GB of mirrored cache and 4Gb/s FC interfaces. You point your finger and say, "I need 8Gb FibreChannel!. Yet when I look at your hba utilization over a 3mo period (including quarter end, month end etc..) I see you averaging a paltry 100MB/s. Wow. Guess I could have saved thousands of dollars with going with 2Gb/s HBAs. Oh yeah, and you have a minimum of two HBAs per server. Running a nagios application to poll our switchports for utilization, the average host is running maybe 20% utilization of the link speed, and as you beg, "Gimme 8Gb/s FC", I look forward to your 10% utilization.
We've taken whole databases and loaded them into dedicated cache drives on the array, and surprise, no performance increase. DBAs and application writers have gotten so used to yelling, "Add Hardware! That they forgot how to optimize their applications and sql queries."
If storage was the bottleneck, I wouldn't be loading up storage ports (FAs) with 10-15 servers. I find it funny that the only devices on my 10,000 port SAN that can sufficiently drive IO are media servers and the tape drives (LTO-4) that they push.
If storage was the bottleneck there would be no oversubscription in the SAN or disk array. Let me know when you demand a single storage port per HBA, and I'm sure my EMC will take us all out to lunch.
1. If people not only updated the firmware on their router, but had to do hacks to get it on there, don't you think they're probably at least a tad more likely to keep the firmware up to date than Joe Blammo with the factory firmware installed?
You're assuming that all these people that installed dd-wrt on their router installed it on their own routers only. Not their parents, friends etc, and forgot about it.
Do most open source projects have a mailing list in which ONLY important notifications like this go out? In comparison, two years ago I bought a coffee pot from Amazon, and the manufacturer issued a recall for the pot itself. Amazon notified me via email that there was a recall for the pot and provided instructions on how to get a new replacement glass pot. Trolling forums or slashdot isn't exactly my idea of customer service.
If I had bought a Cisco/linksys router and there was a similar problem would I have been notified after registering the product?
If a IP address was determined to be PII, then who's responsible for a multiuser system? Back in college when we accessed email on a single large sun box with pine, there could be 200 students logged in simultaneously. If someone launched an attack from that one box, which of the 200 students is responsible? If I leave my windows PC on, and someone breaks into it (they break into my house etc..) am I all of a sudden responsible? One could extend this to almost anything. If my car runs over an old lady in the street, this does not imply I was at the wheel.
Back in the 90s I was a field engineer for a three letter storage array manufacturer based in Hopkinton, MA. One of our sales guys had verbal agreement from UPS to purchase quite a few of our disk arrays instead of our competition, HDS. If I recall correctly, the deal was about $2million. Anyhow, all that needed to be done was to have the paperwork/contracts signed. So the salesguy told his administrative assistant to overnight the contracts to the customer for signing.
We lost the contract because the assistant FedEx'd them to UPS.
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The whole point of a crumple zone is for it to crumple reducing the collision energy which reduces the shock to the people inside which reduces the number of broken bones. In essence you want the new car to be wrecked, if its wrecked that means much of the collision energy was used in crumpling the frame of the car and not in jolting the passengers.
Isn't it ironic that the car called The Smartcar, doesn't have any form of rear crumple zones? there's about 3in of space between the back of your seat and the back of the car. If someone rear ends you while you're in a Smartcar, you're gonna feel every lb of force.
Not so smart if you ask me. I should know, I've been rear ended in a smart car, and I was hit by a honda civic.
By singling out Nazis as forbidden by the government, you have codified them as a de facto opposition group to the state. Those who feel disenfranchised will look to the obvious enemy of your government for support. This strengthens the Nazis as opposed to simply ignoring them. Slashdotters will know this as the Streisand Effect.
So let's see what other groups are illegal? Murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drug dealers....
So we should then legalize these groups otherwise they will grow in numbers. I don't recall all the people that hated George W. Bush becoming murderers, rapists or pedophiles.
I know this won't be popular at /., but I think most people around here would take a phone that "worked" but used non-Linux (OS/2, MVS or VMS). I can't imagine too many slashdotters that would say, "This phone reboots twice a day and the battery life stinks, but it runs linux so they can pry it outta my cold dead hands.
Yeesh, I just want a phone that has good battery life, 3G, call clarity etc etc. I don't care what OS it runs. Hell, if they said it ran Banana-OS, as long as it worked, who cares. It's a phone. Plus even if it ran linux, what percentage of consumers would be able to do anything with any of the source that they provide? Hack all you want, but in a year or two when it's time to renew my contract I'll be getting a new phone anyhow.
Just my $.02, and I'm going back to my phone which runs some random OS.
While I'm not here to debate the existence of god or any such being. There are many that do, and I'm surprised at how low your standards are for calling one "God" compared to what others may do. For example, their "God" created the universe, heavens, man, life etc etc etc. You have chosen to use this term to a composer of Ambient music. This reminds me of the Bill Cosby quote,
Man invents. God creates. Man invented the AUTOMOBILE. Called it AMAZING! God made a tree said it was good. Man invented the REFRIGERATOR. Called it INCREDIBLE. God made a rabbit and called it good. The wheels fell off the car. The refrigerator lost its cool. Tree's still up and rabbit's still runnin'.
However, the real issue that concerned the university was the matter of communication between Google and the CIS department. Before fixing the issue on Tuesday, Google suspended the affected accounts, a necessary step that was taken so no more data was improperly shared. What angered the IT director, though, was that the accounts were suspended without first notifying CIS.
Translation: We sent you an email communicating the issue at hand. However, we had to disable your email account so nobody else could accidentally view it.
"I've spoken very forcefully with the account (executive), my boss, senior administrators at Brown -- including the president. (Google needs) to find a better way to communicate with us," said Tom.
Translation: We told them to stop or else we'll say stop again.
These guys need to advertise inside or be associated with a particular business that people are going to. Take the grocery store. At my local grocery store, the Girl Scouts often set up a table to sell their cookies. This is a brand that people trust for quality. We trust the Girl Scouts that their product is safe for us to consume. On the other hand, I often see a woman that is sitting on folding chair and when you leave the supermarket she asks you, very quietly if you want Tamales. I wouldn't take a Tamale from this woman if it was free, because I do not trust her.
The local supermarkets often have people stationed inside providing samples of various products. Usually a retiree standing in front of a table with a small griddle or toaster oven. While I have no interest in the products they are usually preparing, I would trust that they are safe. These guys should set up their table inside of computer stores (Apple Store, BestBuy etc..), atleast that could add some credibility to their product, or atleast the appearance of credibility.
On the other hand, why should I trust a random group of people on the street? Did we forget the recent incident where hackers mailed malware infected CDs to Credit Unions? The only difference is that instead of pretending the CDs come from some gov't organization, they're coming from some "OpenSource" group standing at a table on the street.
IANAL, but my cousin is and her husband is a police officer, and one of her biggest complaints is that jurors are now expecting evidence to be collected and more importantly processed along the lines of the tv show CSI. Where DNA results are turned around in an hour and even bullets collected in the pouring rain can still be matched to a national gunpowder manufacturer database.
I suddenly felt that millions of voices yelled out and then were suddenly silenced or someth...... NO CARRIER
Y'know, I'm starting to wonder what is the minimum age required to understand the "NO CARRIER" reference. What age does the average person have to be to have never experienced the "NO CARRIER" phenomenon?
Additionally, what's the min age to have actually used a real vt100, 3270 or 5250 and not an emulated one via export TERM=vt100...?
Let's see you close the divide between the "Haves" and the "Have nots." Not every family can afford to send their kid to a $45k/yr school http://www.cushing.org/admission/tuition.shtml. Let's see what would we rather do... spend $500k to eliminate the library, or pay for teachers, licensing fees for books, pencils, specialists (art/music/gym teachers)....
Let me know when you get back to reality from your "let's see students actually put together reagents in a computer simulation such that they achieve the desired result."
Either that or please write to your local Legislator that you're willing to pay 60% taxes.
In some of my classes in the past were "open book." So this made me wonder, if I was at this school and my eBook reader had an issue (crashed/battery dead/accidentally deleted the book) what would happen? With a physical textbook, I'm not sure there's any equivalent, since you're really only allowed the exam, the book and a pencil/eraser.
If eBook readers were allowed, what would prevent a student from carrying a library worth of books with them?
To me this smells like someone got the "Hey! Computers will solve everything!" This is sad since most schools in Mass can't afford paper/pencils/textbooks. Atleast they're not doing it with tax dollars.
I find it funny though that they are replacing 20,000 books with $10,000 worth (or 18) eBook readers from Amazon/Sony. I guess they'll force every kid to purchase their own reader. Welcome to the private school of 2009 which will cost $35k/yr. It's almost cheaper to get your MD from Harvard.
So now that farm animals can feel no pain, we can just push them until they drop dead in the fields?
I've got plenty of coworkers around me with iPhones (webex plugin is great and Webex Plugin for Adium is great too) and Macs. The problem is that the mac just isn't as business friendly as the PCs. For example, most coworkers all run XP in a VMware VM in order to have Outlook integration (webex plugin, GBs of .pst files). Most use visio, for which there isn't a version for mac. Also there is not docking station for the mac, so these guys have to plug in a half dozen cables every day, plus a security lock. A few have apple monitors so that cuts down on 1 cable.
Thank you for launching the bandwidth consuming iPhone. We appreciate how it requires massive bandwidth and how users would rather stream music than use an ancient device called A Radio. While the economy has slowed down many other IT companies, your constant sales and increase in bandwidth consuming features have enabled us to increase sales considerably in the Service Provider space.
Due to this generosity by you towards our bottom line, we will now allow our employees to use macbooks while at work. Additionally, we are considering renaming our products' firmware from IOS to iOS in your honor.
Your friend,
The Very Big Router Company.
That was a better design the the current 3rd party attempts at a docking station which is an automated way (via a handle) to plug in the cables all at once.
What is Apple's resistance to a docking station? One with built in physical security/power/networking/extra USB ports/monitor etc..
I don't believe the parent is a troll. I have one of the Macbook Pros with the coreduo processor. These are the ones that Apple said "we never intended for them to be used on your lap." When people complained that the bottom became to hot to put it on your lap. I'm not talking about bare legs here, I'm talking about resting the laptop on your lap when wearing jeans.
One can install 3rd party plugins/apps like smcFanControl, but why won't apple fix this? Because they removed the term "laptop" from the manual :)
Now if Apple could just invent a docking station... so corporate users wouldn't have to plug in half a dozen cables every day. Of course you could go out an buy the Apple Monitor, which would eliminate 1 cable...
Aren't we already reminiscing about the days of not having to say, "Hello? Hello? You're breaking up... can you repeat what you said?" Half the time when someone calls, I have to tell them "Let me call you back on a landline."
I guess this is no different than the current generation of kids getting used to heavily compressed music (mp3s) over earbuds.
So I work for a "big router company", and like other companies of similar size it has it's own publishing arm. After writing a number of books which were published either for free on the company's website or via their publishing arm. I decided that I had enough of the Editor's, and self proclaimed techwriters. Now my co-author and I wrote all the material and we handpicked our technical reviewers. We have close ties to the techwriters who author manuals/users guides etc. So finding a reviewer of grammar/style wasn't that hard.
In the end we decided to give away soft copies via download, but if the customer wanted a printed copy then we charged them market value for the book. We decided upon lulu because honestly it was an easy to use interface, they were responsive via email, though I don't believe you can call them up and speak with them. In the end we basically shipped them a .pdf, and then ordered a proof copy to make sure all the graphics/fonts came out as we expected.
We purchased an ISBN from them, and now you can find it on amazon/barnes and noble etc. Our audience is pretty specific, so getting word of our book is pretty easy. No need to pay for marketing, and "big router company" doesn't really help us. Just word of mouth of sales, tech support folks and visiting clients/customers.
I definitely like how I can create multiple versions, review copies etc. I'm sure that there are many other lulu.com type companies.
I would recommend Lulu.
Nicely done China, you have discovered the well documented Pygmalion Effect. This is so common in society. For example, in Chinese culture there is significant attention paid to the oldest son. He's expected to do better, to succeed and eventually become wealthy. So he's encouraged. This encouragement and positive reinforcement can cause the child to succeed. Whereas other children are not given the same expectations and relatively do poorer.
So you these people will take their kid to this clinic, who will say, "this kid should become a scientist." Then the parents will do whatever it takes to make the kid a scientist. Possibly ignoring the signs that he/she might be attuned to being a musician or artist.
In other news... Looks like the Chinese have also watched and decided to implement in real life the movie Gattaca.
Another bill, signed on a busy day where Quinn dealt with dozens of bills, deals with child visitation rights. As of Jan. 1, the law will provide for visitation rights through electronic communication such as telephone, e-mail and instant messaging.
Nice.. now some divorsee might only be able to interact with his/her kids via IM or text messaging...
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act says employees must be paid for work performed off the clock, even if the work was voluntary.
At my employer many of the IT staff are expected to work "on the weekends" with no additional compensation. Especially if they are claimed to be managers. So in essence, my management claims that we're always "on the clock."
Does anybody have any ability to measure how good a particular search engine is? I'm not going to compare total hits, as searching for "linux" on both could result in 100m pages. Taking the reputations of the companies out of the question how do you determine which search engine is better? Do you have to know the inner workings of the algorithm to make an intelligent conclusion?
Ah... pointing the finger at the storage... My favorite activity. Listening to DBAs, application writers, etc point the finger at the EMC DMX with 256GB of mirrored cache and 4Gb/s FC interfaces. You point your finger and say, "I need 8Gb FibreChannel!. Yet when I look at your hba utilization over a 3mo period (including quarter end, month end etc..) I see you averaging a paltry 100MB/s. Wow. Guess I could have saved thousands of dollars with going with 2Gb/s HBAs. Oh yeah, and you have a minimum of two HBAs per server. Running a nagios application to poll our switchports for utilization, the average host is running maybe 20% utilization of the link speed, and as you beg, "Gimme 8Gb/s FC", I look forward to your 10% utilization.
We've taken whole databases and loaded them into dedicated cache drives on the array, and surprise, no performance increase. DBAs and application writers have gotten so used to yelling, "Add Hardware! That they forgot how to optimize their applications and sql queries."
If storage was the bottleneck, I wouldn't be loading up storage ports (FAs) with 10-15 servers. I find it funny that the only devices on my 10,000 port SAN that can sufficiently drive IO are media servers and the tape drives (LTO-4) that they push.
If storage was the bottleneck there would be no oversubscription in the SAN or disk array. Let me know when you demand a single storage port per HBA, and I'm sure my EMC will take us all out to lunch.
I have more data than you. :)
1. If people not only updated the firmware on their router, but had to do hacks to get it on there, don't you think they're probably at least a tad more likely to keep the firmware up to date than Joe Blammo with the factory firmware installed?
You're assuming that all these people that installed dd-wrt on their router installed it on their own routers only. Not their parents, friends etc, and forgot about it.
Do most open source projects have a mailing list in which ONLY important notifications like this go out? In comparison, two years ago I bought a coffee pot from Amazon, and the manufacturer issued a recall for the pot itself. Amazon notified me via email that there was a recall for the pot and provided instructions on how to get a new replacement glass pot. Trolling forums or slashdot isn't exactly my idea of customer service.
If I had bought a Cisco/linksys router and there was a similar problem would I have been notified after registering the product?
If a IP address was determined to be PII, then who's responsible for a multiuser system? Back in college when we accessed email on a single large sun box with pine, there could be 200 students logged in simultaneously. If someone launched an attack from that one box, which of the 200 students is responsible? If I leave my windows PC on, and someone breaks into it (they break into my house etc..) am I all of a sudden responsible? One could extend this to almost anything. If my car runs over an old lady in the street, this does not imply I was at the wheel.
Back in the 90s I was a field engineer for a three letter storage array manufacturer based in Hopkinton, MA. One of our sales guys had verbal agreement from UPS to purchase quite a few of our disk arrays instead of our competition, HDS. If I recall correctly, the deal was about $2million. Anyhow, all that needed to be done was to have the paperwork/contracts signed. So the salesguy told his administrative assistant to overnight the contracts to the customer for signing.
We lost the contract because the assistant FedEx'd them to UPS.