I think a phone needs a barometer just about as badly as it needs to support SCSI devices.
I don't think you understand the purpose of the barometer - it's to allow a faster GPS lock. On more than one occasion, I've entered a new destination into my phone while in a new town, exited a parking garage and then have to guess which way to go while I wait for the phone to get a GPS lock.
Why the fuck are e-books so expensive? Many of them are just slightly less than the actual book! Why the hell am I going to spend almost as much money buying the e-book, but not actually get anything physical out of the deal?
Agreed - I own a Kindle (and a Nook), but buy 80% of my books as used paper copies because they are cheaper. Often I can even find a *new* book cheaper than the eBook (including shipping costs).
I'd much rather read an eBook, I find the Kindle to be very convenient (especially when traveling) and I don't end up with a big pile of books that I have to take somewhere to donate after reading. But I'm not going to pay a 20% - 100% price premium to read something that cost practically nothing to deliver to me that I'm reading on a device that I had to purchase.
There's a physical wall between batteries and the other parts. Just admit it, Google starts something but they never finish or polish it. This is why Android is failing too.
Why would you expect a software maker to be responsible for hardware faults? If your PC's power supply bursts into flames, would you blame Microsoft for not finishing or polishing your PC?
I really like the functionality, stability, and feature set of VMWare, but due to their licensing change, I'm sticking with vSphere 4 for now -- I'd have to buy too many new licenses to move to vSphere 5 because of the amount of memory we have.
We're evaluating HyperV now and may end up with a split cluster - HyperV for our Windows servers and VMware (or maybe even Xen) for the Linux side.
There were two parts to it. One was a set of about 20 questions that I maybe had an inkling of the answer. It was a warm day, I was wearing a suit and stuffed into a room by myself to see how many I could answer. Are they testing my abilities or my tolerance to being in an uncomfortable environment? Most of the questions were ones that only someone with OCD would be able to answer off the top of their head. Information like what protocol goes with what port is stuff that I don't use on a daily basis, but I know perfectly well where to look for it when I do need to find out. That's what reference material is for.
I'd accept "I know right where to find it" as an answer if someone showed me how they'd find it... something like this:
port=ftp/data echo "The $port port is `grep $port/etc/services | awk '{print $2}'`"
Some things that are found in manuals are so key to the field that it still makes sense to ask. For example, another poster complained that Google asked him how many bytes were in a MAC address. Well, if I'm hiring a senior network admin, I'd expect him to know the basics of common layer 2 transports (which might be just ethernet for a LAN engineer, but would encompass much more for a WAN engineer). I'd expect him to be able to describe an ethernet frame. Maybe not down to the last bit, but he should at least know the major parts and I'd certainly expect him to know how big a MAC address is
I wouldn't care less if they were fracking near me. I don't think most people would either.
Man-made earthquakes can not be felt by man. Big deal- there are microscopic quakes that no-one can feel. I understand the Nuclear Plant concerns just-in-case- even though fracking is unlikely to cause any issues there.
We're not talking about structure damaging quakes- we're not even talking about quakes you can feel. We're talking about quakes you need mega-money equipment to even detect.
A microquake is anything below a 2.0, but quakes above that level can be felt without any special equipment. I've felt more than one sub 3.0 quake, most recently, a 2.5 (I happened to be very close to that one and I definitely felt it).
So maybe *you* are talking about microquakes that can't be felt, but the UK firm causing the quakes says that think it's unlikely that they'd create any quake over 3.0. But quakes at the 2.5 - 3.0 level are definitely felt.
But in any case, you seem a little inconsistent.... you're so sure that fracking won't cause a quake that you'd have them frack under my house (which is not specifically designed to withstand any size earthquake), but you're not so sure that you'd have them frack near a power plant (which is (usually) specifically designed to withstand an earthquake).
First off I can't believe that drilling causes earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by slippage during the course of tectonic plate movements. So saying that drilling "causes" earthquakes is silly.
It's conceivable that pumping millions of gallons of high-pressure water underground can cause stresses that weren't there before, thereby being a direct cause of a quake that wouldn't otherwise have occurred due to natural stresses.
Are they fracking anywhere near the nuclear power plant? If not- I wouldn't worry. If they are- there may be cause to not frack near sensitive sites- even though any quakes likely to be caused are expected to be extremely minor and not even noticable by mankind (except by hyper-sensitive equipment designed to detect them).
I think that most people would consider their home to be a "sensitive site" that they don't want any man-made earthquakes happening close to. If a Nuclear Plant that's supposedly hardened against earthquakes can't handle a quake, is my daughter's school any safer?
You are right. The headline should say it triggered an earthquake not caused.
I've suggested lubricating fault lines as a means to eliminate earthquakes. I am a mechanical engineer and earthquakes are a variation of a type of movement known as stick slip. It happens where you have seals like pistons. You have a static coefficient of friction much higher than the dynamic. So force and energy is stored up in your system trying to overcome the static friction. Once it starts moving the system lurches rapidly releasing the energy. They key to getting rid of it is reducing the friction. Better seals like Teflon can help as can lubrication in some applications.
It seems to me that lubricating the fault could make the energy release much more quickly - instead of a "slow" grind between plates, you have a lubrication assisted quick slide, and perhaps even a greater energy release than if the plates have been allowed to slide naturally since there's less friction resisting the movement.
So this may change the dynamic of the quake in such a way to make it much worse since the energy would be released over a shorter period of time making the quake more intense.
Testing in Alaska only proves that faults like those in Alaska work - since every fault is different, what works in Alaska may trigger a huge quake in Pennsylvania.
If only the Japanese had a comprehensive storage plan like the USA, we'd all be better off.
Yes, when our crappy old reactors go tits-up and pollute the rest of the world then they can yell at us. I'm not saying we're great. I'm saying that the Tsunami doesn't have quite the global impact that the failure at Fukushima Daiichi does, and that's all.
Sure, what possible ill effects could come from 18 million tons of trash floating in the ocean!?
Probably, but not me. The Tsunami didn't spew radioactives into the atmosphere which were picked up by the jet stream and distributed around the world, including the hot spent fuel that was stored right there.
If only the Japanese had a comprehensive storage plan like the USA, we'd all be better off.
Crazy. Even today I see review code where programmers have implemented exponential sorting algorithms. It's almost as if the existence of faster CPUs and larger memory has enticed some to be extremely lazy. But it's never enough for some. Example, my MacBook Air goes from "ding-chord!" to signed in and usable in about 15 seconds. For Windows 7 on the very same machine the number is about 3:30, including 30 seconds of watching a fucking white cursor blink on an otherwise black screen! What the hell is it trying to do?
Do programmers still implement sort algorithms? I thought whatever library/framework they're using took care of sorting for them?
I think the best disk-hardware agnostic solution for preventing filesystem dataloss is an LTO-4 autoloader and regular tape backups (hopefully taken off site regularly). They are pretty cheap, a superlader3 with an 8 tape (6TB/12TB) capacity is less than $3000. Or buy a refurb LTO3 autoloader for a third the price and half the capacity.
I am pretty sure that once I am driving my car, nobody is "implementing" it any more. It is quite thoroughly implemented.
And you expect this complicated software/hardware control system to never need updates? My non-driverless car has needed more than one software update.
Suppose a driverless car is caught speeding or running a red light? Who gets the ticket? The owner? The person who programmed the route? The manufacturer who programmed the car itself? Or do the standard laws of the road not apply to these vehicles at all? If I'm hit by one of these cars, do I get to sue somebody or am I responsible for all the medical bills myself?
Initially, the driver will get a ticket, because these "driverless" cars will be sold as "driver assisted" cars - the driver will still be expected to remain in control of the car.
After years of refinement and demonstrated safe operation, the cars will be allowed to operate truly driverless, but by then the laws will have caught up.
Perhaps by the time these cars are commonplace, having valid insurance will be enforced by the car itself - if you don't have an insurance plan, the car won't move. Making your question of who pays in an accident moot -- the insurance company pays.
Does this count as irrefutable proof that $500 is more than most people are willing to spend for a tablet, but $100-200 is perfectly reasonable? Perhaps not irrefutable, but still, maybe some other tech companies will take notice.
You pretty much just have a Certificate Serial Number that has been revoked, with no other identifying information.
If you find the Certificate matching the CRL entry's Serial Number then you find the CA.
If the CRL is not signed, how do you know it came from the CA and not from a random hacker? Revoking CRL's from big name sites seems like it would be an attractive target. How is a CRL entry validated? How does a CRL make it to my browser?
The Wikipedia article just says that it's published by the CA and is "usually" signed, but doesn't tell how the makes its way to my browser.
A CRL is generated and published periodically, often at a defined interval. A CRL can also be published immediately after a certificate has been revoked. The CRL is always issued by the CA which issues the corresponding certificates. All CRLs have a lifetime during which they are valid; this timeframe is often 24 hours or less. During a CRL's validity period, it may be consulted by a PKI-enabled application to verify a certificate prior to use. To prevent spoofing or denial-of-service attacks, CRLs usually carry a digital signature associated with the CA by which they are published. To validate a specific CRL prior to relying on it, the certificate of its corresponding CA is needed, which can usually be found in a public directory. The certificates for which a CRL should be maintained are often X.509/public key certificates, as this format is commonly used by PKI schemes.
Maybe Opera would be a much bigger browser today. Opera got its start in 1994 in an Norwegian telecom company, so it likely would have continued to grow if Mozilla was removed as a competitor. And perhaps would have been far more successful if it didn't have to compete against a free product.
There are apparently three other CAs that have discovered compromises since June, but have not made them public.
I don't know how CRL's work, but if you have a list of certs that were revoked, can't you tell who revoked them? Doesn't the revoking CA have to sign the revocation request? Or do the researchers know who they are, but they chose to not make them public?
What about the Pepsi which he may or may not like to be offered depending on if he's sleepy or not? What I took away from this is that he wants to be a spokesman for Free Software, but not if it inconveniences him in any way or requires him to leave his comfort zone.
What about it? When I travel and go to a conference, I'll drink Coke when I'm sleepy, or not drink it if I'm not. I don't like Pepsi and avoid it when possible, often to the point of not drinking anything if Pepsi is the only drink available.
So whats wrong with saying "Hey, if I'm sleepy, I'd really like a Pepsi, not a Coke?".
There's lots of reasons to not like RMS, but drinking Pepsi as a pick-me-up is not one of them.
Most of this stuff says "I don't want to talk to you if you don't already agree with me almost entirely". What's the point? It's more mutual masturbation at that point than advocacy.
He's fine with giving talks to a wide variety of audiences, he even asks that the audiences be diverse (i.e. don't invite only your department, advertise off-campus, don't charge admission, etc), but when he's dealing with paid professionals, he doesn't want to have to explain his (well known) position on Free vs Open Software again and again to reporters that should already know better if they did a modicum of background research.
I don't think anybody should get out of high school without understanding density, mass, and gravity! Somehow people fail to grasp the concept of 1 lb of tiny coal turning into a HUGE volume of gas (let alone the chemistry involved that actually cause it to gain weight.) We have unlimited air is the belief; thinking its like invisible land or something; completely ignoring its density.
How would a firm grasp of density, mass, and gravity help understand how burning a pound of coal results in around 3 pounds of CO2? Does burning it make gravity around the dense mass of coal more intense?
Do people use calculators anymore? Seems like most people have either a mobile handy or some flavor of computer. "Chemistry students taking tests" doesn't strike me as a very large market niche.
When I have a lot of numbers to crunch (not all test data comes from networked equipment), nothing beats a real live calculator for ease of use. I have an HP-48 emulator for my phone, but that's not the same. By far.
Full price = 25$ per movie. I've had my card used to rent two movies and whoever rented them never returned them, so I was charged 50$. Got my credit card company and redbox on the same line, and their decision was that I had to pay it. I will never use redbox.
It's Redbox's fault you lost your credit card and didn't report it missing before it was used by someone else? If you want someone to blame for that little fuckup, you can start by pointing a thumb instead of a finger.
If his card was indeed lost or stolen and someone used it fraudulently, then yes, it is Redbox's fault for accepting it without verification. I understand that their business model doesn't allow for someone to personally check each card, but it's not my fault if their business model allows for easy fraud.
Though I suspect that's not what happened in this case, or the CC company would have just done a chargeback against Redbox. The law limits your liability to $50 for a lost/stolen card, but I've never had a card company enforce the $50 - and it's happened to me 3 times. (once because I lost my card, twice because an online merchant had a data breach)
HP started with test equipment, but at one time they made great calculators. So I'd be happy if they just went back to that point, I don't care about the test equipment.
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I think a phone needs a barometer just about as badly as it needs to support SCSI devices.
I don't think you understand the purpose of the barometer - it's to allow a faster GPS lock. On more than one occasion, I've entered a new destination into my phone while in a new town, exited a parking garage and then have to guess which way to go while I wait for the phone to get a GPS lock.
Why wouldn't you want that in a smartphone?
Why the fuck are e-books so expensive? Many of them are just slightly less than the actual book! Why the hell am I going to spend almost as much money buying the e-book, but not actually get anything physical out of the deal?
Agreed - I own a Kindle (and a Nook), but buy 80% of my books as used paper copies because they are cheaper. Often I can even find a *new* book cheaper than the eBook (including shipping costs).
I'd much rather read an eBook, I find the Kindle to be very convenient (especially when traveling) and I don't end up with a big pile of books that I have to take somewhere to donate after reading. But I'm not going to pay a 20% - 100% price premium to read something that cost practically nothing to deliver to me that I'm reading on a device that I had to purchase.
There's a physical wall between batteries and the other parts. Just admit it, Google starts something but they never finish or polish it. This is why Android is failing too.
Why would you expect a software maker to be responsible for hardware faults? If your PC's power supply bursts into flames, would you blame Microsoft for not finishing or polishing your PC?
I really like the functionality, stability, and feature set of VMWare, but due to their licensing change, I'm sticking with vSphere 4 for now -- I'd have to buy too many new licenses to move to vSphere 5 because of the amount of memory we have.
We're evaluating HyperV now and may end up with a split cluster - HyperV for our Windows servers and VMware (or maybe even Xen) for the Linux side.
There were two parts to it. One was a set of about 20 questions that I maybe had an inkling of the answer. It was a warm day, I was wearing a suit and stuffed into a room by myself to see how many I could answer. Are they testing my abilities or my tolerance to being in an uncomfortable environment? Most of the questions were ones that only someone with OCD would be able to answer off the top of their head. Information like what protocol goes with what port is stuff that I don't use on a daily basis, but I know perfectly well where to look for it when I do need to find out. That's what reference material is for.
I'd accept "I know right where to find it" as an answer if someone showed me how they'd find it... something like this:
port=ftp/data /etc/services | awk '{print $2}'`"
echo "The $port port is `grep $port
Some things that are found in manuals are so key to the field that it still makes sense to ask. For example, another poster complained that Google asked him how many bytes were in a MAC address. Well, if I'm hiring a senior network admin, I'd expect him to know the basics of common layer 2 transports (which might be just ethernet for a LAN engineer, but would encompass much more for a WAN engineer). I'd expect him to be able to describe an ethernet frame. Maybe not down to the last bit, but he should at least know the major parts and I'd certainly expect him to know how big a MAC address is
I wouldn't care less if they were fracking near me. I don't think most people would either.
Man-made earthquakes can not be felt by man. Big deal- there are microscopic quakes that no-one can feel. I understand the Nuclear Plant concerns just-in-case- even though fracking is unlikely to cause any issues there.
We're not talking about structure damaging quakes- we're not even talking about quakes you can feel. We're talking about quakes you need mega-money equipment to even detect.
A microquake is anything below a 2.0, but quakes above that level can be felt without any special equipment. I've felt more than one sub 3.0 quake, most recently, a 2.5 (I happened to be very close to that one and I definitely felt it).
So maybe *you* are talking about microquakes that can't be felt, but the UK firm causing the quakes says that think it's unlikely that they'd create any quake over 3.0. But quakes at the 2.5 - 3.0 level are definitely felt.
But in any case, you seem a little inconsistent.... you're so sure that fracking won't cause a quake that you'd have them frack under my house (which is not specifically designed to withstand any size earthquake), but you're not so sure that you'd have them frack near a power plant (which is (usually) specifically designed to withstand an earthquake).
First off I can't believe that drilling causes earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by slippage during the course of tectonic plate movements. So saying that drilling "causes" earthquakes is silly.
It's conceivable that pumping millions of gallons of high-pressure water underground can cause stresses that weren't there before, thereby being a direct cause of a quake that wouldn't otherwise have occurred due to natural stresses.
Are they fracking anywhere near the nuclear power plant? If not- I wouldn't worry. If they are- there may be cause to not frack near sensitive sites- even though any quakes likely to be caused are expected to be extremely minor and not even noticable by mankind (except by hyper-sensitive equipment designed to detect them).
I think that most people would consider their home to be a "sensitive site" that they don't want any man-made earthquakes happening close to. If a Nuclear Plant that's supposedly hardened against earthquakes can't handle a quake, is my daughter's school any safer?
You are right. The headline should say it triggered an earthquake not caused.
I've suggested lubricating fault lines as a means to eliminate earthquakes. I am a mechanical engineer and earthquakes are a variation of a type of movement known as stick slip. It happens where you have seals like pistons. You have a static coefficient of friction much higher than the dynamic. So force and energy is stored up in your system trying to overcome the static friction. Once it starts moving the system lurches rapidly releasing the energy. They key to getting rid of it is reducing the friction. Better seals like Teflon can help as can lubrication in some applications.
It seems to me that lubricating the fault could make the energy release much more quickly - instead of a "slow" grind between plates, you have a lubrication assisted quick slide, and perhaps even a greater energy release than if the plates have been allowed to slide naturally since there's less friction resisting the movement.
So this may change the dynamic of the quake in such a way to make it much worse since the energy would be released over a shorter period of time making the quake more intense.
Testing in Alaska only proves that faults like those in Alaska work - since every fault is different, what works in Alaska may trigger a huge quake in Pennsylvania.
If only the Japanese had a comprehensive storage plan like the USA, we'd all be better off.
Yes, when our crappy old reactors go tits-up and pollute the rest of the world then they can yell at us. I'm not saying we're great. I'm saying that the Tsunami doesn't have quite the global impact that the failure at Fukushima Daiichi does, and that's all.
Sure, what possible ill effects could come from 18 million tons of trash floating in the ocean!?
http://www.speakupforblue.com/everything-ocean/what-do-you-do-when-18m-tons-of-plastic-arrive-on-your-coast
Trash is good for ocean life, right? It gives them something harmless to nibble on while they search for real food.
Probably, but not me. The Tsunami didn't spew radioactives into the atmosphere which were picked up by the jet stream and distributed around the world, including the hot spent fuel that was stored right there.
If only the Japanese had a comprehensive storage plan like the USA, we'd all be better off.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42219616/ns/business-us_business/t/us-storage-sites-overfilled-spent-nuclear-fuel/
Crazy. Even today I see review code where programmers have implemented exponential sorting algorithms. It's almost as if the existence of faster CPUs and larger memory has enticed some to be extremely lazy. But it's never enough for some. Example, my MacBook Air goes from "ding-chord!" to signed in and usable in about 15 seconds. For Windows 7 on the very same machine the number is about 3:30, including 30 seconds of watching a fucking white cursor blink on an otherwise black screen! What the hell is it trying to do?
Do programmers still implement sort algorithms? I thought whatever library/framework they're using took care of sorting for them?
I think the best disk-hardware agnostic solution for preventing filesystem dataloss is an LTO-4 autoloader and regular tape backups (hopefully taken off site regularly). They are pretty cheap, a superlader3 with an 8 tape (6TB/12TB) capacity is less than $3000. Or buy a refurb LTO3 autoloader for a third the price and half the capacity.
I am pretty sure that once I am driving my car, nobody is "implementing" it any more. It is quite thoroughly implemented.
And you expect this complicated software/hardware control system to never need updates? My non-driverless car has needed more than one software update.
Suppose a driverless car is caught speeding or running a red light? Who gets the ticket? The owner? The person who programmed the route? The manufacturer who programmed the car itself? Or do the standard laws of the road not apply to these vehicles at all? If I'm hit by one of these cars, do I get to sue somebody or am I responsible for all the medical bills myself?
Initially, the driver will get a ticket, because these "driverless" cars will be sold as "driver assisted" cars - the driver will still be expected to remain in control of the car.
After years of refinement and demonstrated safe operation, the cars will be allowed to operate truly driverless, but by then the laws will have caught up.
Perhaps by the time these cars are commonplace, having valid insurance will be enforced by the car itself - if you don't have an insurance plan, the car won't move. Making your question of who pays in an accident moot -- the insurance company pays.
"does Google have all of its IP ducks in a row on this one?"
How on earth should we know this?
By asking?
And why should a customer care?
So the company that implements your $50,000 driverless car isn't sued out of existence by the company that holds a key patent to the system.
Does this count as irrefutable proof that $500 is more than most people are willing to spend for a tablet, but $100-200 is perfectly reasonable? Perhaps not irrefutable, but still, maybe some other tech companies will take notice.
I wonder if any other companies will notice?
You pretty much just have a Certificate Serial Number that has been revoked, with no other identifying information.
If you find the Certificate matching the CRL entry's Serial Number then you find the CA.
If the CRL is not signed, how do you know it came from the CA and not from a random hacker? Revoking CRL's from big name sites seems like it would be an attractive target. How is a CRL entry validated? How does a CRL make it to my browser?
The Wikipedia article just says that it's published by the CA and is "usually" signed, but doesn't tell how the makes its way to my browser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_revocation_list#Publishing_Revocation_Lists
A CRL is generated and published periodically, often at a defined interval. A CRL can also be published immediately after a certificate has been revoked. The CRL is always issued by the CA which issues the corresponding certificates. All CRLs have a lifetime during which they are valid; this timeframe is often 24 hours or less. During a CRL's validity period, it may be consulted by a PKI-enabled application to verify a certificate prior to use.
To prevent spoofing or denial-of-service attacks, CRLs usually carry a digital signature associated with the CA by which they are published. To validate a specific CRL prior to relying on it, the certificate of its corresponding CA is needed, which can usually be found in a public directory.
The certificates for which a CRL should be maintained are often X.509/public key certificates, as this format is commonly used by PKI schemes.
Maybe Opera would be a much bigger browser today. Opera got its start in 1994 in an Norwegian telecom company, so it likely would have continued to grow if Mozilla was removed as a competitor. And perhaps would have been far more successful if it didn't have to compete against a free product.
There are apparently three other CAs that have discovered compromises since June, but have not made them public.
I don't know how CRL's work, but if you have a list of certs that were revoked, can't you tell who revoked them? Doesn't the revoking CA have to sign the revocation request? Or do the researchers know who they are, but they chose to not make them public?
What about the Pepsi which he may or may not like to be offered depending on if he's sleepy or not? What I took away from this is that he wants to be a spokesman for Free Software, but not if it inconveniences him in any way or requires him to leave his comfort zone.
What about it? When I travel and go to a conference, I'll drink Coke when I'm sleepy, or not drink it if I'm not. I don't like Pepsi and avoid it when possible, often to the point of not drinking anything if Pepsi is the only drink available.
So whats wrong with saying "Hey, if I'm sleepy, I'd really like a Pepsi, not a Coke?".
There's lots of reasons to not like RMS, but drinking Pepsi as a pick-me-up is not one of them.
Most of this stuff says "I don't want to talk to you if you don't already agree with me almost entirely". What's the point? It's more mutual masturbation at that point than advocacy.
He's fine with giving talks to a wide variety of audiences, he even asks that the audiences be diverse (i.e. don't invite only your department, advertise off-campus, don't charge admission, etc), but when he's dealing with paid professionals, he doesn't want to have to explain his (well known) position on Free vs Open Software again and again to reporters that should already know better if they did a modicum of background research.
I don't think anybody should get out of high school without understanding density, mass, and gravity! Somehow people fail to grasp the concept of 1 lb of tiny coal turning into a HUGE volume of gas (let alone the chemistry involved that actually cause it to gain weight.) We have unlimited air is the belief; thinking its like invisible land or something; completely ignoring its density.
How would a firm grasp of density, mass, and gravity help understand how burning a pound of coal results in around 3 pounds of CO2? Does burning it make gravity around the dense mass of coal more intense?
Do people use calculators anymore? Seems like most people have either a mobile handy or some flavor of computer. "Chemistry students taking tests" doesn't strike me as a very large market niche.
When I have a lot of numbers to crunch (not all test data comes from networked equipment), nothing beats a real live calculator for ease of use. I have an HP-48 emulator for my phone, but that's not the same. By far.
Full price = 25$ per movie. I've had my card used to rent two movies and whoever rented them never returned them, so I was charged 50$. Got my credit card company and redbox on the same line, and their decision was that I had to pay it. I will never use redbox.
It's Redbox's fault you lost your credit card and didn't report it missing before it was used by someone else? If you want someone to blame for that little fuckup, you can start by pointing a thumb instead of a finger.
If his card was indeed lost or stolen and someone used it fraudulently, then yes, it is Redbox's fault for accepting it without verification. I understand that their business model doesn't allow for someone to personally check each card, but it's not my fault if their business model allows for easy fraud.
Though I suspect that's not what happened in this case, or the CC company would have just done a chargeback against Redbox. The law limits your liability to $50 for a lost/stolen card, but I've never had a card company enforce the $50 - and it's happened to me 3 times. (once because I lost my card, twice because an online merchant had a data breach)
Explaining my reply to the joke:
HP started with test equipment, but at one time they made great calculators. So I'd be happy if they just went back to that point, I don't care about the test equipment.