You flag the app, and Google will remove the apps from the android market.
That won't stop them. You need to be a developer/owner of code they used against the license agreement.
Flag the app AND start legal proceedings against the developer to recover statutory damages.
The GPL is not a "free for all" ticket. Copyright infringement is still copyright infringement.
You could keep the original check in your portfolio while getting the cash as well:-)
Hm... aren't you supposed to destroy it or mail it in, after you do that?
Makes one wonder what would happen if you then had later 'lost' that "deposited" check, and someone else
with a similar name as yours picked it out of the trash and tried to have it paid...
Why would they just start abusing it now rather than when it was introduced on GMail.com?
Higher bar. Brute force SIP dialing against possible google voice phone numbers to spam them is a lot simpler
than trying to automate access to a Web GUI that potentially has captchas involved.
My (faint) suspicion is some VoIP telespammers/tele fraudsters saw the Slashdot article/blog and immediately started abusing the feature...
As nice as 'free SIP access' to the POTS network through Google voice might sound, it's not sane.
Even less sane than having offering open SMTP relays, anyways; since the telephone network is so poorly equipped to deal with any type of abuse (other than it actually being a crime if the perp happens to live in a 'civilized' country, and happens to be traceable).
Except it's better than a lifetime warranty. I've tried to call a manufacturer to replace/repair under a "lifetime" warranty, and the answer has been that the lifetime warranty is only valid for the "life time of the product", and that model is obsolete, so no dice.
High speed, super fast 100 megbit speeds (some restrictions apply *[1])
[1]: If you actually try to transfer a lot of data over your high-throughput connection, your effective transfer speed will be reduced back to dialup speeds.
Yeah this is really interesting. Especially because Apple are known for overpricing things. Does anyone else sort of get the feeling that they are losing money on the sales and making it back in app store? If they were doing that - it's a completely different to their usual strategy.
No... I get the feeling that iPad is "overpriced" just like Apple's other products, and the "pad" market is overhyped, with competitors wanting to be even more overpriced than Apple for some reason.
E.g. How exactly is it that Pads come to be more expensive than more-capable/higher-specced netbook technology?
How about one that is approaching 110 years and counting ?
Well, even after 110 years life... 'forever' is a long ways away.
You're confusing lasts a long time with 'never dies'.
The livermore lightbulb will have a finite lifetime, the only question is: what will give first.
Will enough carbon burn away on the filament, will something such as an earthquake, or lightning damage the bulb,
or will the materials degrade: for example, will the insulation dialectric degrade and create an arc.
Will the glass degrade or the base rust and eventually allow air to enter the bulb.
Even alloys don't necessarily last forever
The bulb's load is 4 watts. Nowadays, lightbulbs are 18x that.
The bulb's long life so far has been attributed to its low wattage,
the fact it is running on a dedicated supply from a backup generator --
much cleaner electricity than your household has, and it has only been
turned off/unplugged a few times in its lifetime.
So under these extraordinary conditions, a low-wattage lightbulb from that era
with a carbon filament can last a long time.
A lot of lightbulbs' lives are cut short by power on / power off cycles and surges.
However, the livermore light will die eventually due to the filament itself slowly burning and degrading,
it's just a question of time.
A lot of the characteristics that are believed to make the centennial light last a long time would be untennable
or undesirable in the home.
Lightbulbs don't use carbon filaments like that anymore, tungsten is brighter, and thus more desired.
Current day lightbulbs also utilize higher wattages.
Anyways, if you were willing to give up on the brightness, keep it online 24/7/365, and use a stabilized clean electric source,
you can probably make other lights of similar design last a long time; but finding bulbs from that area that are virgin and still
work could be a bit problematic.
CO2 you exhale was recently in the atmosphere. Some plant fixed it, you ate the plant, and exhaled the CO2.
Now you have confused carbon with CO2.
You say the carbon is completely balanced while ignoring the fact that the human population is expanding, and the whole consumes more and more raw materials so that every person can fulfill their most critical need -- to respirate, so they can actually be alive.
Animals are constantly disturbing soil and causing carbon to be released that would not be released otherwise; whether its your cattle grazing, your dog digging up your yard to hide things, or construction workers digging drainage canals, soil is disturbed, and carbon is released through microbial activity that may have been in the soil for many years.
The ground you dig up and/or airate to plant that bit of corn or that piece of grass for your animal to eat provides oxygen for bacteria and fungi to grow to respirate more organic material in the soil than they could otherwise, which will release carbon that would have not been released otherwise.
Does this "elegance" make it right? No. Of course not. But it makes it a very valid theory that should be discussed, since it looks far easier. And Occam's Razor applies to the laws of physics.
Ok... but what happens when the King/President/whatever is sold by Ptolemy's model, ties it to his (or her) own political fate, and makes sure any research being funded will support his model, or the research team will lose their (financial) head?
Science doesn't do much good to prevent human suffering in that case, and the truth does not always come out.
This is the most bizarre thing I've ever read. There was never any evidence of a geocentric solar system.
Of course there was. You are ignoring the evidence, because under the standards of modern physics, what used to be evidence is no longer compelling in the least.
If you travel back to 100 AD, and you do not get to use any modern physics understanding that was developed later, you will find significant facts and evidence pointing towards support for geocentric theory, many of them circumstantial, much like the circumstantial evidence used to support the theory that "human emissions release causes global warming"
Some of the most important evidence for geocentric model was observations of the skies, the fact that objects appeared to move in certain ways, and mathematical models were developed that showed (plausibly) at least that the bodies were probably orbitting
Clearly those global warming periods were not caused by cars, so there's no reason to think the present period is either. We need to find the REAL cause for these three Warming periods, which are not man-made.
There is circumstantial (non-scientific) evidence based on observations what have been interpreted to show CO2 levels in the atmosphere during historical times and the timing of changes of those CO2 levels, based on timing of industrial revolution in Europe/North AMerica, so there is reason to suspect human involvement.
It's not evidence of human involvement, but there is reason to think that.
Of course, it doesn't indicate what exactly humans did that might really have made the difference, if humans did effect it; as humans have done a whole lot of different things to the planet. If changes to ecosystems caused it; it is conceivable that it could be irreversible or physically impossible for humans to "undo" the specific damage already done -- particularly, if humans have caused geologic events/changes that resulted in contiuous release of gasses (such as drilling into the earth and providing an escape for methane pockets).
Hell... just all those boats floating around in the ocean, sometimes dropping anchors could have an effect
For example... we chopped down forests, we changed many aquatic ecosystems with things like oil spills, we could have massacred entire continents worth of organisms whose abundance was keeping CO2 levels low, merely by carrying
certain bacteria our bodies across continents, without even having known about it.
It's conceivable, that we're already hosed, no matter what our human stuff emits today or tomorrow.
Remember, there are a whole lot of humans on earth, and humans need to breathe to survive, and human breathing releases certain "pollutants"
Because there is a huge amount of evidence available to even a casual observer, and the opposition has no answer that is even remotely convincing. This is not a statement of faith, this is a statement of reason.
There is a huge amount of evidence available for a lot of things that are patently false.
For example, there was plenty of "evidence" that the sun and all planets orbit around the earth.
A huge amount of evidence does not equal truth.
Science is not about merely "adding up" evidence and synthesizing a reality.
Science is not about "Reasoning", unless that reasoning is actually logically sound.
Logically sound reasoning is not "collect a bunch of facts, and if they all suggest something, than that something is true".
Science is about using repeatable experiments and observations to find truth.
A scientifically validated explanation is when you have the simplest explanation of complete verifiable observations,
the explanation must be falsifiable, and sufficient attempts must have been made to show it false.
If you are looking at something such as global warming, the problem is falsifiability.
It is de-facto non-falsifiable if all the real funding is going to attempt to "prove" it's true.
Also, humans are so conflated with their world, it seems basically impossible to prove humans have nothing to do with it, even if they don't. So any scientific claims about global warming and humans have a falsifiability problem.. meaning, they are not really science at all
Lack of community is really a great way to keep people from organizing any sort of resistance to anything.
Hm... and the best way to create a lack of community is (perhaps) to ban religious meetings, or to otherwise get people to stop going to the synagogue/church/mosque/etc, and, at the same time, convince the people to stay indoors as much as possible.
2. Post about the deletion on Slashdot, and get your post to the front page
Since Slashdot is more effective... I suggest Votes_For_Deletion and Deletion_Review be deprecated, and the new policy should simply be... any deletion announced in front page of a Slashdot article is a deletion to be reversed; since obviously Slashdot would not mention it if it were not notable.
Also, a direct Slashdot mention specifically about the topic (not an 'on the side' or 'by the way' mention) makes it notable automatically.
To be the devil's advocate - gathering evidence IS the attempt of proving guilt.
No... gathering evidence is the attempt to establish guilt.
It is a well known fact that everyone is guilty of something.
Especially due to the vast vague laws on the books.
If an officer searches you enough they will be able to find some law you have broken, even if you are an upstanding citizen.
There are a massive enough obscure laws on the books to do so.
Hell, 95% of the population can be jailed on the streets at will for the so-called crime of "disorderly conduct".
You ever take a quiet stroll in the park? Disorderly conduct!
You ever take a walk in the woods? Disorderly conduct!
You ever use the bushes outdoors as a bathroom? Disorderly conduct, public indecency, littering.
We live in a country, where you have liberties. Even if you are guilty of something, the government is not allowed by the constitution to harass you or go on a fishing expedition to figure out what laws you have broken, obscure laws or not
If a free country, the agents responsible would already be tarred-and-feather by the People (from which all legitimate authority derives).
No, in a free country with a non-lazy populus.
Oh wait.... countries where the population are lazy and do not stand up for each others' rights are inherently non-free
Freedom comes from your neighbor defending to the death your right to say (or do) something that very neighbor disapproves of,
if it's your natural right to say (or do) that.
The US has been in the process of losing that for a long time
One thing and the other have nothing to do with one another.
Yes they do. One is named after the other. If we promote Reiserfs, we are glorifying Reiser, a murder.
Would you tare down a hospital build by an evil dictator just because it bears he's name ?
If a Hospital were named "Hitler Memorial Hospital".... you'd bet i'd have it teared down, if it came to that.
Probably, I would prefer it be renamed instead.
Just as I would suggest ReiserFS be named, if its development is to continue.
I would only consider doing that if I could rename it.
Why help the filesystem excel that was the namesake of a madman/sociopath/murderer?
Hans doesn't deserve any more fame. Due to the taint, I don't think I could recommend anyone use a filesystem bearing the name 'Reiser', even if it was well maintained
. I use it exclusively on my desktops despite Gentoo's warnings about "little maintenance" going on. Who cares? If it works, it works. I'm sure there are plenty of others who feel the same.
But the other scary part is any random bus could have run over this guy any time in the past, and
nobody seems to have been prepared for that.
It wouldn't be a disaster. The tz db gets a few updates a year, at most, updating is simple, and there are plenty of people capable of taking the job. Frankly, politics is the real issue -- the new maintainer getting people to trust them and their updates.
One wonders how many other situations like this exist, where critical system tools are basically handled by one person, or a tiny group.
Last I checked, The termcap database / predecessor to Terminfo had one maintainer as well.
Well, there are a lot of pieces of Linux documentation, man pages, etc, that have one maintainer (generally the author).
There are lots of software applications that were the product of one person, for example: 'fetchmail', Qmail,
This is the second time in the last few years where I've been made aware of such a thing. When Reiser went to prison an entire file system essentially died on the vine (yes I still use it on some machines). So apparently it happens more often than we expect.
Well, first of all, the old version of the Reiser filesystem was being abandoned due to various issues, and being surpassed by newer filesystems; practice had shifted away from it, and Reiser's conviction "poisoned the well", since he had basically conceived the filesystem, it drove the community away from it (not because Reiser's imprisonment was a technical impairment) -- it's just the existing filesystem Reiser was obsolete and still with stability issues.
The new version of the Reiser filesystem?
Was far from finished. Was far from stable.
And the person who was working on proposing/specifying/developing it effectively got shut down.
The Reiser filesystem's not an example of a critical resource that was lost due to one person hit by a bus.
It's an example of an original creation that never came about, which is a major set back but not a critical issue.
Much as it would be a major setback if Linus Torvalds or Alan Cox were hit by a bus.
Slashdot Mirror
You flag the app, and Google will remove the apps from the android market.
That won't stop them. You need to be a developer/owner of code they used against the license agreement. Flag the app AND start legal proceedings against the developer to recover statutory damages.
The GPL is not a "free for all" ticket. Copyright infringement is still copyright infringement.
I'd imagine his name might have had a small amount of impact on his popularity.
Yeah.. he certainly has a nice sounding name. I'm sure i've heard of that author, and I haven't even been browsing Amazon...
Specifically i'm sure i've heard of this of his eBooks before.
If you think ~$90 USD per month entitles you to 100 megabits guaranteed 24/7
You bet it does. $0.90 per megabit committed information is about right on target for typical pricing for 100 megs worth of bandwidth.
If the provider is not honoring the contract or the understood terms based on their advertising, then they deserve a smackdown.
he mistakenly believed it wouldn't be a permitted exploit for the competition.
Perhaps then he should perceive and do what he would have done if it was not permitted anyways.
Go find another vulnerability, develop an exploit for it, and earn that $15k.
Otherwise, consider his mistake a $15,000 lesson.
You could keep the original check in your portfolio while getting the cash as well :-)
Hm... aren't you supposed to destroy it or mail it in, after you do that? Makes one wonder what would happen if you then had later 'lost' that "deposited" check, and someone else with a similar name as yours picked it out of the trash and tried to have it paid...
I would rather Google cut me checks for 31337.
Why would they just start abusing it now rather than when it was introduced on GMail.com?
Higher bar. Brute force SIP dialing against possible google voice phone numbers to spam them is a lot simpler than trying to automate access to a Web GUI that potentially has captchas involved.
My (faint) suspicion is some VoIP telespammers/tele fraudsters saw the Slashdot article/blog and immediately started abusing the feature...
As nice as 'free SIP access' to the POTS network through Google voice might sound, it's not sane.
Even less sane than having offering open SMTP relays, anyways; since the telephone network is so poorly equipped to deal with any type of abuse (other than it actually being a crime if the perp happens to live in a 'civilized' country, and happens to be traceable).
It is kind of like "lifetime" warranties ;)
Except it's better than a lifetime warranty. I've tried to call a manufacturer to replace/repair under a "lifetime" warranty, and the answer has been that the lifetime warranty is only valid for the "life time of the product", and that model is obsolete, so no dice.
High speed, super fast 100 megbit speeds (some restrictions apply *[1])
[1]: If you actually try to transfer a lot of data over your high-throughput connection, your effective transfer speed will be reduced back to dialup speeds.
Yeah this is really interesting. Especially because Apple are known for overpricing things. Does anyone else sort of get the feeling that they are losing money on the sales and making it back in app store? If they were doing that - it's a completely different to their usual strategy.
No... I get the feeling that iPad is "overpriced" just like Apple's other products, and the "pad" market is overhyped, with competitors wanting to be even more overpriced than Apple for some reason.
E.g. How exactly is it that Pads come to be more expensive than more-capable/higher-specced netbook technology?
How about one that is approaching 110 years and counting ?
Well, even after 110 years life... 'forever' is a long ways away. You're confusing lasts a long time with 'never dies'. The livermore lightbulb will have a finite lifetime, the only question is: what will give first. Will enough carbon burn away on the filament, will something such as an earthquake, or lightning damage the bulb, or will the materials degrade: for example, will the insulation dialectric degrade and create an arc. Will the glass degrade or the base rust and eventually allow air to enter the bulb. Even alloys don't necessarily last forever
The bulb's load is 4 watts. Nowadays, lightbulbs are 18x that. The bulb's long life so far has been attributed to its low wattage, the fact it is running on a dedicated supply from a backup generator -- much cleaner electricity than your household has, and it has only been turned off/unplugged a few times in its lifetime.
So under these extraordinary conditions, a low-wattage lightbulb from that era with a carbon filament can last a long time.
A lot of lightbulbs' lives are cut short by power on / power off cycles and surges.
However, the livermore light will die eventually due to the filament itself slowly burning and degrading, it's just a question of time.
A lot of the characteristics that are believed to make the centennial light last a long time would be untennable or undesirable in the home. Lightbulbs don't use carbon filaments like that anymore, tungsten is brighter, and thus more desired.
Current day lightbulbs also utilize higher wattages.
Anyways, if you were willing to give up on the brightness, keep it online 24/7/365, and use a stabilized clean electric source, you can probably make other lights of similar design last a long time; but finding bulbs from that area that are virgin and still work could be a bit problematic.
CO2 you exhale was recently in the atmosphere. Some plant fixed it, you ate the plant, and exhaled the CO2.
Now you have confused carbon with CO2.
You say the carbon is completely balanced while ignoring the fact that the human population is expanding, and the whole consumes more and more raw materials so that every person can fulfill their most critical need -- to respirate, so they can actually be alive.
Animals are constantly disturbing soil and causing carbon to be released that would not be released otherwise; whether its your cattle grazing, your dog digging up your yard to hide things, or construction workers digging drainage canals, soil is disturbed, and carbon is released through microbial activity that may have been in the soil for many years.
The ground you dig up and/or airate to plant that bit of corn or that piece of grass for your animal to eat provides oxygen for bacteria and fungi to grow to respirate more organic material in the soil than they could otherwise, which will release carbon that would have not been released otherwise.
Does this "elegance" make it right? No. Of course not. But it makes it a very valid theory that should be discussed, since it looks far easier. And Occam's Razor applies to the laws of physics.
Ok... but what happens when the King/President/whatever is sold by Ptolemy's model, ties it to his (or her) own political fate, and makes sure any research being funded will support his model, or the research team will lose their (financial) head?
Science doesn't do much good to prevent human suffering in that case, and the truth does not always come out.
This is the most bizarre thing I've ever read. There was never any evidence of a geocentric solar system.
Of course there was. You are ignoring the evidence, because under the standards of modern physics, what used to be evidence is no longer compelling in the least.
If you travel back to 100 AD, and you do not get to use any modern physics understanding that was developed later, you will find significant facts and evidence pointing towards support for geocentric theory, many of them circumstantial, much like the circumstantial evidence used to support the theory that "human emissions release causes global warming"
Some of the most important evidence for geocentric model was observations of the skies, the fact that objects appeared to move in certain ways, and mathematical models were developed that showed (plausibly) at least that the bodies were probably orbitting
Clearly those global warming periods were not caused by cars, so there's no reason to think the present period is either. We need to find the REAL cause for these three Warming periods, which are not man-made.
There is circumstantial (non-scientific) evidence based on observations what have been interpreted to show CO2 levels in the atmosphere during historical times and the timing of changes of those CO2 levels, based on timing of industrial revolution in Europe/North AMerica, so there is reason to suspect human involvement. It's not evidence of human involvement, but there is reason to think that.
Of course, it doesn't indicate what exactly humans did that might really have made the difference, if humans did effect it; as humans have done a whole lot of different things to the planet. If changes to ecosystems caused it; it is conceivable that it could be irreversible or physically impossible for humans to "undo" the specific damage already done -- particularly, if humans have caused geologic events/changes that resulted in contiuous release of gasses (such as drilling into the earth and providing an escape for methane pockets).
Hell... just all those boats floating around in the ocean, sometimes dropping anchors could have an effect
For example... we chopped down forests, we changed many aquatic ecosystems with things like oil spills, we could have massacred entire continents worth of organisms whose abundance was keeping CO2 levels low, merely by carrying certain bacteria our bodies across continents, without even having known about it.
It's conceivable, that we're already hosed, no matter what our human stuff emits today or tomorrow. Remember, there are a whole lot of humans on earth, and humans need to breathe to survive, and human breathing releases certain "pollutants"
Because there is a huge amount of evidence available to even a casual observer, and the opposition has no answer that is even remotely convincing.
This is not a statement of faith, this is a statement of reason.
There is a huge amount of evidence available for a lot of things that are patently false. For example, there was plenty of "evidence" that the sun and all planets orbit around the earth. A huge amount of evidence does not equal truth.
Science is not about merely "adding up" evidence and synthesizing a reality. Science is not about "Reasoning", unless that reasoning is actually logically sound. Logically sound reasoning is not "collect a bunch of facts, and if they all suggest something, than that something is true".
Science is about using repeatable experiments and observations to find truth. A scientifically validated explanation is when you have the simplest explanation of complete verifiable observations, the explanation must be falsifiable, and sufficient attempts must have been made to show it false.
If you are looking at something such as global warming, the problem is falsifiability. It is de-facto non-falsifiable if all the real funding is going to attempt to "prove" it's true.
Also, humans are so conflated with their world, it seems basically impossible to prove humans have nothing to do with it, even if they don't. So any scientific claims about global warming and humans have a falsifiability problem.. meaning, they are not really science at all
Lack of community is really a great way to keep people from organizing any sort of resistance to anything.
Hm... and the best way to create a lack of community is (perhaps) to ban religious meetings, or to otherwise get people to stop going to the synagogue/church/mosque/etc, and, at the same time, convince the people to stay indoors as much as possible.
1. Votes for Undeletion
OR (more effective alternative)
2. Post about the deletion on Slashdot, and get your post to the front page
Since Slashdot is more effective... I suggest Votes_For_Deletion and Deletion_Review be deprecated, and the new policy should simply be... any deletion announced in front page of a Slashdot article is a deletion to be reversed; since obviously Slashdot would not mention it if it were not notable.
Also, a direct Slashdot mention specifically about the topic (not an 'on the side' or 'by the way' mention) makes it notable automatically.
To be the devil's advocate - gathering evidence IS the attempt of proving guilt.
No... gathering evidence is the attempt to establish guilt.
It is a well known fact that everyone is guilty of something. Especially due to the vast vague laws on the books. If an officer searches you enough they will be able to find some law you have broken, even if you are an upstanding citizen. There are a massive enough obscure laws on the books to do so.
Hell, 95% of the population can be jailed on the streets at will for the so-called crime of "disorderly conduct". You ever take a quiet stroll in the park? Disorderly conduct!
You ever take a walk in the woods? Disorderly conduct!
You ever use the bushes outdoors as a bathroom? Disorderly conduct, public indecency, littering.
We live in a country, where you have liberties. Even if you are guilty of something, the government is not allowed by the constitution to harass you or go on a fishing expedition to figure out what laws you have broken, obscure laws or not
If a free country, the agents responsible would already be tarred-and-feather by the People (from which all legitimate authority derives).
No, in a free country with a non-lazy populus.
Oh wait.... countries where the population are lazy and do not stand up for each others' rights are inherently non-free
Freedom comes from your neighbor defending to the death your right to say (or do) something that very neighbor disapproves of, if it's your natural right to say (or do) that.
The US has been in the process of losing that for a long time
One thing and the other have nothing to do with one another.
Yes they do. One is named after the other. If we promote Reiserfs, we are glorifying Reiser, a murder.
Would you tare down a hospital build by an evil dictator just because it bears he's name ?
If a Hospital were named "Hitler Memorial Hospital".... you'd bet i'd have it teared down, if it came to that. Probably, I would prefer it be renamed instead.
Just as I would suggest ReiserFS be named, if its development is to continue.
You can get the source and maintain it yourself.
I would only consider doing that if I could rename it.
Why help the filesystem excel that was the namesake of a madman/sociopath/murderer?
Hans doesn't deserve any more fame. Due to the taint, I don't think I could recommend anyone use a filesystem bearing the name 'Reiser', even if it was well maintained
. I use it exclusively on my desktops despite Gentoo's warnings about "little maintenance" going on. Who cares? If it works, it works. I'm sure there are plenty of others who feel the same.
Reiser4 does not just work so reliably.
And Reiser3 cannot hold a candle to Ext4fs.
But the other scary part is any random bus could have run over this guy any time in the past, and nobody seems to have been prepared for that.
It wouldn't be a disaster. The tz db gets a few updates a year, at most, updating is simple, and there are plenty of people capable of taking the job. Frankly, politics is the real issue -- the new maintainer getting people to trust them and their updates.
One wonders how many other situations like this exist, where critical system tools are basically handled by one person, or a tiny group.
Last I checked, The termcap database / predecessor to Terminfo had one maintainer as well.
Well, there are a lot of pieces of Linux documentation, man pages, etc, that have one maintainer (generally the author). There are lots of software applications that were the product of one person, for example: 'fetchmail', Qmail,
This is the second time in the last few years where I've been made aware of such a thing. When Reiser went to prison an entire file system essentially died on the vine (yes I still use it on some machines). So apparently it happens more often than we expect.
Well, first of all, the old version of the Reiser filesystem was being abandoned due to various issues, and being surpassed by newer filesystems; practice had shifted away from it, and Reiser's conviction "poisoned the well", since he had basically conceived the filesystem, it drove the community away from it (not because Reiser's imprisonment was a technical impairment) -- it's just the existing filesystem Reiser was obsolete and still with stability issues.
The new version of the Reiser filesystem? Was far from finished. Was far from stable. And the person who was working on proposing/specifying/developing it effectively got shut down.
The Reiser filesystem's not an example of a critical resource that was lost due to one person hit by a bus. It's an example of an original creation that never came about, which is a major set back but not a critical issue.
Much as it would be a major setback if Linus Torvalds or Alan Cox were hit by a bus.