And that example illustrates the usual reason for starting with step 0: The "zero" step is determining your initial state before you start doing anything. In this case, it's determining whether you should bother going on to step 1, which is pretty common. It's also common to use step 0 to list the material needed by the task.
No, that would still be step 1. Its not natural to call it step 0. The first thing you do is get your materials and determine your state.
Its not the naught step your perform, its the FIRST.
Seriously, an ALL cash offer... and you turned it down? You're an idiot. You're product isn't special or even that unique. Self deleting images that don't actually self delete? Come on.
With 3 billion in cash, they could have started over and had 10 years to beat Facebook at its own game, which is trivial since the Facebooks first move would have been to end the deletion part or just shut them down completely on purchase.
I totally understand not wanting to sell out, but if your price for something like SnapChat is higher than 3bn, you're just an idiot who's principals are cutting off his nose to spite his face. You might have made a stand, but it was a stupid stand to make and could have been far more beneficial to its users had they made the stand another day and walked off with the cash today.
Neither yourself or your cohort are modded insightful because nothing insightful was said. You're doing the typical anti-science way to deal with issues that you don't know anything about, blow them out of proportion, assume the worst and that tomorrow the Earth will stand still.
And for reference, you can still see stars from the rooftop of any reasonable tall building in NYC on a clear night. Your perception of the world is sadly out of touch with reality, like so many. Thats the fear you should have for humanity.
SARS was never 'a threat', just the battle cry of a bunch of people wanting more funding.
If you were worried about SARS you must have all sorts of anxiety issues since there are easily a billion things more likely to kill you in the next year.
SInce it cost Dr. Office more then they get, and the compnay that make it make so little money they need gaurnettes form the government. WHat, exactly, do you base you line of BS on?
Bullshit. Walgreens doesn't offer flu vaccines because they have big hearts, the do it because its a profit center. What moronic bullshit are you on?
Coincidence. Can Not Happen from the Flu shot. Can Not.
Bullshit. Even your doctor will warn you that it can and does happen as your body reacts to the vaccine. Ideally it wouldn't happen, but it most certainly DOES happen.
So your unfounded belief let you excuse away putting others at risk. You are a dick.
And you're a hypochondriac nutjob. Most of the time, the flu vaccine is the wrong one and doesn't even work for the most common strain going around that year. 'They' guess on which one is going to be common, most years that guess is wrong, only occasionally is it right. Entire communities have opted out of getting the flu vaccine due to being religious nut jobs (not so different than yourself, just different worship) and on average, they see about a 10% increase in flu cases on SOME years, not every year.
The please stay out of the public you pathetic ignorant SOB.
Go fuck yourself you ignorant cunt;) My wife... a medical doctor, won't get a flu shot. After the reaction our son just had to his, he'll never get another one either since every instance we've had in the past of actually getting the flu has actually been less consistent than the days of feeling like shit after getting the vaccine.
The flu vaccine is fucking stupid unless you're in a high risk group which is a small limited part of the population. Its questionable to those high risk groups as well, but at least there is some potential benefit. Giving it to all healthy adults is just fucking retarded since their immune systems are already fully capable of fighting it off and we don't really need to be creating the perfect breeding environment for an actual super flu bug rather than that scare mongering used to get people like you to panic.
Hint: Most years, not every year, but most years... its H1N1... that doesn't MEAN anything. Its an entire CLASS of viruses, not a specific strain. The most common class is... H1N1 and has been for as long as we've had a identifier for it.
Whats better is that in the US, during the big flu scars in recent years... while people are ranting and raving about how bad it is on TV (including CDC reps )... a look at the CDCs statistics, you know, the ones that are generated automatically and not biased by scare mongering... those statistics indicated a LOWER THAN NORMAL year for both infections AND mortality.
These people need to be taught the lesson of the Boy who cried Wolf BEFORE something bad ACTUALLY happens.
Depends, is your religion Judism? Then there is a distinct possibility, since Jews also typically (not converts) share a specific genetic line and there are viruses known to be targeted towards them.
The problem is that processor clock cycles are not tied directly to a crystal in a VM. The reason you can't do bit banging on the LPT port of a VM isn't that time is too slow, its that time is variable speed. Code the runs based on exact clock cycles per instruction works for shit when something outside its known universe can suddenly pause it for some unknown period of time, and then unpause it...
Imagine how hard it would be to play rock band on the hardest level if it randomly paused and unpaused repeatedly while you were playing?
Can we get NSA and a few dozen of the programs that they support defunded?
Two things are wrong with that statement:
A) You don't defund things, thats just being a fucking baby and showing your ass when you've lost, change the farking laws in the first place.
B) Contrary to what you might think, the NSA is a vital organization for our nation. It does need put back in its place, but completely getting rid of it would be utterly stupid. 'The terrorists' and I mean the real ones aren't going to shut down their spy networks, and they certainly have them even though they aren't going to be NSA capable (maybe!), they will still do better than nothing. North Korea, Syria, Iran, some warlords in different parts of the southern hemisphere... all of these guys are going to continue doing what they do regardless of the existence of our NSA. Don't you think its better to at least stay one step ahead of them?
Neither are required for life in even the slightest way. Plenty of fully functional people have jobs, homes and families and they never fly and don't have Internet access.
Just as a reminder, since it seems to be forgotten so often.
Airplanes are barely a 100 years old.
The Internet, or more specifically, the web, is only about 20.
These are not 'requirements' for life. You will survive without either.
Not all email is sent in clear text. Some admins aren't clueless.
For instance, my mail server communicates with many other mail servers using SSL, including when talking to other servers. Yahoo, Google, and Outlook.com all use TLS and upgrade to a secure connection on HELO. Likewise my mail servers REQUIRE SSL AND AUTHENTICATION for picking up mail or sending from our addresses. Include SPF in the mix and the only clear text version of the mail is sitting on my server hard drives and the client machines.
I'm fairly confident the NSA hasn't gotten into my system yet, and they didn't fake our certificate chain since its an internally generated chain that no cert provider is in, just our own not network connected CA.
Email can be secured with current technology and protocols. Easily.
No, cops would get rather annoyed if everyone called them just to tell them they hit something on the road way. He wasn't in an accident that involved another car and at the time he wasn't aware of how much damage had been done to his car. There was no reason to call the cops ever, only the fire department.
Good job, lets of safety features worked as intended. I LOVE to see when these sort of active safety systems do their job.
Now move the fucking battery pack so this shit stops. 1/4" aluminum armor 'a good idea' and all, but only because you mounted the battery in a stupid fucking position. Treat it like the gas tank, since it too is the energy storage medium for the car and its most dangerous components. Gas tanks don't need 1/4" armor... because they don't mount them where shit getting wedge under the car is going to penetrate them, neither should you.
Designing a new car from the ground up without all the old baggage of a 100 years of car building practices may seem like a great idea for efficiency, but its really not considering you're now going to RELEARN a BUNCH of shit that GM, Ford, Nissan, Mazda, Toyota and all the rest learned a long time ago.
Nothing Tesla is doing is new or groundbreaking, theres no reason for throwing the baby out in the bath water, which is what they've done.
If I were an employer, beyond criminal record, I don't think I should care what my employees did or do or will do in their free time.
I used to Google for new hires just to get to know them better, not part of the interview or hiring process, but after we selected them, just so I can have things to talk about with them and make them feel more welcome...
I've now learned that you know what... I don't really want to know what these people do. Sometimes, you learn things that can't be unlearned and you really didn't need to know.
I no longer Google for people before hiring them. For my protection, so I don't have to explain to anyone why I can't look at them with a straight face anymore. While I did not hire Mosley of F1/Nazi orgy video fame, I did run across something not too far from this ( Probably NSFW even though the naughty bits are blacked out) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4d3_1207044480
And when you are say, trying to get a job, the person who's looking you up isn't going to contact you and ask what the story is! Fuck no! They are going to draw their own conclusions.
Thats a good thing. You probably don't want to work someplace thats going to get upset because of something posted on Facebook that happened during your private time.
You really don't. They will fire you eventually for something stupid if they're looking you up on Facebook as part of the employment process.
Do you really want to work there? Jobs aren't THAT hard to find in this country (USA), sorry if its worse in your area but here any place that does that kind of 'background' check is someplace you don't want to work for, even if you don't realize it.
Why is it that self (and loudly) proclaimed atheists seem to bitch and moan about religion more than the actual religious nutjobs do? Why do you feel the need to inject your personal opinion into a discussion about a completely unrelated subject in a way thats clearly intended to turn the discussion into a flame war?
If there is no god for you to believe in, why the fuck do you get so upset and loud about it?
NO ONE GIVES A FUCK THAT YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN A GOD. Not the religious people, not normal atheists... NO ONE.... yet you still feel the need to bring it up when the discussion is no where near there, and you pick tiny irrelevant excuses to do so.
Do you have any idea how obviously scared of what you don't know you make yourself appear?
No one likes religious nutjobs, which is all you are, you just try to claim anti-relgion as your religion. You just make it clear how transparent you are and how clever you aren't. You're projecting your own self hatred and fear on others. You are exactly the type of person you pretend to be against. Different religion, same ignorance.
Grow up ya douche, no one gives a fuck about your angst ridden religious crusades
If the wolf befriends you, he'll wait till you're good and dead before eating you, and will feel a little bad about doing it.
That fucking mini-panther will start gnawing on your as soon as it THINKS you can't stop it. You won't be dead before you're own cat will start eating your ass.
Evil creatures, people who own them really don't understand that the cat is the smartest animal in the home.
Square is fully PCI compliant because IT DOESN'T STORE YOUR INFORMATION and USES SSL TO TALK TO ITS SERVER. Thats ALL the security you get ANYWHERE on the client side IN THE BEST CASE situation.
Stop spewing shit you know nothing about. 99.999% of the PCI rules are written around the fact that people STORE the credit card numbers. The instant you stop storing card information, PCI becomes ridiculously less complex.
Welcome to what Square does... it makes all the PCI compliance issues a problem for Square admins, and lets your business do business, not worry about IT.
Chip + Pin might be great, but as has been said by others, I've NEVER seen one, so its not so great that the entire world snapped it up to save the billions in lost dollars... did they?
You live in a fantasy world, or I suspect is more likely, don't actually own any credit cards.
Do you know that all the information you need to make a card transaction is... VISIBLE ON THE CARD... WITHOUT A CARD READER? Yes, thats right... *gasp* they can just use the visible information on the card to take your money.
Thats because you utterly fail to understand any part of the process. This isn't insightful, its just the opposite, it shows ignorance.
First off, the strip on your card, not encrypted in the first place, its just data. Encrypting it offers nothing of value as you would then just end the encrypted blob, which anyone could also copy and send. You can read it with a modified 8 track player and some software (this is essentially how square works) or any of the thousands of various card readers that hook up to a PC as if it were a keyboard.
None of the data stays on the iPad, its simply forwarded off to squares servers to do the real work.
Do you think its a better setup to do the card reading on a virus and malware infected PC instead, you know, one of those PCs that you run your card through every day at the gas station or restaurant you eat at instead of the walled garden that Apple built.
If this bothers you, it just shows you're ignorant of the actual security concerns. You should be far far more concerned with the waiter or mcdonalds employee you hand your card through that can just snap a pic of it when you're not in sight.
Most gas tanks don't have 1/4" steel plate between them and the road. So far it has a 100% survival rate for passengers in fires, even the guy who went through a cement wall at 100mph. Show me a gas car with those stats.
So again confirming that was a shitty place to mount them. A very poorly built thin walled gas tank survives because it was mounted in a safer spot far better than the poorly mounted, be well armored battery pack.
If moving the pack and removing the armor plating still results in a fewer overall accidents, it doesn't matter how much effort they put into armoring its current position, its still a shitty position.
That's my thinking as well. They've got a 1/4" plate of steel shielding the battery, but there's a lot of force involved in hitting stationary objects at speed. That's like blaming standard car design when debris severs a fuel line and ends up pouring fuel all over the exhaust manifold, or cracking the oil pan to similar effect.
Hitting things in your car is dangerous, news at 11.
You would blame the engineers that designed a car which has the fuel line anywhere near the exhaust manifold, or an oil pan that can crack and drain on the exhaust pipe... because those are stupid engineering decisions that cause problems JUST like you pointed out. Proper designs and engineering separate the flammable liquids from hot spots that will ignite them as much as possible.
Taking things like the fuel line severing in an accident into account is EXACTLY what keeps our cars as safe as they are.
Its mind numbing that slashdot thinks your post is insightful. Anyone who modded this post up needs to turn any any geek card they might have been carrying.
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And that example illustrates the usual reason for starting with step 0: The "zero" step is determining your initial state before you start doing anything. In this case, it's determining whether you should bother going on to step 1, which is pretty common. It's also common to use step 0 to list the material needed by the task.
No, that would still be step 1. Its not natural to call it step 0. The first thing you do is get your materials and determine your state.
Its not the naught step your perform, its the FIRST.
See that word, FIRST ... comes from 1.
Seriously, an ALL cash offer ... and you turned it down? You're an idiot. You're product isn't special or even that unique. Self deleting images that don't actually self delete? Come on.
With 3 billion in cash, they could have started over and had 10 years to beat Facebook at its own game, which is trivial since the Facebooks first move would have been to end the deletion part or just shut them down completely on purchase.
I totally understand not wanting to sell out, but if your price for something like SnapChat is higher than 3bn, you're just an idiot who's principals are cutting off his nose to spite his face. You might have made a stand, but it was a stupid stand to make and could have been far more beneficial to its users had they made the stand another day and walked off with the cash today.
Neither yourself or your cohort are modded insightful because nothing insightful was said. You're doing the typical anti-science way to deal with issues that you don't know anything about, blow them out of proportion, assume the worst and that tomorrow the Earth will stand still.
And for reference, you can still see stars from the rooftop of any reasonable tall building in NYC on a clear night. Your perception of the world is sadly out of touch with reality, like so many. Thats the fear you should have for humanity.
SARS was never 'a threat', just the battle cry of a bunch of people wanting more funding.
If you were worried about SARS you must have all sorts of anxiety issues since there are easily a billion things more likely to kill you in the next year.
SInce it cost Dr. Office more then they get, and the compnay that make it make so little money they need gaurnettes form the government.
WHat, exactly, do you base you line of BS on?
Bullshit. Walgreens doesn't offer flu vaccines because they have big hearts, the do it because its a profit center. What moronic bullshit are you on?
Coincidence. Can Not Happen from the Flu shot. Can Not.
Bullshit. Even your doctor will warn you that it can and does happen as your body reacts to the vaccine. Ideally it wouldn't happen, but it most certainly DOES happen.
So your unfounded belief let you excuse away putting others at risk. You are a dick.
And you're a hypochondriac nutjob. Most of the time, the flu vaccine is the wrong one and doesn't even work for the most common strain going around that year. 'They' guess on which one is going to be common, most years that guess is wrong, only occasionally is it right. Entire communities have opted out of getting the flu vaccine due to being religious nut jobs (not so different than yourself, just different worship) and on average, they see about a 10% increase in flu cases on SOME years, not every year.
The please stay out of the public you pathetic ignorant SOB.
Go fuck yourself you ignorant cunt ;) My wife ... a medical doctor, won't get a flu shot. After the reaction our son just had to his, he'll never get another one either since every instance we've had in the past of actually getting the flu has actually been less consistent than the days of feeling like shit after getting the vaccine.
The flu vaccine is fucking stupid unless you're in a high risk group which is a small limited part of the population. Its questionable to those high risk groups as well, but at least there is some potential benefit. Giving it to all healthy adults is just fucking retarded since their immune systems are already fully capable of fighting it off and we don't really need to be creating the perfect breeding environment for an actual super flu bug rather than that scare mongering used to get people like you to panic.
Hint: Most years, not every year, but most years ... its H1N1 ... that doesn't MEAN anything. Its an entire CLASS of viruses, not a specific strain. The most common class is ... H1N1 and has been for as long as we've had a identifier for it.
Whats better is that in the US, during the big flu scars in recent years ... while people are ranting and raving about how bad it is on TV (including CDC reps ) ... a look at the CDCs statistics, you know, the ones that are generated automatically and not biased by scare mongering ... those statistics indicated a LOWER THAN NORMAL year for both infections AND mortality.
These people need to be taught the lesson of the Boy who cried Wolf BEFORE something bad ACTUALLY happens.
Depends, is your religion Judism? Then there is a distinct possibility, since Jews also typically (not converts) share a specific genetic line and there are viruses known to be targeted towards them.
The problem is that processor clock cycles are not tied directly to a crystal in a VM. The reason you can't do bit banging on the LPT port of a VM isn't that time is too slow, its that time is variable speed. Code the runs based on exact clock cycles per instruction works for shit when something outside its known universe can suddenly pause it for some unknown period of time, and then unpause it ...
Imagine how hard it would be to play rock band on the hardest level if it randomly paused and unpaused repeatedly while you were playing?
No, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft do it for them, then run the analytics for them, and sell them the results.
Can we get NSA and a few dozen of the programs that they support defunded?
Two things are wrong with that statement:
A) You don't defund things, thats just being a fucking baby and showing your ass when you've lost, change the farking laws in the first place.
B) Contrary to what you might think, the NSA is a vital organization for our nation. It does need put back in its place, but completely getting rid of it would be utterly stupid. 'The terrorists' and I mean the real ones aren't going to shut down their spy networks, and they certainly have them even though they aren't going to be NSA capable (maybe!), they will still do better than nothing. North Korea, Syria, Iran, some warlords in different parts of the southern hemisphere ... all of these guys are going to continue doing what they do regardless of the existence of our NSA. Don't you think its better to at least stay one step ahead of them?
Neither are required for life in even the slightest way. Plenty of fully functional people have jobs, homes and families and they never fly and don't have Internet access.
Just as a reminder, since it seems to be forgotten so often.
Airplanes are barely a 100 years old.
The Internet, or more specifically, the web, is only about 20.
These are not 'requirements' for life. You will survive without either.
Not all email is sent in clear text. Some admins aren't clueless.
For instance, my mail server communicates with many other mail servers using SSL, including when talking to other servers. Yahoo, Google, and Outlook.com all use TLS and upgrade to a secure connection on HELO. Likewise my mail servers REQUIRE SSL AND AUTHENTICATION for picking up mail or sending from our addresses. Include SPF in the mix and the only clear text version of the mail is sitting on my server hard drives and the client machines.
I'm fairly confident the NSA hasn't gotten into my system yet, and they didn't fake our certificate chain since its an internally generated chain that no cert provider is in, just our own not network connected CA.
Email can be secured with current technology and protocols. Easily.
No, cops would get rather annoyed if everyone called them just to tell them they hit something on the road way. He wasn't in an accident that involved another car and at the time he wasn't aware of how much damage had been done to his car. There was no reason to call the cops ever, only the fire department.
Good job, lets of safety features worked as intended. I LOVE to see when these sort of active safety systems do their job.
Now move the fucking battery pack so this shit stops. 1/4" aluminum armor 'a good idea' and all, but only because you mounted the battery in a stupid fucking position. Treat it like the gas tank, since it too is the energy storage medium for the car and its most dangerous components. Gas tanks don't need 1/4" armor ... because they don't mount them where shit getting wedge under the car is going to penetrate them, neither should you.
Designing a new car from the ground up without all the old baggage of a 100 years of car building practices may seem like a great idea for efficiency, but its really not considering you're now going to RELEARN a BUNCH of shit that GM, Ford, Nissan, Mazda, Toyota and all the rest learned a long time ago.
Nothing Tesla is doing is new or groundbreaking, theres no reason for throwing the baby out in the bath water, which is what they've done.
If I were an employer, beyond criminal record, I don't think I should care what my employees did or do or will do in their free time.
I used to Google for new hires just to get to know them better, not part of the interview or hiring process, but after we selected them, just so I can have things to talk about with them and make them feel more welcome ...
I've now learned that you know what ... I don't really want to know what these people do. Sometimes, you learn things that can't be unlearned and you really didn't need to know.
I no longer Google for people before hiring them. For my protection, so I don't have to explain to anyone why I can't look at them with a straight face anymore. While I did not hire Mosley of F1/Nazi orgy video fame, I did run across something not too far from this ( Probably NSFW even though the naughty bits are blacked out) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4d3_1207044480
And when you are say, trying to get a job, the person who's looking you up isn't going to contact you and ask what the story is! Fuck no! They are going to draw their own conclusions.
Thats a good thing. You probably don't want to work someplace thats going to get upset because of something posted on Facebook that happened during your private time.
You really don't. They will fire you eventually for something stupid if they're looking you up on Facebook as part of the employment process.
Do you really want to work there? Jobs aren't THAT hard to find in this country (USA), sorry if its worse in your area but here any place that does that kind of 'background' check is someplace you don't want to work for, even if you don't realize it.
Why is it that self (and loudly) proclaimed atheists seem to bitch and moan about religion more than the actual religious nutjobs do? Why do you feel the need to inject your personal opinion into a discussion about a completely unrelated subject in a way thats clearly intended to turn the discussion into a flame war?
If there is no god for you to believe in, why the fuck do you get so upset and loud about it?
NO ONE GIVES A FUCK THAT YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN A GOD. Not the religious people, not normal atheists ... NO ONE .... yet you still feel the need to bring it up when the discussion is no where near there, and you pick tiny irrelevant excuses to do so.
Do you have any idea how obviously scared of what you don't know you make yourself appear?
No one likes religious nutjobs, which is all you are, you just try to claim anti-relgion as your religion. You just make it clear how transparent you are and how clever you aren't. You're projecting your own self hatred and fear on others. You are exactly the type of person you pretend to be against. Different religion, same ignorance.
Grow up ya douche, no one gives a fuck about your angst ridden religious crusades
If the wolf befriends you, he'll wait till you're good and dead before eating you, and will feel a little bad about doing it.
That fucking mini-panther will start gnawing on your as soon as it THINKS you can't stop it. You won't be dead before you're own cat will start eating your ass.
Evil creatures, people who own them really don't understand that the cat is the smartest animal in the home.
Until someone kills you for being an obnoxious douche with no redeeming quality and smug arrogance doesn't count or get you very far.
Square is fully PCI compliant because IT DOESN'T STORE YOUR INFORMATION and USES SSL TO TALK TO ITS SERVER. Thats ALL the security you get ANYWHERE on the client side IN THE BEST CASE situation.
Stop spewing shit you know nothing about. 99.999% of the PCI rules are written around the fact that people STORE the credit card numbers. The instant you stop storing card information, PCI becomes ridiculously less complex.
Welcome to what Square does ... it makes all the PCI compliance issues a problem for Square admins, and lets your business do business, not worry about IT.
Chip + Pin might be great, but as has been said by others, I've NEVER seen one, so its not so great that the entire world snapped it up to save the billions in lost dollars ... did they?
You live in a fantasy world, or I suspect is more likely, don't actually own any credit cards.
Do you know that all the information you need to make a card transaction is ... VISIBLE ON THE CARD ... WITHOUT A CARD READER? Yes, thats right ... *gasp* they can just use the visible information on the card to take your money.
Thats because you utterly fail to understand any part of the process. This isn't insightful, its just the opposite, it shows ignorance.
First off, the strip on your card, not encrypted in the first place, its just data. Encrypting it offers nothing of value as you would then just end the encrypted blob, which anyone could also copy and send. You can read it with a modified 8 track player and some software (this is essentially how square works) or any of the thousands of various card readers that hook up to a PC as if it were a keyboard.
None of the data stays on the iPad, its simply forwarded off to squares servers to do the real work.
Do you think its a better setup to do the card reading on a virus and malware infected PC instead, you know, one of those PCs that you run your card through every day at the gas station or restaurant you eat at instead of the walled garden that Apple built.
If this bothers you, it just shows you're ignorant of the actual security concerns. You should be far far more concerned with the waiter or mcdonalds employee you hand your card through that can just snap a pic of it when you're not in sight.
Most gas tanks don't have 1/4" steel plate between them and the road. So far it has a 100% survival rate for passengers in fires, even the guy who went through a cement wall at 100mph. Show me a gas car with those stats.
So again confirming that was a shitty place to mount them. A very poorly built thin walled gas tank survives because it was mounted in a safer spot far better than the poorly mounted, be well armored battery pack.
If moving the pack and removing the armor plating still results in a fewer overall accidents, it doesn't matter how much effort they put into armoring its current position, its still a shitty position.
That would be the front.
Gasoline fires aren't exactly dangerous. Contrary to popular belief, its kind of hard to get gasoline to explode, it prefers to burn, by design.
That's my thinking as well. They've got a 1/4" plate of steel shielding the battery, but there's a lot of force involved in hitting stationary objects at speed. That's like blaming standard car design when debris severs a fuel line and ends up pouring fuel all over the exhaust manifold, or cracking the oil pan to similar effect.
Hitting things in your car is dangerous, news at 11.
You would blame the engineers that designed a car which has the fuel line anywhere near the exhaust manifold, or an oil pan that can crack and drain on the exhaust pipe ... because those are stupid engineering decisions that cause problems JUST like you pointed out. Proper designs and engineering separate the flammable liquids from hot spots that will ignite them as much as possible.
Taking things like the fuel line severing in an accident into account is EXACTLY what keeps our cars as safe as they are.
Its mind numbing that slashdot thinks your post is insightful. Anyone who modded this post up needs to turn any any geek card they might have been carrying.