From my perspective, iOS seems much more similar in architecture to the desktop than Android.
But not for this reason. Android has a lot in common with Linux desktops, far more then IOS has in common with OSX desktops but unlike OSX, Linux does not make serious security concessions for "Just Working".
But what will ultimately decide what platform will be targeted will be two factors. First the ease of finding an exploitable vulnerability, in this regard I'd say IOS is as vulnerable as Android, if not more so (meaning neither is particularly vulnerable) but the ratio of Jailbroken(rooted) to Vanila devices is far higher on IOS then Andriod because Jailbreaking is touted as a solution to lack of basic functionality.
So the deciding factor in all of this would be the number of devices, right now there are more IOS devices in the wild then Android devices. Further more the userbase of IOS tend to to understand computer security issues (hence Apple's "Just works" marketing) so it makes more sense to target IOS for now. Eventually Android will overtake IOS but as so many Iphone Fanboys like to point out, there are dozens of Android models and four major versions of Android running (1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2) so IOS will remain a bigger target for some time.
People have been saying this about the Mac for a decade now, too. I'm glad I didn't hold my breath waiting for this supposed apocalyptic day of comeuppance...
I wish you held your breath waiting for the supposed day where there were enough Mac's to make that apocalyptic day viable.
This was a great merg. This merg lead to the first decent Ati drivers being created on the Linux side. If this wouldn't of happened then how much longer would ATI of survived. They basicly said FU to Linux and ignored it. Great Merg.
I normally never agree with a Murdoch but...
The Merger was a good thing(TM). It stabilised both companies and allowed AMD to give the chip giant Intel a good run for their money. We now have good levels of competition between AMD and Intel which was in doubt for a while. I know a Duopoly is not good but it's a hell of a lot better then a Monopoly, in case anyone doesn't remember what CPU prices were like before the Athlon started chipping away at Intels 90's monopoly.
It's you that seem to be stuck in a naive singular argument about the third world.
Here you go again,
The point of my and the GGP's example is that you're turning the argument around claiming we are the ignorant, or insensitive party.
You've just gone and done exactly what we've said you've done, again.
You then go on to confuse this discussion, which is about combatting unnecessary disease, with an entirely different one about providing food.
FFS, it's the same issue. We already have cures and immunisations for the most debilitating diseases in Africa, Typhoid, Malaria, Polio and so forth. The problem remains the same, we cant get it there. Children in Ghana can get immunised, children in Congo cant, why is that?
Please learn about Africa before commenting again, the majority of nations can feed themselves and have decent medical care for their economies in fact more aid for famine stricken Africa comes out of Africa rather then the west. We donate more then enough aid to feed and educate the starving African nations twice over. Do you honestly think there isn't another reason why nations like Somalia and Sierra Leone haven't been helped in the last 30 odd years. Sierra Leone especially, they have enough mineral wealth to be the Monaco of Africa not to mention Africa's largest natural harbour, well if it wasn't for the fighting.
That has already happened. We are just waiting for the other shoe to drop now. Lets compare some history shall we.
Apple Computers: Released an overpriced PC that was eaten alive by cheaper more functional competitors.
Apple Inc: Releases an overpriced tablet that will be eaten alive by cheaper and more functional competitors.
Apple Computers: Sues Microsoft over allegedly infringing the "look and feel" of their OS claiming ownership to basic elements. Apple Computers lose.
Apple Inc: Sues HTC over allegedly infringing software patents which are spurious and overreaching at best. Apple Inc will lose here.
Apple Computers: Nearing bankruptcy due to poor products and losing expensive law suits accepts a cash injection from Microsoft in order to get the DOJ of Microsoft's back claiming Apple as a competitor.
Apple Inc: Nearing bankruptcy due to poor products and losing expensive law suits finds themselves acquired by a larger, more successful entity (my money's on Microsoft).
History has a habit of repeating itself. Apple began to fail when they determined that money was better spent suing HTC over spurious software patents (most, if not all have prior art and SW patents are only recognised in the US, HTC is a Taiwanese company with global reach). We've seen this happen countless times before, including to the now defunct Apple Computers of the 70's and 80's. When a business model turns from innovation to litigation then failure is inevitable. Yes Apple will lose a lot of money as they depend on their stock price too much, that 50B in the bank wont even pay for 1 quarter if their stock drops. I'm tipping it to be a.bomb 2.0 or iCrash if you will.
One would think he could easily cross to the dark side, and release his app in the Rock store, or the Cydia store.
Or he could re-write the thing for Android and make _some_ money. Some being greater then none, which is what he's making now.
Eventually this is the kind of behaviour that will drive people away from the Apple ecosystem. Apple gets to decide who does and does not make money, just wait until they start buddying up with big dev houses to push out crappy titles and sequels at $10 a piece.
Infineon's Trusted Platform Module would be of far more interest to Intel as Infineon supplies TPM's to a lot of OEM's who shift more units per quarter then Apple has in the last 3 years. Not to mention the interest Intel's had in pushing Trusted Computing. I'd say expect TPM on die in future. Possibly an Atom based SOC but even Intel has already figured out how unlikely that is to take off compared to ARM SOC's.
What makes them important (to Intel) is that they are one of the worlds largest suppliers of Trusted Platform Modules (TPM). Which is also why I distrust any radio made by them, who better then a Trusted (treacherous) computing company to build a back door in for the manufacturer.
Naive Do-gooder: I gave $1000 which is helping starving people.
Reasonable Sceptic: How will that fix the problem? We still have the reasons those people are starving (wars, oppressive regimes)
Naive Do-gooder: What, how could you not care about the starving people. You hate filled person you.
The thing is that Africa is the most fertile land on earth and the African nations with stable governments are proof of this. Ghana, South Africa, Egypt and so forth, even Zimbabwe before Mugabe took over. These governments aren't/weren't perfect but they were stable enough to let people farm, form economies, move goods, produce. The "Starving Africans" are entirely under nations controlled by warlords who care more about carrying on their petty struggle then feeding anyone. So we have the same cycle, UN delivers food to the people, warlords go and take all the food, the average person in Somalia or Sierra Leone has two career options, short lived life as a soldier, even shorter lived life as a corpse.
While such nations exist under these types of government (or lack there of) you will continue to have these problems. It's not that people dont have the land to farm, it's that the local warlord will steal or burn your crops before they are even ready to harvest. Realistically, the entire world could be fed from African produce if it were organised enough (some mythical utopian society where everyone got along).
I sure don't. My house is Sony free. Of course, I have had to side with the lesser of a handful of evils, but that is still better than submitting to Sony.
But against Apple, Sony is the lesser of two evils.
With Dell, Lenovo, Asus and Toshiba I'm paying for a decent laptop based on specs.
With Sony I'm paying for an over-egineered laptop with some added for brand recognition.
With Apple, I'm paying for something with a failure rate equivalent to a dell but more expensive then a Sony Vaio.
At least the Vaio can stand up there with specifications vs form factor (they are lighter and smaller then a Dell Vostro of the same size) but with Apple, you're paying a lot more just for brand.
And that would be a silly thing to do. But in this case, the City government built a hydrogen filling station. It would not be silly for the fire department to be involved with that project and procure the necessary equipment to deal with a fire there.
the points over here mate, you seemed to have missed it.
It's not about the equipment, it's about the training. Given that Firey's over here are/can be rotated and that a specialist unit (such as chemical) tends to be shared amongst several jurisdictions. All the equipment in the world is useless if you dont know what to do with it.
The funny thing... I left PC gaming because I hated being on the upgrade treadmill. These days, I find myself playing PC games more often because I get more from money. Who would have thought that consumers reward companies that produce a good value?
Besides that, the more games you buy the cheaper it gets. New release PC games are A$20 cheaper then their console counterparts due to license fees paid per unit. A top of the line gaming PC costs A$1,500 where as an Xbox costs A$450 and PS3 costs A$600. If you buy 50 games in the same life span of a console you get your money back (1.4 games per month over a 36 month period and a top of the line gaming PC will last 3 years easy). Not to mention things like Steam and Impulse which sell some games for as little as A$30 a few months after release. Expansion packs and Expand-alones that cost A$40-50. Plus there is the constant nickle and diming for DLC which never took off on the PC. No Xbox-Live subscriptions either.
It ends up cheaper for me to be a PC gamer, because I game a lot.
I do upgrade my PC every 2 years (and the old one goes to family, housemate ect...) but most of my games do not require the ridiculously powerful rig I have (but I have the cash to waste). Some of my friends who have kids have become what I call "last years" gamer. They stay behind new releases by a year, thus they buy cheaper hardware and can run games as fast as they did on my high end rig, just one year later. They also pay about 1/3 of the full price for games.
Oracle's beef seems to be that Android doesn't come with Java but happens to infringe on some Java patents. Why the fuck they don't rectify the problem themselves by releasing a version of Java for Android is anyone's guess. Maybe they're just assholes.
Because no one would use JavaME for Android when Dalvik is faster and better supported. Secondly, Oracle dont want to do that as they would give up their chance to demand a piece of a very lucrative Android pie that Google is making. Oracle does not want to kill Android or Dalvik, they want to monetise Java and you cant do that when no one is using it so they are trying to put just enough fear into everyone else that they'll pay up without a fight.
Good idea from an evil corporation POV, but Ellison is a moron for going after Google first. Better targets without the will to fight that would help "legitimise" (sarcastic air quotes) future claims.
Babylon 5. Far more accurate with science than Trek or Wars. Also, they had JPL engineers on staff to give thumbs up/down to spacecraft design and maneuverability.
Also Londo alone was a better character then all of Star Trek and Star Wars combined.
After Londo the characters became very two dimensional, some good, some bad.
Also had a 5 year story arc planned out, not make things up as you go along.
It's a shame that Warner made them squeeze all of Season 4 and 5 into season 5. Also a shame season 5 never happened.
It is theoretically possible to have sound in space, sound needs a medium to travel through but as long as there is oxygen in a ship that explodes there can be sound.
Of all the scientific impossibilities in SW and ST this is not the best example.
Further more, Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, 2001 and so forth are entertainment. That requires a wee suspension of disbelief. The same is true of soaps, I cant believe an entire neighbourhood can be comprised entirely of attractive people and that so many dramas can exist between them.
So, you'd think if they went to the trouble of building this that the local fire department would have been involved and procured the necessary equipment, say a pair of night vision goggles so that a man on the truck could see the flames.
You could give the fire dept of Rochester the entire NY state budget for equipment and you wouldn't get half of what they'd need for every conceivable emergency.
Besides, that is not what would have likely held up the fire fighters. In Australia many fire fighting units have specialisations (bushfire, chemical, petroleum and so forth) so they can deal with different types of fires. It's impractical and phenomenally difficult on the people to have every fire fighter trained up to have every specialisation so we have specialised units to deal with specialised emergencies. The fire fighters were probably hanging back until a unit who had the right training and knew what they were doing got there and issued orders to the other guys. Rightly so too, to do otherwise would have put those firey's at risk (unnecessary risk).
Searching for Dickens could also provide some... undesirable side effects. Especially considering Google's habit of putting pictures in normal search results.
Google doesn't auto-complete anything pornographic. They wont stop you from searching or alter the results but you wont be seeing a phallus, when searching for Dick Smith's Electronics.
How does this benefit me (CLUE, it doesn't). What I want is for bit torrent to be legal.
Trading files with BitTorrent is illegal, and if you were caught, you could be prosecuted under the NET act
Doesn't exist over here, or any nation with a sane legal system
Or (more likely) be sued by the MPAA for the statutory amount of civil damages.
Under Australian law I can coutersue for defamation and make a packet, there's a good reason ARIA or the MPIAA have never tried this, they'd get ripped to shreds by any half decent lawyer (who'll work for a cut of that packet I'm going to make on a no-win no-fee basis). They've tried going after ISP's themselves but are now being chased for iinet's court costs (because the studio's lost). You cant just drop a case here without prejudice.
Presumably if you watch the video on a for-pay site, part of your payment goes to properly licensing the content.
Again, how does this benefit me (CLUE: it doesn't).
The point is, this kind of business model has failed as I have access to easier and higher quality alternatives. Attempting to lock out those alternatives have failed so the business model must change.
I seem to have missed the part where your ad provided service was better then ad free bit torrent.
Ultimately, free is what you're competing with. Bit torrent is free and dodgy but your proposed service is expensive, dodgy and annoying. As a consumer, what does your service offer me that is not just better but worth the extra annoyance of ad's?
A.45 ACP can penetrate something like 5 or 6 insulated drywall walls and be deadly or up to two people.
It's all about energy dissipation.
Drywalls are brittle and weak, insulation is soft and you can push through it with your finger. People are also soft and squishy. None of these are good at dissipating kinetic energy.
Servers or more specifically server cases on the other hand are made out of metal, metal is quite strong, hard yet malleable. The mailable part means that a lot of energy is expended in stretching the metal before it is penetrated which means the bullet loses a lot of energy (speed) by distributing that across the casing (which is being stretched).
To get multiple servers, you need to go through the heavy, metal top and bottom of the case, PCB's will break like glass because they are extremely brittle but metal (steel and aluminium) are very malleable. Kevlar is so effective because it can distribute kinetic energy, not because it's hard enough to stop a bullet.
But hey, if you want to test this, just bring a couple of Xserves down to the range, I'll pay the A$20 to hire a.45.
I could see him taking out 100k in servers if he hit the rack at the right angle. Even lower end Servers can easily cost 5k per U. And I bet a bullet could go through most or all of a 40U rack.
Top down, I doubt a.45 could go thorough more then 2 servers, those things aren't made out of paper you know. If he hits a heat sink then it might not even go through one..45's are not normally armour piercing.
This is probably a dodgy insurance claim. 6-8K worth of server, maybe 20K MAX worth of downtime but that equates to a 100K insurance claim. I guess they hired Hollywood accountants.
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To me as well.
But not for this reason. Android has a lot in common with Linux desktops, far more then IOS has in common with OSX desktops but unlike OSX, Linux does not make serious security concessions for "Just Working".
But what will ultimately decide what platform will be targeted will be two factors. First the ease of finding an exploitable vulnerability, in this regard I'd say IOS is as vulnerable as Android, if not more so (meaning neither is particularly vulnerable) but the ratio of Jailbroken(rooted) to Vanila devices is far higher on IOS then Andriod because Jailbreaking is touted as a solution to lack of basic functionality.
So the deciding factor in all of this would be the number of devices, right now there are more IOS devices in the wild then Android devices. Further more the userbase of IOS tend to to understand computer security issues (hence Apple's "Just works" marketing) so it makes more sense to target IOS for now. Eventually Android will overtake IOS but as so many Iphone Fanboys like to point out, there are dozens of Android models and four major versions of Android running (1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2) so IOS will remain a bigger target for some time.
I wish you held your breath waiting for the supposed day where there were enough Mac's to make that apocalyptic day viable.
I normally never agree with a Murdoch but...
The Merger was a good thing(TM). It stabilised both companies and allowed AMD to give the chip giant Intel a good run for their money. We now have good levels of competition between AMD and Intel which was in doubt for a while. I know a Duopoly is not good but it's a hell of a lot better then a Monopoly, in case anyone doesn't remember what CPU prices were like before the Athlon started chipping away at Intels 90's monopoly.
Here you go again,
The point of my and the GGP's example is that you're turning the argument around claiming we are the ignorant, or insensitive party.
You've just gone and done exactly what we've said you've done, again.
FFS, it's the same issue. We already have cures and immunisations for the most debilitating diseases in Africa, Typhoid, Malaria, Polio and so forth. The problem remains the same, we cant get it there. Children in Ghana can get immunised, children in Congo cant, why is that?
Please learn about Africa before commenting again, the majority of nations can feed themselves and have decent medical care for their economies in fact more aid for famine stricken Africa comes out of Africa rather then the west. We donate more then enough aid to feed and educate the starving African nations twice over. Do you honestly think there isn't another reason why nations like Somalia and Sierra Leone haven't been helped in the last 30 odd years. Sierra Leone especially, they have enough mineral wealth to be the Monaco of Africa not to mention Africa's largest natural harbour, well if it wasn't for the fighting.
That has already happened. We are just waiting for the other shoe to drop now. Lets compare some history shall we.
.bomb 2.0 or iCrash if you will.
Apple Computers: Released an overpriced PC that was eaten alive by cheaper more functional competitors.
Apple Inc: Releases an overpriced tablet that will be eaten alive by cheaper and more functional competitors.
Apple Computers: Sues Microsoft over allegedly infringing the "look and feel" of their OS claiming ownership to basic elements. Apple Computers lose.
Apple Inc: Sues HTC over allegedly infringing software patents which are spurious and overreaching at best. Apple Inc will lose here.
Apple Computers: Nearing bankruptcy due to poor products and losing expensive law suits accepts a cash injection from Microsoft in order to get the DOJ of Microsoft's back claiming Apple as a competitor.
Apple Inc: Nearing bankruptcy due to poor products and losing expensive law suits finds themselves acquired by a larger, more successful entity (my money's on Microsoft).
History has a habit of repeating itself. Apple began to fail when they determined that money was better spent suing HTC over spurious software patents (most, if not all have prior art and SW patents are only recognised in the US, HTC is a Taiwanese company with global reach). We've seen this happen countless times before, including to the now defunct Apple Computers of the 70's and 80's. When a business model turns from innovation to litigation then failure is inevitable. Yes Apple will lose a lot of money as they depend on their stock price too much, that 50B in the bank wont even pay for 1 quarter if their stock drops. I'm tipping it to be a
Or he could re-write the thing for Android and make _some_ money. Some being greater then none, which is what he's making now.
Eventually this is the kind of behaviour that will drive people away from the Apple ecosystem. Apple gets to decide who does and does not make money, just wait until they start buddying up with big dev houses to push out crappy titles and sequels at $10 a piece.
Why is everyone so obsessed with Apple?
Infineon's Trusted Platform Module would be of far more interest to Intel as Infineon supplies TPM's to a lot of OEM's who shift more units per quarter then Apple has in the last 3 years. Not to mention the interest Intel's had in pushing Trusted Computing. I'd say expect TPM on die in future. Possibly an Atom based SOC but even Intel has already figured out how unlikely that is to take off compared to ARM SOC's.
What makes them important (to Intel) is that they are one of the worlds largest suppliers of Trusted Platform Modules (TPM). Which is also why I distrust any radio made by them, who better then a Trusted (treacherous) computing company to build a back door in for the manufacturer.
You're doing exactly what the GP is saying.
Naive Do-gooder: I gave $1000 which is helping starving people.
Reasonable Sceptic: How will that fix the problem? We still have the reasons those people are starving (wars, oppressive regimes)
Naive Do-gooder: What, how could you not care about the starving people. You hate filled person you.
The thing is that Africa is the most fertile land on earth and the African nations with stable governments are proof of this. Ghana, South Africa, Egypt and so forth, even Zimbabwe before Mugabe took over. These governments aren't/weren't perfect but they were stable enough to let people farm, form economies, move goods, produce. The "Starving Africans" are entirely under nations controlled by warlords who care more about carrying on their petty struggle then feeding anyone. So we have the same cycle, UN delivers food to the people, warlords go and take all the food, the average person in Somalia or Sierra Leone has two career options, short lived life as a soldier, even shorter lived life as a corpse.
While such nations exist under these types of government (or lack there of) you will continue to have these problems. It's not that people dont have the land to farm, it's that the local warlord will steal or burn your crops before they are even ready to harvest. Realistically, the entire world could be fed from African produce if it were organised enough (some mythical utopian society where everyone got along).
But against Apple, Sony is the lesser of two evils.
With Dell, Lenovo, Asus and Toshiba I'm paying for a decent laptop based on specs.
With Sony I'm paying for an over-egineered laptop with some added for brand recognition.
With Apple, I'm paying for something with a failure rate equivalent to a dell but more expensive then a Sony Vaio.
At least the Vaio can stand up there with specifications vs form factor (they are lighter and smaller then a Dell Vostro of the same size) but with Apple, you're paying a lot more just for brand.
the points over here mate, you seemed to have missed it.
It's not about the equipment, it's about the training. Given that Firey's over here are/can be rotated and that a specialist unit (such as chemical) tends to be shared amongst several jurisdictions. All the equipment in the world is useless if you dont know what to do with it.
Besides that, the more games you buy the cheaper it gets. New release PC games are A$20 cheaper then their console counterparts due to license fees paid per unit. A top of the line gaming PC costs A$1,500 where as an Xbox costs A$450 and PS3 costs A$600. If you buy 50 games in the same life span of a console you get your money back (1.4 games per month over a 36 month period and a top of the line gaming PC will last 3 years easy). Not to mention things like Steam and Impulse which sell some games for as little as A$30 a few months after release. Expansion packs and Expand-alones that cost A$40-50. Plus there is the constant nickle and diming for DLC which never took off on the PC. No Xbox-Live subscriptions either.
It ends up cheaper for me to be a PC gamer, because I game a lot.
I do upgrade my PC every 2 years (and the old one goes to family, housemate ect...) but most of my games do not require the ridiculously powerful rig I have (but I have the cash to waste). Some of my friends who have kids have become what I call "last years" gamer. They stay behind new releases by a year, thus they buy cheaper hardware and can run games as fast as they did on my high end rig, just one year later. They also pay about 1/3 of the full price for games.
Because no one would use JavaME for Android when Dalvik is faster and better supported. Secondly, Oracle dont want to do that as they would give up their chance to demand a piece of a very lucrative Android pie that Google is making. Oracle does not want to kill Android or Dalvik, they want to monetise Java and you cant do that when no one is using it so they are trying to put just enough fear into everyone else that they'll pay up without a fight.
Good idea from an evil corporation POV, but Ellison is a moron for going after Google first. Better targets without the will to fight that would help "legitimise" (sarcastic air quotes) future claims.
Also Londo alone was a better character then all of Star Trek and Star Wars combined.
After Londo the characters became very two dimensional, some good, some bad.
It's a shame that Warner made them squeeze all of Season 4 and 5 into season 5. Also a shame season 5 never happened.
It is theoretically possible to have sound in space, sound needs a medium to travel through but as long as there is oxygen in a ship that explodes there can be sound.
Of all the scientific impossibilities in SW and ST this is not the best example.
Further more, Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, 2001 and so forth are entertainment. That requires a wee suspension of disbelief. The same is true of soaps, I cant believe an entire neighbourhood can be comprised entirely of attractive people and that so many dramas can exist between them.
You could give the fire dept of Rochester the entire NY state budget for equipment and you wouldn't get half of what they'd need for every conceivable emergency.
Besides, that is not what would have likely held up the fire fighters. In Australia many fire fighting units have specialisations (bushfire, chemical, petroleum and so forth) so they can deal with different types of fires. It's impractical and phenomenally difficult on the people to have every fire fighter trained up to have every specialisation so we have specialised units to deal with specialised emergencies. The fire fighters were probably hanging back until a unit who had the right training and knew what they were doing got there and issued orders to the other guys. Rightly so too, to do otherwise would have put those firey's at risk (unnecessary risk).
Depends how close to the explosion she was.
Well no shit, you say this is on a running trail no less.
Sounds like VTA is just trying to help everyone get fit.
Google doesn't auto-complete anything pornographic. They wont stop you from searching or alter the results but you wont be seeing a phallus, when searching for Dick Smith's Electronics.
The do nothing option is that red X in the top right hand corner of the dialogue box. A bit obscure but what do you expect from MS.
How does this benefit me (CLUE, it doesn't). What I want is for bit torrent to be legal.
Doesn't exist over here, or any nation with a sane legal system
Under Australian law I can coutersue for defamation and make a packet, there's a good reason ARIA or the MPIAA have never tried this, they'd get ripped to shreds by any half decent lawyer (who'll work for a cut of that packet I'm going to make on a no-win no-fee basis). They've tried going after ISP's themselves but are now being chased for iinet's court costs (because the studio's lost). You cant just drop a case here without prejudice.
Again, how does this benefit me (CLUE: it doesn't).
The point is, this kind of business model has failed as I have access to easier and higher quality alternatives. Attempting to lock out those alternatives have failed so the business model must change.
I seem to have missed the part where your ad provided service was better then ad free bit torrent.
Ultimately, free is what you're competing with. Bit torrent is free and dodgy but your proposed service is expensive, dodgy and annoying. As a consumer, what does your service offer me that is not just better but worth the extra annoyance of ad's?
That may be quite useful in Europe where rioters have a serious aversion to bathing.
It's all about energy dissipation. Drywalls are brittle and weak, insulation is soft and you can push through it with your finger. People are also soft and squishy. None of these are good at dissipating kinetic energy.
.45.
Servers or more specifically server cases on the other hand are made out of metal, metal is quite strong, hard yet malleable. The mailable part means that a lot of energy is expended in stretching the metal before it is penetrated which means the bullet loses a lot of energy (speed) by distributing that across the casing (which is being stretched).
To get multiple servers, you need to go through the heavy, metal top and bottom of the case, PCB's will break like glass because they are extremely brittle but metal (steel and aluminium) are very malleable. Kevlar is so effective because it can distribute kinetic energy, not because it's hard enough to stop a bullet.
But hey, if you want to test this, just bring a couple of Xserves down to the range, I'll pay the A$20 to hire a
Top down, I doubt a .45 could go thorough more then 2 servers, those things aren't made out of paper you know. If he hits a heat sink then it might not even go through one. .45's are not normally armour piercing.
This is probably a dodgy insurance claim. 6-8K worth of server, maybe 20K MAX worth of downtime but that equates to a 100K insurance claim. I guess they hired Hollywood accountants.