Can someone post enough info .. to generate a Streisand effect? Would love to know what they have to say.

The announcement affects all Proliant equipment.

From a search on equipment that I own:
Important note: HP ProLiant Server firmware access
Starting February 2014, an active warranty or contract is required to access HP ProLiant Server firmware updates. View your existing contracts & warranties or get help linking contracts or warranties to your HP Support Center user profile. To obtain additional support coverage, please contact your local HP office, HP representative, or visit Contact HP. Click here for more information.

Last year -- I downloaded all the Compaq (now HP) SP's from their FTP site -- don't quite know what to do with them. I downloaded all of the SP's in case HP stopped supporting 'older' Compaq's (There are several of the old systems that I like for nostalgia)

Now for the big problem: HP or Dell. Dell is firing 15,000 of it's employees --- and HP's new support policy sucks (REALLY sucks).

My question is .. is this policy going to follow through with other HP equipment? I've got a HP color laser jet printer: Will I experience the same issue with that? I've got three HP scanners -- will I need to put them in the garbage? (No one will want them if they can't get even basic driver support).

I do know this much: If I need to "throw away" otherwise perfectly good equipment as HP will not provide basic user accessible support for it -- I will not replace the equipment from the same manufacturer with the same BAD policy. I have three 'old' Proliant (580, 585 & 360) servers in use now. If (when) they fail -- the equipment will not be replaced with modern equipment from HP (assuming this policy remains in place).

Mr. Gates did three week... well, one week and two bad moves.
6.0-0 - This move was done WAY to early. For one to castle is (usually) a passive move, which allows your opponent to gain an extra move
8.hxg4 - This is a clear mistake. This opens his right side rank for the queen to enter
9.Kxe5?? - This was the final nail.

IMHO, if Bill hadn't have ... panicked, Carlsen left his King wide open. Also in this game, I noticed that Carlsen seem to oppressive to Bill. Responding to Bill's moves before Bill could even hit the clock.

What if Bill moved the following options:
8. B d3 to e4
- or -
8. Q d1 to e2

Thoughts... comments - other than Bill was destined to loose as he was playing the Chess Champion -- Mr. Gates quote: "The outcome is a foregone conclusion, responded Gates. ?

Several times, in several different ways I found the question asked ... is it ethical to block ad's. My response: You are asking the wrong question: Is it ethical to track me without my permission? Is it ethical in inject mal-ware into my system? Is it ethical to not allow me access to information you claim is about me? Is it ethical to make money on my actions -- without a reward for me?

Stop messing with MY system, and I'll stop messing with your ad's.

If you don't have antivirus, you shouldn't have a computer. Note that AVG works fine.

Ever hear of a USB hard drive? Get two, and rotate them; placing one in a safe-deposit box. Use "Windows Backup" ... and create an emergency boot disk; keep it in the safe-deposit box.

That way a hacker can have another means to get into your system!

... or use "Windows Update" (presumption you have Windows installed) ... it automatically creates a System Restore point.

My point exactly, which is why there are so many problems (Coders are NOT QA/Test... )

Bad leadership, bad management. If the (PHB) management can't properly handle a QA staff, it should be the (PHB) management that should be fired. Who ever took the PHB recommendation; should also be fired.

Any QA worth their salt (may chance those QA should have been replaced) should be able to justify the expense of their working. I've saved all of I've companies that I've worked for money, from errors in PM, to finding bugs ("How'd he find that one") to finding errors in process. The biggest problem that I've had is management won't listen.

"Sometimes a mistake happen"... I believe it is more frequent than you (or the company) let on, as Myer, Brick and Delta now know. I don't believe that it is "risk vs reward"; it's "risk vs Greed".

Having worked for big companies ... frequently the biggest "risk" comes from short sided and an expected reward. Worked for a company that wanted to use "real" customer data for testing. I balked, and was over-ruled. Was told "there can't be a mix of test environment and real environment". Two days into the test run, we were getting customer complaints: There billing was off... shucks, they were seeing test data. About three months after my contract ended, the state AG office was investigating the company... use of real customer data for testing.

I've also heard the "10x increase of QA" chant. That is nothing but alarmist (unless they don't have QA).

My response to both of these is: Ever hear of “QA”? Hire some. For Brick, the loss of credibility is substantial. For Delta and Brick, the loss of dollars is quite high. As a QA professional, there have been many times that I’ve more than paid for my keep by finding critical bugs in developer code. However is this era of “ship it today, we’ll fix it tomorrow” (and they never do fix it); problems such as these abound. Don’t blame the customer for you being short sighted. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the oven. For these (and more) you should fire your QA managers (or may chance hire one in the first place?). Your software development process is broken, and you need to take this as a warning. How many times have people blamed the computer (“Computer error”); when the fault is with the business process (or lack)? How many business are connected to the internet that shouldn't be - or shouldn't have been (read: Target)?

You posted it before I did. Though the article cited above was okay, good for a commentary. The website "Starring the computer" has a much better lay-out, and more comprehensive information, including better images (screen caps) for many of the computers displayed.

Issues:
1. There is no proof that he hacked.
2. Again, hacking - copying.

I added the "(minor detail)" as it was just that, a minor detail. I listed it to show that our so-called "news" can't report the basic technical information correctly, much less the details of what happened.

Also note: I'm not holding up Snowden as a hero. I have strong reservations on what he's done -- there are better ways to be a whistle blower, You cannot un-ring a bell, and we've known for some time now that the NSA has been doing things illegally. My key point -- John Miller and 60 minutes lost an opportunity.

I could only watch the first part of the lies by the NSA, and the failure of 60 minutes -- John Miller to follow up.

For starters -- Snowden didn't steal anything: he copied it (minor detail).

What Snowden did was compared to killing 10 people. Snowden didn't kill anyone.

We were told that NSA can't access information unless they had a warrant: Again, false on many occasions, some documented here on /. (Do I *really* need to provide the references?) The NSA continually provides information to law enforcement agencies w/o warrant.

Anyone else notice: They have ACTUAL phone numbers, the REAL ones. Google your own phone number some time to see about so-called meta-data.

No mention of what the NSA had been doing - in violation of court orders (only a brief and casual mention of so-called accidental overstepping). I call BS on this one.

I had hoped that 60 minutes would do an insightful - investigation into NSA. What I heard from so-called reporter John Miller was a PR fluff piece that one would expect as a former national spokesman for the FBI.

Don't remove POTS. Some key reasons:
In case of incident (Natural / man made). Here in Seattle (area), several years ago we had a large wind storm that took out most of the power in the entire region. Many areas didn't have power for over a week. Cell phone - towers died after about three days. That's right: The TOWERS failed. Also, you couldn't get gasoline; no power at the pumps (Read local generators - at homes - started giving out).

In some areas of Seattle, people have their choice of which ISP they like (DSL, Cable, fiber optic, wireless) which is all fine and good for a VOIP carrier. Ask any of the phone companies what will happen when the power goes out? You can't call... 911, the power company, anyone for any emergency service, much less a call such as "I'm alive and okay", or "need food, shelter" (in case of some emergency).

I have family in north eastern WA. Where they are at, there is not viable alternative to dial-up. No VOIP, and spotty cell phone availability.

Cell phones... great sound unless you are in a dead area (there are a lot more of these than the phone company's are willing to admit); or as noted the power is out for an extended time.

Just because it (POTS) isn't as profitable as cell - or as well regulated, doesn't men it should be dismantled.

AC .. you beat me to it. How can we backup the skin / skin database before the web site shuts down?