That is what I am arguing. An "engineering disaster" requires a bit more than it just being a crappy car.

True, but it is easier this way than to store non-redacted copies on the side when you want to use them in court later. (They are not letting go of that data. No government agency ever will unless forced to in a way they cannot ignore...) And most of the general public will be too stupid to know or understand.

With many BIOSes, mice and keyboards do not work on USB hubs. That is two. The third one is for anything else.

It is actually a pretty good example, because it was not "an engineering disaster". That is just what the incompetent public mistakenly concluded.

If you had read TFA, you would know that the "fix" did not help one bit, likely because these cases of fire mainly happened at speeds where nothing practical can prevent the tank from rupturing. TFA does not say whether Ford knew that though, but they may well have.

Indeed. Just as the primary problem in IT security, for example, or in medicine.

Well, it says there was no reduction of fatalities from requiring gas-tanks to survive impacts up to 30mph (the pinto failed at 25mph, while others failed at 27-28mph). Assuming that the "fix" was installed (which is sensible, as there was a recall), it did indeed made no discernible difference.

The thing that the public needs to learn is to trust engineers. Sure, engineers are subject to political pressure, so have the public bring in their own engineers. But they _must_ be engineers. Anybody else will get it wrong and do (sometimes far) more harm than good.

And safety engineering is getting degraded by their need to not stick out with one failure that is far more pronounced than in other models/brands, even if they manage to reduce overall risk that way. Stupid.

Very much this. Like worrying about flying, but not about the drive to the airport, when the latter is far more dangerous.

Really, stay away from process management. You do not have what it takes to get it right. And your desire for the respective systemd-functionality now becomes abundantly clear: You want it to do things that you are not smart enough to do yourself. That is not good engineering at all.

I re-iterate: Process management is not the task of an init-system. It can only suck at it. The sysV-init designers realized that and only provided the bare minimum, leaving the actual service designers to do their own that does it right. Systemd instead tries to solve a problem it has no business solving. That is not good at all.

I cannot see how you can be more dishonest, greedy and evil as a researcher. If anything in IP deserves to be called "stealing" then this is it.

Indeed. However, the response justifies their not investing much effort.

You seem to have trouble understanding text. Re-read what I wrote. Hint: I never claimed they do not exist. And second hint (since you seem to need it): The "bullshit" may have referred to something else than the "existence".

As to your example: That is contrived. Of course what to do depends on the concrete details, not some abstract and artificial situation. In a concrete situation it turns out that it is the task of a service depending on another one to be able to handle it going down. It is decidedly not the task of a generic reliability-wrapper. That is just abysmally bad design.

Which failed. All attempts using more modern technology have also failed. I can conclude conclude that some group of educators is insane: They are trying the same thing over and over again and expect a different outcome. It may also be a factor, that the "Peter principle" was discovered in the educational field and only latter found to apply elsewhere as well.

This has been "envisioned" time and again for at least half a century. It always fails. Sure, most teachers are not really good, but as it turns out, they are a lot better than a good one on a TV screen. Distance education works only for those that can also self-learn. That experience has been made by distance educators time and again, whether snail-mail and paper, email, TV, videos or interactive virtual classrooms were used. For most peoples, an educator that is not physically there does not cut it.

This whole thing is only intended to make education a lot cheaper, not better. And it fails at that.