anybody remember the good old days of Microsoft funded sock puppets that turned ISO into a joke?

Now corps can do something against there client's interesting and claim it was just a test (see, they offer a prize) as a get our of jail free card. nice twofer. plus anything that didn't get called out goes into their bag of dirty tricks that will be licensed to the 3 letter agencies. brilliant.

Everything old is new again. Fixed Block Architecture storage devices won out because they are easier to deal with. These days, going to the bare metal is counter productive to almost all programmers. until there is robust support for this at all layers of the software stack (device drivers, file systems, high available / backup, dbms, transaction manager) support, if these devices are sold at all, most will just be used as classic FBA devices