As a software engineer, I learned what entropy was in computer science when I changed the way that a function was called which caused the system to run out of entropy in production and caused an outage. Heh.
Why not just set up QR codes that link the location to your phone that the glasses can scan instead of a beacon? You could just as many as you want and slabber them on the wall.
China has better manufacturing prowess than the USA. Their scale is astonishing and they have an incredible ecosystem of components, logistics and labor to make manufacturing hyperefficient. I'm sure the government helps them out too, but one shouldn't discount just how good they are at manufacturing.
Especially since India drives on the left, and hence uses right-hand drive vehicles. American vehicles are almost all left-hand drive, which are illegal to drive in India – you'd either have to pay for an expensive conversion, or manage to get a rare legal exemption (reserved for historical vehicles, foreign diplomats and official visitors, and other such special cases) [0]
You can import used cars into India, but you'd generally be bringing them in from a left-hand drive market such as Japan, Australia or the UK. Plus, Indian law says import used cars have to be less than three years old, because India doesn't want to become a dumping ground for other countries old vehicles (which also undermines their local car manufacturing sector) [1]
With the crowdstrike outage earlier last year it was incredible how many hidden security and kernel "experts" came out crawling from the woodwork, questioning why anything needs to run in the kernel and predicting the company's demise.
They were correct that there is no need for it to run in the kernel. They were incorrect in thinking this would affect the company's future, because of course the sales of their product have nothing to do with its technical merit.
I think you've got it half correct: sales absolutely does have to do with the technical merit. Their platform works, it's just folks overestimated the impact of a single critical defect.
Nobody would pay crowdstrikes prices if it didn't stop attacks, or improve your detection chances (and I can assure you, it does, better than most platforms)
> Nobody would pay crowdstrikes prices if it didn't stop attacks, or improve your detection chances
In my experience people pay because they need to tick the audit box, and it's (marginally) less terrible than their competitors. Actually preventing or detecting an attack is not really a priority.
And yet crowdstrike's stock price is still 28% up on where it was 12 month ago, 46% up on 6 months ago after their crash.
Sibling is right, that type of product is nothing to do with actually preventing problems, its to do with outsourcing personal risk. Same as SAAS. Nobody got fired when office 365 was down for the second day in a year, but have a 5 minute outage on your on-prem kit after 5 years and there's nasty questions to answer.
