The biggest Blue Screen of Death ever

Not the first time BSOD

Not the first time BSOD appear in China in such a high profile manner.

Previously, Symantec AV cause the BSOD.
http://www.cio.in/news/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=7156

I thought the Chinese should have learn their lessions and switch to Linux.

and here I thought the Chinese had a Clue !?

geeze, simply un-freakin'-believable. I thought using w32 for ad lcd's/etc(atms!!?) was a Western phenomenon that no adequately tech-savvy nation would consider as anything other than Fodder for commerce and botnets...

[And here I am with the seemingly unpopular idea that the baseline inherited risk of a system should vary inversely with the cost of failure for such a system, i.e. the gross intangible cost!]

What's so hard with doing the job with fpga's? When done right, they're as trustable as the BSD tcp/ip stack.

With China having what is arguably the world's largest military cyber operations capabilities and real-world training exercises, I thought suggesting w32 for anything other than a honeypot would make any Chinese decision maker a fool worthy of public ridicule..

So my natural response was, "heh... that's a pretty funny joke there.. I wonder if anybody else got that?".. but it seems I may have over-estimated the Chinese commercial sector, who turn out to be just as blind and prone to fault in decision making as western corporations.

That is, in the traditional heirarchy of the uninformed and uninformABLE, a businessman's lack of personal experience in technological phenomenon, combined with an infantile dependance on arbitrarily quantified risk levels (no real, deeper knowledge of statistics), leads to an observational bias through ignorance, i.e. choosing what to gather data on based on policy rather than research (ouch), then having someone else run stats. analysis on it (argh), having another shove distorting econometrics data down Calculon's throat (brain...pressure..too..much..), all topped off with a nice scat-munching strategic cooperation policy, and as much dimensional data reduction as is necessary to fit given 18-point font and 3 bullets per page in a presentation (the mainstay of executive nutrition, next to sycophanism).

Baaaad business = Craptacular product

They end up with a perceived lower development cost and strategic partnership gain, by incorporating industry-heavyweights' proprietary solutions to common graphics display duties.

Bah! If you're going to do something, do it right and assume multi-point failures.

The Japanese know what's what when it comes to proper Statistics, because they learn it all at school, ad nauseum, until their minds explode in an epiphany of deeper statistical meaning... that's what makes them the Kings of Signal Analysis.

They Manage Business well, but their business heirarchy impedes communication from bottom-up, but that's a rant for another time.

Windows

As a XP user, but Windows hater, let me say if a BSOD cropped up I wouldn't blame XP but rather whatever garbage they were trying to run on it.

I have run XP since 2002 with never a BSOD. I have numerous programs that I use, everything from Photoshop to business software. Never, ever a BSOD. But a computer freeze-up is an entirely different story. I wish MS would stop with the new features until they get an OS that works first time every time.

This is why people who don't

This is why people who don't know windows need to stop using it for major events like this. I build computers for friends/family, and i've never gotten a BSOD on any of those computers. I have gotten them on my laptop, but only while trying to hack together a .cfg so that higher requirement games such as portal will run.

Odd are, Windows didn't foul up, the operator did.

there have been bigger (sizewise)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lhl/1418448/sizes/o/
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/toronto/biggest-bsod-of-all-time-320824.php