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I once introduced a bug that squared each customer's order quantity.

Order 8 of the thing, we shipped 64. Oops.

Nutshell: The items were sold in bundles. To arrive at the quantity to ship, you multiply the quantity of bundles ordered by the quantity of each item in the bundle (just 1 or 2 in most cases). I got my variables confused and multiplied the order quantity by itself.

Not my best day.

The ban is on gas-powered leaf blowers. I’ve switched to all electric yard tools at home. No regrets; the tools are durable, can easily handle the whole job on a single charge, quiet enough that I feel comfortable letting my children assist (they can hear my instructions and generally what’s going on around them), and no gas engines to maintain.

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I agree, but I don't know that it's even necessary for Keurig to go to court to realize the value of the DRM scheme.

Their weak DRM certainly serves as a deterrent to the average consumer, but even more so to the mainstream coffee distributors that have been selling "knock off" cups up to this point.

Community Coffee, which is a major roaster/distributor in the deep south, just caved and penned a licensing agreement with Keurig:

http://theadvocate.com/news/acadiana/10981551-123/community-...

Prior to the (negative) publicity surrounding the 2.0 launch, I didn't pay enough attention to notice that the Community Coffee K-cups I've bought (exclusively and in bulk at Sam's Club) for the three or four years that I've owned the machine weren't bonafide Keurig cups, but I think a typical consumer (and retailers, too) would likely be put off if the pods came with instructions for cutting the lid off an authentic Keurig cup and taping them onto the machine.

I'm betting every region has their version of Community Coffee and that Keurig will succeed in converting many of them into licensees. There might be negative publicity that is seen by those of us who care about such things, but on average, Keurig will come out ahead -- maybe without filing a lawsuit.

Car and Driver magazine had a great article a few months ago in which they tested breaking several different cars (including one of the recalled Toyotas) from 70 mph down to zero -- both with the throttle behaving normally and with it forced to full on. In most cases, the brakes are plenty capable of stopping the vehicle at full throttle (the exception was a 540-hp Roush Stage 3 Mustang travelling at 100 mph with the throttle locked -- in that case, the breaking distance was tripled to a total of ~900 feet).

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/09q4/how_to_deal_with_u...

One of the interesting points in the article was that the Toyota Camry -- with throttle forced wide open -- stops in a shorter distance than a Ford Taurus without any issues.

On the other hand, the article also points out that at 100 mph, it wouldn't have been immediately obvious that the breaks were working, even though they were (though at 70, you would have felt an immediate effect).