Except in the Equifax case the patch was to struts, so the issue is likely with the development team not the sys admins.

I'm on the process of documenting all opensource components being utilised in a software project I've inherited. One of the first things I did was to inventory all the components, and create an archive of all the packages required to build. However this is rarely done in many companies which was one of the points of the article.

The jibe about companies contributing is a bit of though. What is worrying about companies contributing, if the code is good that's a great thing.

I have more time than this wasted in meetings . Currently it's a BA with a bee in their bonnet about edge case scenarios who wants endless meetings to discuss them...

It's different in that if a vulnerability is discovered in the underlaying library an new release of PHP is required to fix it. Note you will need to convince the hosting provider/infrastructure team to test and deploy the latest release. This is the reason the cryptography library for Python (and requests) don't want to be made part of the core so they can be agile and respond quickly to security problems.

I'd largely put these products in the snake oil category, I few years ago after a day in front of my computer at work I'd be completely exhausted turns out I needed glasses (to correct the changing shape of the cornea) but I got that advice from an optometrist. An interesting side note was that they advised that if you take regular breaks (easy to get a cuppa or take a walk) monitors don't have any real negative effects themselves. However, what can have a detrimental effect is a lack of sunlight. So get out of your cave and get some fresh air and sunlight your eyes will thank you.

A rip from the MASTERS (I assume you mean final mix) is only sometimes a good thing, after hearing my own bands recordings before and after mastering I want a mastered version please. Mastering is an important step in the recording process, of course we master for quality ensuring there is no clipping or un-necessary compression, however some compression can be necessary to get a good result.

FLAC rips from vinyl do not come close. When a track has been mixed it is mastered for the different media that it will be delivered for. A vinyl master has a shelving filter to remove low frequencies (leaving them in will cause the needle to skip or bounce on the LP), vinyl also has a much smaller dynamic range than a CD and a high noise floor. Next the sound of vinyl is actually very tinny and lacks bass (put your ear near the needle to hear this), this is made up by boosting base frequencies either in the player (or via an LP input that some older stereo's included), so the sound has already been heavily messed with before it's even gotten to your A to D converters.

The expensive part is the microphone capable of picking up those frequencies and amps/converters designed for those frequencies. Equipment to record outside our hearing range isn't really in great demand and hence the high cost.

Storage of the data however has never been a problem.

Somebody had a great time writing this response :)

They are a UK based company with a logo that the designer obviously didn't think carefully about... http://www.itouch.co.uk/

A company I used to work for was acquired by them.