If you cut 2000 fibers and only 40,000 lost Internet, I'd say that was a pretty limited outage. Years ago I worked in telecom in an area. One morning a big yellow bucket uncovered (but didn't break) a fiber cable in a rural area. It wasn't ours. We called Qwest, it wasn't theirs. WTF - we didn't know any other providers in the area. Phone calls were made, questions were asked. AT&T engineers arrived with extreme interest. They were pretty cagey about it, but after making sure it was all a pretty honest oversight, they told us that it was AT&T long lines and the main interconnect between Salt Lake and Denver. [To be clear, the "honest oversight" part of it was twofold - the contractor didn't call in a very accurate address or description and AT&T failed to respond to the locate request. The local locator didn't even know AT&T was through the area.]

Dear SEC: You stupid f*cks are ignoring all of the obvious scams happening in the world and going after Kim Kardashian and shitty JPEGs. What IN THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU.

One of the happiest days of my life was when I never had to support a Blackberry Enterprise Server any more. The second happiest day of my life was when I didn't have to support an Exchange server.

Yup - totally agree. Does anyone even remember the last time Google rolled out something that saw adoption? There was a point in time when every year they at least acquired something cool or developed it in house. Google Earth? Awesome. Youtube? We all use it. They had a decade where every year something cool came out. These days there seems to be no innovation. Yes, yes, I know, Google is a marketing and advertising company masquerading as a tech company, but still.

I think this is a concept a lot of people miss, including those using crypto. He probably had something like a hardware wallet (Ledger, etc). Your Bitcoin doesn't "live" on the device - your Bitcoin is on the blockchain associated with your address. The hardware wallet holds your private key to access it. However, with most of those systems even if you lose your hardware wallet you can rebuild your private key with your seed phrase and get access again.

It's a great idea. Love the idea. It solves so many issues, similar to Starlink, but potentially at a fraction of the cost. However, this tech is going on a decade of development internal to Google and longer by others. And I get it, it's not easy, but c'mon, this thing needs to go somewhere. It really seems like over the past decade of (the projects formerly named) Google X that one of them would have panned out. Instead it's like a wasteland of poorly communicated ideas and meadering directions. WTF was the balloon doing in Peru?

and they're only about as talented as anything we've seen before. I'm always impressed when any user can chew gum and work on a spreadsheet at the same time, but clicking a few toggle buttons isn't going to magically turn them into geniuses.

It's probably never been easier for Linux to get a foothold on the desktop, yet, it's not going to happen. The added training for support, the added security footprint and additional audit trails needed will make it difficult. I suspect the way we'll see it enter the workspace is more from the mobile side coming up.

So, I just want to chime in here on the poster - Phillip Greenspun. Most of you won't remember it, but for those of building out web pages back in 1993, there wasn't exactly a lot of content. Phillip had a ton of pictures online and an online gallery before that was even a thing. Jerry Yang was still updating his content list of Internet by hand. I feel like back then the web was small enough that you really could see nearly everything of interest. Anyway, that was just a name I hadn't seen in a long time.

Most of the time when I read a machine learning or AI story it seems fairly benign and reasonable. Other times I feel a pit form in the bottom of my stomach and wonder how close to the tipping point we our to creating our robot overlords.

Oh. You educated me. Clearly I was ignorant. Sorry about that.. I'd edit my comment if I could.

Can we all just take a minute to sit back and remind ourselves this is not normal. Besides the fact it makes no sense to have bombers on standby when we have plenty of missiles that'll do the job faster and easier, this is just one more bizarre thing that seems to be bending to the will of a crackpot president. I hope if he decides to use nukes that Tillerson and Mattis are in the room to beat the living shit out of him before anyone hears the order.

I think this story is a bit overblown and sensationalized. I think it was exactly the kind of candid responses people like. In nearly everyone one of those cases he followed up with very technical details of why things were designed the way they were. And to be fair, it was held on /r/space as opposed to /r/spacex and the /r/spacex community sort of invaded the AMA and posted the real technical questions. The nice thing there being a much higher level of technical questions were asked, but it did serve to alienate a lot of the /r/space community who probably isn't used to hearing about deep throttling ratios of methalox engines, etc.

Yup. I have a few sites using iDrive in production as the primary cloud backup. I haven't done an extensive recovery operation yet, but I have done the usual recover of misc docs. Works great, simple to configure, lots of great options available.