"that the ethical use of lab-grown human brains is nothing like a no-brainer."

There goes my coffee.

And I am typing this on a Macbook Pro.

In management!

This is especially prevalent in the world of SSO, Directories and IDM. It can be done. But most companies are to cheap to pay someone to do it RIGHT.

Dear Larry-

I liked you, but you are pulling a Nader on the Democratic primary. Not cool.

You should be using your monitoring system to gather performance data, and then analyzing that data.

I am partial to check_mk right now, but I've done this kind of thing on nagios with pnp4nagios. When you have your monitoring system gathering network interface data, disk usage, cpu utilization, etc, and storing it in some kind of database like rrd, influxdb, or graphite, it isn't that much of a stretch to examine that data as an aggregate and graph trends. It really is amazing all the stuff you can figure out with this technique.

But their cloud platform can immediately send your personal data to the DEA. This is one of those things where you look at the ToS very carefully.

The cloud is the last place you want to do CFD.

A couple years ago, there were a series of fiber cuts in Humboldt County (300 mi. north of SF). They only targeted fiber owned by Suddenlink. The authorities suspected a telecom professional. A reward was offered, but they never caught the person. The cuts stopped after a couple months.

Back in 2000 I was responsible for compressing the very first release of the human genome so that it could fit on CD. I put a secret message on the disk.

This plan does not need to be formulated. Drop their root CA ASAP.

Submerged Floating Tunnel. Eventually, this is how we are going to span long distances of water.

I will pay my verizon bill in the 1930's equivalent. That should come out to be about $.08.

Pay the price.

Might be a great excuse to replace SSNs with something better- like a key pair.