... or how close the designers came to creating the worst nuclear disaster ever?

It's much more likely that this legacy UUNet netblock was at one time assigned to DHS, and UUNet's hostmaster provided generic rDNS for all IP addresses in the /24. Then it was reassigned to Vlingo in 2007, and of course no one cleans house on things like DNS PTR records.

No real need to get paranoid on the basis of PTR records that are clearly generic fill.

We used to have this thing called Ma Bell that had the same problem: they amortized costs over decades. It worked.

It doesn't bother me too much that service providers would prefer a shorter timeframe in which to recapture their invested funds, but the problem is that they then want to keep charging the higher prices even after they do, make only modest further improvements, and rake in profits at insane rates. Where I live, cable Internet prices have been basically flat for more than a decade, and performance has maybe doubled in that time. It's hard to buy the crying when I know the bandwidth costs are dropping, the networks can handle it, and the companies are reporting record profits.

You can use high quality media; we backup important stuff on Taiyo Yuden DVD media and I don't think we've ever had a problem reading the data later. That doesn't stop us from making quarterly snapshots and sticking them in a safe deposit box, which helps to ensure that there are many readable copies of the data available.

The question is really how much data do you need to protect long-term. For us, where the total critical data pool fits on a few DVD's, this is fine. If I was going to back up 1TB of photos, I'd probably choose a hard-drive based strategy of rotating drives out to the safe deposit box.

So you take a merely onerous award that the defendant might possibly pay off and raise it back up to something that there's no way in heck he'll ever pay. What's the point, again?

Seems like when they find that the electronic crimes are not perpetrated by a lone individual, then they ought to be able to target them appropriately.

I worry, however, that this sort of thing would be used to justify ruining the life of some poor dumb kid whose knowledge was larger than his wisdom.

Great way to ruin a compressor unless it's been rigged to run that way (hot gas bypass and other stuff). Is there a reason not to use a properly engineered economizer?

I'm pretty sure the subject said "Microsoft Suggests Heating Homes With Data Furnaces."

So I'm thinking about things in context. Further, I do have some experience with leveraging waste heat in office, commercial, data center, and home environments, and I'm pretty sure most home, commercial, and office environments (most certainly the home environments) typically do not have much bandwidth or mobile technicians available.

We were successfully staying off natural gas until January in Wisconsin by running a rack of servers. The cost in electricity, however, was greater than the cost of natural gas to do heating. We've realized a savings as we've virtualized. In any case, there are other problems ... for example, it isn't clear that a home would have the bandwidth to support a meaningful cloud cluster or the environment to suit, including protected power. Also, a rack of servers can be a very noisy thing, and then there's the question of who does routine maintenance and when.

We used to have a minimal heating bill in the winter back when we kept a few racks of servers on-site. Our gas bill has gone up substantially as we've moved to virtualization.

BSOD!

Damn. JUST got rid of our workhorse HP5Si (500K pages, though only about 100K in the last 8 years) and two old HP4's (~50-100K each, guessing) for some new CP2025dn's. Couldn't resist the cost of the new cheap color lasers. So right now, page count is only 30-40ish on any of them.

Our print rates continue to drop around here.

Wow, what a bunch of Sony fanbois.