This is kind of silly. Ok, maybe the first capturing of the data is important, but subsequent copies are trivial. And I'm sure they have software they can plug it all into that will show exactly what the plane was doing through the entire incident. This "weeks of analysis" stuff is bunk. Someone is BS'ing..

Isn't that exactly what the subpoenas are about? Throwing people in jail for criticizing the government? American exceptionalism is starting to sting a little.

They put gasoline in with the ethanol (E85) because engines don't start very well in the cold when running on pure ethanol. The gasoline helps to cure that behavior.

IE had no interest, as usual.

They are at a bandwidth limitation though. The number of streams you get is determined by how fast your local loop is. If you get more than 30 megabit, you get 2 streams, if you get over 60 megabit (I think) you get 3. You would have to be right on top of the DSLAM to get 4 streams. I have about 2000 feet of local loop and get about 38 megs, so my copper isn't too good.

They mix the internet service in with that available amount too so it just takes that right out of the total. If you sign up for super max internet speeds, it will kill the amount of streams you can get (when you are using it).

Meh, mine are pretty stable...

I've used it for months (years?). A killer pro tip was to put it on bluetooth dial in your car. Then you could just say "call Google" and then it was all voice commands to connect to anyone. Truly awesome...

And buggy. On the up side, though, was that the protocol was open. It was so close to being something great.

The first one, at the IU school of medicine, I'm very familiar with that place...they have no data center to speak of, and I do not know that person. I never heard of that incident. Also, who doesn't run spanning tree with BPDU gaurd and other such protections. I know IU does, for a fact.

Something is very very wrong with that article.

The agenda being "get money for myself". Someone powerful wants money, and he is in-between them and that. That is all it ever is.

People simply do not understand things at the top of the political/business world. None of this was about what he did, falsified what, or expensed whatever. This was about someone else wanting him out. Someone powerful wants the job, or doesn't like the guy, period.

People at this level are in constant competition with others to keep their jobs, and have to force others out. If you make yourself politically weak by doing some jackoff thing like this, it makes it easier to take you out. Here, someone did. They managed to overlook the data center for his kids school, for chrissake. He just had more juice at that time.

Agree completely. On some issues I am quite liberal...this idea is not only dumb technically (we have certs/crypto already, and that is good enough; witness massive expansion of e-commerce), but it is also political suicide.

This is so bad I wonder if the Obama administration is even proposing it, and not a right wing smear job.

Dumb dumb dumb.

Yes it does...

Uh, yes we do. The BOP failed because the gasket that was in it sheared off and came back up the pipe. Despite this, BP executives told them to push on and not worry about it because they were already behind.

"...during a test, they closed the gasket. But while it was shut tight, a crewman on deck accidentally nudged a joystick, applying hundreds of thousands of pounds of force, and moving 15 feet of drill pipe through the closed blowout preventer. Later, a man monitoring drilling fluid rising to the top made a troubling find.

"He discovered chunks of rubber in the drilling fluid. He thought it was important enough to gather this double handful of chunks of rubber and bring them into the driller shack. I recall asking the supervisor if this was out of the ordinary. And he says, 'Oh, it's no big deal.' And I thought, 'How can it be not a big deal? There's chunks of our seal is now missing,'"

And there you have it. They were being pushed too hard, and made huge mistakes. BP needs to pay dearly for this, maybe even be put out of business completely, so that all the other companies can witness what happens to them if they do the same thing.

Let them factor that in to their actuarial tables..a big fat "closed for business" if a mistake like this takes place.

You said it. They failed to test. I design/run datacenters, and have had exactly this kind of thing happen recently. No outage, hardly anyone even noticed. My most critical stuff runs active/active out of multiple data centers...you could nuke one of them and everything would still be up.

I'm actually a little blown away that the all powerful Amazon could possibly let this kind of thing happen. They are supposed to be pro team, a power failure is high school ball.