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Comment Too many trusted vendors in MAPP (Score 1) 15

The MAPP program has somewhere around a hundred vendors. The expectation that a hundred different vendors, with all of their employees that have access to the information, may not have a leak (especially when such a leak is potentially lucrative) is beyond any reasonable expectation. Microsoft has some hard decisions ahead as to whether to continue the program as it exists today (do they do nothing, or do they share less, or do they require all the vendors employees that have access to the information to have additional vetting, or do they start providing different information to different organizations, or ????).

Comment Re:Hacking drones (Score 1) 247

Wonder how possible it would be to hack the drones to turn against them. I know that both sides like to keep their best drone pilots back from the front line and use a link to the actual drone deployment point. Imagine if they could turn around 500 or 1000 drones to attack the owners all at once.

The current state of the art drones in the ware are using a trailing fiber optic link with direct control (so limited ability to remotely hack the drones).

Comment Principals vs. profits (Score 1) 36

Cloudflare, like all the big multi-national tech companies, follow all legal requirements in the jurisdictions where they operate, or they choose to exit the jurisdiction. And when it comes to shareholder value (stock price), that usually means that they will agree to anything to make a few extra dollars. As I recall, only Google took a principled position with one country (China), and the result is that Google no longer (in practice) exists in China. Apparently Cloudflare has chosen a different path.

Comment Re:Why build in Dallas (Score 1) 30

They could significantly cut their power usage if they built in like northern Minnesota where they would have natural cooling much of the year and not need mechanical cooling year round like they would in Dallas.

What is the cost of electricity in Minnesota? While the cooling costs may be lower, if the price of electricity is higher, it may be cheaper to operate near Dallas (it is the total operational costs that matters, not just one part).

Comment What changes does the Professor suggest? (Score 5, Informative) 6

The more important question is what are the actual changes that are envisioned. "Change our approach to health care" needs to be specific. If you can convince the health insurers (and they are the ones that really matter) that spending the money for (regular? occasional?) testing can save money, you may have something successful, but you need to show savings (as better outcomes for individuals is not a priority to the health insurers, as it is about the money).

Comment Re:Asymmetric upload speeds? (Score 2) 80

Comcast's project Genesis (aka next-gen, aka mid-split) gets one part way to higher uploads (200mbps today), and their next offering called X-class will be symmetric (at least up to 2gbps). Some people have those options today, and some will need to continue to wait until Comcast completes the plant construction(s) in their location (whenever that might happen).

If I had my choice (at somewhat cheaper pricing), I would go for Comcast's X-10 (10gbps fiber metro-E offering).

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