Aggressive anti-science propaganda always supports fascism, even if unwittingly.

This is a story, possibly apocryphal, that got told a lot by old timers in my CS department. A company built two data centers, one the primary and one for backup. They spaced them far enough apart that a fire in one would not destroy the other.

At some point, a delivery driver parked a tanker of flammable liquid between the two buildings. You can guess what happened next.

A large two-letter company I once worked for had a Texas data center that flooded several years ago. The machines stayed dry, but had to be evacuated using high-water equipment so we could bring the service back up. The building was right next to a creek in Houston, which is well known for its disregard for drainage ordinances.

There is also the design defect with older AT motherboards where it was easy to reverse polarity of the mobo power connectors when building a machine. I made this mistake, once, and the result was the board catching fire and the magic smoke leaking out.

The internet has been a second class feature to Microsoft since they first learned of it in the early 90s. They didn't understand it, and its culture of interoperability clashed with the company's proprietary culture. This is why their users were pwnd by something as dumb as email macros.

From TFA:

Our products (and customers) were put at risk due to an increasingly connected world.

No. You put your customers at risk by disregarding security for your janky-ass scripting interface. People were running companies based off shitty Outlook macros. All pwnd.

This is the popup users see: "Install this app, to have the latest information and instructions about coronavirus (COVID-19).".

Such things always employ bad grammar and/or spelling. In this case it's the extraneous comma. The dumber users cannot spot this, and it's part of the reason they fall for things like this or QAnon, for instance.

Most of these router exploits are based on existing remote access vulnerabilities or default passwords anyway.

Judging from all the complaints under this post, Wikipedia is doing something right. Far-righters just can't stand it when media makes the choice to say one source is legitimate and another is not.

The white nationalists and others must push the false narrative that we give equal weight to their bogus sources like Breitbart or QAnon. When you expose this for what it is, a falsehood, it makes them cry. They can't stand that because if they don't feel tough they've got nothing.

Here's something to think about: Bias is not illegal in journalism. Real journalists accept that bias exists and they are biased. Those claiming otherwise are the ones to keep an eye on.

One of the scams Comcast runs is to set up a guest wifi network using the customer's router and internet service. You pay a monthly fee to enable other people to use your bandwidth as guests.

If they have control of your router they can, theoretically, spy on your internet usage. Not to mention the fact that these modem/router combos typically perform more slowly and have worse security than a dedicated modem and switch owned by the user.

There's nothing about the cloud which precludes physical systems, backups, and hardening. A cloud doesn't have to be off-premises. Private clouds are a big part of any large IT strategy. They reduce hardware costs, increase asset utilization, and increase flexibility.

I'll give you an example. I work for a small open source cloud software provider, and we reduced our project footprint from over 200 servers down to 25, while increasing performance.

We added a disaster recovery strategy, which doubled as a rapid deployment plan (that we successfully used following a data center flood). We can add or remove hardware seamlessly, any time we want. Having done straight hardware, I'd never go back.

If you're still clinging to the cloud cynicism of the 2000's, you should really visit a large data center sometime.

There are more hosts than you could ever possibly use at home in a /64.

If you want separate networks for guests, all you have to do is use VLANs.

You can do that without ipv6.

well, maybe it is.

Dell's public cloud problem wasn't hardware. Cloud providers buy hardware before building the service. Dell failed to stand up a live OpenStack public cloud. HP and Rackspace already have theirs running with real customers.

Building a public cloud is hard. It takes either a big company with lots of resources, or a smaller dedicated company with good funding. Both require long term commitments.

Of course they would help. Unless they went crazy and started hurting people. Which they almost certainly would.

Cloud utilization is growing. And it's growing in startups and small companies. The reason isn't because of career choices by IT professionals. It's because it's a lot easier to buy a cloud-based solution with your company credit card than to requisition a VMware cluster.

Much of Amazon's cloud customer usage is for shadow-IT and small startups who do development work. Microsoft spent over $3bn on Azure and has little to show for it. Of course, object storage is a no-brainer for streaming content providers because who cares where you store a large block of data.

Regarding uptime and connectivity, Amazon suffered a major glitch last year that tanked Netflix for about a day because they didn't have enough connection redundancy. Their are providers out there who do. One I know of has multiple availability zones in the US, 3+-homed internet, and power from at least two non-connected grids.

Organizations are moving to the cloud, but large enterprises are not moving their legacy applications to the cloud. Yet. It's really hard to migrate 1000 applications running on legacy hardware, some of it with outdated OS's and non-x86 hardware.

It will eventually happen because companies are sick of having Chief Electricity Officers.

Agreed. I have two of these I use every day. They are excellent professional quality monitors that would be awesome even if not 30".

You're right about the costs, to an extent. We must also consider the cost to Isreal of a Hamas rocket hitting a populated area. This cost is far more than the cost of an interceptor. So, while the Isrealis may have a cost imbalance vs. Hamas, they are likely preventing an even greater imbalance by selectively using interceptors.

The FA says the traffic sent over the proxy is encrypted, so there would be no evidence it was copyrighted material.