I know this may come as a shock, but the answer is simply to not buy it.

Lady Bird Johnson, first lady of President Lyndon B. Johnson was adamant about trying to beautiful our national highways as Texas had been doing since the 30s. It seems like a small price to pay (actively seeding native wildflowers along our highways, and not mowing in the spring) to cover up some of the ugly that is our "pave earth" highway plan.

https://highways.dot.gov/publi...

No one is going to abandon IPv4 because an IP address costs $4 a month. That's peanuts compared to the cost of trying to migrate your application stack to IPv6.

What has happened, as IPv4 addresses have become more valuable, is that cloud customers no longer ask for a bunch of IP addresses they're not going to use. You don't have to deal with IP justification forms. You want an IP address? Okay, that'll be $4/mo.

Also, Supabase must be a special kind of stupid if they're putting SQL databases on a public IP.

You have no idea what you're talking about. You have no idea what you would do if you had kids, because it's one of the most life altering experiences you can have. All your preconceived notions about what you would and would not do go out the window the moment to strap the kid into the car seat and drive them home wondering why those idiots at the hospital just gave you a baby when you have no idea what you're doing.

While your armchair parenting might be fascinating to you, you seem to forget you grew up in a world with ubiquitous access to pay phones. Where schools were within reasonable walking distance. Where kids would ride their bikes over to their friends' house to see what was going on. Since that era, we got rid of all the pay phones. Middle schools and high schools are now 5 to 12 miles away with limited or no bus service. The majority of social planning happens via group chat.

Good luck coordinating with your kid when their after school club is cancelled and they need to be picked up earlier than expected. Good luck having your teenager stay at home by themselves when no one has a land line anymore and you just carried the only telephone out of the house in your pocket. Good luck having a kid with severe social issues because they're cut off from the other 99% of kids who do have cell phones and coordinate all their social activities through group chat.

It's the most annoying to block VPN protocol out there:

https://www.softether.org/

Thanks for this post. I was a huge fan of Moxy Fruvous back in the 90s and was disappointed by the accusations against Jian. I'm relieved that Jian was able to refute the accusations--I wish he could be fully exonerated.

Texas has incentive programs like this as well. And it's being taken advantage of by crypto-miners (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Tomlinson-Cryptocurrency-miners-profit-from-17369941.php).

1. Squander limited resources.
2. ???
3. Profit from incentive pay that asks you to use a more reasonable share of the scarce resources.

On the other hand, the upside is you're relying on the reliability of a third party who likely has better processes, more robust facilities, skilled staff, and access to hardware and software through multiple distributors.

The law that he broke was a section CA Penal Code 502, specifically that he disrupted or denied computer service to an authorized user and he did so without permission.

Refusing to provide a password is absolutely not a denial of service. That's like claiming losing keys to a rack in a data center is a denial of service.

However, he made one of the biggest mistakes then that he could have. While under police surveillance, he decided then to leave the state and make cash withdrawals of over $10,000. He was arrested, and that's where it became a criminal matter instead of simply an employment matter.

How this is a criminal act? Was he under court order to stay within the state of California and not touch his money? This whole case was never a criminal matter.

Can you confirm the order of events:
1. Terry Childs employment was terminated.
2. As an ex-employee he refused to provide any passwords.
3. He was arrested.

The precedent set here is that network administrators are required to produce passwords for ex-employers. So the only way as a network administrator to protect yourself against imprisonment from a former employer is to have difficulty remembering, AKA the Alberto Gonzales defense.

No, change the default SSH port. It's so rare that actual humans are behind brute force attacks anymore that changing ports makes a huge difference in automated port-scanners from even bothering with your servers.

For all unsubsidized Stafford loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2006, the interest rate is fixed at 6.8 percent. The interest rate for subsidized Stafford loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2009 is fixed at 5.6 percent.

PLUS loans? Parents should have been saving since the child was born.

I've never seen a scholarship or grant which required you to take a loan.

There is at least one alternative. You work full-time and go to school. In fact, that's how I ended up a Network Admin rather than an Advertising Executive, by working 2nd shift at the Internet Service Providers.

I think it's wonderful that you believe you are entitled to a college education; there's no such entitlement, nor should there be. If we're going to make the system of higher-education based on entitlements then we'll have to go to a competitive system where only the top X number of students of some federal test are allowed to go to apply for university.