Are you sure you want to phrase it that way? LOL

I'm honestly surprised so many people are buying into the idea that trump actually wants the Epstein stuff out of the news. Who cares if it's a bad look for him? It's consuming a HUGE amount of peoples attention on all sides, and that generally seems to be the goal with most of these diversions. Oooo, they *might* get to talk to Maxwell - like that will make one iota of difference! You know what that did do? It kept the story alive and at the top of the list.

Also an adjudicated rapist, twice impeached, multiply convicted felon, etc etc.. He's on record bragging about going backstage at pageants while they're getting dressed, where men are not normally allowed, and bragging he can do it cause he's the owner and he's "inspecting" it. They know.

Can you spot the difference?
"Starlink suffers worldwide outage"
"Spectrum had an outage somewhere"

If Spectrum suffers a worldwide (or even country wide) outage, I fully expect a story on Slashdot.

It's remarkable that a modern global network can suffer such a wide outage.

... but was it any worse when run on Linux, accessed either via web browser or via the native[^1] Linux app?

* The "native" app was just an "electron" app, so it was just chromium bundled with site resources.

Who said anything about an SMB file server?

Maybe you mean whatever Sharepoint is using (basically WebDAV)? If you wouldn't expose a WebDAV server to the internet, why would you use Sharepoint and thus expose a WebDAV server to the internet?

I don't know if we even disagree here. Sharepoint conceptually has some good selling points. Hosting file services internally does come with its own issues and headaches. There's a lot of area between those. I was only noting that, if looking at it as an either/or decision, self hosting can still support a distributed workforce in a similar manor to Sharepoint. If it seems like an awful idea to put all your companies files on the internet, it probably is an awful idea :-)

Oh, just you wait! We'll soon be sailing from the Gulf of America, through the Great American Canal, and out into the West American Ocean to East Hawaii (formerly Hawaii), and then onward to West Hawaii (formerly Japan). And what is this "North America" you speak of? Do you mean the state of Canada?

Local servers can have public IPs. If one has already accepted giving up IP access control to use a cloud service, you can just as easily open up a Public IP to your local services and use the same level of authentication/authorization, complete with MFA, while still retaining full ownership and control of the full stack.

GDIAF, jerk. No one said they were "100% completely blameless".

Damn, who pissed in your wheaties? Settle down, this is just slashdot.

Let's see where this started:

See? People were discussing who was at fault for the breach. They weren't talking about the law suit nor the contract. You went there. It's why I commented, "That's how the lawsuit is doing its thing, but the end users that were impacted don't need to care about that part."

Yawn! I just don't care about their contract tiff, and that's not what the thread was about before you interjected. You're allowed to veer off course, but you must then allow others to do the same. We'd have to see the contract to make any meaningful comments about it. Meanwhile, it looks like they're trying to pass the buck and put the blame on their contractor for the general issue but, in the end, it's still their responsibility to maintain their own assets.

Weigh them before race start. Should match the weight when issued. Would also make inspections easier since they're all the same frame. ... not that I think it's a good idea, but I think it's feasible.

Yeah, that certainly crossed my mind. If you make the small frames as heavy as the large ones, that sounds like it would be a disadvantage to smaller riders (given that larger riders likely have more power). At some point, frame weight differences *can* make a noticeable difference. If the standard frame was a heavy steel frame, then the larger ones would be a disadvantage to larger riders. I feel like that brings us right back around to the current rules - let's just ignore these fiddly details, set a minimum bike weight, and move on. Otherwise, we need to look at rider weight classes and stuff as well, etc etc..

Great point! They probably do. I wonder if they have to add weights to some of them? Might also help explain how they can hide a motor in there. My electric skateboard with a 10 mile range weighs 16lb, and most of that is battery and motors. If the mech-doped-bikes are still about 15lb, they're certainly not getting much in there.

Don't need multiple computers nor a leased line. IME, the modern way uses a VM on the users machine, and it connects to the enterprise network over a VPN, and that traffic is then heavily restricted to only the sites the user is allowed to go to.

That said, GP post misses the mark. A separate computer wouldn't make a difference in this case. There is centralized authentication, and it is used to access services that are generally available on the net (ex. cloud services). Don't need to access a personal computer; Just their account and the directory.

/me rereads TFS. Um, yeah right! "Clorox sues it's service desk"

That's how the lawsuit is doing its thing, but the end users that were impacted don't need to care about that part. They are doing business with Clorox, and how Clorox (mis)handled their data is the problem. As the previous posted noted, Clorox could have been verifying that said procedures were being followed (that's due diligence).

You overlooked one of the parties involved. Was that on purpose? The above sounds like exactly what happened to their end users except that, when the scammer called the bank, they bank sent that call to a contractor they employed, rather than a direct employee. How is that any different for the end user?

Having a standard issue bike for all racers does not preclude doing a proper fit for each rider.You mentioned stem sizes and crank arm lengths... if you're aware of those components, you're probably also aware of how easy those can be changed (in most cases). The existing riders already have support teams and spare bikes and parts and are fully equipped to swap out those parts. Frame size and geometry would likely be a harder sell for the existing riders, and there's lots of variation there.

If they did standardized on a bike, surely they'd offer the frame in a variety of sizes. And if doing so, what, if anything, should be done about the weight differences between frame sizes?

IMO, they've done a fairly good job evolving existing rules. For example, there is a minimum weight limit (6.8kg/15lb) for the complete bike, and disk brakes can now be used (must meet some safety criteria).

Motors are already not allowed. If they standardized the bikes used, what's the prevent someone from swapping out the standard bike for a tweaked one they brought with them? ... whatever that would take, I'd bet it's on par with the effort to check existing bikes for motor doping.

Thanks for the great tips! The Firefox add-on sounds pretty great too.

I'm surprised this is the example you're using. MS Teams seems to run perfectly fine (as good as elsewhere) in the browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc..) on Linux, audio and video as well. You don't even need a VM for that.

Surely there are other widely used programs that don't run native on Linux and suffer from poor performance, or other issues, when run under a VM?