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Not to mention that it’s trivial to change your IP on most cloud providers. So if a VPN provider is using a cloud service for some of its gateways then it can quickly remember them if necessary.

Companies like Akamai already do this to an extent. My employer is an Akamai customer, and they’ve offered this service to us in the past when we saw a lot of malicious traffic originating from commercial VPN providers.

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I think the trailer would have generated far more interest if it stopped at showing Rocky’s “hand” and didn’t show all of him.

That sequence, to me, is just a modern take on the underwater scuba diver battle in Thunderball.

Reminds me a bit of how South Park parodied Marvel & streaming services a few years ago…

“Netflix, you’re green-lit. Who am I speaking with?”

20 years ago I worked on the top floor of a 5 story office building. We wanted to build out a server room with a pretty hefty UPS for backup. The amount of steel reinforcement we had to install in the ceiling of the 4th floor was pretty insane…

There’s plenty of demand. CEOs and other senior leadership are demanding that it be shoehorned into anything that uses electricity.

How do you decide which open source projects are worthy of taxpayer money, and how much does a given project get?

I have a couple projects I’ve put up in GitHub as open source. Would they qualify? Or are you just talking about well known open source projects like Linux?

Snow piles on the sidewalks but green leaf-filled trees off to the left & in the background. I live in the Boston suburbs and you would never see that much greenery & snow at the same time. Somebody didn’t do a good job with their set dressing…

An extended scene of her dance fighting would be fun to see.

You would do well to go read up on the 1990 AT&T long distance network collapse. A single line of changed code, rolled out months earlier, ultimately triggered what you might call these days a DDoS attack that took down all 114 long distance telephone switches in their global network. Over 50 million long distance calls were blocked in the 9 hours it took them to identify the cause and roll out a fix.

AT&T prided itself on the thoroughness of their testing & rollout strategy for any code changes. The bug that took them down was both timing-dependent and load-dependent, making it extremely difficult to test for, and required fairly specific real world conditions to trigger. That’s how it went unnoticed for months before it triggered.

I’m guessing it was actually something internal. If you look at their status page you’ll notice the outage occurred smack in between some sort of maintenance work they seem to be rolling out to most/all of their edge locations. As soon as they resolved the outage they continued with the regional maintenance updates.

I just remember that the illusions in the second one were so absurd that there’s no way they could have been done live, much less in front of groups of people. When the basic premise of a movie doesn’t work then the whole thing ends up being cringeworthy.

The second one was worse.

A number of years ago my wife and I visited Lubec, Maine, which is about the northeastern point of the state. Lubec has a bridge that connects to Campobello Island, which is Canadian. For whatever reason, Campobello is in a different time zone despite being physically only one or two hundred yards from the mainland.

I learned the hard way that the closest cell tower in the area was on Campobello, and since it’s in a different time zone it caused my phone to change time to an hour earlier. Luckily it resulted in us being an hour early for a harbor tour instead of an hour late.

When I was a kid it was shaving cream. Take a can, put a needle in the nozzle, then melt the nozzle with a cigarette lighter. Once it’s cooled pull the pin out so you have a pinhole nozzle. It’ll spray the shaving cream ten feet or more.

I honestly forget how I learned that trick…

You too will soon be able to buy an abandoned datacenter for just $1,000.