He’s starting a war so he can boast about resolving yet another one. What would this be, war # 9 1/2 that he solved?

USCG used to be under the Department of Transportation, and would move to under the Navy during wartime. They got shoved into DHS when that department was created. Move them back to DOT like they used to be…

It was a happy coincidence. They didn’t need twins in the original Terminator, but in T2 the second terminator could change appearances. Linda’s sister was used when the terminator appeared as Sarah Connor.

Yeah, but only if you pay the Trump regime a premium for that free labor.

I was a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary for 10 years. It’s a branch of the USCG made up entirely of civilian volunteers. We train to perform many of the same things the USCG does with the exception of law enforcement. I’ve done everything from tow broken down boats to searching for missing boats/people to escorting warships and tankers through harbors to providing security at fireworks and tall ship parades.

My brother owned a local franchise for a few years. When he first got into it he really liked the owners, their methods, etc. Last year the owners sold out to a private equity firm that started squeezing all the franchises with insane demands in order to make them more money. My brother got out as quickly as he could, and ended up barely breaking even.

Fuck private equity firms. I hope there’s a special place in hell for them.

Radar & camera can be degraded by snow/ice buildup. A grate that lets wet snow in is also going to be big enough to let rocks and other debris in.

Like snow or ice buildup causing issues with the camera, radar, etc.

Especially the police unions in Massachusetts, where they have a stranglehold on public works. Need to dig up a sidewalk to repair a water main? That’ll require a 2 person police detail for a minimum of 6 hours, and it’s all overtime pay.

Bet you can’t find civilian flagged anywhere in the state.

CDN & security companies like Akamai actually have data centers designed to intercept and “scrub” DDoS traffic. Akamai has a few dozen of them around the world. From their website:

Prolexic is the industry pioneer in cloud-based DDoS protection. Network traffic is directed in one of two ways via a border gateway protocol route advertisement change or DNS redirection (A record or CNAME record). Available as an always-on or on demand service, Prolexic offers flexible integration models based on the needs of a customer’s desired security posture across hybrid origins. With global high-capacity scrubbing centers in 32 metro locations, Prolexic can stop attacks closer to the source to maximize performance for users and maintain network resiliency through cloud distribution. Traffic is routed via anycast through the closest scrubbing center, at which the Akamai SOCC deploys proactive and/or custom mitigation controls designed to stop attacks instantly — ensuring fast and accurate DDoS defenses. Clean traffic is then returned to the customer origin via Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels, Layer 2 VLAN connections, and/or VIP-to-origin back-end mapping.

20 years of Black Friday traffic because some anonymous person put up realistic looking advertisements all over the city offering 90% off from 9:00 to noon.

Good. The more the Republican voting block is fractured the better.

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Does anybody else miss Compuserve, Delphi, etc?

Gary Plauche is another person who took justice into his own hands over the kidnapping and rape of his son back in the 1980s.

Plauche learned that the suspect was being flown back to town in police custody, and figured out the flight he was on. He waited at the airport, pretending to be using a pay phone. As the suspect was escorted past him he walked up and shot him in the head at almost point blank range. A local TV station caught it all on camera and I think you can still find it if you search for it.

Plauche was ultimately convicted of manslaughter but was given a suspended sentence, probation, and community service. No jail time.

Patel wants to keep using FBI coffers for perks though. He’s reportedly flying all over the place on FBI jets, made an FBI SWAT team act as a security detail for his girlfriend, etc.

Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/Ext7p

I managed a research cluster for a university for about 10 years. The hardware was largely commodity and not specialized. Unless you call nVidia GPU’s or InfiniBand “specialized”. Linux was the obvious choice because many cluster-aware applications, both open source and commercial, run on Linux.

We even went so far as to integrate the cluster with CERN’s ATLAS grid to share data and compute power for analyzing ATLAS data from the LHC. Virtually all the other grid clusters ran Linux, so that made it much easier to add our cluster to its distributed environment.

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…

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?