... on the heals of the frigid, dense air known as a polar vortex...

Chip Bent

Yeah, I'm not fallin' for it.

Naw, just a black guy wanted to surprise his girl with a dick-in-a-box.

Japan's answer to Dwayne Johnson

Your own link contradicts your first sentence.

Lessons Worth Sharing

Flamboyant? "Legere?" Pink shirt?

This all begs the question:

Yeah I know what you were trying to say; I was simply making a point that the private sector took the idea and ran with it (in the name of profits and better SLAs) in a way that the governments couldn't have afforded.

I work in the private sector at an IT provider and our particular network has multiple redundant datacenters and multiple redundant uplinks to major peering sites and carriers. We experience outages every month related to physical problems like cable vandalism or misconfiguration, but our customers don't notice a…

... there's not one power grid powering the internet. The power grid itself is an internet of sorts, so you'd have to launch a coordinated attack on hundreds (thousands?) of power plants in order to achieve anything and hope that the people you're attempting to take offline don't have their datacenters hooked up to…

The internet was actually proactively developed to be resistant to infrastructure attacks of the worst kind (nuclear war) by the government.

The entire internet and the protocols that are used to communicate over it are built to withstand whole major cities being blown to smithereens in nuclear war. That's part of the reason we have routers, routing tables, routing protocols and connection-oriented protocols.

I wonder why they chose the "Who the fuck...." facial expression

It's amazing what the pixel-peepers at NASA can deduce from the images they get!

As a father of a three-year-old, I built a similar system to this using a generic Foscam IP Camera and an app in the AppStore.

... five pre-recorded lullabies you can remotely trigger that should at least serve as a temporary distraction.

An hour's drive is a lot of fuckin cable.

"P Holes?" Seriously?