Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 09:48:25AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: > I miss weather underground before it became slow as molasses with > openstreetmap and other things. As do I, and the demise of uswx.com took away one of the alternatives. I spent some time earlier this year unsuccessfully trying to con

Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread John Levine
In article you write: > >> On Dec 10, 2020, at 7:27 AM, Mel Beckman wrote: >> >> This is either some kind of bizarre political maneuver, or bureaucrats at >> NWS need to be seriously fired and replaced with competent >people who‘s tech jobs have been waylaid by Covid. > >Not bizarre at all. NW

Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:14 AM Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key > > data > > The National Weather Service is proposing to place limits on accessing its > > life-saving weather data in a bid to fix Internet outages. > > By Jason Sa

Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread Jared Mauch
> On Dec 10, 2020, at 9:39 AM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > > Simply get rid of the gigabytes of JavaScript and stupidly designed crap > and hire someone who knows what they are doing and a bandwidth DOWNGRADE > will be in order. The root cause is incompetence and it can be fixed by > getting ri

Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread Tom Beecher
I would say it's likely much larger. https://twitter.com/CoasterBGW/status/1336387160220569603/photo/1 Their design is to run everything from one datacenter? I am enjoying the level of irony that the rest of us consider catastrophic weather events in our datacenter planning, but the NWS does not.

RE: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread Keith Medcalf
Simply get rid of the gigabytes of JavaScript and stupidly designed crap and hire someone who knows what they are doing and a bandwidth DOWNGRADE will be in order. The root cause is incompetence and it can be fixed by getting rid of all the children and hiring someone who knows what they are doi

Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Dec 10, 2020, at 7:27 AM, Mel Beckman wrote: > > This is either some kind of bizarre political maneuver, or bureaucrats at NWS > need to be seriously fired and replaced with competent people who‘s tech jobs > have been waylaid by Covid. Not bizarre at all. NWS directly competes with Ac

Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread Mark Tinka
I've got plenty of spare capacity in Kenya - I can give them a couple of Gbps for just US$1,000/month :-). _classic_ Mark. On 12/10/20 15:27, Mel Beckman wrote: Something is stupidly wrong here. From a non-paywallled article (WaPo blocks me from reading its content): https://newsbeezer.com/

Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread Mel Beckman
Something is stupidly wrong here. From a non-paywallled article (WaPo blocks me from reading its content): https://newsbeezer.com/aus/the-national-weather-service-is-facing-a-lack-of-internet-bandwidth-and-is-proposing-access-restrictions/ ——— The weather service hosted a public forum on Tuesd