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Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data
From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 10 Dec 2020 17:44:16 -0500
In article <E70F542C-7C91-4CC8-B33C-AB148C7D1950 () humancapitaldev com> you write:
On Dec 10, 2020, at 7:27 AM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote: This is either some kind of bizarre political maneuver, or bureaucrats at NWS need to be seriously fired and replaced with competentpeople who‘s tech jobs have been waylaid by Covid. Not bizarre at all. NWS directly competes with AccuWeather. AccuWeather has plenty of lobbyists and bipartisan political support. Anything that harms NWS helps AccuWeather.
It's more complicated than that. Accuweather like every commerical weather forecaster gets most of its data from the NWS, then uses its own methods to make their forecasts. So they want to cripple the front end of the NWS but not the data gathering back end. But I do agree that this problem sounds like one that could be solved with a couple of phone calls to Cloudflare or Akamai and very little money. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl () taugh com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
Current thread:
- Fwd: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Rich Kulawiec (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Mel Beckman (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Mark Tinka (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Daniel Seagraves (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data John Levine (Dec 10)
- RE: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Keith Medcalf (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Tom Beecher (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Jared Mauch (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Rich Kulawiec (Dec 10)
- Re: Fwd: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Miles Fidelman (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data William Herrin (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Mel Beckman (Dec 10)