> [...] how many insanely wealthy private collectors can there be out there, who are willing to risk substantial prison time to own a stolen painting?
I think there are more of them than you are realistically considering. Art theft, while making for attention grabbing headlines, has gone on for thousands of years. Age old thievery just with a different class of buyer at the end of the chain.
To bolster your point: Honestly they don't need to do much - the infrastructure is already there as a matter of being able to turn people's service up/down/on/off.
There is always a provider-managed CPE device that functions as the service demarcation point. This is the point where your contracted service speed is enforced (shape + egress queue and ingress policing).
You can have literally whatever router (dumb, smart, next-gen, whatever) spewing bits at X rate. The CPE will essentially normalize (police) that bit rate to your contracted speed (upstream scenario).
> I agree that S3 is fantastic, but not sure I would consider it simple considering how much sensitive data is left wide open in publicly accessible buckets all the time.
You're conflating two things: A) simple, reliable service B) dumbass operators.
Yes, I said it: If you leave a public bucket exposed in S3 unintentionally, you're a dumbass. You're also most likely not appropriately skilled (security fundamentals) for the responsibilities you have been charged with (information security). Neither of these are the fault of AWS or S3.
S3 is a tool, like a pick axe. If you ram it through your foot, it is not the pick axe's fault.
As a 33 year old I really am confused by this statement.
While I love my texting, slack, etc, nothing replaces the low-latency engagement (intimacy) of a one on one phone call. I can parse someone's tone very easily on a phone call. Text rarely conveys such depth.
> Can I multiply these together to get 0.16% chance of ending up in the ICU once infected, or is that too simplistic :)
Not a medical professional, but I believe the "danger zone" is somewhere in between your admittance % and ICU level of care %.
If these extreme measures were not taken, we ran (and still do run) the risk of relatively healthy people dying from lack of ventilators, and other basic medical items.
Yeah I know victimhood is popular these days but dial it down a few levels. No one is going to attack you. Fueling generalized hyperbole, on both sides, is stupid. If anything, people will avoid you if they really think you "have something".
> "But China did it first!" Well, then we should highlight how outrageous and unacceptable that behavior is, and sanction them some other way. Not reciprocate.
You're falling squarely into the trap that I believe China plays so frequently: the belief that every other group of people shares a compatible value system and culture and any disagreement can be resolved with diplomacy, but never force.
To be frank, the Chinese view us as dumb by setting restrictions on ourselves, in an effort to inspire them to do similar self-restraint measures.
This methodology is flawed and outdated, the Chinese are not the Russians.
The real issue is you've just created an overlay tunnel architecture and have negated the benefits of native IP multicast.
The idea is to reduce N number of duplicate unicast streams into 1 multicast stream tree - primarily to save bandwidth.