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<font face="Tahoma">I've got plenty of spare capacity in Kenya - I
can give them a couple of Gbps for just US$1,000/month :-).<br>
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_classic_<br>
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Mark.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/10/20 15:27, Mel Beckman wrote:<br>
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Something is stupidly wrong here. From a non-paywallled article
(WaPo blocks me from reading its content):
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The weather service hosted a public forum on Tuesday to
discuss the proposal and answer questions. When asked about
the computer infrastructure investments that would be
required to keep these limits off, agency officials said a
one-time cost of approximately $ 1.5 million could prevent
interest rate restrictions. The NOAA budget for fiscal 2020
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However, Buchanan stated that the real cost of solving the
problem would be higher since the $ 1.5 million would “be
just one component of a multi-faceted solution.”</p>
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Forum officials also said that management of the weather
service was aware of the relatively low cost of solving the
problem, but that the agency was facing “competing
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Buchanan said that dissemination of data is a priority for
the weather service’s leadership, but that it is
“continually” weighed against others.</p>
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When asked if Congress was aware of the agency’s data
dissemination challenges, forum officials said they did not
know.</p>
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Senator Maria Cantwell (Washington), a Democrat on the
Senate Commerce Committee that oversees NOAA, said a request
to upgrade the weather service’s computer infrastructure
would likely receive non-partisan support.</p>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>Obviously it’s a trivial task to fix delivery capacity, if it
will only cost $1.5 million to an agency with a $5.4
<b><i>billion</i></b> budget. And how does a 2000-employee
agency blow through $5.4 billion a year anyway? </div>
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<div>This stinks to high heaven. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">-mel via cell</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Dec 10, 2020, at 12:15 AM, Rich
Kulawiec <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rsk@gsp.org"><rsk@gsp.org></a> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth
shortage, proposes limiting key data</div>
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