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 competent people 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