You won’t see any Lenovo in the defense industry.

Defense industry is a small fraction of the notebook market, meaning Lenovo is still no. 1 globally even when missing the global defense market

The US spent trillions of dollars, 20 years and countless lives in Iraq and has nothing to show for it.

The two in Alexandria are of course just down the road from the airport. A widebody jet cratering in that location will put them both out of business.

None of the runways point towards them, its hard to imagine that scenario.

34R does. The immediate right turn in the 34R ILS and RNP missed approach procedures takes you pretty much directly overhead Equinix.

Aircraft routinely overfly the location either on departure from 34R or approach for 16L.

They're also below sea level.

Theres an Energex office building in Brisbane that has a backup generator below sea level. (Guess when they need to use the generator lmao.)

Sometimes that’s far more work than it’ll ever be worth.

If I get my patches upstream, then I don’t have to waste time reintegrating patches and rebuilding packages when I could instead be doing productive things.

For our needs at work (~100TB), buying Pure Storage flash arrays (hardware, software, onsite support) worked out cheaper than MinIO licensing alone.

It is an interesting time we're in right now where buying physical hardware and support is cheaper than a license.

Same goes for AWS markup on rented hardware. ;)

Man I sometimes miss having physical servers.

Pure isn’t exactly an entry level market player either. MinIO’s pricing is on another planet.

NATO RESTRICTED is not a particularly high classification. Its handling requirements are a very, very small step above unclassified.

What holds Apple back in the classified space is not security shortcomings in the platform per se, but the fact that there’s no way to initialise and manage a fresh iPad without public internet connectivity. That’s an absolute dealbreaker.

I understand that this is mainly about the Apple business where having an endorsement/certification is a barrier of entry for others, even if it's artificial.

> And by the time you spend years building the capacity, the prices plummet making your facility uneconomical to run.

People forget quickly why we only have a handful of DRAM manufacturers today.

> In this case, we see that investigators were able to detect Perez-Lugones’ screenshot, which likely would have removed some metadata — information about the original document — before he printed it out as a new document.

Or they just looked at his print history, which is routinely logged on corporate networks, with classified networks likely being no different. There’s no magic here.

You can buy oil on the market and take delivery, yes. Figuring out the logistics (tanker trucks, rail cars, storage tanks etc) will also be your problem though.

Commodities markets aren’t like eBay, nobody is just going to FedEx you a barrel of oil.

> nobody is just going to FedEx you a barrel of oil.

I'm sure someone will if you pay enough. But you certainly won't be getting the market standard bulk price.

The fact you worked for an intelligence agency doesn’t mean you were an intelligence officer. You could’ve been a cleaner, or an executive assistant, or maybe you were working as a software developer on the payroll system.