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Amazon already publishes transparency reports indicating which country requested data[1]. It's not clear in the article what kinds of data requests are communicated by the alleged payments (subpoena, warrant, court order?), but the whole thing seems so unbelievable as to be.... made up

[1] https://d1.awsstatic.com/Security/pdfs/Amazon_AWS_Informatio...

> €1.4 an hour for the CPU/GPU alone, plus a couple more Euro for hard disk usage and long-term storage (usage was pretty high during setup, which accounts at least for half the amount)

The Azure solution sounds much more expensive than the prices quoted in the article

Check out the Trusted Advisor dashboard, GuardDuty is also a good thing to have running in your account

Default bucket encryption would require you to misconfigure two controls instead of one. S3 only automatically decrypts if you are an authorized principal on the KMS key, having S3 permission is not enough.

The grid in Costa Rica is also highly unreliable and many communities will run off oil & gas generators for extended periods of time (in addition to the comments that a majority trucks, busses, cars still run off of non-renewable sources.

The concept of a strategic supply chain is not new, as semiconductors play an increasingly strategic role in the US' defense and industrial policies - treating them as strategic is becoming less and less controversial. In fact China has recognized the importance of semiconductors and taken measures to boost their domestic capabilities in this space[1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-plans-47-billion-fund-to-...

I used to work for a company that did model risk management consulting for large banks and source code reviews were a standard part of what we did. What sounds different from the OPs situation is that it is the customer who would be conducting the review and not a third party. Take everything you read here with a grain of salt but it would be best to consult a lawyer. Even if you hold the patents for what your software is doing under the hood it may difficult and expensive to sue in the event that your customer does simply copy your secret sauce

billions debt service on MTA bonds, a Cuomo directed bail out of Ski resorts. These are the things our taxes and subway fares go towards...

The boomers inherited the only advanced country in the world that hadn't had its industrial capacity reduced to rubble over the course of two world wars. The US was the only manufacturing supplier left, so naturally every working age adult had a wealth of employment opportunities. Another way to look at the plight of the millennials (full disclosure, I'm a millennial) is "hurray, society hasn't faced a major setback in the form of a catastrophic global war in 80 years!"

In the US the 8 hour work day was established by FDR with one feature being that it would tighten the labor market (and reduce unemployment) by forcing employers to hire more people.

It's not just driver errors. Apparently the crash detection system kicked in during the Berlin ISIS attack and stopped the truck before the attacker could kill more people

(sorry, link in German) http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/anschlag-von-berli...

Many sites where I perform sensitive transactions require me to periodically change my password (banks, brokerage, etc.)

The Shannon entropy of the impossible to remember example password is 3.68418, which is not much better than the xkcd "easy for a human to remember" password 3.36386