They've effectively used the patriot act to circumvent the 4th amendment. The 4th amendment has nothing to do with putting you out of home, or taking your copies of the data... it has to do with guarding against unreasonable search and seizure. In this case copying all of my emails is unreasonable search.
Why should they be able to tell what kind of porn I subscribe to?
Why should they get to see a copy of my significant other naked?
The answer is, they shouldn't. But they were given the ability to circumvent the constitution in the name of "national security". Terrorists are just the new Commies. That's the problem.

For those of you who love gun control... this is why you should own guns.

What is all the hype with saying LOOK ITS MADE OF PLASTIC!!! I SMUGGLED IT IN!!! No kidding... its made of something they don't detect... I hope people who sit there and do this get executed. All you are doing is pushing the envelope for them to regulate 3d printers. Thank you for your contributions.

So military is sworn to the uphold the constitution... but what if you are given a direct order which contradicts the constitution. Do you take the court marshal for disobeying a direct order? or kill the civilian?

srsly? im 28, and i was in hs in NYC when 9/11 happened. So I kind of disagree.

yea... clearly they already have a list of your facebook friends.

no it's not. It's the CIAs job.

They have a little blackbox on every major DC's routers anyway. So its not like they cant setup an "intercept". For your data.

you need wine!

better than getting shot with rubber bullets.

It is definitely about time. Azure is terrible. Anyone who has ever tried to create an Image in Azure knows it is pure garbage. Microsoft blatantly disregarded the Open Virtualization Format standards, and created a VHD. Then even if you use HyperV to save your image, it doesn't necessarily mean its going to work. You still need the Windows Azure Agent. Then... if it still doesn't work. Good luck! Because there is no console to trouble shoot it.

I have no idea what Oracles "cloud" looks like. But it can't be much worse than Azure.

Colo a box, and find a competent admin. 1000 concurrent users isn't small either by the way. You also completely neglected to mention what the site was written in, and what webserver you are using. There is a major difference if you have 1000 concurrent users on apache tomcat, or a simple php site.

Personally you are better off hiring someone in house to manage it, but do yourself a favor, and do your research. There are a lot of people in the industry who talk big and suck at what they do. If he cant look at what you have, and setup a proper infrastructure for it within 30 days, fire him. The other option, is look at the smaller companies to do managed hosting for you. They usually have a few racks in a DC they use.

Dont bother with these big companies like hostgator. Most of their employees are worthless. Not to mention the recent story about one of their admins backdooring their servers. The more reputable ones stretch their employees too thin, so unless you are a squeeky wheel you will get neglected.

Berating as in calling them sluts. Im not disagreeing with the whole thing being suspicious. People have sex, calling them loose and sluts is childish and naive.

I dont know if berating the women is the right method here. But yes, you are correct... This is a gross misappropriation of resources for a rape charge, which is quite suspicious, and does point out tyranny and governmental abuse.

So they just HAPPENED to accidentally include a new license? eh, sounds fishy. Oracle screws up everything they touch. I was at Sun Microsystems for some ZFS training shortly after the Oracle buyout... the look of defeat these guys had...