Comment Why are there public schools? (Score 1) 134
This is a great idea. As usual all innovation is in the private sector. The government should quit the education business and switch to a voucher system.
"what role should Amazon and other public-cloud service providers play in preventing customers from using their services to commit crimes?"
The same role that Ford Motor Company is responsible to fill in preventing the use of it's vehicles as Getaway cars from scenes of crimes.
Actually some car companies have systems to slow down cars remotely if they are in a police chase. Perhaps Amazon should then slow down servers that the police inform them are involved in illegal activities?
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.