No. If you read the actual article, it's million, with an m. The actual article quote (emphasis added):

The most recent data available show that the military paid more than $1 billion for satellite capacity in 2011, according to GAO. That year, about $280 million worth of satellite capability was bought outside the DISA process. If the GAO is correct, then the military could have gotten that same service for about $45 million less.

News at 11: Government paid $45m more then it had to. Citizens shocked that it was only $45m.

Once in a relationship, learn to not let your eyes wander.

Or perhaps learn to be in a relationship that is built on trust and not on preventing eyes from wandering. I've been married for 15 years and my wife has no problems with me letting my eyes wander because she knows at the end of the day, I still always wander home to her in our bed, and no one else's.

I would actually be interested to know what the logic is here: the hacker clearly doesn't like AM, or they wouldn't be spoiling their rumored-IPO quite this enthusiastically, they also don't like the users they are threatening to expose; but they also appear to be really bent out of shape about AM's allegedly-dishonest-and-exploitative 'pay to purge the embarrassing traces' feature.

I'd be really surprised if the actual hacker(s) really had any moral stance one way or another. My money would be be on just pure financial greed. They see AM and it's customers as a paycheck. They see AM as a source of money and are applying pressure directly on them to pay up and/or shut down. They also pressure subscribers to pressure AM from the other side to pay up to not reveal their information.

In the end I think it will be a loss for the hackers and customers. The hackers aren't going to get their money. AM takes a PR hit but doesn't really care because they already run a website for people with questionable ethics/morality. Customers info might get released, but for the 3 people that are actually real, married, and their partner doesn't already know, the shit might hit the fan. For everyone else, no one cares. And if you're a paying subscriber to a cheating website with your own real information, you're already a fucking idiot and get what you deserve for being a dumbass.

Those 14 crashes are with 23 (or more) vehicles. And none of them have been the fault of the software. They were either being driven manually or were the fault of others.

So not only will copyright be continuously extended thanks to Mickey Mouse Protection Acts, but now creative works will be retroactive to long before their creation thanks to the Pluto Protection Acts.

If you're interested in a Reddit-like site that won't arbitrarily close your subreddit and shadowban you because they don't like what you're talking about...

...for now. However once it gains enough mass and becomes a sufficiently large enough target, then things might change. As they have with Reddit.

What I do not get is why the heck is anyone building one in "silicon valley". The costs of power, land, and cooling would seem to be very high.

Equinix is a colo. They don't care what the energy costs are as it's just passed on to the customers that want local access more than they want lower price.

How dare the police use the actual name of the crime that was being accused.

That's the funny thing about words. They can have different meanings! In this case, abstracting electricity means removing/stealing electricity and is actually worded that way in the law books in the UK.

Oooo, they're awfully generous with that cap. You'd actually be able to use the full capabilities of your monthly service for a whole 16 2/3 minutes! That's too much. Surely the actual cap would be much less than that.

Ah. So you end up paying even more for a radio that ends up making your dash look like crap. Plus likely losing at least some if not a lot of other functionality since you're no longer integrated into the vehicle's CAN bus.

So how does that work when the infotainment screen is paired to your phone for the data connection? Yeah you always have the option of not pairing it and/or unplugging the antenna, but then you end up paying for something you can't fully use. And there will be a time where some or most models won't be offered without such a option.

How many backups do you need, really?

Murphy's law would suggest you need n+1, where n is the number of links currently down as well as the number of links you actually have.

I guess I just fail to see how data leakage relates to accuracy and protections for corporate accounting and auditing. If you had said HIPAA or PCI compliance, sure, no problem. Or even just "best practice" network security. But I don't understand how locking down https with a MITM proxy prevents Peter, Michael, and Samir from skimming off the rounded off interest.

The dot in the username of the gmail address is used to create a virtual email address. anything sent to fm.last@googlemail.com should have gone to the user that has the mail address of fm@googlemail.com. It's a feature that allows you to filter/categorize/tag/whatever your mail. I could setup fmlast.slashdot@gmail.com so that any emails that come from /. get tagged as such, while fmlast.reddit@gmail.com goes for reddit. You can do the same thing with a +.