Unless server/network operations are a part of your core business function, then no, it's almost *never* cheaper to in-source.

Soylent Green is people!

The original article is not quite right. The U.S. Department of Homeland security is sponsoring Cyber Storm. The United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK are participating. The focus is on response procedures for a significant event.

You don't work in a large enterprise, do you?

Given the smiley at the end of your reply, I'm guessing you're not either.

Ban animal testing!! Oh wait.

I strongly believe that Apple can sell whatever the heck they want from their app store. But the unfortunate thing is that there is apparently a market for these kinds of apps - and other kinds of "objectionable" apps as well, yet now there's no way to get them on people's phones legally. I suspect that those people who really want these apps will jailbreak their phones to get them.

White space network, eh? I wonder if the security architect implemented true network segregation?

I abhor the "church" of Scientology,> I abhor the "church" of Christianity. Take your arrogance and go away.

Things are worse in Canada. My new car came with a built-in XM receiver and I immediately signed up. I actually thought that the merger was going to be a good thing in terms of selection. The problem is that Sirius Canada and XM Canada are both separate companies than their U.S. counterparts. I'm guessing that they license the channels and add a few law-mandated French channels. The end result is lack of choice for Canadian subscribers. I was very excited at the thought of being able to get Howard Stern and all the NFL channels. As it turns out none of them are available to Canadian subscribers. Furthermore, the blogs that I've read show that the chance of getting those channels in Canada are slim-to-none.