damn it - fat fingered the informative upvote.

Forget the blackjack.

You only own what you can defend.

They're that good!

A word other than negotiation is in order if American taxpayers ended up footing the bill.

That slasheadline is completely askew to the article (and the original headline).

it's one thing for governments, who have some legitimacy in what they're doing, but have other people doing it ... it's not going to happen

Well Mr. Schmidt - from where do you think governments derive their legitimacy?

Do you think AWS will continue if it's eventually found to be nonprofitable?

Well, guess who has bad breath.

Note to actors: Do not look into spotlight with remaining eye.

Germany, as I recall from long ago.

"Fining" taxpayer funded efforts is rather pointless.

One should not have to make an effort to maintain security "in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" - breaking that expectation of privacy should be what requires extra effort and explicitly specified reason.

Supposedly the next 15" Samsung Series 9 will be retina-type reslution - present version I have is 1600x900 and it's pretty nice, though I think the vertical screen angle could use improvement.