Having just bought an Alexa I feel very personally violated.

I was in talks with a major publisher to write an AWS text. Not sure if I can morally justify it after this. Microsoft has emerged as the best behaving major Linux public cloud provider which is beyond bizarre.

AWS hosted both Twitter and Parler. Parler had a massive influx after Twitter took down @realdonald then did what shocked the globe - censored the official Office of the President Account @POTUS. AWS - knowing far more posts plotting to lynch Pence and Pelosi happened on customer Twitter - breached their contract and gave Parler 30 hours not 30 days notice of termination. Meanwhile Parler rented digital 2FA locks were breached when Twilio breached their contract without fair notice causing mass trespass/waste - at least 60TB in unauthorized egress to their AWS bill.

Glen Greenwald noted Google (Youtube)/Facebook/Twitter made billions off Trump media the past four years - this was crocodile tears to prevent Parler from splitting social media to an independent advertising company they didn't own a slice in. Also, that Trump leading followers like the pied piper off FB/Twitter should have pleased them if they really cared about speech above money.

They have a major data center in Altoona, Iowa. Iowa Constitution Article I Section 20 protects freedom of assembly. The Governor moved most assembly online by virtue of her in-person rona meeting restriction bans. Iowa Code 723.4(4) criminalizes disruption of lawful assembly. The Iowa Civil Rights Act bans creed based discrimination in public cloud accommodations.

They are about to get a billion dollar lesson in Iowa law.

FB censoring Ron Paul today is what got me. He has been the loudest advocate for peace since Iraq II.

The real $$ is in getting sustainable robotics and compute power on Mars. Especially compute. Mars will be used for a planetary scale supercomputer with a side hustle for rare elements far before it is ever colonized.

An ICO is just a smart contract software as a service. The company running the SAAS pays taxes on the ICO, those who buy them treat it as a service expense. If they sell their tokens they pay tax on the income.

The Fed is completely over-thinking this.

Commonly referred to as the "VAN", State voter participation records, even for party primaries/caucus, are a matter of public record. Who you voted for may be confidential, but that you showed up and voted isn't.

Larger political organizations go the extra mile to annotate these records and aggregate them. They even have door to door pollsters that go around to those who have voted recently and target them with polling questions.

IMHO it is a good thing this is open to the wider public, and not just in the hands of a few with the deep pockets to aggregate it.

Not surprising. Police still need a warrant.

Androids have become a lot more secure. IPhones are crackable but it takes a special rig, https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.043... .

Wouldn't this help enforce GPL compliance?

That's way low. A lot of State employees have personal FB accounts where they post material similar to what would be on the embassy account. Add those in and the ROI for engagement is probably much higher.

The Chinese and Japanese can both do a lot of shenigans with their US treasury reserves.

1) Blanket the market and buy as many call options as you can.
2) Announce that your treasury is dumping 100% of it's US treasuries, and you will only take hard assets or Euro as payment.
3)Stock prices now soar on inflation.
4)Exercise all your call options.
5)Blanket the market and buy as many put options as you can.
6)Announce that you have decided not to sell your US treasuries after all as the bids "weren't as high as you expected"
7)Stock prices plunge on deflation.
8)Exercise all your put options.
9) GOTO 1

You can't anonymize it. Any information given with enough detail to be useful is many times more than enough to reconstruct the relation of "anonymized" data points.

They should buy a data center and fill it with D. E. Shaw's special purpose hardware for doing particle simulations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_(computer) , and instead of proposing grants for new software development, propose grants to keep the data center's queue full of interesting chemical simulations to run.

Marketing campaign I am thinking guy with a bucket or water hose going at a pretty good clip. Some line concerning the need for something high bandwith like downloading the full Lord of the Rings trilogy off of Netflix, then guy clicks the menu option for 4G and some huge dude with a much bigger bucket or hose douses the guy.

Verizon should go two tier and rate cap. You get unlimited at 3G bandwidth, and then pay separate for data over so many GB when you have your phone in full bandwidth mode. One easy menu option, everybody stays happy.