The credit card is a red herring. The real issue is what appears to be Google's cavalier attitude toward cancelling their customer's hosting without warning or even notification, and their complete lack of reachable customer service representatives.
The aggrieved party here did not need or expect an enterprise SLA. Rather they merely expected a minimum level of professionalism from their hosting provider. Alas, it seems Big Brother Google was too busy snooping on the world to provide basic service to their paying customers.
You don't need an "enterprise contact" to get support from AWS. You just have to pay a monthly fee. Works just fine with a card paid account - no salesmen, lawyers, or "enterprise" crap required.
Even if you're not paying for support, you can still get AWS customer service with a live person on the phone. They can't/won't help you with tech problems. But this was not a technical issue, it was an account issue.
Ohio and the other Rustbelt states have been in deep economic depression for several decades. Infrastructure is collapsing, the factories were literally packed up and mailed to China, unemployment is far higher than the "imaginative" official numbers, police oppression is steadily increasing, and the youth have no opportunities. A pall of hopelessness hangs over the magnificent industrial ruins.
Of course any reporter who mentioned that on TV or a mass market news site would be immediately fired, and maybe even tossed in the klink.
In Soviet America the economy has never been better!
Funny thing: I'm a pot-smoking communist sympathizer who thinks national hero Edward Snowden deserves the Medal of Freedom. So I'm pretty sure I would never get a clearance.
But there's no fucking way I would ever sell out my country. No amount of money or blackmail would make me put a back door or other bug in a sensitive military system. Even when I hate my government I still love my country.
So my question is, where the fuck are they getting these contractors? People who somehow DO qualify for a clearance. But are still gonna sell us up the river to the Chinese (or whoever)?
It's not as clear cut as either statement, taken as an absolute. Politics and macroeconomics are like that.
There's the demand issue you mention. There's also the matter of timeframe.
For example: On a long time horizon (2+ generations), massive immigration can be a big boost to an economy. Whereas on a short time horizon, that exact same massive immigration causes social havoc as the indigenous working class are displaced from their jobs and fall into destitution.
I've noticed this too. Google is not as good at searching the internet as it used to be. Instead of showing me what I searched for, it shows me what the "intelligent" algorithm thinks I ought to see.
It's okay though - Big Brother Google knows best. Us po', ign'rant crackers should bow before the superior wisdom of the all-seeing GOOG.
Airplane mode is software controlled. You're just asking the OS, "pretty please turn off the cell modem".
Android is a user-hostile system where actual control of the OS is in the hands of an overtly evil corporation. I therefore see no reason whatsoever to imagine that Android would respect a user's request to disable the cell modem (or camera or mic) if Google preferred otherwise.
Big Brother Google is too big, too invasive, too untrustworthy. It's time for Uncle Sam to get out his trust-busting stick and break up Google/Alphabet.
Maps - separate company Search - separate company Surveillance / "advertising" - separate company Android - separate company Chrome - separate company
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Yup. Fuckerberg lies to Congress about matters of national importance, and suffers zero consequences.
But God forbid one of us commoners jaywalks while crossing the street. A team of 3 or 4 paramilitary law enforcers will leap into action!
Almost all of them.
Where do you think Creepy Facebook's revenue comes from? "Advertising"? Suuuuuuure....
Tacitus said it best:
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
The credit card is a red herring. The real issue is what appears to be Google's cavalier attitude toward cancelling their customer's hosting without warning or even notification, and their complete lack of reachable customer service representatives.
The aggrieved party here did not need or expect an enterprise SLA. Rather they merely expected a minimum level of professionalism from their hosting provider. Alas, it seems Big Brother Google was too busy snooping on the world to provide basic service to their paying customers.
You don't need an "enterprise contact" to get support from AWS. You just have to pay a monthly fee. Works just fine with a card paid account - no salesmen, lawyers, or "enterprise" crap required.
Even if you're not paying for support, you can still get AWS customer service with a live person on the phone. They can't/won't help you with tech problems. But this was not a technical issue, it was an account issue.
Hahahahahahahaha! Sucks to be you, brohamley.
Ohio and the other Rustbelt states have been in deep economic depression for several decades. Infrastructure is collapsing, the factories were literally packed up and mailed to China, unemployment is far higher than the "imaginative" official numbers, police oppression is steadily increasing, and the youth have no opportunities. A pall of hopelessness hangs over the magnificent industrial ruins.
Of course any reporter who mentioned that on TV or a mass market news site would be immediately fired, and maybe even tossed in the klink.
In Soviet America the economy has never been better!
It's not really about cost savings. It's about destroying the middle class.
It makes me wonder who's benefiting from this outrage campaign that smells strongly of astroturf.
There are no astroturfers on /. - no sir, no whatsoever!
Authoritarian city bureaucrats, NIMBY landowners, and joyless ne'er-do-wells sure do hate clean, quiet, efficient shared transportation options.
Funny thing: I'm a pot-smoking communist sympathizer who thinks national hero Edward Snowden deserves the Medal of Freedom. So I'm pretty sure I would never get a clearance.
But there's no fucking way I would ever sell out my country. No amount of money or blackmail would make me put a back door or other bug in a sensitive military system. Even when I hate my government I still love my country.
So my question is, where the fuck are they getting these contractors? People who somehow DO qualify for a clearance. But are still gonna sell us up the river to the Chinese (or whoever)?
It's not as clear cut as either statement, taken as an absolute. Politics and macroeconomics are like that.
There's the demand issue you mention. There's also the matter of timeframe.
For example: On a long time horizon (2+ generations), massive immigration can be a big boost to an economy. Whereas on a short time horizon, that exact same massive immigration causes social havoc as the indigenous working class are displaced from their jobs and fall into destitution.
I've noticed this too. Google is not as good at searching the internet as it used to be. Instead of showing me what I searched for, it shows me what the "intelligent" algorithm thinks I ought to see.
It's okay though - Big Brother Google knows best. Us po', ign'rant crackers should bow before the superior wisdom of the all-seeing GOOG.
Immigrants are not evil. They are usually hard working, good people.
Large scale immigration often displaces indigenous workers and drives down aggregate wages for the area.
Both these statements are true. Good public policy must recognize both.
"You think the law is immoral? Great, start a campaign to change it."
Pardon me, brother. Can you spare a couple hundred million dollars? I need to buy me some legislators & judges!
Big Brother Google just wants to watch. And listen. And read your mail. You don't mind, do you?
I have not read or otherwise studied the California bill. But certainly the idea of privacy legislation is a step in the right direction.
Privacy from rando internet trolls is possible.
Privacy from Uncle Sam / Emperor Xi / Tsar Vladimir / your local authoritarian government.... yeah, not so much.
Yup. The ink's not even dry on the kangaroo court ruling, and already it's bad for consumers.
I wonder how much AT&T had to pay in lawful-bribes to make that court sell out the citizens it pretends to protect?
Airplane mode is software controlled. You're just asking the OS, "pretty please turn off the cell modem".
Android is a user-hostile system where actual control of the OS is in the hands of an overtly evil corporation. I therefore see no reason whatsoever to imagine that Android would respect a user's request to disable the cell modem (or camera or mic) if Google preferred otherwise.
It's not. Big Brother Google is always listening.
Or just make it illegal, no option for (always fake) consent.
1455 Market is a fascinating building. Look at it closely - it's quite secure. Really very secure.
Uber moved it's headquarters there a few years ago. There are rumors about other tenants...
Big Brother Google is too big, too invasive, too untrustworthy. It's time for Uncle Sam to get out his trust-busting stick and break up Google/Alphabet.
Maps - separate company
Search - separate company
Surveillance / "advertising" - separate company
Android - separate company
Chrome - separate company
Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.