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Comment Re: Why should it be? (Score 1) 225

So again, 27 million population so about the second or third largest state in the republic?

Wouldn't it then be fair to say that they should have a crime rate like Texas or Florida?
Or are you saying that all crime in Florida is directly influenced by being a part of the United states?

If so, consider the EU. Population of 450 million, approx â..." more than the US. With a capital murder rate of about 1/100.000 compared to the US 5point-something/100.000?

EU has about half the area as well... if cramped living conditions also was an argumentâ¦

Comment Re:Lazy ISPs (Score 1) 140

This is not the case you are looking for.

If you have "thousands of servers" you are not on AWS by "accident". If you have thousands of servers with public IPv4 there are other options.

There are also a lot between "a simple static page" and thousands of servers. For scale, thousands of servers are approx 0.1% of AWS (in terms of physical servers). Or 2%+ of a single AWS DC. There aren't many operations at that scale that don't have a department for looking into these very specific OPEX/CAPEX issues every other year.

Comment Re:To put that in perspective (Score 1) 26

The challenge here is the legal standing for this is GDPR. If this sticks in Norway, it will stick through out the whole EU-area. Think Schrems, Austria is also just "one country with a small population"...

Pretty sure Schrems 1&2 ended up costing Facebook much more than 1% of annual profitâ¦

Comment Worship Godzilla (Score 1) 107

I grew up in the city in the '60s and '70s; working as a bike messenger in high school, my first stop was to get a roll of DIMES from the dispatcher, so I could call into the office for my next run.

On the chrome coin box of every pay phone in the Five Boroughs, some little old lady had scratched the words "WORSHIP GOD" with the pointy end of a church key-style can opener. Every single pay phone in every neighborhood. She had the grudging respect of a lot of graffiti artists because of sheer coverage (and the fact that she'd go into some really rough places).

Not the respect of everyone, however. It was trivial to add "ZILLA" to the end of her tag.

All these memories will be gone, like Krylon in a subway car wash.

k.

Comment Wrong war. (Score 1) 193

I thought it was cynical but on-brand for CNN+ to launch during a war, considering the cable channel made its bones during Desert Shield, with Wolf Blitzer broadcasting from Baghdad during an air strike.

Really, though: they were two years too late. People were thirsty for news about COVID. Now, if you want to see how a war is going, there's TikTok, Twitter, etc., where you can see the videos CNN will loop two days later, without the blurred-out corpses.

Then again, if they really wanted to make money, they'd broadcast executions on HLN.

k.

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