RubberDuck

It is just some Telcos that price for data usage and put in usage caps. But this is only a way to price gauge customers. In the EU most ISPs operate without datacaps and are much cheaper month to month than in the US (my 1gb symmetric fiber connection without datacaps costs around 30 euro per month).

Sure a data connection in a datacenter is more expensive, but is either shared across datacenter customers or a customer gets their own. And again, global players have framework contracts with other global players… so maybe Orange Business Services provides the internet connection for their DC operation globally.

The cost for the things they have to source locally is highly overestimated. Usually budgets they spend locally on stuff like advertising are much higher.

Except the hardware is purchased using a global framework contract that uses the volume as a reason for deep discounts.
It gets put in a rack by a local guy and then remotely provisioned by some person from a low cost country.
Electricity in datacenters is purchased at wholesale prices and muchuch cheaper than what consumers pay…
The list goes on and on.

The higher prices in countries has only very marginally to do with the higher costs.

Money grabbing corporations will charge what the market will bare.

But these are the city and another party. Civil liability etc. separate investigations that come after the FBI.

So yeah, it really sucks for these guys. And the judge should put a clock on the time the city and other parties have, so these guys can go home asap.

Kim should check with Armenia how it works put to be in a bilateral security treaty with Russia and you get attacked.

Except food is a physical good that needs to be transported, while the service is still provided by low wage workers from across the globe.

If a corporation gets to provide the service from where it’s cheaper, they can’t be mad people buy it from where it’s cheaper.

They are material witnesses.

You are the one that said these people do 2-10 hours of work a week and I tried to tell you that there is so much more to the domain of security.

So you kinda told us a lot about yourself with your denigrating remark.

True… very true

Isn’t this a common thing that before summer break they collect cases and defer judgements and dump it all on the day they leave for summer break?

100% but in general there are too few people that possess the skills for this work. So they are hard to find and expensive.

That could work, if you had a large pool of these people to put on the on call list. Most companies do not. And only having every other weekend off is not living.

You are one of these people that also thinks the utility companies sit on their ass while they are not performing a break-fix aren’t you?

If anything security means ploughing through logs, checking up on monitoring alerts. And most importantly constant lobbying with the devs and deployment projects to actually take security serious… yes we know it is easier to deploy without ssl, single sign on, firewall, monitoring suite and not using our template but your own custom OS install etc… but this means everything is fucked if something happens and noone will be able to tell why. And No you cannot just deploy the database cluster in the DMZ so that it is easier to access.

Some weekends? These roles are hard to fill so usually chronically understaffed, meaning most weekends.

And even if you like the work, the volume is an issue burning people out on the role.

The work environment is also toxic. I read that some large japanese companies have rooms where employees have to sit and do nothing if they want to get rid of them. Because firing them would mean admitting you where wrong to hire them and could not get them on board, so that is loss of face.

What is a pilgrimage without risk and suffering.

I don’t understand why discord is so popular for communities. There is 0 permanence, and google does not index it so not even organic growth.

Discord is a black hole of knowledge except for the ai training companies.

Yeah, with their occupation of south Ossetia, invasion of Ukraine, enslavement of Uyghurs and 9 dash line shenanigans. Fuck em.

You will be the one screetching “bullshit” once the tariffs come out and the EU and US pivot away from China hard, aren’t you?

Geopolitics start with warning and some light pressure. But there are plenty of countries around the world that would love to get foreign capital to start their industrial base.

The fact that a lot of raw materials come from Africa makes it smart to move some there. Lift population out of poverty, cut down on transport and move it closer at the same time.

And the fact that there really is nothing you can add to Trump to make him look worse. People that currently still vote for him will not be dissuaded.

The danger in the US seems to be Biden keeling over dead before Trump and the crazies yelling “genocide Joe”.

Or a MaccieD