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The systems need to be installed too.

Those ads that are now inserted during the program on us tv shows are annoying as fuck Banner at the bottom or side… Goddamnit.

Verizon is probably the provider for the 911 dispatch center. So calls will be carried by the network and Verizon trips them at the door.

https://youtu.be/9VUhaXCsebM

Facebook is able to make very accurate profiles of their users. Maybe they should just send someone to the address of the uploader of csam and other horrible stuff to break their legs.

In all earnest, the fact this issue is as big as it is on their platforms is only because for some reason they let it get this bad. If they want specific stuff off their platform they can just make that happen… specifically by targeting the sources… In cooperation with law enforcement and or nasty lawyers and a court summons.

‘Presents’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting

When I did it before, our company bought the hardware in bulk. We prep it, provision it and have it good to go. Then ship it off to wherever. PM has the local DC staff (if they provide that service, else a local IT company install the box and bring it online. The moment it is online everything is managed remotely. The local install costs is usually a few 100, once, just like the shipping.

We even shipped full racks (assembly required) with a complete connection diagram. All it needed was power and 2 internet cables everything else was done already.

If companies like google expand, this will surely be similar. But then at even larger scale. I cannot imagine them going around trying to find equipment everytime. You just have a contract with dell/HP/IBM/NetApp/Oracle and ask your account manager to ship you x number of type A server.

So, where does it differ? Cost of hosting the machine and the data?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Because a lot of applications require MS SQL. And they develop based on this because a lot of clients use MS SQL… and the circle continues.