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Amazon is seeking a court order that would prevent Microsoft from doing work for the US Department of Defense under a contract that Amazon says was awarded improperly.
[...] Amazon alleges that the president "launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS [Amazon Web Services] to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos," the founder and CEO of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post.
Amazon and the US have agreed to an expedited briefing schedule, in part to consider a motion for a restraining order or preliminary injunction that Amazon intends to file. A joint status report filed in court yesterday by Amazon, the US government, and Microsoft described what's happening next in the case:
AWS intends to file a motion for temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction to prevent the issuance of substantive task orders under the contract, which the United States has previously advised AWS and the Court will begin on February 11, 2020, given the United States' consistent position that the services to be procured under the Contract are urgently needed in support of national security. The parties have agreed to an expedited briefing schedule on the issue of preliminary injunctive relief, and respectfully request that the Court expedite consideration of the issue, as described below.
[...] both the US and Microsoft "intend to file partial motions to dismiss" the case, the status report said.
[...] The status report also says that the US government "does not intend to file an answer to AWS's complaint." Instead, "the parties will file cross-motions for judgment on the administrative record."
[...] Trump "escalated his intervention, jettisoning any appearance of impartiality by making clear to DoD (and to the world) that he did not want AWS to get the JEDI Contract," the lawsuit said.
Is it wrong to root for Microsoft to win?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @01:01PM (13 children)
It makes zero sense for DOD to use the commercial "cloud", here's hoping this stays blocked in court forever.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday January 15 2020, @03:31PM (9 children)
I agree. However it would be difficuilt for the army to do more than just buy hardware, programming the entire cloud interface is not really a military thing. Which demonstrates the problem of 'info war'. Suddenly you need brains in vats and whole different types of people, ones who may *gas* smoke ganja.
you might like these though, it is just twice as bad hosted in a foreign country, near where your soldiers are being sent to die meaningless deaths as cucks for a fanatical cult:
https://archive.is/5II5U [archive.is]
https://archive.is/HTALt [archive.is]
https://archive.is/SiNIS [archive.is]
https://archive.is/wZMMJ [archive.is]
Also, I have been rewatching 'The Pentagon Wars' with Kelsey Grammar and Cary Ewes, and let me tell you this movie stands the test of time. I think it's still at tpb.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 15 2020, @03:42PM (8 children)
What are all these https://archive.is/.... links?
Do they belong here?
If not, is there a way to auto filter them?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:32PM (7 children)
They are unerasable memes at a known non-tracking durable site so you don't have to go to my homepage or a corp site to see them.
They are signal not noise.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:46PM (5 children)
They do not appear to lead to any working web site. Could it be due to uMatrix?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:57PM (4 children)
Probably. With uBlock Origin I can load them fine.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 15 2020, @05:05PM (3 children)
I'll stop worrying that they are anything dangerous. Thanks for the info.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @08:02PM
you might want to unblock archive.is -- it's sort of a clone of archive.org , may have the old page you are looking for if the Wayback machine doesn't have it.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday January 16 2020, @08:24PM (1 child)
if there is another filedrop you prefer, let me know ill upload them.
the more archiving the better for my work.
archive.is is critical though you should know it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 16 2020, @10:55PM
Feed them into the Wayback Machine on archive.org, that way the original URL gets preserved too, which results in less obfuscation of the source that way. Heck, make your own WARCs, MHTMLs, and ZIPs and upload them into a collection there yourself.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by GeminiDomino on Thursday January 16 2020, @12:54AM
One of these statements must be false.
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture"
(Score: 5, Funny) by ikanreed on Wednesday January 15 2020, @03:41PM (1 child)
Please, like the defense department could possibly research, develop, build and verify a redundant grid of routing nodes that distribute computing capabilities across the entire country.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:49PM
Hmmm.....this is an interesting idea. Perhaps we should have the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency look into it!
(Score: 2) by arslan on Wednesday January 15 2020, @10:03PM
Are they really using "commercial" cloud?
A lot of governments get them to build private cloud. It is not multi-tenanted like the commercial offerings - it just uses the same tech stack.
It makes sense, they'd provide full stack data centers better than traditional data center vendors that build base storage and network and then the customer overlays everything else using commercial software, try to glue everything together and build a bunch of automation over it all the disparate pieces top to bottom. Why wouldn't you use a product that does all that already and is already well proven at a much bigger commercial scale?
You also get the benefit of being able to hire folks that know that shite top to bottom instead of being reliant on key persons with proprietary implementation locked up in their head.