Microsoft has been ordered to provide documents stored in an Ireland data centre to the US government. http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/08/microsoft-ordered-hand-over-dublin-data. Will this hinder US companies offering cloud services?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @10:04PM
Beyond just childish, it is almost as if instead of creating a new community site for nerds, they've decided to compete with slashdot for the lowest common denominator. Except, one of these sites has enough traffic to make money, and the other doesn't.
Presumably we're being sold out not for cash, but for the fantasy of getting cash for having sold us out. Goes along with the libertarian/right wing philosophy we're also subjected to.