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Re:I scanned Austria on Saturday February 09, 2019 @09:53AM (#19122547)
Japan is doing this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/japanese-government-plans-to-h...

In the US, DHS does this for the federal government, as well as some state and private organizations: https://www.us-cert.gov/resources/ncats

Re:U.S. Oil Production Is 23 Years Ahead of Schedule on Thursday January 24, 2019 @09:21PM (#18995020)
Usually, Pigouvian taxes like the one OP was proposing are calculated to cover the complete externalized costs of the item being taxed. So in this case, it would include the costs of adjusting to climate change. This would make alternatives relatively cheaper, as well as raising revenue to support research and construction of new energy infrastructure, as well as point addressing of specific projects identified to reduce the impacts of climate change. Of course, this is all if you believe that the current political climate (not only in the US, but in large middle income economies as well) can support such taxes. And then you have to decide what the tax should be! Ultimately, cap and trade turn out to be far easier.
Because Congress' intentions are taken into account only after the actual text, and most of the time not at all (or they would have written their intentions clearly within the enforceable provisions.)
Do they not?

UNOOSA, Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, Art. IX [1]:

"States Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination..."

Note that State parties are responsible for the actions of their nationals later in the paragraph.

Is the above wrong? I admit to not being a space person.

Edit: [1] http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/publications/STSPACE11E.pdf

Need an FAA license to launch, the US is signatory to various space treaties, etc.
Re:The FastMail Security Mindset on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:35AM (#15860603)
I know that GSuite would like to differentiate its enterprise products by features, but allowing basic/business plans to force U2F would be great. Since it's also available in GCP's Cloud Identity product (which is free), I hope this is coming down the road.
Apache Beam, gRPC/protobuf, Kubernetes. There are examples besides Tensorflow.
Re:How to use Let's Encypt with Google Cloud Platform on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:08PM (#14848862)
Click of a button certs with automated renewal is coming.
Re:Linksys CherryBlossom Advisory on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:33PM (#14616090)
Need something with a TPM, like an Onhub/Google Wifi.
AWS probably also uses Equinix facilities in many regions.
Circumstantial evidence points to a strong Equinix partnership.
Haven't tried yet myself, but since the ingress resource is just an https load balancer, enable IAP on that. Like so: https://medium.com/@DazWilkin/google-cloud-iap-and-gke-c773d...

Edit more direct: https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/container-engine-quickstar...

When are we going to hear about further contextual auth capabilities coming to IAP? It's awesome.
Re:New Singapore Google Cloud Platform region on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:51AM (#14559021)
London and Northern Virginia have also launched recently.
Re:Five years of IPv6: whither the next five? on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @06:34PM (#14502055)
Well, partial at least. Appengine since 2010, cloudsql for a couple of years, and load balancers for the last few months.
Re:Google – Project Shield – Free DDoS Protection on Friday May 26, 2017 @06:30PM (#14427663)
If you use GCP, you're using this system.
Re:Google – Project Shield – Free DDoS Protection on Friday May 26, 2017 @06:11PM (#14427565)
This is what protected Brian Krebs pro bono after traffic grew too big for Akamai.

Great talk about it at Enigma earlier this year: https://youtu.be/ifp8l2yx7JA

Re:Machine learning without centralized training data on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:01PM (#14056173)
Chrome used differential privacy far before Apple. See the RAPPOR paper.
Re:Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:17AM (#14041226)
And here's 2014, which was on the Andromeda NFV stack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4gOZrUwWmc

And B4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVNlXg0iN-g

There's a long tradition there, wasn't BO2K non-ironically marketed as a system admin tool?
Re:A new home for Google Open Source on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:16PM (#13980803)
I routinely click through the google and gcp orgs, and I hadn't seen quite a few of these, a couple of which I'd really like to use. Congrats!
Re:LastPass RCE vulnerability fixed on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:43PM (#13926050)
Concern about code quality is legitimate, and vulns discovered is one metric for that, but I worry that hopping to the unreviewed (and therefore lacking vuln disclosures) app is even worse. But I don't use lastpass.
Interestingly, Deepmind's Ben Laurie has been working on certificate transparency-like tech to permit a verifiable audit log of access to data like this, precisely for this purpose: https://qz.com/929833/googles-goog-deepmind-is-using-blockch...

If you want to take a look at the underlying technology, take a look at https://github.com/google/trillian

Re:Google Family Link on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:46AM (#13901196)
Several services do this, including google and amazon:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7007852?hl=en

Re:Google Identity-Aware Proxy on Thursday March 09, 2017 @05:48PM (#13834560)
Part of the announcement was that additional contextual auth capabilities would be added.
Re:Secure Computing for Journalists on Sunday March 05, 2017 @03:19PM (#13798322)
Many people who find bugs for a living would argue the opposite.

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