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Singular they predates singular you in the English language by about three hundred years.

> how does it not make more sense to go with MacStadium?

If you're already in AWS, your deployment infrastructure and tooling is already configured and tuned for AWS. Deploying a Mac EC2 instance is just adding another target. Whereas deploying to another provider is an unknown amount of work to integrate with their API (if they even have one). The wall-time cost of people's time and effort vastly outweighs the marginal savings you'd get by going with a low-cost provider.

Whilst you can lose a trademark for not enforcing it, you cannot lose a copyright by not enforcing it (in the United States).

Speaking from experience, OpenStack was no longer hot by 2015. :)

    * A protocol that leaks metadata, including some message content, at the envelope layer.
  Could you elaborate more on this? I don't really understand what you mean.

He means:

  EHLO your.mx.example.tld
  MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
  MAIL TO:<[email protected]>
  DATA
  From: Definitely Not Bob <[email protected]>
  To: Probably Not Alice <[email protected]>
  Date: Mon, 12 June 2017 16:02:43 -0500
  Subject: Super Secret EMAIL! Don't let Eve see!
  
  -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
  ...
  -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
  .
  QUIT

Thereby leaking at minimum the sender and recipient, as well as any intermediate hosts that relayed the email. Depending on how your MTA handles email, you can also leak subject and other metadata.

Speaking as one of roughly fifty founders thereof, and also the founder of a (now acquired) startup in the space, it really isn't. The point the OP made about needing an Ops team is magnified by the introduction of OpenStack, and the existence of Rackspace as a (not-quite) provider of OpenStack won't help because their public cloud is going away and there isn't really a replacement as the field consolidated and the consolidated players have shed their OpenStack investments (or are laying off and trying to get away from it).

If your goal is to avoid the lock-in to a particular IaaS vendor while avoiding ops overhead, your better bet is to go up-stack and lock yourself into either Cloud Foundry or OpenShift. At least then you'll be able to migrate from IaaS to IaaS semi-transparently, but you are locking into a platform.

You could leverage the TPM and some version of remote attestation and only permit key-requests from attested machines. Alternatively (or concurrently), you could PXE boot all devices with a parameterized shared-secret individualized for each node.

I spent a bit getting it to work on OS X. The ASM becomes:

    movq $0x2000004, %rax  ; // BSD syscalls are divided into classes.
    movq $1, %rdi          ; // 64-bit registers use %rdi instead of %ebx
    lea message(%rip), %rsi; // Relative Address of message
    movq $13, %rdx         ; // Same Length
    syscall                ; // x86-64 ASM syscall

    movq $0x2000001, %rax  ; // Exit Syscall
    movq $0, %rdi;
    syscall

    message: .ascii "Hello World!\n";

With very constrained exceptions, in most jurisdictions of the United States, it's entirely legal to take a photograph of an individual in a public place and post it to the Internet without their permission.

I'm afraid you misunderstood my point, as I never mentioned software patents at all. The iPhone is a synthesis of prior research that (in 2007) encompasses advances in both hardware and software. That is the synthesis that I think advances the useful arts, and it's beneficial to society for us to provide a legal framework to protect it.

I did say I was making an analogy, not establishing a direct link between patents and copyright. Patents protect a specific method of implementing an idea, so Palm synthesizing a smart phone with a color LCD (controlled by a stylus) does not prevent Apple from protecting the synthesis of smart phone with a color LCD (controlled by fingertips). If there was no innovation in bringing multi-touch to smart phones, why wasn't everyone doing it in 2007 when the iPhone was first released?

Patents are time-limited not eternal. The first company to build a laptop most certainly obtained a patent on it, as did the creator of the first flat-screen.