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I don't think Edward Snowden will ever be granted asylum in Iceland. Granting asylum to Snowden without the US' blessing has massive political consequences. If you look at the clos…

I'm just worried that the kids are going to get arrested: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...

I'm guessing that they try to manage how email is sent from their infrastructure in an attempt to curb spam and prevent their IP ranges from being blacklisted and blocked.

According to the Azure calculator an XS VM costs $0.02/hr, which comes to about $175 a year. That is less than an 2 hours worth of sysadmin cost, excluding the hardware costs. http…

Apparently some studies have shown that Azure has "3X better price for performance than Amazon EC2" http://www.scribd.com/doc/146167581/Cloud-Computing-Performa... Additional curat…

AFAIK Silverlight is only required admin the legacy share cache service, which has been end-of-lifed (hence the reluctance to spend the effort needed to support it in the web-based…

I'm Icelandic, here are a few notes from the top of my head. -- Iceland is not an EU member. Iceland is a part of EFTA (European Free Trade Association) and Schengen (border contro…