The "What we are doing" section seems pretty weak. The only substantive thing they say is "we have produced new tools which enable us to more expediently relocate database services from a failed availability zone."
How exactly are they planning to deal with the larger Cedar difficulties? Are they going to eliminate their dependence on ELBs? Go multi-region? Developers need to know this to decide whether to continue with Heroku or build their own platform.
Hmm, looks like they're competing directly on price:
1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.055/hr (Google)
1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.08/hr (Amazon)
Amazon is still much cheaper if you use reserved instances or spot pricing, though. And for these sorts of compute jobs, I'm not sure why you wouldn't use spot pricing.
In particular, I'm pretty sure Stallman (like most Americans) is in favor of taking from the rich and giving to the poor, so trying to persuade him that free software is a bad idea because it's like that seems pretty clueless.
And where are they supposed to get all the towers? That's a multi-year construction project and, if they try it, they'll alienate their existing carrier partners.
Now maybe Apple thinks they can afford to do that, but it seems risky.
The dishonesty of this statement is stunning. IE is designed to only accept the cookie if Google promises not to use it for tracking. Google wants to use the cookie for tracking so they provide a dishonesty promise and then explain they're lying because IE didn't have them in mind -- when this is exactly what IE had in mind.
The actual audio piece doesn't mention SOPA/PIPA or pirates, best I could tell. It was about a cybersecurity data sharing bill and even gave the Tor Project the last word.