While the virtual machines cut costs and save energy, they also raise questions about data leakage as well as whether a customer would ever find out files have been breached, said Jim Reavis, executive director of Cloud Security Alliance, a non-profit advocated for cloud security standards.

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This is leakage from a well.

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While other attempts are planned to block the hole, it is probable that oil will continue to pour from it for another couple of months, until relief wells are drilled to intersect and reduce the pressure in the currently flowing well and cut-off the leakage of perhaps 50 million barrels of oil contained there by the injection of concrete deep into the seabed.

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And when you throw in carbon leakage in other industries as well as steel, the economics must tip further in the same direction.

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The U.S. military's attention was divided between two separate missions: the well-publicized humanitarian effort and a quieter campaign to assess the extent of leakage from Japan's troubled coastal reactors.

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Attempts to use new methods to contain just one of three leakage sites have met with little success, and the process of drilling a relief well will take two or three months.

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