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To get access doesn't mean you get access for free!

It's pretty clear that their business model is build on providing that feed to other companies and charging them for the data they provide to ehtir customers.

Not if you are buying SSD disks. SSD disks offer very good random read performance, so it does make sense to use them for non often accessed items.

You can all thank twitter for that. They only give access to their feed to a few selected buddy companies. It was just a matter of time until other sites follow and try to cash out on this!

I guess he never really had to work with Office or Outlook, or otherwise he would have known their advantages.

Firing him was just a logical consequence, since he didn't seem to do an awful lot of work.

So it took 3 months to fix that flaw which nearly put you into lifelong debt.

You should be angry as hell and not thanking them.

So why did you miss the plane? Was it your fault or the airlines?

If it was your fault, what do you expect to happen? If you travel by TGV in France and miss your train, your place is also gone and you have to buy a new ticket.

We too.

It's really cheap (but only on the price! :-)

And the advertised prices have 19% sales tax included, so it's even cheaper for companies :-)

Never change a running system!

I would never change my hosting company if I would be fully satisfied and I would only be saving 100$ a month.

It depends on what country you reside. In the USA, UK, Israel etc, you have a fair use clause and you might be allowed of doing it.

In other countries, alone the fact that you are storing the content (without publishing it) is blatant theft.

I would welcome it if they would give everybody access to their firehose api (against payment), and not just to their buddies...

Simpler to use (no external program to start and monitor) and to backup (just copy the sqlite file)

Thanks, we just got a fixed ip at work and I was wondering why the initial connection to our servers took longer than usual. Our new ip doesn't have a dns entry.

If you are a customer of Credit Suisse, you can also withdraw money at every single ATM in switzerland for free as often as you like!

At least one new feature in that service pack! :-)

It should be opt in, not opt out!

You can't also steal something in a store, just because the store didn't tell you not to steal something!

I think that you can do this under "fair use", but "fair use" doesn't exist in all countries in the world.

And google has to obey to local laws and local copyrights and not just to US law.

The google book case is just another thing that's going to backfire at google. The ignorant attitude of google making foreign books (books written by authors where it is clearly illegal by the law do scan in the books and make those freely searchable on the net) available to all US citizens, even though the authors don't want their books to be available trough google, will only create more hate against google.

- The Swedish IRS can claim whatever they want. They don't have access to the bank accounts on these islands, so how should they know if some of them are affilated to that company. - It is completely irrelevant if the TPB is making money or not. And I bet it does a hell lot, or otherwise they wouldn't been so keen to go to jail.

Thanks, I don't write comments to harvest karma, but just to state my opinion. :-)

To be honest, I hope these guys are going to jail.

You must be a fool to believe that they don't own the pirate bay anymore, or are not associated with the keyman islands shell company running the company.

Alone mininova disclosed making > 1 million of profit a year, piratebay's profit must be much bigger, all from the copyrighted works of others.

Most of you wouldn't support piratebay anymore if your program/source code showed up there, except if it's opensource.

He probably has to buy a new cdrom drive every second day.

They said they moved their servers to 3 availabilty zones and still had the same problems. What's the probably of having the same attack in 3 zones on a subnet you are randomly assigned to?

Besides, firing would definitely be a little harsh. Everybody deserves a 2nd chance.

You are naive. It's a dead simple system.

After all, amazon was right to tell them that everything was in order. As it was.

He should fire his sysadmin for not checking the in/out network traffic...

Interesting...

I can still remember that I talked to one of the founder guys of directed edge at a party at the web 2.0 conference in Berlin last year, and he was like "ooh, you are one of the few here having an interesting project".

His project wasn't uninteresting as well ;). Good luck!

jazzychad, how do you get the data?

Do you have access to the firehose feed?