originalgeek

I ran the find command suggested by the OP, and it came up with a long list of files -- all names that I had intentionally and manually deleted. It seems when one of my "other" machines booted up, it put 0 byte files back in their place. A review of the file's history, by clicking Dropbox -> Browse on Dropbox Website shows the original file, the day I deleted it, then a few minutes later, a 0 byte file added back.

I am a parent, and apparently, you can't read. I quite narrowed my statement to cover situations where THE CHILD IS INJURED. Not when the child is throwing a tantrum, or trying to negotiate. WHEN INJURED. CAN YOU READ IT IN CAPS?

What a terrible example of parenting. When your baby is crying as the result of an injury, you should stay with them and comfort them until their pain has subsided and they stop crying.

"facefook" - I'm gonna remember that one.

Seems like he screwed up royally then, seeing how the previous president's plan was to make sure the son of his business associates stayed alive.

I believe they simply paid someone enough to give up the goods.

That's not exactly true. You'll get torched on a chargeback if you didn't match the CVV code.

You are making an assumption that PSN is not storing the CVV code, and may be incorrect. Though PCI guidelines explicitly forbid storing this field, there are some who flout the guidelines.

To answer your question, it is similar to places like Starbucks, that do not require a signature when you make a purchase. In such cases, the merchant has cut a deal where they agree in advance to accept all chargebacks without dispute.

I know how nginx works, I use it all the time. He is saying if you have 1024 woker_connections, at 2 per connections per user, you'll get 512 users per worker process. But the truth with most modern browsers is it is 4 connections per user, woker_connections = 1024, that is more like 256 users. So if you really want to service 512 users, you need to set woker_connections to 2048. This is the math problem I was highlighting, a simple division problem.

I believe you are talking about worker_processes

Dude has a much better attitude about it than some other guys who ended up in a similar situation. (The Konfabulator tantrum comes to mind)

I think he's got a little math problem. Many browsers will open up to 4 connections (possibly more, if config tweaked) to overlap requests for content, so you might want to consider this when configuring your worker_connections.

> What "the hell" should he have done?

There are numerous forms of communication available. Send the email again 3 times asking for escalation to a supervisor. Call them. Send them a letter. Send them a certified letter with return receipt. This is how grown ups conduct business.

> After about two weeks, I received no response to either email. I decided to start operating the site, thinking they wanted to see something working before spending time on a response.

I don't follow the logic here... no response != assume whatever the hell you feel like.

Maybe it's all about the lulz until the lulz are about them.

Just a guess: they don't think they can reasonably hire people from the Turk to do support.

Hey, they clicked "Accept" on the TOS. Perhaps they should have read it thoroughly first, and made sure whomever was doing the web design understood the boundaries. A contract is a contract. It's not "let's agree to do this until I violate it and call you a meanie"

I'm seeing a much different narrative, which is very interesting to me. It is the continuing narrative about Dropbox and security. Last week it was the revelation that their crypto is backdoored. This week it is the revelation that their devs are piggybacking ACL functionality onto their dedupe hashing algorithm. I'm seeing a pattern here, that your files are nowhere near as safe on Dropbox as you think they are, nor as safe as Dropbox represents them to be.

Wonder what the next headline is going to be.

I think it's ironic that in the face of this failure, people are scrambling to figure out how to give Amazon more money.

There is an upper-tier "club" on Amazon, you can see it alluded to indirectly in various SC help files. Maybe these guys get away with more than we do.

It's too late for RMS. Once a pickle, never a cucumber.

> My preferred explanation for bordeebook’s pricing is that they do not actually possess the book.

There's only one problem with this theory. The Amazon TOS requires sellers to have inventory before they can sell inventory. And they will ban you for life for violating that.

Hauling people away in handcuffs is a much more potent deterrent than randomly shaking people down for a few grand.

> Because Bitcoin is an open-source project, and because the database exists only in the distributed peer-to-peer network created by its users, there is no Bitcoin company to raid, subpoena or shut down.

Which will leave only Bitcoin users to raid, subpoena and shut down.

My original mentor told me there are three types of clients never to work for: lawyers, doctors, and the government. The rationale: lawyers can sue you as easily as you can write code, doctors don't pay, and the government can impose a 7 year wait on any check they issue.

That's not a time bomb, and if it is written in the contract, you are golden. But pop up a surprise denial of software, and you may be looking at felony computer intrusion charges.

I have found the suite of "projects" from R-fx Networks to be fairly effective and easy to deploy:

http://www.rfxn.com/projects/

I'd call bullshit on the "accounting practices" smokescreen and send them packing. What's next? I get billed for computer time by the hour because they wanted the 12-Core Mac Pro?

But more than that, they way I view someone like that is someone who would rather nickel and dime me to death than to just just honestly charge the rate they need to charge. I would feel there were going to be numerous little surprise charges on their invoices. And being a hired gun myself, who started out as a nickel-and-dimer, I would view the individual or agency as lacking in experience.

I disagree. I expect a professional to show up with the tools of their trade, and be ready to work.

If it's a joke/urban legend, then Snopes has been caught with their pants down.

> In fact I'm going to reveal a secret : physically, desktop SATA drives are exactly the same as professional grade 24/24h operation-guaranteed SATA drives. When they fall off the assembly line, they're tested for reliability and performance. Over a certain threshold, a drive is deemed professional and receive the pro firmware; under the bar, it's a desktop drive.

This may be true in some circumstances, however I have observed that enterprise drives from some vendors have a larger heatsink volume than the consumer drives, and also weigh a little more.