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PHP is a terrible language in which you can easily write code that will run basically anywhere. There are many cases (i.e. open source web apps) where the value of the latter vastly outweighs the former, but it's not going to be true for everyone.

Assuming you can find somewhere that sells the parts.

I thought not having a TV at all was the new status symbol. Mine isn't plugged into an aerial (just an HTPC) so I guess I'm half-hipster.

I went to a high school of >2500 in New Zealand and I found that with so many other people it was easy to find others that were like-minded. I'm sure some people were bullied but to me it barely registered - nothing at all like it's depicted in American TV shows or movies.

She set up a meeting at 2am? And you were awake and checking your work email at the time? You should have quit a long time before then.

Huh?

Please make it more obvious that this only works for US phone numbers

I don't get it. Do people give you shit for not drinking when you go to events? I've never had any problem when I decide I don't feel like drinking that day. You say you don't want to tell people what to do, but you want them to stop drinking?

"Ever" is a very long time. I'm sure you're also familiar with the Bill Gates quote

I believe OP was meaning that the storage requirements for compressed video are already increasing at a huge rate, and it's exacerbated if you are working with uncompressed video

I'm a web developer, so while security is obviously a huge concern, it's not my main area of expertise. I don't have the knowledge to evaluate the pros and cons of each cipher, and the situations in which it's appropriate to use each one.

It would be wonderful if someone with more knowledge of the subject could throw up a 1-page site with an appropriate security choice (or a few choices with situations in which each would be more acceptable) for a given range of situations, to establish a 'sane default', taking into account their availability on a number of platforms and programming languages.

For example:

  Need to sign a message? Use HMAC-SHA1
  Need to checksum a file? Use SHA-1
  Need to hash a password? Use bcrypt
  Need to transmit data over a network? Use SSH2
  Need to secure HTTP? Use SSL 1.2 with (these ciphers in order of preference)
  Need to secure home WiFi? Use WPA2-PSK
  Need to encrypt files? Use GnuPG
  Need to do (this type) of encryption? Use CBC. For (this type), use ECB
  Need to create a TrueCrypt volume? Use (this cipher) with (this many) bits.

There's only 2 connections to the USA at the moment, and SCC charges monopoly prices. There is another AU<>NZ<>USA connection being built in 2014 and another AU<>NZ connection built in 2013 (the 2 grey lines). Southern Cross already dropped their prices 44% in response.

A similar thing happened in New Zealand (and likely elsewhere) in the late 90's, before broadband became prevalent. There were a number of ISP's who provided free dial-up internet, because they made money from termination fees when the majority of people called from a large telco to their smaller one. Eventually the large telco reached a commercial agreement and the service was scrapped, but it was good while it lasted.

Wait, what? Pay Cloudflare $20 a month to avoid a $100/year SSL certificate?

I quite like DDG but from my region (NZ) it's just too slow compared to Google. I look forward to when you're big enough to have datacentres in Auckland or even Sydney.

I've found it works about half the time. Still good enough for me to bother checking. They have a bookmarklet.

So after all that, what encoder are you using?

I think buying a car on credit may be an American thing - at least I don't know of anyone who has bought a car on credit. It seems like an absurd waste of money to do so - why not just buy a secondhand car you can afford outright?

And here's information on how increasing speed increases conversion:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/velocity-making-your-site-f...

So potentially, the money you save by hosting overseas is lost in lower conversion.

Here's a post by someone in AU demonstrating the effects of latency on web traffic - 10x slowdown.

http://mike.bailey.net.au/2010/07/latency-is-a-killer/

I'm actually in NZ, it might be different in AU, but generally when you buy colocation here you only pay for international bandwidth; national bandwidth is free.

It may just be that hosting overseas is inappropriate for a local audience - a connection to the USA is far slower than a connection in the same city.

For example, from my work on a fibre connection, pinging a local website takes about 2ms, and a US website about 160ms. Double that for residential DSL.

Also, national bandwidth is essentially free, and bandwidth to the USA is $$$.

"Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S."

Not available to all.

You did not completely censor the last screenshot.

It means you know where the plane is going to be before it gets there, if you didn't already know. As in, you're planning ahead, rather than reacting to what's happening. Which I would imagine takes a lot of experience at 1900 knots.

NZ has expensive (and not particularly fast) internet, which is probably why. On the other hand, setting up a limited-liability company took me an hour (including registering for GST) and cost $40 when I did it (it's a little more now), and costs nothing to renew. And the time zone difference means we're often working when the US is sleeping, which can be handy when you're deploying a new version of a production site for a US audience.