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related: "Google deflects PR firm's attack of Gmail privacy" http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2011-05-06-google_n.htm

- Email, contacts, calendar, etc. live in Google apps.

- Photos (raw files), Music, old docs live on my Mac Mini "server" on an external drive, and get backed up via Time Machine to a 2nd external drive (to guard against single drive failure). I also use Backblaze as an off-site backup on my laptop + mini.

I was using Mozy as offsite backup, but since they recently changed their pricing, the cost went from $50/year to about $800/year so I switched to backblaze. We'll see how long they last at their lower prices...

Not one mention of SubEthaEdit, which has been around for years and is awesome:

http://www.subethaedit.net/

A collaborative code editor for mac.

Maybe something like: the state has been poor so is cutting back on officers, so the ones left have to work tons of overtime to make up for it?

If that's the case, then what's the difference between paying crazy overtime vs. hiring more officers.

whoops, just realized that should say "Google has always been FOR net neutrality".

Or, the link was shared within YouTube/Google quite a bit.

Google is 12 today.

"But much worse was that, even when these titles loaded, there was no way to control most of the action. Most games required keyboard or mouse actions I simply could not perform on my phone, even with its QWERTY slider. One shooter wanted me to hit the CTRL key to fire; another asked for the left mouse button."

Is this guy serious? He goes to play a game that was clearly built for a computer and blames Flash because it's not playable on his phone that doesn't have a keyboard?

> The article mentions potential 3d video services as a possible business model on the Internet.

"The internet" is covered in the proposal. This mythical 3d video service would have to be outside of the internet - a completely new service.

If verizon wants to create this new service, and use up all their available bandwidth on it (and therefore reducing their available internet bandwidth) then that is their choice, but I imagine their customers would just switch to a different ISP that offers better speed.

> They were for censorship in China before they were against it.

No. Google tolerated it, but was never "for" censorship.

> They were for net neutrality until Verizon offered to cut them a deal.

What? Google has always been against net neutrality. In fact, this new policy proposal helps net neutrality. The main thing people seem to be mad about is that it doesn't go far enough. So how exactly does that make them evil again?

I thought we were talking about startups, here, not investment bank jobs.

100% agree with this - in fact I was about to make the same comment. Many user agents allow you to request the users location these days, why not do it automatically, or even use their IP to figure it out?

Data centers usually don't have very many on-site employees, though. I think the idea here is to move the labor to the US.

Just use google docs:

https://docs.google.com/drawings/edit?id=1ViOs4u4_uaPoDzwnd4...

Not sure why it matters so much to you, but for the record, most managers in google are also software engineers. John's earned that title, let him use it.

I think you are missing the key point: Apple wants people to use their fancy devices more, not less.

You spend this money on this awesome device that does awesome things, Apple makes money when you use it (via iAds, via google searches, via many things) and AT&T is saying to their customers "don't use your device too much!"

I'm betting Steve is totally pissed off at AT&T right now.

Also think about what you'd do with the hay once you manage to somehow collect it. You'd have all this hazardous waste that you'd have to end up burying or burning.

Sounds like the existing boats + tools they have work fine for cleaning it up, it's just a matter of scale. The real problem is that the leak is huge, and there's just craploads of oil to clean up.

> True. Though I imagine that if all the networks started to enforce draconian traffic rules, there would be an opportunity for smaller, local startups (or a large well funded one) to offer an unrestricted Internet. I'm thinking Sir Richard Branson could start an ISP in that niche, Virgin Internet...

Not if they use the infrastructure of the larger companies to connect to their customers. Then the larger companies end up throttling the smaller company (and hence all of their clients)

> That's exactly the sort of thing that is fine with me. Bit torrent isn't http traffic.

Replace "Bit Torrent" with any other video on demand service. Now Comcast is slowing down or blocking people who compete directly with their ondemand video service.

Maybe bit torrent turns out to be a great video delivery system for a would-be competitor, but they'll never get off the ground because their would-be customers can't get decent download speeds when they connect from comcast.

This blog post is very misinformed. "YouTube" did not take down the videos. The copyright owner requested that they be removed.

The blog post seems to think that YouTube/Google should fight for the people who created/uploaded these parodies, but that's not YouTube's place.

If the owner/uploader of a parody wants to contest the takedown, they can do so (it's pretty easy to contest it if one of your videos is taken down due to this). The real problem is the copyright law is fuzzy when it comes to "fair use" and many people aren't willing to risk an expensive lawsuit just to keep a video on YouTube.

So send an angry letter to your congressman, not YouTube.

Am I the only one that immediately thought of Wall-E when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad?

As I understand it, every website you visit goes through Opera's servers to be compressed + processed. Isn't this a privacy issue? When Chrome came out and started doing query suggest (and sending your typing to google, etc.) people got all uppity about privacy, but I haven't seen one person mention privacy issues w/ the opera browser.

Additionally, as a website owner, wouldn't this skew your user stats, since the request would come from Opera's servers and not directly from the phone (not 100% sure about this, but that's how it seems like it would work).

> Unvealing prettyLoader, a solution aimed to unify ajax loaders

Do ajax preloaders have a history of having too much veal?

You haven't heard of the new startup fad of being "Kacquired" ?

This is great, but I wish it supported "find"

Hi!

On the other hand, I bet google's CDN has better uptime than your server does.

So then by this reasoning, YouTube would be ok if they allowed any content and not just videos?

I just checked directnic.com, and they seem to store passwords in clear text as well (if you retreive your password, they email it to you(!))

Exactly, how is this different from copying the article to a blog or something?