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I'm pretty sure there are other search engines that would still be available.

Of course it can, given how many useful open source solutions are available nowadays.

Considering the total cost of 6000$ for a single server, you would be dropping 12k from the get-go for two servers (though you should really lease over a 12 month period if you can't afford it) and then you need to add colo costs for the machines, which can be around 300-400$ per machine in a single unit colocation environment, depending on your location. This brings us to 21600$ in the first year for two machines colocated in separate datacenters, without any sysadmin costs;

The article states S3 would cost 60,000$ per year, and this doesn't include any bandwidth costs, whereas the colocation setup would include some decent bandwidth per month. Over time, it's easy to see how a lot of money can be saved.

Also, S3 is designed for 99.99% availability, but they only guarantee 99.9% through SLA, which isn't extremely spectacular. Hitting 99.9% isn't particularly hard if you have a sys admin worth his salt to set things up right, and with your own solution you can have more direct access to the file system as well as the ability to adhere to any regulations.

Building your own storage can provide the same redundancy and reliability. You can still use a CDN as well.

Got J.R.R. Tolkien, pleasantly surprised.

I'm not entirely too sure how good EyeNetra is compared to the equipment found in your optometrist's office, as well as how accurate it is.

> Or, is it simply that people don't choose random, long passwords?

That's always part of the problem.

The same assumed fate?

So I get huge speeds, virtually no i/o wait and when I delete something I can be sure it's gone forever? The only problem left to solve is huge capacities for these devices at relatively affordable prices.

32GB per node and only two SATA drives in RAID-1? Sounds like IO wait might be pretty high on nodes that are filled up.

Google has set a maximum contribution of $1,000,000 associated with the Google Chrome for a Cause extension. You agree Google may change this maximum contribution at its sole discretion.

From: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cause/tos/

Since UK2 doesn't really have a CDN product themselves, as they resell HighWinds and Level3, their interest is a bit lower as opposed to SoftLayer which has million dollar contracts signed with InterNAP for connectivity and DC space, which also sells content delivery.

My guess is it's not really about kicking out the competition but mostly the fact that they can't realistically offer the said bandwidth for the advertised price, which is far too low for a quality network blend.

It's wrong to assume that Comcast does not send a lot of upstream traffic. They actually sell IP transit at relatively small prices.

This doesn't really work all the time, as some of them are skimming through the description for this sort of stuff.

If it really needs to scale: AWS EC2

For DNS: Dnsmadeeasy.

For low latency content delivery: Akamai

For dirt cheap makeshift content delivery: several servers from 478east

For servers that need lots of RAM(>24GB) on the cheap: webnx

I found that a small apartment in NY was around 2500 or more, and in roughly the same area airbnb had something for 1800, plus the whole social experience if you're into that.

The charges were for copyright violations. It was merely a way to tell them to stop, as Blizzard has done this in the past, having lawyers show up to the doors of people making or promoting wow emulators.

Their progress was hindered http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100197-Blizzard-Su.... The costs of a lawyer will likely stop anyone from continuing to crack it, since I'm guessing these guys are mostly computer science students having some fun.

I thought it was the Latin term for Curriculum Vitae.

No, you're not.

I've jumped to the conclusions on the article and this puzzled me:

"The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content."

Because media outlets are forced to make their videos available to the iPhone without being able to use Flash, this means that Flash is no longer needed?

To give people a rough idea, the 1055T X6 scores 5960 points on average in the PassMark benchmark while the i7 980X scores 10165.

As always, benchmarks are not useful for deciding how your application will perform on a certain CPU and you should do some tests for yourself, but considering the huge difference in this synthetic benchmark, I'd say some people would be willing to pay difference.

Some notes:

1. This pricing subject to a 24 month contract and an installation fee.

2. They only guarantee this speed locally(read: within the network), so they're not getting 1000mbps everywhere.

If it was a secure page it would be a-okay, right?

A word of warning: their servers are in Europe, so if you happen to be far from the Netherlands, it might be slow.

As mentioned on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/bo623/i_wrote_to_...), this may likely be a screw-up by a secretary, as the letter does make sense aside from this problem.

I believe this is more related to some of the peering relationships Google currently has. While it was a good idea to peer with Google in the past to benefit your customers, right now they are probably upset that their free peering arrangements are putting quite a bit of stress on their networks and it is quite understandable to want to start charging some money.

They probably have a higher quality recording than the one posted to youtube.

Perhaps they could try making it more personal by changing it to "Talk to someone about this, call 1-800-273-8255" or something similar.

Near some bridges there are signs that say "There is hope, make the call".

ICANN is likely to step in, should they attempt to make cash off of IPs.

Sorry for breaking it, but you really should make sure you convert special characters to HTML entities.