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by opendais 12y ago
Raytheon, Lockheed, and Boeing all hire ex-Pentagon/Defense officials as well so the official "lobbying #s" are probably low for all of them. ;) I think Palantir's goal is to burn as hot as it can for as long as it can,
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by opendais 12y ago
They do NLP analysis of social media feeds [Facebook, Twitter, etc] which is one of the products Palantir sells to Governments already to find "terrorists".
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by opendais 12y ago
Thanks for explaining. :) Anything I have that uses that level of disk i/o I don't run in a VPS which would explain why I've never noticed before.
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by opendais 12y ago
It is always DO vs. Linode because both are relatively stable, relatively good for their price points. Tbh, the only real reason I use Linode over DO is the fact I've seen higher restarts on my DO nodes and the fact I've attracted
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes, but that is a MWS issue not an AWS issue.
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by opendais 12y ago
I'm amused by the downvotes combined with the unwillingness to define "full line".
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by opendais 12y ago
Ah, but it was Amazon selling the product, not the vendor. The vendor claims Amazon revoked the keys so when you try to activate the product it was unusable without using a crack.
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by opendais 12y ago
That isn't true. I've had to issue chargebacks when Amazon's vendor and Amazon couldn't come to an understanding and I never received the software product w/o a revoked key.
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by opendais 12y ago
Ya, I am surprised by that too. I'd create one but I'd feel guilty. My ads cover my costs.
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by opendais 12y ago
To be fair, the stuff you are talking about is targeted malware. The odds of people being actively targeted rather than passively surveilled is orders of magnitude in difference. Everyone is being passively watched at some level, even if it
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by opendais 12y ago
Eh? What do you consider "full line"? I'm pretty sure Netflix uses it due to the highly variable usage situation. It never makes sense to have a server sitting idle for 23 hours a day.
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by opendais 12y ago
I'm not 30 yet but I suspect I'll still be playing video games at 30 too. ;) They are fun to relax and no worse than TV. :D http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm 2.8hrs of TV / day is the average
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by opendais 12y ago
They probably assume you have to pay for 24/7 DC tech / sysadmin types to do the racking, setup, etc. that AWS automates and are factoring it into the price. To be fair, that is part of the cost. However, unless you are really big
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by opendais 12y ago
I think we really need to stick with 1 year, unless a court action is pending. I think we should also require the NSA, etc. to reveal their NSL, etc. after 1 year.
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by opendais 12y ago
Folks, I strongly, strongly suggest if you use Cloud/VPS providers to look into something like Cassandra, Galera, Mongo, etc. that can do WAN replication and using 3 DCs. Yes it costs money but things like this are avoidable. Every s
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by opendais 12y ago
Linode has price matched them so its not a price issue anymore. [e.g. $10 Linode is roughly the same as $10 DO] Glad to see the ProjectWonderful ads providing something, even if its small btw. :)
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by opendais 12y ago
Really? I find that odd. I do load testing on their instances all the time. which maxes out cpu/disk to give me an idea of performance changes for stuff I have high throughput on. Hell, I've gotten DDoS'd for like 2 Gbps and
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by opendais 12y ago
.....no? http://nypost.com/2014/02/26/taxi-medallion-auctioned-for-re... http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/05/05/munis-taxi-meda... They are normally sold by the city
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by opendais 12y ago
It is more likely that Uber will end up having to pay for a taxi medallion or equivalent to maintain government revenues.
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by opendais 12y ago
Perhaps but the Hotels have the Transitional Shelter Assistance (TSA) program in regards to disasters as well. So its not like it is something special or unique. http://www.fema.gov/public-assistance-local-state-tribal-and..
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by opendais 12y ago
Good luck with that. Even the credit reporting companies get confused and can't figure out who I am accurately. And I actively help them since I like having credit cards and the ability to get mortgage loans.
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by opendais 12y ago
I never said they were supposed to care. :P
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by opendais 12y ago
It is because the people with MBAs and the people on the Board don't really care that much . They'll protest and engage in a little bit of legal action but they don't want to go all out to fight it.
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by opendais 12y ago
I don't use Facebook.
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by opendais 12y ago
Do not use cPanel. Its security is disastrous.
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by opendais 12y ago
This. Very much this. That said, I wouldn't trust lowendtalk.com too much if you want stability. If you are seriously contemplating a $300 budget, you can get away with $60 on Linode or Digital Ocean and have much, much better stabilit
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by opendais 12y ago
If you embarrass powerful people, they will bring all of their power down on you like a ton of bricks if they can. I just hope the pranksters don't end up in jail.
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by opendais 12y ago
They'd open them inside VMs without networking. Try phoning home inside a setup like that setup by a professional hacker. ...ya I don't think you'll phone home either. You have to realize these hackers are people who have to
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by opendais 12y ago
That used to be true but they have been collecting sales tax the past few years.
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes, they are going to have to raise their margins at some point and there is no guarantee it can be done without costing them more business than they can afford. AWS is already pricey for what it offers. Raising the margin on Amazon.com&#x

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