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by tybris 16y ago
Probably just a BGP thing. The Internet is practically duct-taped together, sometimes the glue gets a little soft.
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by tybris 16y ago
Securecode was affected as well, which is the payment portal you need to go through for many on-line shops.
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by tybris 16y ago
Could this month get any better for Amazon? -It's December -Mastercard.com and Paypal.com went down making Amazon one of the few on-line shops that could still process payments -Since no Amazon service went down under DDoS, big companies wi
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by tybris 16y ago
Hating OOP is a little old. It's not hard to understand that nothing is a silver bullet, except for silver bullets.
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by tybris 16y ago
Depends on your business. If you need the ability to scale up rapidly, don't have much operational expertise or have high availability requirements, AWS is probably the cheapest option.
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by tybris 16y ago
16-year old kid who rarely ventures outside his parent's basement gets lifted off his seat by cops who threaten him with a lifetime in prison and he confesses? Preposterous.
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by tybris 16y ago
Ironically, this will be a major boost to Amazon's Christmas sales, since they don't rely on securecode.
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by tybris 16y ago
EC2 uses SOAP, no one cares.
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by tybris 16y ago
There's not really a very consistent AWS API. Some services are very restful, others are not.
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by tybris 16y ago
How do you know your new company wouldn't do the same thing in the same situation?
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by tybris 16y ago
They probably would have hurt themselves more by keeping wikileaks and becoming the center of attention during the Christmas period, receiving the fury of conservative America, and losing major government contracts.
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by tybris 16y ago
I'm not. If I objected to every company that ever did something morally questionable in the interest of their business I'd be naked, homeless and starve to death.
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by tybris 16y ago
> Single point of attack. They shut down your custom resolver, and they shut down your custom naming system. Also this proposal fails in terms of availability and resilience. Peer-to-peer networks are easy to overthrow completely even w
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by tybris 16y ago
What people fail to recognize is that inside the .com bubble was a solid pot of gold. Internet companies did change the world and became exceptionally profitable. The facts just got lost in the hysteria. Is Groupon a bubble? Sure. Is there
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by tybris 16y ago
Probably a wise move if you're making $0.5 billion/year 2 years after inception. They should be careful though, they don't have the kind of lock-in that many big Internet companies do. You could easily compete with them.
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by tybris 16y ago
Everyone appears to be assuming it's for political reasons. Quite possible, but it doesn't seem like there was any serious pressure so far and there could be lots of other reasons. ("Hey, our shared infrastructure is being DoS-ed because of
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by tybris 16y ago
Hmz, there are a lot of reasons why Amazon could have given them the boot (hitting usage limits due to DoS, payment problems, attacks on the whole Amazon infrastructure). I'd like to hear their story.
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by tybris 16y ago
Joke all you want, it appears the tables of what constitutes a free country have turned dramatically.
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by tybris 16y ago
How about tin foil underpants?
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by tybris 16y ago
GAE is web scale!
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by tybris 16y ago
Dropbox is one of many "applications built on top of S3/EC2". That's not an analogy, because you really don't need one. S3 is for developers, not users. Users don't care where Dropbox stores its files.
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by tybris 16y ago
Could you try to just say. "I'm a fan whatever they do!"? That would be a lot more sincere than trying to rationalize the fact that they just advertised the announcement of signing a contract with a half dead band as a day people would neve
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by tybris 16y ago
Uhm. S3 enabled Dropbox. By definition, it changed the world more than Dropbox.
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by tybris 16y ago
While the author does not seem to know much about computer security, he identified a legitimate threat. Brute force isn't so brute anymore.
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by tybris 16y ago
Did Google Wave fail? I thought it just started? Google mainly suffers from people (including those at Google) thinking that everything they do will be big from day 1. Even though that never happened to any of their other products.
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by tybris 16y ago
For those interested (Dutch speakers) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvcb5hJuEgU
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by tybris 16y ago
A Dutch comedian once described this as the church of Aliquid, for people who believe there is "something". Despite most people calling themselves non-religious, Aliquid turned out to be the most popular faith in the Netherlands.
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by tybris 16y ago
Again?
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by tybris 16y ago
> A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the
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by tybris 16y ago
That's a fairly standard linux feature (X+SSH), isn't it? Seems like Chrome OS going to be the long awaited commercialization of Linux for the desktop.

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