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  1. Re:I feel so out of date! on CloudFlare's IPFS Gateway Makes it Easy To Create Distributed Web Sites (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Becuase the content is not hosted by Cloudflare - it's just a proxy. You can use many other means to access IPFS data.

  2. I do not see the point on Cryptocurrency's 80 Percent Plunge Is Now Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is the 4th or 5th time it's plunged like this(percentage basis) since 2010. Why is the outcome this time different? more participants? more awareness? higher market caps? all of those things also bring along new players, lobbyists, proponents and capability to ensure the cycle repeats at some point.

  3. Re:Marketing Scam on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Shakeology from beachbody has been that for years now.

  4. Re:Marketing Scam on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Oh, a "balanced" substance? That's never, ever, been thought of before in the food/dietary/fitness/supplement industry. The more I read the more it's just social marketing.

  5. Re:Marketing Scam on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    You missed my point: there are literally thousands of powdered supplement mixes out there that contain all different types of blends/mixtures of various compounds, minerals, vitamins, amino, etc. there are even some that have whey, soy, casein, etc. as part of the blend.

  6. Marketing Scam on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is this different from any of the thousands of MRPs(Whey shakes, post workout shakes, etc.) already on the market? Sounds like a gimmicky marketing strategy.

  7. It's pretty simple actually - Do Some Evil. on Facebook Deletes Social Fixer Community Page Without Explanation · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As a company providing APIs and encouraging development on your platform is great as long as you maintain control. The problem with APIs is apps can, provided the APIs provide enough of the right data, totally remove your influence in favor of the developer using your APIs. I first saw this Social Fixer app a few weeks back and I immediately thought "finally, someone that will remind us who owns facebook: the users." Facebook will have no revenue if they cannot monetize the marketing of their site, and with free APIs they can't do that. Paid APIs? Devs want free access, so you'll kill your dev community if you start charging.

  8. Re:Say what you will on Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's expensive. "Cloud" hosting services cost about 1.5x traditional hosting. When you want multiple locations("regions" in aws) you need to pay for resources in each additional region, then pay another cost to provide that failover. Cloud hosting is great, but it's nothing it does is new or cheaper than hosting 10 years ago.

  9. Re:Say what you will on Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, company's customers go down on YOU!

    so dirty...

  10. Re:antiquated system on New, Privacy-Oriented, FOSS Web-mail: Mailpile · · Score: 1

    we've actually had a lot of new mail-only hosting customers for over the past 2 years. The consolidation of email to the freemail providers is overrated.

  11. Re:Troll much, slashdot? on Using Java In Low Latency Environments · · Score: 1

    mod parent troll, or just -1 ignorant.

  12. Re:They are both as good on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Netbeans - Eclipse sucks.


    So does emacs. (vi!!!!)


    something something something LAWN!

  13. Re:The first online appliance that non-geeks disco on Timothy Lord Discovers the Good Night Lamp at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    I don't buy that argument - we've had IP appliances(Fridges, home security systems) for the better part of a decade. We've had alarm clocks that get global time information sync'd for decades. Connected appliances, and recently on-line appliances are not innovative.

  14. Bubble Tracking on Timothy Lord Discovers the Good Night Lamp at CES (Video) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    More than anything I was interested to figure out what the leading indicators of the next industry bubble would be(after being in college during the 90s.com fun). My takeaway from this is while it's a fun gimmick, it's a solution looking for a problem. The fact it's getting traction in conversation is fascinating and provides greater insight than the concept itself.

  15. Re:Freemium at its best on Facebook Tests the Waters With Paid Perks · · Score: 2

    You get what you pay for. Facebook has no SLA and has no obligation to provide you service at any level.

  16. Re:YAY! on Bug Busters! OpenBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    it's probably the most relevant OSS OS project out there. How many other projects have cultivated as much new software? Hell, most of the new shit in the Linux Kernel came from OpenBSD....

  17. I miss RubiCon....

  18. AT&T isn't really advertising falsely, the data is unlimited. The speeds are limited.

    They should be ordered to clarify their advertising and say "3G speed up to 2GB" or similar.

    It's misleading at-best.

  19. Re:Duh? on AT&T Threatens To Shut Off Service of Customer Who Won Throttling Case · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have no love for AT&T and I'm glad the guy won, but if one of my customers sued me, I'd drop them in a heartbeat!

    If you're not falsely-advertising your services, then you have nothing to worry about.

    We run a hosting company and have been putting up with this for years. We provide underloaded servers that have packages with hard limits to prevent abuse and to ensure people get what they pay for. All these "unlimited" hosting plans have been scams from day-1 and we're glad someone is finally getting held to task for the dumbing down of the market.

  20. Re:+696% so far? on MIT Blackjack King Takes SMTP Public · · Score: 1

    Their market cap right now is $50k - I have more in my 401k.....

  21. Re:RIMM Put Contracts on RIM Collapse Beginning? · · Score: 2

    A whole 67 contracts? Are you kidding me?

  22. Re:Won't touch the cloud now. on Amazon EC2 Failure Post-Mortem · · Score: 1

    Cloud computing is a marketing architecture, not a technical architecture.


    Cloud computing is a form of shared hosting, just with more encapsulation; Clouds fall over the same way a server can fall over. It's hard to blame "The Cloud" when the reality is the people that were suckered in by obtuse, non-specific marketing are the ones at fault. The argument can even be made that Clouds are worse becuase instead of many discreet isolated servers you start sharing more single points of failure, which lead to IO bottlenecks, etc.

  23. Re:Best IDE Out There on NetBeans 7.0 Is Now Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://jvi.sourceforge.net/ parent was close. The best part of NB is how light-weight the modules are: NB was built to be a platform from day-1; has epic other language support.(php, ruby, python, C, etc...)

  24. Best IDE Out There on NetBeans 7.0 Is Now Available · · Score: 1

    I like vi. I like NB. Been using it since it was Forte - so much less-bloated than Eclipse. Kudos NB Team and please keep it up.

  25. Computer Science != IT on Computer Science Enrollment Up 10% Last Fall · · Score: 4, Interesting

    CS is the study of discrete math and algorithms, not writing code. We didn't have a single class during my undergrad on writing code - things like C and Java were used to describe algorithms but we were expected to learn the languages on our own time, if we didn't already know them.