I saw an analysis of their Terms of Service somewhere, indicating that they will only compensate up to the value of the service paid. So, if your service was $100/mo, they'd only compensate you for the downtime you experienced, or up to that month's service charge of $100.
If Linode cares about Bitcoin, it will find a way to compensate its users. Otherwise, if the users who lost money are up to it, I'm sure there is at least one lawyer out there willing to be counsel on the first case involving theft of a digital currency, testing whether or not the data/rights to data stolen are legitimate property of legal value. We supporters of Bitcoin say, "Of course!" but it's not until there's a legal precedent that we really can say that.
Or, Linode can sit behind its ToS and test contract law.
Or, the users can vote with their money and leave Linode and tell others why they're leaving.
At least in my eyes, that I would ever consider Linode in the future is hanging in the balance, and they've previously always had a good reputation in my mind. I would venture that there are plenty of other like-minded geeks out there. Given that Linode's market is primarily we geeks, I believe it behooves them to do the right thing and compensate for the losses.
All it takes is another SKU. Stores that do price matching do it by SKU, right? So, by each store having their own SKU, no one has to match. Moreover, adding a store-specific SKU adds another layer to any ShopSavvy or Amazon PriceCheck style apps that look up prices across multiple stores by SKU. Those apps will have to find some kind of "master product" and identify all of the SKUs associated with it and ensure that the end-user understands the differences.
Back when the G1 came out, I'd just moved to a big city and didn't know my way around. Within *days* of getting the phone, it paid for itself with Google Maps Navigation.
I don't use it as much any more since i know my way around, but it helped more than any GPS device would when I was searching for a house. I could load up Zillow and Trulia and find every house around me that was for sale and go check them out.
Other commenters have already cited the value it brings in being able to check email and whatnot. Some folks say that they don't want to have email on their phone -- especially work email -- because they don't want to feel obligated to check it. It's more of willpower check -- if you can't discipline yourself, then don't add the account.
But yeah, it's probably worth it if you find yourself spending "hours" getting caught up on your digital lifestyle each day, when you could spend 1-2 minutes once or twice an hour and spread your tasks out over the day.
How much is cached? Yeah, initial page load sucks terribly, but how much has to be loaded on subsequent page requests?
How many copies of jQuery and etc. do people have cached on their machines?
It almost feels like we need dependency managers for browsers! I mean, I know there is the Google hosted stuff and other projects urge you to use their hosted version and fallback on a local copy.
Imagine if you could only put Campbell's Soup in your soup bowl, or only put Folgers coffee in your Folgers-branded coffee mug.
If there's no reason for a restriction on what I can do with the hardware I buy, other than restricting consumer choice, there's no reason for the restriction. If I can make something do what it wasn't intended to do, and it's not negatively harming others, why should I be deprived of my right to make it do that thing it wasn't meant to do?
I work from home every now and then (more often, recently). Last year, I wrote my own rules for working from home. Are there any other solid ones I should include?
I'll bet most of that cash went into the rounds and rounds of planning and back-and-forth that come with ANY government project planning process, followed by user testing and compliance analysis. The actual coding process was probably less than 10% of the cost. That's still high, but gov't contractors are very well compensated.
If I create a simple, one page site the terms of service of which simply say "you are not permitted to use this web site unless you are Rinisari", I could turn them over to the authorities because they've committed a crime?
The burden of preserving the "sanctity" of copyrights and patents has always fallen on the holder. This ensures that the holder is earnest in keeping their government-sanctioned property to themselves. It's simply a problem of our court system that enforcing these rights has become very expensive.
Are they going to airdrop people who can teach them how to use this technology from the heavens? Some tools are intuitive. To people who have never seen a computers or even really much technology at all, computers are not.
No one should have thought that this We the People thing would bring about any measurable change. It's an exercise in false hope of efficacy in the legislative/executive process. 150k signatures supporting marijuana legalization/reform and the best answer they could come up with is a bunch of scare tactics and anti-drug rhetoric based around studies that were ineffective and the lack of studies because of the nature of the substance being tested.
You want real change for marijuana policy? Run for local office, get people to support you, and defeat the incumbents who stand in your way. Get the local laws to support your goals and work your way up the chain.
As for the education funding reform response, it's just pushing the Obama administration's education agenda. The petition signed by 32k visitors called for a bailout of recent graduates as the best economic stimulus possible for that generation. The response is nothing more than what you'd expect to receive from a Congressperson when you write vehemently in favor of or opposing a piece of legislation: the Congressperson will summarize the bill, summarize their position, and essentially say "thank you for your feedback".
Again, if you want real reform, get elected and don't let yourself get corrupted. Good luck; you'll need it.
I for one would like to see an objective comparison of the two. I mean, I'm not about to re-rip everything I have as FLAC using ALAC or convert from one format to the other unless there are significant advantages.
I don't know about the BATFE, but I know that the TSA is out in his plan. It'll be privatized, or, really, returned to the airports and the airlines' responsibilities.
Let's assume 25M subscribers at the standard DVD + Streaming plan, which I believe was $11/mo. We can chop off a few zeros and still get the same effect, so let's do that and keep our math simple.
25 * 11 = 275
I think the cheapest is now $16 for both, so let's figure out what they'd be making if everyone who stayed kept the same plan at the higher rate.
24 * 16 = 384
Let's derive a quick formula.
(24 - x) * 16 + x * 8, where x is the number of people who choose DVD/or/ streaming.
24 * 16 = 384 = (24 - 0) * 16 + 0 * 8
Now, let's solve for 275, to assume they'd be making the same amount.
275 = (24 - x) * 16 + x * 8
I put this into my handy equation solver because I'm too lazy to work it out in my head and can't find paper/pen...
x = 109/8, or 13.625.
Netflix could go down to 10.375M users of the DVD+streaming, and have 13.625M users of one or the other and still make the same amount of money.
Methinks Netflix did their math beforehand. They're going to be making bank, and savvy shareholders are buying now on this dip on bad news. Happens every time. Netflix is here to stay, for as long as the content owners will allow it to exist.
I would pay extra for it through not cable. If I could drop another $2-3/mo on my Netflix subscription to have Syfy's entire back catalog and new shows available day-of-release on Netflix, I'd do it in a second.
And I haven't had cable, thus not watched Syfy except at friends' houses or on Netflix since 2007.
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I saw an analysis of their Terms of Service somewhere, indicating that they will only compensate up to the value of the service paid. So, if your service was $100/mo, they'd only compensate you for the downtime you experienced, or up to that month's service charge of $100.
If Linode cares about Bitcoin, it will find a way to compensate its users. Otherwise, if the users who lost money are up to it, I'm sure there is at least one lawyer out there willing to be counsel on the first case involving theft of a digital currency, testing whether or not the data/rights to data stolen are legitimate property of legal value. We supporters of Bitcoin say, "Of course!" but it's not until there's a legal precedent that we really can say that.
Or, Linode can sit behind its ToS and test contract law.
Or, the users can vote with their money and leave Linode and tell others why they're leaving.
At least in my eyes, that I would ever consider Linode in the future is hanging in the balance, and they've previously always had a good reputation in my mind. I would venture that there are plenty of other like-minded geeks out there. Given that Linode's market is primarily we geeks, I believe it behooves them to do the right thing and compensate for the losses.
Ahem. Four candidates.
Paul
Romney
Santorum
oh
and Gingrich. Everyone forgets him.
It kinda sounds like you're getting to the point at which you need to monetize, if you can legally do so.
All it takes is another SKU. Stores that do price matching do it by SKU, right? So, by each store having their own SKU, no one has to match. Moreover, adding a store-specific SKU adds another layer to any ShopSavvy or Amazon PriceCheck style apps that look up prices across multiple stores by SKU. Those apps will have to find some kind of "master product" and identify all of the SKUs associated with it and ensure that the end-user understands the differences.
I want to download a car!
What's the Bitcoin Mhash/sec?
Back when the G1 came out, I'd just moved to a big city and didn't know my way around. Within *days* of getting the phone, it paid for itself with Google Maps Navigation.
I don't use it as much any more since i know my way around, but it helped more than any GPS device would when I was searching for a house. I could load up Zillow and Trulia and find every house around me that was for sale and go check them out.
Other commenters have already cited the value it brings in being able to check email and whatnot. Some folks say that they don't want to have email on their phone -- especially work email -- because they don't want to feel obligated to check it. It's more of willpower check -- if you can't discipline yourself, then don't add the account.
But yeah, it's probably worth it if you find yourself spending "hours" getting caught up on your digital lifestyle each day, when you could spend 1-2 minutes once or twice an hour and spread your tasks out over the day.
How much is cached? Yeah, initial page load sucks terribly, but how much has to be loaded on subsequent page requests?
How many copies of jQuery and etc. do people have cached on their machines?
It almost feels like we need dependency managers for browsers! I mean, I know there is the Google hosted stuff and other projects urge you to use their hosted version and fallback on a local copy.
Cutting cable was one of the best things I ever did! So much more time to code, game, hang out with friends, watch movies, etc.
Imagine if you could only put Campbell's Soup in your soup bowl, or only put Folgers coffee in your Folgers-branded coffee mug.
If there's no reason for a restriction on what I can do with the hardware I buy, other than restricting consumer choice, there's no reason for the restriction. If I can make something do what it wasn't intended to do, and it's not negatively harming others, why should I be deprived of my right to make it do that thing it wasn't meant to do?
IIRC, NARA didn't end the effort, it just stopped further development because it considered it complete.
I can assure you that it's not goatse. I just tuned the Apache settings, too, so it shouldn't be getting as hammered now.
I work from home every now and then (more often, recently). Last year, I wrote my own rules for working from home. Are there any other solid ones I should include?
I'll bet most of that cash went into the rounds and rounds of planning and back-and-forth that come with ANY government project planning process, followed by user testing and compliance analysis. The actual coding process was probably less than 10% of the cost. That's still high, but gov't contractors are very well compensated.
I came here expecting an eye-opening discussion regarding some some emerging theory of systems administration regarding "data romance".
Son, I am disappointed.
If I create a simple, one page site the terms of service of which simply say "you are not permitted to use this web site unless you are Rinisari", I could turn them over to the authorities because they've committed a crime?
The burden of preserving the "sanctity" of copyrights and patents has always fallen on the holder. This ensures that the holder is earnest in keeping their government-sanctioned property to themselves. It's simply a problem of our court system that enforcing these rights has become very expensive.
Are they going to airdrop people who can teach them how to use this technology from the heavens? Some tools are intuitive. To people who have never seen a computers or even really much technology at all, computers are not.
It's not perfect anonymity, but there are ways to stay safer by using multiple BTC addresses and such.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity
No one should have thought that this We the People thing would bring about any measurable change. It's an exercise in false hope of efficacy in the legislative/executive process. 150k signatures supporting marijuana legalization/reform and the best answer they could come up with is a bunch of scare tactics and anti-drug rhetoric based around studies that were ineffective and the lack of studies because of the nature of the substance being tested.
You want real change for marijuana policy? Run for local office, get people to support you, and defeat the incumbents who stand in your way. Get the local laws to support your goals and work your way up the chain.
As for the education funding reform response, it's just pushing the Obama administration's education agenda. The petition signed by 32k visitors called for a bailout of recent graduates as the best economic stimulus possible for that generation. The response is nothing more than what you'd expect to receive from a Congressperson when you write vehemently in favor of or opposing a piece of legislation: the Congressperson will summarize the bill, summarize their position, and essentially say "thank you for your feedback".
Again, if you want real reform, get elected and don't let yourself get corrupted. Good luck; you'll need it.
I for one would like to see an objective comparison of the two. I mean, I'm not about to re-rip everything I have as FLAC using ALAC or convert from one format to the other unless there are significant advantages.
I don't know about the BATFE, but I know that the TSA is out in his plan. It'll be privatized, or, really, returned to the airports and the airlines' responsibilities.
Let's assume 25M subscribers at the standard DVD + Streaming plan, which I believe was $11/mo. We can chop off a few zeros and still get the same effect, so let's do that and keep our math simple.
25 * 11 = 275
I think the cheapest is now $16 for both, so let's figure out what they'd be making if everyone who stayed kept the same plan at the higher rate.
24 * 16 = 384
Let's derive a quick formula.
(24 - x) * 16 + x * 8, where x is the number of people who choose DVD /or/ streaming.
24 * 16 = 384 = (24 - 0) * 16 + 0 * 8
Now, let's solve for 275, to assume they'd be making the same amount.
275 = (24 - x) * 16 + x * 8
I put this into my handy equation solver because I'm too lazy to work it out in my head and can't find paper/pen...
x = 109/8, or 13.625.
Netflix could go down to 10.375M users of the DVD+streaming, and have 13.625M users of one or the other and still make the same amount of money.
Methinks Netflix did their math beforehand. They're going to be making bank, and savvy shareholders are buying now on this dip on bad news. Happens every time. Netflix is here to stay, for as long as the content owners will allow it to exist.
Thanks! Slashdot has touched many lives, including mine. It's all because of you and yours.
P.S. I have never before seen so many 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-digit UIDs in a single thread.
I would pay extra for it through not cable. If I could drop another $2-3/mo on my Netflix subscription to have Syfy's entire back catalog and new shows available day-of-release on Netflix, I'd do it in a second.
And I haven't had cable, thus not watched Syfy except at friends' houses or on Netflix since 2007.