The first time I heard somebody say "Jason Nation" I threw up in my mouth a little. Later on when all of the hangers-on who looked good on camera were vying to be part of his reality tv show or whatever it was, and they started tweeting about "Lisa Nation" and Jessica Nation" .. I did actually vomit (I had a stomach flu, but Calcanis was a second-order catalyst of that projectile, I tell you).
Anybody who disrupts techcrunch would have my respect and gratitude. Try not to take credit for other peoples' work and you'll already be one step above Arrington when it comes to ethical grounds.
It's a lot easier to fire a contractor and replace them with a better contractor than it is to change an entire mode of thinking and operations within a branch of government.
* As a hack, it's quite possible someone will try allocating these and ask everyone to patch their systems over the next half a year to a year as things get more critical and the RIRs begin to run out of /24s. (The RIRs all still have enough /24s to last us for months after the IANA pool gets exhausted.) *
I'm afraid if this were feasible, we would have convinced everybody in the world to upgrade to ipv6 years ago.
Having moved 5 or 6 times in San Francisco, the one feature I'd like from craigslist would be a field for square footage. This alone would make CL infinitely more useful for housing searches.
Linkous estimates that the incident cost the company a total of $250,000 to $300,000, which includes Sabera's fee, the cost of flying Ed to the West Coast on short notice, the cost of litigation against Ed, the costs associated with hiring a temporary network administrator and a new CIO, and the cost of making all of its software licenses legitimate.
I'm missing the company hiring a new CIO as being relevant to the costs of discovering their sysadmin was a criminal who read too much BOFH?
I've been on top of that billboard to photograph the sunset. It's about the only use of a billboard I've ever found. Oh, there are ads on them too. Do people actually look at billboards?
Politicians are so short sighted. Something that has already created hundreds of thousands, if not millions of jobs, is already paying for itself. In California we could solve our budget problems any number of ways. Five off the top of my head: Outsource Caltrans construction projects to competitive bidders, reduce state employee compensatory packages to be competitive with the private sector, cut our prison budget by 50%, decriminalize and start collecting sales tax revenue on cannabis, nationalize and start collecting income taxes from the undocumented workers our state relies on. Five suggestions who hurt nobody but the prison industry and overpaid workers with too much job security.
$450m doesn't sound like much money in the grand scheme of things. Google spends this much on coffee. Can't they buy it all, open source it, and be done with the whole drama already?
Many cloud services fail if the data is encrypted. Google gives it's applications away for free because it wants to analyze your content so that it can better advertise to you.
There's no benefit to Google keeping your data encrypted so
that they cannot further spew more effective ads at you in every possible manner they can think of. That's the trade-off.
As a small business owner, AT&T and Apple never cared about gaining or keeping my business. When I tried to switch to Verizon, they made it clear that Sprint was the choice for me. At first I thought about the status symbol that was the iphone, the trends, the ease of integration with my macbook. Then I realized I hadn't made a phonecall in 2 years, and had resorted to txting everybody because I was so tired of the dropped calls. A local Sprint small business rep saw my gripes on twitter, asked if I'd come and give her a chance to win my business.
Long story short, a big FUCK YOU to Apple, AT&T, Verizon, and the iPhone. Now I can make phone calls again.
Global Net Access is a company in I think Atlanta. Their owner, Jeff Hinke, is a good guy. He owns a pretty nice datacenter named AtlantaNAP (which is notable, because in general, hosters his size usually don't own their facilities, but rather just lucked into good deals at carrier hotels after the telco crash). His model is a bizarre (bizarre to me due to the conflict of interests) mixture of carrier neutral datacenter space (AtlantaNAP) and generic hosting (GNAX). Linode has a pop there.
My guess is whoever did this chart pulled this information
lazily just did a traceroute and saw that the last hop to Gamador is an IP owned by GNAX (http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/63.247.64.154).
A somewhat more accurate method would have been to use ARIN to look up the ip address for www.gamador.com by going to http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/74.207.231.40). This would have shown that your hosting company was Linode, instead of GNAX.