Horrible reporting: This article leads people to believe Godaddy moved all of their customers DNS over to Verisign.
All Godaddy did was temporarily move their single godaddy.com DNS to verisign so they could display a 'we are working on it' message to visitors during the attack.
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While I think tor and something like torchat is good in theory, its big negative in reality is that the speed makes it unusable most of the time. Not to mention if you are altruistic and plan to run a node, you also run the risk of the FBI knocking on your door for someone who used your (exit) node to upload their kitty porn (the exit is not encrypted).
And if you do run that exit node, you can sniff what people are doing (so there goes the anon part).
Am I getting my 2.99 back? Or is the free version ad supported? In the process of trying to get more users, the free move might alienate their paying customers
This is dated-- they aren't profitable[1]. As far as the ethical parts of this article, it's not different than gambling sites. And I bet just like Vegas, it will become profitable when people feel comfortable wasting money again
I think you guys are just looking at value differently.
I didn't know about either of your companies but by the discussion, its clearly possible for Tarsnap users to derive value from the trust associated with transparency and feeling like their dollar is maximized.
tptacek, pricing schemes aren't the only component of the purchase decision or profitability. His users are making a more emotional decision. cperciva should stick to the core of what his users are finding valuable...then get bought out and turn into an evil profit maximizing company
How about an import feature from google web history. Doesn't it also index the pages you visit for searching? It has a bookmarklet and can crawl all of your web history if you tell it to
Depends on if you care about the scalability, optimization, and speed of the site. If you do then you will pay a lot for US dev
The alternative is to outsource and get all those features for 2k. Go to elance, guru, odesk, or getafreelancer.
The latter I would suggest for proof of concept of prototyping an idea. Once you get a whole bunch of traffic and users you can rebuild it correctly when it's worth it to do so.
I like that it works natively in safari on my iPhone. That's a plus. One suggestion for content, as far as the rap scene goes, I would have thought to see mixtapes released by the rapper when I type something like lil Wayne. Instead I get other remixes from other artists sampling lil waynes beats...
I have heard you can remove that noise by putting magnetic snap things over the power line of the speakers you have. It looks like a capsule that opens halfway and then you snap the cord in between. I have a ton from old plasma/lcd installs as most people just throw them away in the box.
All Godaddy did was temporarily move their single godaddy.com DNS to verisign so they could display a 'we are working on it' message to visitors during the attack.