There is plenty of hosted space and power at 185 Berry, also a few empty floors. Several other multi-carrier buildings with space in the city as well. If it's the alternative of an on site build you probably can live without a ton of private peers anyway. Sushi ran in saulsalito sounds good.

Obviously you never did business with sun.

No, he was upset about the AP's stance on fair use relating to works they actually hold a copyright on, found a flaw in their software about something unrelated, exploited it and got the knee-jerk YRO crowd all riled up. Because he wanted to fuck with them because they pissed him off on another issue. Congrats on not letting him down.

Amen. Trying to trick someone into taking your money and then acting like it's a violation of your civil rights when they do is the kind of shit 8 year olds pull. Classic blogger controversy.

Hmm... http://www.ice.gov/about/index.htm or http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/about/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Customs_Service

"Until March 2003, the United States Customs Service was an agency of the U.S. federal government that collected import tariffs and performed other selected border security duties. Before it was dissolved to form part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, the Customs Service had three major missions: collecting tariff revenue, protecting the U.S. economy from smuggling and illegal goods, and processing people and goods at ports of entry.

"With the passage of the Homeland Security Act, the U.S. Customs Service passed from under jurisdiction of the Treasury Department to the Department of Homeland Security. On March 1, 2003, parts of the U.S. Customs Service combined with the Inspections Program of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine from USDA, and the Border Patrol of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to form U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The Federal Protective Service, along with the investigative arms of the U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, combined to form U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Oops?

$100 says the press release was based on nothing more than a routine customs hold - know who customs is a part of? DHS. Know how often international shipments stall at customs for a few days? All the freaking time. Congrats on getting gamed for advertising yet again, slashdot.

Competition had 30 days to submit after the qualifying submission was presented. From your link: "After three (3) months have elapsed from the start of the Contest, when the RMSE of a submitted prediction set on the quiz subset improves beyond the qualifying RMSE an electronic announcement will inform all registered Participants that they have thirty (30) days to submit additional candidate prediction sets to be considered for judging."