> Yahoo Mail could have been gmail.
> Yahoo's Overture could have been Google Adsense+Adwords
> Yahoo's Altavista could have been google search.

And you think those things would've been what they are now if Google was run by a CEO like that? :-)

> So if google wants to help - well it can pay their debt bill. Because they are partially responsible for it.

Do you have any clue what the crisis in Ireland is about? I'm a terrible economist so I won't say I do, but this is what I know from actually living in this more or less bankrupt state:

When I walk around here, everywhere around me I see huge, empty multi-storey buildings. Heck, they're still busy building one in my street. More floors than any other place in the wide area and TBH I don't know which company will be using it, if any. Owners are trying to let/sell these places, with banners like "Superb retail opportunity" (What's so superb about it? The few shops (except supermarkets) that opened in this area have little over ten customers a day.)

Most of these buildings are now owned by banks. They're the ones who fucked up and need a little "donation". Much more than you can pay from any corporate taxes, looking at the numbers. TFA: "So far this year corporation tax has raised over €2.6bn for the Government coffers" Woo, 2.6 billion. That's almost 5% of the money flushed down a black hole by the banks here!

I think I know what was really going on there. That night, did some mysterious ninja try to steal your PC? Have you noticed strange flashbacks at random moments lately? ;-)

> In their hearts I think most anti-MS people on slashdot already acknowledge the fact that they've been out-eviled recently. The day of MS as the root of all IT nastiness has come and gone. They just need to say it out loud.

What I (and many others in this thread as you probably saw) actually thought was "Wow, Microsoft is doing something that is actually cool, where's the catch?"

My question was answered by the end of the article: This is just another miserable attempt to get the Silverlight market share percentage above 1%. Using a "making universe data publicly available, even. :-(

Yup, still evil.

Several airlines use Silvershite on their routes page. :-(

> but i doubt Google/RIM would use them aggressively
You know that RIM used to be known as "Lawsuits in Motion" several years ago, before it started backfiring and several companies sued them? :-)

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of this I-D.)

Because by the time you went through all the steps you're describing here, you lost so much time already that the CDN may as well just serve you their content from the other side of the planet. CDNs are meant to *improve* latency. If two or more HTTP requests are needed to reach the goal, you really just completely miss it.

Also, HTTP caching wouldn't work very well if content gets served from "random" hostnames (because how else would you get the web browser to connect to the right CDN node?).

Remember that this is an EDNS0 option, to be implemented only by parties that need it. It's not intended to become a standard DNS feature.

And now you're blind?

(Aren't those disks still way too thin and transparent to be used for this?)

27W. Wow. That's only about four times as much as my whole laptop (with Intel graphics). Definitely very low-power! :-P

I sure hope they have a mobile version of that chip...

That has very little to do with this technology and more with a mistake in a IP-to-geolocation database somewhere, most likely.

About two months ago I used Blind Search for a week to see how Bing's actually doing. There were two classes of results that I found:

A) Two columns show fairly similar results (Bing and Google) and the third shows somewhat worse ones (Yahoo).
B) One column with good results (Google), the others totally wrong or at least significantly worse.

Although I just tried a query from the second category again and they now all show the best result first (instead of somewhere on the second page). I guess it's time for another week of Blind Search for me.

Akamai probably has *many* more CDN nodes in the world than the number of gDNS and OpenDNS datacenters together, so just being distributed is not enough.

Yep, it's home-made ... but why do you think it'd be Python?

I think this is/was a common thing with CDMA (or whatever the non-GSM protocol is called exactly) telephones. They get the time from the network and don't/didn't bother storing it anywhere locally.

Another difference is that the stereo wouldn't be even 1% of the price of the car instead of sometimes more than 10%.