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Submission + - Server Beach quickly rewrites SLA after outage (serverbeach.com)

Submitted by javajedi on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @04:37PM

javajedi writes: After experiencing a significant network outage last week, due to a botched DNS upgrade, Server Beach decided to cut their losses by quickly and quietly rewriting their network SLA to claim they were only responsible for a 5% refund every HOUR of down-time, instead of the previous 5% for every half-hour of down-time. They sent no notification of this change to their customers. You can find their previous SLA in Google's cache

Comment Am I the only one who doesn't have a desk? (Score 1) 628

by javajedi on Friday November 13, 2009 @03:05AM (#30084190) Attached to: At My Computer Desk, I Use...

I've used nothing but a laptop and a couch for the past 7 years, and it seems to work just fine. Why waste space with a desk?

Submission + - Get the Swine Flu Shot (gettheswineflushot.com)

Submitted by javajedi on Thursday October 08, 2009 @11:24PM

javajedi writes: Get notified by e-mail and SMS alerts as soon as the H1N1 vaccine is available in your area.

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by javajedi on Thursday October 08, 2009 @11:22PM

Comment Re:Rent our botnet! (Score 2, Interesting) 46

by javajedi on Tuesday September 29, 2009 @02:24AM (#29577027) Attached to: Company Offers Customizable Web Spidering

Outsourcing the reading part doesn't buy you much. If this just did a crawl, it would be of very limited value. That's not what it does.

Wrong. If I want to spider a single web site, many sites have rate-limiters that kick in and will block me after a while. This would allow me to hit it from multiple machines.

There are some security limits, which might even work. Supposedly, all the Java apps can do is look at crawled pages and phone results home. Right.

Why the sarcasm? This seems like a perfect use case for the JVM's security mechanism.

Comment Re:Err, so just like the Pre? (Score 1) 621

by javajedi on Saturday August 22, 2009 @01:35AM (#29153725) Attached to: Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution

N900 supports Flash. Pre doesn't.

Comment Re:I thought this was the whole point? (Score 1) 652

by javajedi on Monday July 27, 2009 @12:02AM (#28832939) Attached to: Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

There are more than 4 reasons. 5) You are lazy. 6) You are working a "day job" while pursuing your passion that you hope will one day pay the bills. There are probably more than 6.

Comment Get a smaller house (Score 1) 199

by javajedi on Monday June 29, 2009 @02:55PM (#28517697) Attached to: Desktop As a Cellphone Extension?

I've never lived anywhere that I could be in the house but not within ear-shot of/easy walk to my cell phone. Maybe you should consider getting a smaller house. :)

Submission + - Cell phones to forever eliminate standing in line? (mashable.com)

Submitted by

javajedi

on Monday March 23, 2009 @02:14PM

javajedi writes: "Mashable has a nice write-up on on QLess, a queue management solution using cell phones to physically eliminate the need to stand in line. Looks like the product works for restaurants, DMVs, doctors' offices, and lots of other places that are needless time sucks. 'The idea is that you can check into a line by sending a text message or making a phone call, without even the need for someone to physically check you in. Then, you'll simply receive a text message or phone call when your turn in line has come up.' Nice!"

Comment Re:Hrm, this reads like a "new" find (Score 2, Informative) 215

by javajedi on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @06:54PM (#26909041) Attached to: Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles

Lots more info here: http://excavatrix.blogspot.com/

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