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Comment: EC2 + S3 (Score 1) 137

by dracocat on Wednesday December 07, @03:08PM (#38294636) Attached to: Webhosting For A Large Art Project?

You can just use Amazon S3 Storage. .10 per GB would mean $50 per month for 500 GB.

If you use EC2 for a simple virtual server you can mount the S3 volume onto your virtual server.

If you are like me and prefer rackspace virtual servers, then you can still mount the S3 volume with something like jungle disk.

You can then use something like Jungledisk to mount it as a volume on both machines, server and source machine.

Rackspace has basic virtual servers for like $10 a month.

So $10 for basic virtual server. $50 for 50 GB of disk storage on S3, plus $5 a month for jungle disk.
$65. Is that within your budget for a short term project?

Jungle disk is not required to make it work, but its only $5, and can make it simpler to mount the volume. If you use a virtual server on amazon EC2 you can actually just mount the 500GB volume.

Comment: Money Laundering (Score 4, Informative) 39

by dracocat on Thursday November 10, @04:51PM (#38016934) Attached to: How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works

I don't think money laundering means what you think it does. They do use the Cell Phones to transfer money, but has nothing to do with the laundering of the money. According to the 7 minute audio, they STILL need to use the services of money launderers.

Comment: The site should get this data (Score 4, Interesting) 130

by dracocat on Tuesday October 25, @12:06PM (#37833128) Attached to: Concerns Over Google Modifying SSL Behavior

If I am paying per click for certain search terms, then this data SHOULD be passed along. The other alternative is to just get a bill from google and trust that it is accurate?

As an advertiser I need this information. First to make sure I get the clicks google is charging for me, and more importantly to determine which words don't have a conversion rate worth paying for.

Comment: Re:Would greatly appreciate an invite (Score 1) 1223

by dracocat on Tuesday July 12 2011, @02:49PM (#36739258) Attached to: Google+ Already At 10 Million Users

Received the invite. Thanks!

Comment: Would greatly appreciate an invite (Score 1) 1223

by dracocat on Tuesday July 12 2011, @02:04PM (#36738546) Attached to: Google+ Already At 10 Million Users

jason /at/ thechambers # dot # us

Deodorant Sought to Save New Zealand's Native Birds 102

Posted by samzenpus on Friday September 24 2010, @03:53PM
from the safety-smell dept.

New Zealand researchers have received a NZ$600,000 grant to develop a deodorant for native birds whose strong odors make them easy targets for introduced predators. Since the birds evolved without any mammal predators they emit a very strong odor compared to birds in other parts of the world. Canterbury University researcher Jim Briskie says kiwis smell like mushrooms or ammonia, while kakapo parrots have a hint of "musty violin case."

Verizon Confirms Plan To Switch Away From Unlimited Data Plans 207

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 24 2010, @03:14PM
from the but-the-wireless-tubes-are-infinite dept.

loafula writes "Looks like Verizon is going the way of AT&T by not offering new unlimited data plans and switching to a tiered-only plan within six months. Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said the new plans would be different from what AT&T offers, but didn't provide further details. 'We're not sure we agree yet with how they valued the data.' Everybody take a good look at your contracts; this will be a nice opportunity to jump ship without the hefty fee."

Comment: Kind of short on details (Score 5, Insightful) 410

by dracocat on Monday September 20 2010, @07:07PM (#33643710) Attached to: Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution

The article talked a lot about transportation costs. Were they just comparing transportation costs? What about the environmental impact of keeping the A/C running and lights going all day in the store?

Very very short on details.

Comment: Re:Wrong (Score 1) 372

by dracocat on Tuesday August 10 2010, @07:42PM (#33210968) Attached to: FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons

True. Wish I could edit it.

Comment: Wrong (Score 4, Informative) 372

by dracocat on Tuesday August 10 2010, @07:18PM (#33210794) Attached to: FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons

INCORRECT:
The FBI is NOT prioritizing copyright over missing persons.

CORRECT:
The FBI has a backlog of missing person DNA to run in the DNA labs.
The FBI is increasing the amount of manpower assigned to copyright.

I don't know how much the FBI should spend at all on copyright, but it is a bit of a stretch to take the current facts and say that copyright is prioritized over missing persons.