I should... certainly, and I have.

BUT... as a developer, I have clients who still use IE6 and/or IE8 on XP as their standard operating environment. So I still need my server infrastructure to cope with the wide range of client choices of software...

... If the spot price falls at or below your maximum, your instance starts running. Should it exceed your maximum, your instance gets terminated. Using these things obviously requires a tolerance for server outages far above even the shoddiest physical systems; but if you can divide your problem space into relatively small, discrete, chunks, and get the results off the individual servers once computed, you won't lose more than a single chunk per shutdown...

And how is this different from SETI@Home, other than renting the computers rather than convincing people to run your screensaver for the good of mankind?

From: Barrister Musa Issah
To: Second Doctor
Subject: If you will be interested to act upon on receipt of this mail

My Dear

Greetings,I know this mail may come to you as a surprise,I am Barrister Mussa Issah the solicitor/counsel to the late Sanni Abacha who was then before his death, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Just yesterday his widow wife Mrs. Mariam Abacha called to intimate me of the condition of her family over the pursuance of fund by the Government over the husbands alleged collection.

In fact, She conferred in me that her son was working with a German National only for the German to take advantage of the situation, there by setting her son up in Germany where he went to claim his father deposit. You can verify this fact your self through the German Embassy over an alleged Abacha's Son, Mr. Abba Abacha trying to pull out a number of archived video tapes stored at the Bank.

At this point in time, She solicited my humble self to look for a reputable gentleman who will be of great assistance to the family and somebody who can take over the collection of nine(9) video recordings of Dr Who which is presently deposited in a television Relay Station. I will later on the course of this transaction disclosed to you the location of the Relay Station accordingly.

If you will be interested to act upon on receipt of this mail, please do contact me on the enlisted contact adress and more so be kind to issue me with your current Telephone Number for prompt conversation.

Thanks for your sincere understanding while looking forward to your positive response/cooperation.

Regards,
Barrister Musa Issah

From: Barrister Musa Issah
To: Second Doctor
Subject: If you will be interested to act upon on receipt of this mail

My Dear

Greetings,I know this mail may come to you as a surprise,I am Barrister Mussa Issah the solicitor/counsel to the late Sanni Abacha who was then before his death, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Just yesterday his widow wife Mrs. Mariam Abacha called to intimate me of the condition of her family over the pursuance of fund by the Government over the husbands alleged collection.

In fact, She conferred in me that her son was working with a German National only for the German to take advantage of the situation, there by setting her son up in Germany where he went to claim his father deposit. You can verify this fact your self through the German Embassy over an alleged Abacha's Son, Mr. Abba Abacha trying to pull out a number of archived video tapes stored at the Bank.

At this point in time, She solicited my humble self to look for a reputable gentleman who will be of great assistance to the family and somebody who can take over the collection of nine(9) video recordings of Dr Who which is presently deposited in a television Relay Station. I will later on the course of this transaction disclosed to you the location of the Relay Station accordingly.

If you will be interested to act upon on receipt of this mail, please do contact me on the enlisted contact adress and more so be kind to issue me with your current Telephone Number for prompt conversation.

Thanks for your sincere understanding while looking forward to your positive response/cooperation.

Regards,
Barrister Musa Issah

This idea relies on the assumption that:

But this is in no way guaranteed. How would you independently verify a PGP key? What additional level of guarantee do you have using PGP which you don't have by using a certificate?

The underlying infrastructure behind SSL keys and PGP keys are the same: you have a small collection of trusted, independently verified entities, who then verify and mark keys for the people they verify. As long as you can find a sequence (a "certificate chain", or "Web of Trust") of verification markings (called "certificates" or "signatures") from the presented key to a key you can trust (a "Certificate Authority" or "Trusted Key"), you accept the presented key. There is nothing in PGP which prevents an eavesdropper using a gag order or a gun to compel someone in the trusted sequence into issuing a man-in-the-middle signature, much like you assert they could do for an SSL certificate...

What extra does using PGP buy us, other than that I probably met the head of the trust chain at least once?

"No" they wouldn't need approval of everybody who contributed to the GPL version.

I agree with you, but I think of it as "Yes, they need the approval of everybody who contributed to the GPL version, so they got that approval in advance in the form of a copyright assignment. Because the contributors assigned all their copyright rights to the owners of MySQL, the owners can make this change without needing any further permission from the contributors."

That's a strange request on a slashdot page. Also, google suggests that phone number belongs to "Millionaires Club & Service" in Rochester, NY...

Over here, "postal voting" (mailing your vote in) is different from "absentee voting" (voting at a different voting centre outside your electorate, on election day), or "early voting" (voting at special voting centres, before election day).

For postal voting, you receive a ballot form and some special envelopes in the mail shortly before the election, and you fill them in and send them back within a few days of the election.

For absentee voting or early voting, you attend a centre which is set up like a normal voting place.

I don't know whether to applaud you, or to cry because so few posters recognize the beautiful testament to the "Netcraft confirms it" posts...

You're on the wrong site: Here's where they are... ;-)

I understand what they are, I have them too. I just don't understand how applying that exact concept in a single interface is immediately such a terrible idea.

(For the ones you're just going to let die, mailinator is a handy option.)

"A few throwaway email accounts" sounds like multiple inboxes, grouped by sender/expected content, with different importances... How is this proposal significantly different, apart from being able to access all of them with a single login?