A friend of mine has a theory that Google just wants to make as much money as it can so that it can do some really geeky shit and hope that something is truly revolutionary. They'll just keep doing this until their empire collapses, no matter how far in the future that may be. Take the profitable projects' profits and throw them at something for the good of humanity, no matter if it's profitable.

Could you deactivate it before the interview, then reactivate it later? Change your password to a random string from http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/ so that you can't know it and then reset your password later. Do this for everything they'd want to look at.

Thoughts?

I saw an analysis of their Terms of Service somewhere, indicating that they will only compensate up to the value of the service paid. So, if your service was $100/mo, they'd only compensate you for the downtime you experienced, or up to that month's service charge of $100.

If Linode cares about Bitcoin, it will find a way to compensate its users. Otherwise, if the users who lost money are up to it, I'm sure there is at least one lawyer out there willing to be counsel on the first case involving theft of a digital currency, testing whether or not the data/rights to data stolen are legitimate property of legal value. We supporters of Bitcoin say, "Of course!" but it's not until there's a legal precedent that we really can say that.

Or, Linode can sit behind its ToS and test contract law.

Or, the users can vote with their money and leave Linode and tell others why they're leaving.

At least in my eyes, that I would ever consider Linode in the future is hanging in the balance, and they've previously always had a good reputation in my mind. I would venture that there are plenty of other like-minded geeks out there. Given that Linode's market is primarily we geeks, I believe it behooves them to do the right thing and compensate for the losses.

Ahem. Four candidates.

Paul
Romney
Santorum

oh

and Gingrich. Everyone forgets him.

It kinda sounds like you're getting to the point at which you need to monetize, if you can legally do so.

All it takes is another SKU. Stores that do price matching do it by SKU, right? So, by each store having their own SKU, no one has to match. Moreover, adding a store-specific SKU adds another layer to any ShopSavvy or Amazon PriceCheck style apps that look up prices across multiple stores by SKU. Those apps will have to find some kind of "master product" and identify all of the SKUs associated with it and ensure that the end-user understands the differences.

I want to download a car!

What's the Bitcoin Mhash/sec?

Back when the G1 came out, I'd just moved to a big city and didn't know my way around. Within *days* of getting the phone, it paid for itself with Google Maps Navigation.

I don't use it as much any more since i know my way around, but it helped more than any GPS device would when I was searching for a house. I could load up Zillow and Trulia and find every house around me that was for sale and go check them out.

Other commenters have already cited the value it brings in being able to check email and whatnot. Some folks say that they don't want to have email on their phone -- especially work email -- because they don't want to feel obligated to check it. It's more of willpower check -- if you can't discipline yourself, then don't add the account.

But yeah, it's probably worth it if you find yourself spending "hours" getting caught up on your digital lifestyle each day, when you could spend 1-2 minutes once or twice an hour and spread your tasks out over the day.

How much is cached? Yeah, initial page load sucks terribly, but how much has to be loaded on subsequent page requests?

How many copies of jQuery and etc. do people have cached on their machines?

It almost feels like we need dependency managers for browsers! I mean, I know there is the Google hosted stuff and other projects urge you to use their hosted version and fallback on a local copy.

Cutting cable was one of the best things I ever did! So much more time to code, game, hang out with friends, watch movies, etc.

Imagine if you could only put Campbell's Soup in your soup bowl, or only put Folgers coffee in your Folgers-branded coffee mug.

If there's no reason for a restriction on what I can do with the hardware I buy, other than restricting consumer choice, there's no reason for the restriction. If I can make something do what it wasn't intended to do, and it's not negatively harming others, why should I be deprived of my right to make it do that thing it wasn't meant to do?

IIRC, NARA didn't end the effort, it just stopped further development because it considered it complete.

I can assure you that it's not goatse. I just tuned the Apache settings, too, so it shouldn't be getting as hammered now.