The other amazing thing in this is Amazon is not very profitable. They have been reporting losses, not gain.

When expenses exceed income, shareholders have a loss negative earnings per share

Amazon has been declining, and yet the analysts have awarded them this amazingly high valuation, as if they were the next Microsoft or the next Walmart.

Guess what though... revenue doesn't mean squat, if your expenses are higher than what you make, and you therefore aren't able to convert that revenue into profits.

The reports are conflicting. According to the link I gave, Emergency services refute the claim of casualties. Confusion is only natural in these cases.

Why is it natural? If you don't have definitive evidence of casualties, then you don't report casualties.

Why do you need a spam detector. Can't you find spam without it?

Sure... I can assume everything is spam. Then I have a new problem: How can I detect messages that have no spam?

You just replied to a single parenthesized comments in someone's post with a 5 paragraph paper that is too long to read.

I just want to point it's relatively non-controversial that very simple C or Assembly programs are much more robust under load than large and complicated programs written in an Object-oriented language.

This is a function of complexity and feature bloat, and OO languages impose a very high amount of complexity and feature bloat, that adversly impacts small simple applications.

For some kinds of programs, for sufficiently massive application sizes with relatively low loads, the overhead of an OO implementation with garbage collection is worthwhile, and not as wasteful as it would otherwise be.

For small bits of code at high-loads; recoding the critical path in a lower-level language like C or assembly, will very often be worthwhile.

What we really need is a lie detector, a spam detector, and a troll detector

Extra points for the spam detector, THAT is what is most sorely needed, and what is so inadequately provided thus far.

Perhaps we should have a new computer keyboard that senses biological changes in the typist, to infer things like sarcasm; typing rate, skin conductivity, pulse, body temp, combine with webcam, add facial expressions.

or more EMoTICONS and markup such as [SARCASM]text here[/SARCASM]

The Zimbra Open Source Edition is probably a very good choice.

There's a problem with that.... you do any business with the vendor of Zimbra at all, and the EULA that you have to accept forbids using the open source edition of Zimbra, even for separate unrelated business.....

Otherwise, yeah, the open source Zimbra is a potential alternative, for people to look like who are not forbidden by software licensing terms to consider that alternative.

I'm betting you'd get a bullet between the eyes before you could piss your pants and run away.

And that's why one should be wearing a bullet-proof facemask, helmet; kevlar bodysuit, and leggings at all times.

In fact I believe its a constitutional right to have one, I do believe I read that somewhere.

The constitutional right is to keep and bear arms.

There's not a constitutional right to transport around on one's person a ready-to-go firearm holstered in public or around someone else's property, such that a person could fear for their life.

You see a random stranger walking up to your place of residence with a gun prominently displayed, holstered or not, --- that is a direct threat, and an indication that you are in immediate danger.

The corporate fuckup was their inability to route due notification of the problem to the correct people in order to get it fixed or even to acknowledge they had received the notice.

Most companies don't provide a notification or support mechanism: unless you are their customer.

And usually it will just be someone following a script. If your problem isn't in their script, normally you will be screwed.

Do they really expect that to happen?

Microsoft has become like Apple. Don't ask users what they want; if you get negative feedback, and them telling you what they don't want -- ignore that, and give it to them anyways. Don't give your users what they ask for.

Evidence?
Exhibit A: Removal of start menu in Windows 8
Exhibit B: Reintroduction of 'start tile' in Windows 8.1, BUT still no start menu

I think the same story could be true eventually for on-premise applications. And the Windows desktop operating systems themselves moving to the cloud as well -- becoming more iOS-like; your OS becomes just a web browser remotely controlled by things running in Azure.

there are a lot of legal, financial, and regulatory reasons for on-premise deployments

Companies' management can be persuaded to look the other way in regards to legal and financial reasons. They can be persuaded that the IT folks are just using the excuses about financial/legal reasons as FUD to try and protect their jobs.

The cloud providers can trumpet around their ISO security certifications and 3rd party audit results as "proof" that their cloud has compliance with security regulations and provides a safer environment than on-premise; By definition according to these vendors, if you meet certain standards, and you can check off all the items in pre-defined lists, then your cloud is secure.

Most private and public companies don't put their networks through the same standards. So the cloud vendors are able to produce something that looks very impressive on paper: only because it's part of their revenue model that they be able to market their cloud environment as "secure" and applications running on it as "compliant by definition", or such and such.

I admit that the emails he sent were pretty funny, but, the people asking for help weren't the ones not fixing the email address screwup. He could have easily had a stock response set up to respond to each of these describing Zynga's mistake and unwillingness to fix it.

I wonder if this will be used by Zynga later in a UDRP dispute as evidence of bad-faith use of the domain.

If they named their game themepark; I imagine Zynga wants to be the domain registration owner of themepark.com.

which probably transcends game ideas into directly taking web designs that are, by definition, available to anyone with an HTTP connection. Stay classy, Zynga.

Dang right... stealing Apache error pages.

Wait a minute.... remote visitors can't download httpd.conf... how would Zynga get the ServerAdmin value then?

Are you suggesting they hacked into their servers and got their Apache configuration too, because the Zynga folks don't know how to configure Apache?

Or perhaps some insider from themepark.com provided a server config template, or helped them get their site up?

Quite a creative reaction to a corporate screwup. :-) /em>

I'm not so sure it's a corporate screwup. It seems more like some Apache admin wasn't too careful about populating the ServerAdmin value for the virtualhost with a legitimate value.

This is probably one person's mistake, that noone else responsible for Apache server administration happened to spot.

These are supposed to be webmaster contact addresses provided by the server, for reporting to provide more information for troubleshooting purposes; they're not supposed to be a company's customer service address anyways.