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You said: "That means when one neighbor sends traffic to another neighbor via the ISP, they both usually pay." This is true, if they are both customers of an ISP, and they are using that ISP to transit traffic to each other, they both pay. But if we have a lot of traffic destined for each other, it would make sense for us to peer and reduce our bandwidth costs from our upstream providers.

DOCSIS only works in reverse if you are willing to install cable plant equipment at a customer site, which would mean a rack full of head-end gear at every house. Not feasible, and won't happen tomorrow.

I used to handle BGP and peering for a tier 1 ISP and CLEC in the western US, so I've seen my fair share of peering agreements, and I've run my fair share of DS3, OC3 and OC12 circuits to peering locations.

It sounds like you have a lot of credentials working for OpenDNS, so I don't mean to denigrate your experience, but OpenDNS seems more like a bandwidth customer and less like a provider/peer. I have a lot of experience with cable plant equipment because we provided cable modems and DOCSIS equipment to a lot of small business/enterprise customers in the late 90s/early 2000s.
It looks interesting for sure. I signed up while I was watching the interview yesterday, but didn't see anywhere on the site where I could actually submit information about my startup for funding... it just gave me an investor profile.
why would an airline cancel your flight if you skip part of it? didn't you outright buy the tickets in the first place?
"after all, how much can you actually save by [skipping a flight]"?

Many airlines have complicated pricing models that attempt to capture market demand.

For example, I just looked up flights from Portland, ME to Los Angeles, departing on Jan 19 and returning Jan 26. If you take US and connect through Philadelphia, the cheapest price is $309. If you were to fly from Philadelphia to Los Angeles non-stop on that same day, it's $399 - 30% more expensive! If US were to allow you to skip the first and last part of the Portland-Los Angeles trip and get on and off at Philadelphia, they would receive substantially less revenue.
Are you an IP lawyer, 'cause if not ...

I can easily see how choosing not to enforce a patent might make it harder to claim infringement in a later case.

It's not that the patent would expire, but that there would be a precedent of not caring about infringers.
If he was no longer a customer, I assume they refunded his money?

If they did not refund his money, he was still a customer - a customer who was denied his product, certainly, but a customer nonetheless.

If you buy my product, and I don't deliver it to you for reason X, that doesn't mean you're not my customer. It just means I suck at delivering my product.
If anybody's interested, a paywall-free link to the paper is at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1397699.

And FWIW, I'm not exactly a fan of the article's conclusion ("work within stereotypes") that I should be flirting at work. In a work environment where you're one of two single women in a mostly married male environment, it's just not good form.
I'm not sure I agree with this. I don't think a user should have to re-download all the JS on the site if I just change a single line. Small changes probably happen frequently and shouldn't invalidate the entire JS cache. If I were using a framework like jQuery, I would link that separately from a 3rd-party CDN like Google. Then all the shared behavior would be another request, and page specific code a third. In most cases I would be changing the page specific code which would only invalidate the cache for that request on that page. IMO that's a better compromise.
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This works differently for retail businesses than it does for airlines. If I'm looking to buy a pair of shoes online, I have multiple options that are all roughly the same price. But I always buy them from Zappo's because I know I'll get good customer service.

When I buy a plane ticket, I have a specific route I need to fly on a particular date. I want the flight with the fewest stops. The price difference is often hundreds of dollars. I've had good experiences with Virgin and JetBlue, but I often wind up flying United or Delta anyway, even though I hate them.

In that circumstance, it's rational for large carriers with monopolies on important routes to cut costs on customer service.
I agree. The original title was too ambiguous. The article does make it clear what happened, though.

One of the commenters there says that Microsoft is finally seeing sense about these things, but I think it's probably just 2 isolated cases. They will continue to make the same mistake in the future, even though the open-ness of Windows was what created their empire.

Time will tell, though.
I went to Verizon the other day to get a cellular router so that I could work going down the road, as I seem to always be on the go lately. Anyway once I got there I found out that the Galaxy Tab can act as a router as well, so I picked it up. I was in the market for an Android tablet (I have kids that play on pbskids.org and disney.com, no flash = no tablet for my household). Anyway, after getting it and using it for a few days, I have to say I am firmly in the man camp of preferring Android, one of my biggest gripes with the iPhone is the lack of a physical keyboard on such a small device. I'm a big guy with broad fingers so it has always been a pain. After using the tab though, I came to realize that Android's voice interface is very mature. There are almost no commands that cannot be done by voice activation. That coupled with the fact that I can get an Android device with a side kick keyboard has pretty much sold me. Long story short, I am happy with the Tab and am starting to look at Verizon's phone selection as I am pretty sure that my next phone will be Android based. It's funny I have been writing apps for Android for a while now but I never owned an Android device until the Tab. IT is a lot different when you use a device for days compared to just picking one up to test your app.

Also on a side not anyone looking at the Tab as an alternative to the iPad, I really like it and would recommend it. I have no agenda against the iPad I hope it does really well, I write apps for iOS as well. It is just the Tab has some features that are essential for my needs that are not filled by the iPad, the first being the ability to act as a wireless hub the second being flash games for kids. I was worried about going with an Android tablet given some of the press, but I was pleasantly surprised with how well put together the Tab is.
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I've actually been working on this for many years, I still suck at it when I'm stressed or have decided that the person I'm speaking to is "Strong enough to handle it" - Try changing that mindset (I know how ridiculous it is).

This article reads to me like it's about interacting with personality types not of the Myers-Briggs "NT" variety. It seems that most IT professionals are of some NT variation, lots of INTJ programmers so this post would probably ring true for a lot of people.

"I don't think the first question necessarily insults the speaker, but that aside, does the second version even mean the same thing as the first?"

Yes, it's about the intended goal and not the content of the questions. So they're designed to get to the destination differently. The goal is to overcome the issue of budgetary restraint.

You and I might default to doing it the first way, the issue seems obvious, let's acknowledge it, solve it and move on. That's the NT way. Some people, challengers, Myers-Briggs ENTJs and most NTs will fight back and solve the issue and respect is often gained on both sides. If the person it's directed to isn't an NT, that approach will seem abrasive to them. "F" types will not happily play this game.

I don't agree with the author that all communications must be dressed this way, there are personality types that revel in it and fully expect to be challenged in this way. ENTJs in particular will not respect you unless you can do this (And many CEOs are ENTJs). This argument is kind of like saying Java is the best language in the world, everything should be built in Java. Java has its place but it's far from the best tool for every job. I see this as the same thing.
It's not Virgin America's policy.

Also, in regard to me not being a "customer" (and that justifying their attitude): how do you define "customer"? If I don't have an active ticket with them, am I no longer a United customer? What if I bought one in the past, and have every intention of buying another on in the future?

So, you wouldn't say "they lost a customer"?
Reading this article was like watching a 2-hour special on the Discovery Channel about a new discovery that turned out to be a mistake
If you would like the European equivalent of this customer experience, I warmly recommend you try out Air France.

If you want even worse, try Ryanair. They actually pride themselves on treating their customers like cattle, dumb-ass sheep to be fleeced at every opportunity.
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The article wasn't just about their policy, it was about how they ridiculed and failed to help a customer find a solution when they were ensnared by a little known policy (perhaps you know it, but I would argue it is not widely known) and ultimately drove that customers business and possibly the business of others the customer tells his story too, to another airline.
explains the crappy games...
You might want to add a space between the year and 'Lottery Results' in your titles.

Old: 2010Lottery Results
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In my experience, that basically canceled his set of flights

So he should have learned from your experience?

Perhaps it's because you stopped reading that you missed the point of the post, which is how crappily the United employees treated him on a human level, how much better the Virgin people were, and the implications of this for running a business.
Actually a lot of my startup is based on the idea that we can create the machine-learning/data-mining algorithms. He's the lead of the faculty department that deals primarily with data mining.

So essentially, he's advising on algorithm stuff.
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The 'product' in this case was some abstract crap like 'the right to fly at a particular time pursuant to the terms and conditions set out on the website.' They're doing a great job of delivering their product; it's just a lousy product.
Without even reading the lawsuit, this has been declared official?

C'mon now, let's not be quick to judge. What if this lawsuit had to do with Kik violating your privacy? Sharing your contacts' information, etc.
Those who are blaming the victim here illustrate the problem perfectly: some of them either do or will get to run their own businesses and their screw-the-guy-he-didn't-read-the-fine-print attitudes will surely result in similar customer experiences. And business failures.
I think the parent is indicating that selling you a ticket is the expectation, and that Virgin went above and beyond that baseline.
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What a bitch move RIM, there will be more UofT students filling up RIM now...
IANAL, but does that make what I said wrong? He didn't say anything about setting precedent, he said they risk "losing" the patent if they do not enforce it, which is just not true. If you have a source saying otherwise, I'd love to see it.
I probably will not attempt to code for WP7.

However, if it weren't open, there is absolutely no chance than I'd attempt to code for it, since I don't own one and don't plan to. iPhone is in the same category.

Android... I probably will. (Both because it's open, and because I own one.)
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I once used Norton's tools to remove an infection from a machine, when nothing else would work. Nowadays I would of course get the data off and wipe the machine, but this was when I was younger and storage was not so cheap and plentiful as it is now.

They have definitely done some small measure of good in securing the Windows ecosystem, and in the first half of the last decade, they did far more than Microsoft.
Just a small note: Game mechanics can't be protected per [FL-108](http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html)

> Copyright does not protect the idea for a game, its name or title, or the method or methods for playing it. Nor does copyright protect any idea, system, method, device, or trademark material involved in developing, merchandising, or playing a game. Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles. Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author’s expression in literary, artistic, or musical form.

So calling it "Open Source" is misleading, I think.
And in Chrome it's automatic and it uses the system level proxy system so DNS queries are automatically included. I didn't say it was hard in Firefox, but it was simply false criticism and it was too easy to turn it around on Firefox.
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yup, very aware, and good friends.

we were chatting to each other overnight as the posts went live :)

they're producing a book too, which is pretty cool:
http://fivesimplesteps.com/books/the-24-ways-annual-2010
It's not just the one e-mail, there appear to be other bad reviews from people who have actually used them, although it's impossible to tell whether or not they're real.

"They quoted me $155 and ended up charging me over $500 and STILL wanted me to pay for some dumb protection service at $85 per year. AND THEY DID NOT EVEN FULLY RECOVER THE FULL DATA!"

"John retrieved the images as promised, but once he did he held them hostage demanding more money!"

"This place is extremely unprofessional. They charged WAY more than the original quote, and then demanded payment before returning my item. Also, they accused me of "harassing" them when I called to discuss the difference in price from the quoted cost."

"Wish I'd skipped them. My laptop hard drive crashed and I needed to recover some Word & Excel docs. A month later they haven't recovered all of my data and are completely unresponsive to calls/emails. Now I'm out $460, I don't have the data that I paid to get back, and John still has my hard drive, so I'm stuck."

"The data recovery was more expensive than quoted by Tekserve (by $200). Actual price was way over estimate (by $400). Communications were unclear. Terms were nebulous. Service was always late."
What if I choose not to pick up the product at the time we agreed upon without notifying you, causing you to make decisions about inventory and perhaps selling the product to someone else, and then return to you demanding the product at a later date?
He bought a seat on the plane. That he didn't use it doesn't mean it wasn't still his seat. If I ran the airline, I'd give him a 50% refund for the return leg, but if he didn't notify me that he wouldn't be taking the first flight I may not have been able to offer that seat to another paying customer.
They should have some trap streets[1] if they want control over what people do with their books.

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> In my experience, that basically canceled his set of flights ,and he was no longer a customer. That's been my experience for at least 10 years of flying.

That's not how it works. If you pay for something you do not receive, it doesn't cease making you a customer. Now, maybe for the past 10 years you've been paying for things you don't get. In that case, I hate to tell you buddy, but you've been scammed.
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you might watch the interview for quite a bit more insight into their approach. It seems they have spent quite a bit of time/money making sure everything is kosher.
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Is Apple the only major tech company that is good at designing and marketing products to women?
I don't see a mob mentality when I look at the Yelp thread. I see a couple of "Elite" posters, one of who talks about reviews elsewhere on the internet. I see a bunch of people who don't seem like they have a lot of posting history saying very similar things. It might be orchestrated, or it might be a bunch of people annoyed about a bad actor but I think "mob" is an overreaction.
Actually, after initially starting it up and liking the speed, I found that Chrome quickly approached Firefox like performance levels once I started using more and more tabs.
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Why not send an email/text to you saying that they noticed that he missed the first part of the flight and:

1) Is he OK?

2) Does he still want to use the second leg of the flight (and maybe check in now)? With the default being that he will want to use it?

With a simple bit of communication, that could have been completely automated, they managed to annoy a paying customer.
The original review can be found here:
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The reason we made it through the 2000's includes huge contributions from crypto society. I can't imagine how we would be without public release of SHA/RSA/AES/PGP/...

As you said, we have to commend MSFT for stepping up on security, being a clear winner of the os race.
To be fair (but really to sound smart (possibly unsuccessfully)), your comment is also an example of this.
Because there is a very high correlation between missing the first leg and missing the second leg perhaps?
Nmap only gives you information on the version of OS and of network applications.

e.g.

nmap -sV 127.0.0.1

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-12-01 18:28 GMT
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
Not shown: 997 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
631/tcp open ipp CUPS 1.4
2000/tcp open callbook?
24800/tcp open kvm Synergy KVM
> Customer support should be called “delayed sales”

Money line from the article.
It would be better if they didn't waste money patenting it in the first place!
Wow, do we ever disagree on that one. SHA, RSA, and AES have caused more harm than good, modulo the one very specific massive win of SSL/TLS.
> I haven't read the Statement of Claim outlining RIM's allegations against Kik yet, but I suspect that the patent at issue covers a messaging platform that provides sent, delivered, read, and typing indicators.

So the guy admits to not reading the statement outlining the allegation, but he will comment on it anyway.
I agree. I went through a similar experience with United several years ago, and I will never fly them again unless the choice is walking.

As the article points out, there are structural problems with their pricing, their policies (and how they communicate them), and most importantly their customer service culture (or lack thereof).
In the Cook's Source episode, though, there was corroborating evidence. The plagiarized article was available in its original form, and other articles in the magazine were shown to be from a variety of media sources.

In this case, nothing is verifiable.
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Regarding R's processing power, I haven't found it to be an issue. When building a model and testing, I use a sample of the data which is usually less than 100,000 observations. I use samples even when using a tool like SAS Enterprise Miner.

As far as scoring, I usually export using PMML and run it natively on the database. Makes for fast execution. PMML is available in R, RapidMiner, and other packages.
I think ENUM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Number_Mapping) is meant to do this. It is used by some telecoms.
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If you NEED capital to buy more supplies or get started or expand, you should be able to access it through legitimate means (i.e. not loan sharks). Some businesses REQUIRE capital, just no way around it. Can't build a ramen profitable hardware company without cash to start.

I agree that people shouldn't over extend. I was just oversimplifying my argument.
I like your point of data oriented design. Do you have any suggestions/links on how I can learn more about it? Thanks.
The only idea that comes to mind is auditing advertising companies, but it doesn't seem too likely/feasible to me.
The site covers an interesting idea; but I found it intensely off putting because a lot of the language sounds like "ad-speak".

It's also not clear to the un-initiated what on earth it's all about... the first page just launches into text with no explanation. It took me a second to get my bearings.
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