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I've been with them for 10yrs and they have never wronged me. The only reason I'm considering switching is the moral reasons with SOPA.

When you have 30+ domains on a single registrar it is a little frustrating to go through each one individually and get the authorization code, unlock them, and request the transfer.

Also, for me, I have domains that I did 5-10yr registrations on, so the transfer and getting 1yr free isn't really that helpful.
They posted their position about SOPA here:

http://blog.name.com/2011/12/getting-on-our-sopa-box-and-sav...
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I transferred to NameCheap, which also sent me a mail to accept/decline. Wasn't aware of the same from GoDaddy. Thanks for letting me know. Just did it. Hope to be done in half-hr.
Who to boycot over SOPA to maybe actually achieve something  
It almost seems like a brilliant coup for the actual supporters of SOPA to get all attention directed towards a boycot of some two-bit company who happens to be a large domain registrar. Big as they are they are seriously small fry in the pro SOPA crowd. Boycot the big guys instead:

- Don't buy or consume media of any kind.
- Don't buy any medicines.
- Don't buy clothing from big-name brands.
- Stay away from branded cosmetics.
- Stay away from big sporting events.
- Don't use your visa and mastercard creditcards.

Instead, for christmas, make some cookies for the people you love, spend some time talking to them, go for a long walk, and donate all the money you have just saved to a charity of your choice.
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It's not irrational to pursue; the longest journey, etc. People need to be off Godaddy in any case. SOPA or not.
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I believe that if the law is immoral then there is something wrong with a company pushing hard to use the law to "protect" it's business. How do you feel about companies dumping toxic waste in poor countries where the law says its fine?
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What I am saying is that in practice/reality, a religious person will more often than not use the word "faith" iff they don't think that they have evidence.
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They still are. Glenn Beck isn't on Fox anymore, right?
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So I'm guessing this gets rid of the free version of Navicat... that's fair enough
Switzerland, but also US. Some Europeans tend to see U.S. as a monolith while in reality they're quite diverse - the difference between New York and Nevada is as big as between Poland and Spain.
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"The big questions aren't "should IP even exist as a concept""

Who decided that?
I believe this was inevitable. especially since TC's core team took off. Its usually not pretty there, with more than 50 posts in a couple of days. My reader is usually overblown with TC and i read very few of them. Looking forward to what Mike has in the bag, maybe they can bring other ex-TCers on-board too.. MG and Paul.
Another possibility is that they wrote it a couple of days ago and backdated it to October to try to make it look like less of a panic move.
Why? Because it has been a pretty good, if imperfect, solution to the provisioning of public goods problem, for some categories of public goods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Possible_solutions
I would say though that in addition to C) you should change to ..has expressed views you disapprove of that have direct consequences to your business.

I think though you would be right if C) was more simplistic and ineffectual to you like.. I would not do business with x because they use goDaddy for hosting. No?
So us non-US domain owners without ZIP codes can't let everyone know we're boycotting GoDaddy too?
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How are you dealing with bit rot? Are you periodically scrubbing the data to give the controller a chance to repair or are you waiting to get a URE during an array rebuild? Are you running end to end checksums against all your data to protect against bad firmware, bad ram, etc. What is your mean time to repair in case you lose a drive?

One more question: you saturated the network link with a sequential read/write, but is that how you actually store the data? If not, how long would it take you to be up and running on another CDN in case Akamai goes down in flames?
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I don't know but before criticizing, you could just give it a try. Now searching for "iPhone 4" suggests "Apple iPhone 4" and "Apple iPhone 4S".

If they fixed it in such a short time, it was probably a bug and they really pushed a fix...
If only namecheap had automatic renewals without having to first put in funds (via paypal). That's the one thing I like about godaddy.. (they charge your cc)
It would be counter-productive for the 1% to help the top 10% or 25%. They would be incented to focus on the middle quintile. This, it seems to me, is evidence that "median" is not the function of centrality that would be best.
> When they believe that they have "evidence" the answer to the question tends to be something along the lines of "I _know_ that god exists because...".

Whether that's valid depends on what's in the ellipsis.

Yes, it does, but I've never heard any filling-in of the ellipsis that suggests even the most remotely possible evidence for a virgin birth, resurrection, or the fact that some fatherly figure is watching over us at all times and has given us the Christian Bible as his True Word. A bible, I might add, that presents a lot of seriously morally questionable beliefs as mandatory laws.

However, I have noticed that sometimes expecting Christians to pay attention to the bible is a foolish assumption...

Most of the horrible things that even the worst Christians think, say, and believe are directly justified based on statements from the bible.

Similar is the faith of a scientist that weird behavior will eventually be explainable by rational means, like that neutrinos going FTL will have some mundane explanation. Sometimes it seems like there's contradictory evidence, but if you stick it out it turns out ok.

That would be a fine comparison if it was ever the case that any phenomenon in the observable universe had an explanation that required God as described in the Christian Bible, and couldn't be explained by mundane rational facts. IMO, this is not proven or even suggested by the evidence at hand.

If you feel that personal experiences fit that bill, then you're of course allowed to think that, but realize that it's completely rational for anyone that doesn't place such a high prior probability on Christianity's truths to assume that you're merely delusional.
"JRuby is much much faster than 1.8."

Why are we even comparing JRuby and Ruby 1.8? Ruby 1.9.3 is the last version and Ruby 1.9 is much faster than Ruby 1.8.

In a benchmark from last year JRuby and 1.9 were about equally fast with 1.9 the winner in most cases. With the recent improvements in JRuby I believe JRuby is faster but I have no idea about how much.

http://programmingzen.com/2010/07/19/the-great-ruby-shootout...

EDIT: Note that Ruby 1.9 gained in performance compared to 1.8 due to the introduction of a new Ruby targeted VM, YARV. Previously I believe it ran directly on the AST.
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Groups doesn't track which articles you read, even if you're signed in.
For a 24 drive server, I'd just get a heavily discounted dell or HP box. A startup should be able to pay half list, buy two, and be ahead vs. s3.

Supermicro chassis re a big improvement overdoing your own wiring. The Areca controllers, especially in raid 6, re great. For raid 5 I'd also look at 3ware.

For single gig e, you can get away with esata expanders, building something like the back blaze pod. I've done that kind of thing for personal use, and to have an onsite mirror of something, but I'd want several, in several different colo facilities, to compare with s3. The exception is if you need some kind of scratch storage, but even refilling a 40TB archive with downloadable content takes a really long time over a 1Gbps link.

I'd build a few boxes like this now, but the Thai floods pushed hard drive prices up to the point I have to wait. Hopefully fast 4-5TB drives will be $200 by summer 2012.
When you use Metal endpoints, as i mentioned in my comment, 6000 requests per second is actually very possible. Yes, you need a lot of resources, but I didn't suggest otherwise. And yes, on this hardware other frameworks will manage even more requests.

EDIT:
My low budget netbook just gave me 327 req/s with an out of the box Rails config, and running the benchmarking tool on the same machine.
Let's link to the prettier version of Groups instead of the old, out-dated one... https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/forum/#!topic/misc/...
It is not well defined what "porn" is. In my country it is, as far as I know, perfectly legal to distribute photos of nude children, as long as they are not engaged in a "sexual act". cf. the art of David Hamilton.
That's a great idea! I think your employer should do the same for you.
It's not that big of a deal to move away from GoDaddy. Just do it, and continue with the SOPA protests at the same time.
Many people, myself included, are against the very principle of IP for good reasons: http://www.stephankinsella.com/ip/
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It should bother you. A lot. Especially when there are articles bemoaning the lack of women in IT.
I've been using namecheap for years and have yet to have a single issue with them.
> Caching is suggested far too often and too frequently in the Rails world. The solution to "the default tools for template abstraction are too slow to use" is not "use a difficult-to-get-correct system with concerns that cut across the entire project."

I'm not selling caching as a silver bullet (and I'm not saying it's trivial to implement, either). It's just something a lot of people either don't use at all, or just get wrong. And surely, if something can be cached, it should be.

> As someone else mentioned, Rails is much slower than other frameworks. It does an order of magnitude less than 5000 req/s

With Metal endpoints, proper configuration and lot's of resources, this is very possible.
At first glance I didn't see anything that searching ebay with "show only expired auctions" wouldn't also give me. But it is probably still early days...
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Ah, my mistake.

This was in the email I got from Greplin: "It's been our biggest request for months and it's finally here: The Greplin iPhone app."
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> An unreliable backup solution.

Nope. RAID is not a backup solution. It provides redundancy so the array can survive an event like a device failure (and so the data survives as a consequence) without significant downtime for repair (with zero downtime if you have hot-swap hardware) but it does not, and is not intended to, protect the data from the huge list of other things that can affect it.

RAID is redundancy for reliability purporses, not backup purposes.
* Ability to set a low TTL (usually temporarily) if you need to servers quickly.

* Often better uptime and fast

* Easier to change registrars

* A central place to manage DNS if you end up with domains spread across many registrars
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>> they may as well hope to benefit from breaking the Internet

Another good reason to turn them down.
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There's no reason why one cannot have faith and leave it out of their scientific work.
I like nearlyfreespeech too. A pay-as-you-go service is good for people who don't get much traffic.
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You can't claim copyright on a list of facts anyway, at best you might have a database right.
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News people love new stories. You can't report "Tech companies oppose SOPA" every day, because once you reported it, it's no longer news. Companies abandoning GoDaddy because of their support of SOPA is just another interesting piece of news to report.
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Just FWIW, from what I've heard from people in the pharma industry, similar concerns over seriously sub-par counterfeit products are why they support legislation like this. It's not so much that they're worried about profits (counterfeit drugs don't hurt revenues by any significant factor for big drug companies), but that people can end up dying because of counterfeit drugs, either because they contain contaminants or do not contain the right amounts of the drugs that they should contain so the conditions end up untreated without the patients realizing. Both, I'm told, have happened in the real world on many occasions.

Not that this makes SOPA any more reasonable, of course, as it will cause a lot of trouble in other areas. But the anti-counterfeiting angle is bringing in quite a bit of support for it, and in many case it really is based on legitimate safety concerns rather than greed.
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Imagine a world where GoDaddy was the only major registrar not supporting SOPA.

Oh wait it's Christmas, not Halloween. Sorry.
Out of curiosity, what's your 7TB setup? I've got about 10TB in about the worst setup imaginable: just a bunch of individual drives on a first-gen Atom running Windows Server 2008 (long story). I've been searching for a good home storage solution for a while, reading about various RAID cards and soft solutions like ZFS, but there's nothing that I'm willing to trust. I'm curious what your setup is and what you think of it.
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Need to calculate the cost as I have several domains with them but I plan on moving very shortly.

I'm also based in the U.K.
That's one information I didn't have. Will GoDaddy pay the new registrar a part of what I gave them?
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I think his point was that the Dropbox software installed on users' machines contains SSL certs, which may make it hard for them to switch.
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Well, yes, I realized that soon after posting, didn't want to go back and make a post flood though.

Also, I'd be surprised if this wasn't true for every sufficiently big country. I'm almost sure it's true for China, and that's even though their government isn't exactly the most supportive of cultural differentiation.
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> But if you don't reject it, then it's quite difficult to accept any of the Big Three religions and simultaneously convince yourself that you're embracing an evidence-based worldview.

Every worldview is based in faith. The very act of considering any evidence requires trust (faith, if you will) in the value of input provided by our senses. There is no and there cannot be any evidence for that value either way.

Best we can do is analyze reasons for our beliefs, keep them logical, and consistent with experience. Which, coincidentally, is one of the meanings of the word "rational."

> And as a rule, yes - to someone of the current generation, it does cast serious doubt on someone's scientific abilities when it comes to light that they are religious

That's normal and OK -- we all hold a (pretty large usually) number of conscious and unconscious prejudices. So much for evidence-based worldview btw.
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One theory: Regulatory capture? They can afford to shut down thousands of pharmaceutical sites, but can their competitors?
To precise, pharmaceutical companies are concerned that bad counterfeits will harm the reputation of their products, which will cut into order volume and profits.
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I agree (both with you and jackowayed). It also definitely is an admirable move on pg's part.
Could there be an option "Still waiting to see if GoDaddy changes stance"?
Exactly. The GP is entirely wrong. Reality works in the very opposite way.

Theoretically, bytecode VMs can beat native machine code because they can do all sorts of stuff that you can't do in native code (or at least, nobody's ever come close to doing them yet). An example of what can be done in the JVM (this is actually done) :

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I dare anyone to implement this in native code, never mind in 5 kinds of native code (like google would have to do, ie. x86, x86-64, and the 3 arm variants that android runs on). It is possible to do that. But the complexity of doing that is ridiculously high, so nobody's going to do that any time soon.

Here's the only reality : the google programmers of Dart have their own small isolated community and simply have little experience doing that, and do not feel like getting their hands dirty (or there's too few of them ...). It is work, with a nice payoff, but still a lot of work. And of course, they don't want to admit this.

What I don't understand is what is wrong with using an existing bytecode vm inside chrome ? Why not run hotspot inside chrome and have all those languages simply work ?
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Then again, I already study CS, but I'll definitely try to get into this.
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I am trying to build a system for my company which wants to check for unusual/abusive pattern of users(mainly web scrapers).

Currently the logic I have implied parses the http access logs and takes into account following parameters to calculate the potential of a user being a scraper or bot:

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I think in the analogy either the load-bearing columns or the cat represented our human rights.
As I'm reading it, Nutter is blatantly misstating what the Dart guys say in order to create most of those "inaccuracies". For instance, he summarizes the Dart article as saying "2. JVM does not let you do what Java cannot do" and "3. A bytecode VM can't support all possible language features".

Where do the Dart guys say that? The entire Dart article is clearly about biases and limitations to _optimizations_ and not about what a language can or cannot do in the sense of Turing completeness. Nutter is creating a bunch of straw men here.

He also decides to ignore all but one of the examples the Dart guys give. They talk about unsigned math, tail call elimination, restartable conditions, continuations, and static/dynamic typing (I would add structured value types). He only responds to dynamic typing because that's where he might actually have a point.
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I just transferred 17 myself. I'd been meaning to for a while and, as you said, this was just kind of the final straw. I moved them to NameCheap, where I ready had another 32 domains registered.
Educational Publishers Appear to be Supporting SOPA
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