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Re:New EC2 Standard Instances and Price Reductions on Thursday November 01, 2012 @01:09PM (#4728537)
What's your latency experience been? Is yours a public-facing deployment?
Re:How fast is apple.com? on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @08:51AM (#4692658)
I am ignoring your advice due to your grammatical mistake.
This is affecting more than a single Availability Zone, but probably for reasons that have been seen before. One reason might be that an EBS failure in one AZ triggers a spike in EBS activity in other AZs which overwhelms EBS. (I believe this is what happened in April 2011).

Does anybody have any experience with migrating to Oregon or N. California in terms of speed and latency?

I'd be interested to see what the distribution of automated tickets is compared to police-issued tickets. The automated tickets provide a baseline of random lawlessness. Do police issue more tickets on the same days that more automated tickets are issued?
Re:Jack Dorsey: Today Starbucks Signed up for Square on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @08:30AM (#4355164)
I'm having a hard time seeing how Starbucks has higher processing costs than Square. I think that Starbucks will continue to pay their low costs and be able to use Square as their platform. No reason Square couldn't process Starbucks transactions, too without needing to change their merchant accounts.
Re:One Thing Outlook.com Mail Needs To Fix Immediately on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @04:10PM (#4319342)
I didn't see it at first but I wanted to see what would happened if I tabbed out of the message body and it focused on the send button.
So, instead of "creepy ads" along the right of the window ("Welcome to Outlook.com", 0:12), we get the exact same creepy ads along the right of the window?
Re:Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API on Thursday June 07, 2012 @04:01PM (#4081052)
The sample request is nearly identical to Stripe. Is it safe to say this is Stripe for Australia? What's the relationship between Stripe and Pin?