joewest
Re:The Cloud I'd Like to See
on Sunday July 08, 2012 @06:26PM (#4215922)
This reminds me of OceanStore:
> OceanStore is a global persistent data store designed to
> scale to billions of users. It provides a consistent,
> highly-available, and durable storage utility atop an
> infrastructure comprised of untrusted servers.
It's not productized and pretty difficult to discern the project's status BUT they do seem to publish interesting papers / update their site every so often.
Re:Apple will not allow Verizon to preload software on iPhone
on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @10:34PM (#2094813)
Agreed. You can buy an unlocked iPhone in Canada, which may be more convenient for you.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to block an EC2-hosted scraper?
on Sunday January 09, 2011 @02:04PM (#2086087)
You should report the behavior to Amazon:
http://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/co...
In my experience they take it seriously and deal with it promptly.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to block an EC2-hosted scraper?
on Sunday January 09, 2011 @01:53PM (#2086052)
Amazon previously kept a semi-official list of all netblocks for EC2 in their forum. They've recently moved to posting updates as official announcements, here is the latest:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=877
It's interesting to see the size of their deployments measured in usable IP space.