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How does this work when the object stores don't support all the features of S3?

For instance Atmos doesn't have public buckets, DNS names for buckets, named keys implemented like S3, regions, etc.

But it does have features that S3 doesn't have like byte range updates, erasure coding, etc.

Non-gated MIT parking lots are freely available after 5PM on weekdays and all day on weekends and MIT holidays.

Precisely. Who would have predicted that Twitter would have been used to organize people in a meaningful way during the Arab Spring?

The overthrow of tyrannical regimes is a noble cause that a startup would almost certainly never been able to focus on as a solution to a big picture problem.

I think that's what SideCar is trying to become.

The big lesson learned here: don't pay a high cost to only operate at the margin.

That's what App.net did --- they built out a complete product offering to only be marginally different from the alternatives.

"I noticed that the email address it came from as well as the link went to a GoDaddy registered domain."

Who does a whois lookup on domains from spam emails?

Price seems a little high, but metal welding is labor intensive.

From an interview of Nathan Myhrvold on Fareed Zakaria:

Zakaria: How worried are you that the United States is no longer going to be the place that invents the future?

Myhrvold: I'm very worried. Current course and speed --- we're very good at inventing, uh, but we're also undermining our ability to do that in lots of ways.

<facepalm>

Dropbox has this permission type already.

Nope, not I. :)