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Comment: Re:It's Totally False (Score 1) 97

by rev0lt (#46496643) Attached to: The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly

This is why your electric company, gas company, phone company, cable company are one monopolies.

Not where I live. You have a free market - at least an illusion of one.

Also think of E-Bay (what is alternative?), Amazon.com (what is alternative?)

Both Amazon & Ebay are not the top companies on their respective fields (TaoBao is bigger than both combined). Amazon's alternative is to skip the marketplace and buy on your local retailer (if available). If not, buy on a clone (Jumia, Lazada, Linio, etc). E-Bay alternatives start offline (newspapers).

Comment: Re:Social network API (Score 1) 97

by rev0lt (#46496607) Attached to: The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly

Because there's no money on sharing information.

No, its about perception of cost. People see value in having an email. Providers like google see value in crawling user's emails (eg. to know the reach of certain promotions, key products, ordering info, etc - the kind of suff that makes sense once you're collecting data with Google Analytics, and convincing companies to spend money on AdWords).

Sharing this information will allow third partners to take access to some (if not all) of these data, and then Facebook will lose its monopoly on such data.

So you're saying that Facebook loses when sells the daily answer to "what are guys between 20-25yr old that are male caucasian and like hot girls are buying"?

Comment: Re:It's called (Score 1) 97

by rev0lt (#46496579) Attached to: The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly

Right. I remember those days. It was back when everyone was on Yahoo!What made Yahoo! chat rooms work was that you could go there and find people

I really doubt that. Newsgroups are as old as the internet itself. And talkd and IRC are also quite old. Waaaay before Yahoo.

What makes Facebook work is that is where everyone is now.


This is called "network effect"

This is EXACTLY what you want from a social network. Or you'd have skype, google talk and the remaining crap to talk with people. A niche network - the shit G+ was catering to when it was launched (by arrogant nerds for nerds) - will not fly. Internet IS NOT for the elite. And Facebook understands that.

Comment: Re:It's called (Score 1) 97

by rev0lt (#46496559) Attached to: The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly

ou realize that people were talking online and sharing pictures, personal updates, etc, on the internet long, long before Facebook ever existed, right?

Yeah. Except geocities, gopher, thematic webrings, personal home pages, personal gnome pages (wink wink gifs) and whatnot. And all of that required a browser, some html knowledge, a domain name (optional), some blink tags and the actual content. So you could congratulate your colleague in his newborn son (6 months old by the time you find out) as he's leaving the company (that's how you found out, he has a own domain email!). That appeals to the working class, why not? "Here, have some tech - in 6 months, you'll be able to barely update your friends on your cat pictures AND your cooking recipes by installing this 25 pieces of software"

Refusal to use them is not the same as not having them.

I'd assume that you, AC, are followed with utter relevance.

Comment: Re:It's called (Score 1) 97

by rev0lt (#46496519) Attached to: The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly

no current system/application/internet thing exists to make the experience of 'you and all of your friends visiting the same varying virtual destinations a social experience'

Where the f*** did you read that in my comment?

Facebook only offers you your info for sale, and a way to consistently communicate in recognizable patterns globally through a single identity, not a real social experience

So does your provider, and everybody else. What do I care that my music listening preferences are blasted into the world and data mined? Do you know what trends are? They are data-mined :). And as "social experience", I choose to have a life offline. Like most users do.

modern research (http://www.scientificamerican.com/

I'd argue that scientific american is neither a modern and an acccurate reference when talking about social networks. But I get a bit bitchy about details.

I'd be willing to bet that what our brains are currently tuned to interpret as a truly "social"

Brains process patterns. Proximity (specially multi-sensorial) is a pattern, much more fullfilling than online experiences.

i shouldn't post slashdot comments on St. Patty's Day.

Waaaay ahead of you :D Happy St Patrick's day from Portugal ;)

Comment: Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... (Score 1) 329

by rev0lt (#46488089) Attached to: 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month

. There's a slight possibility that both drives fail at the same time but that's a very remote chance.

Well, its not. Unless you go server-grade, the chance you will find flipping bits and CRC errors is quite high. If the drive is full, syncing the drive may easily cause stress failure on high-capacity disks (consumer-grade disks are not designed to spit 2TB at maximum data rate nor the IOPS this envolves). This is one of the reasons why RAID10 is prefered over RAID5 - the rebuilt effort is smaller, and the stress on the disk drives will be much lower.


by rev0lt (#46488053) Attached to: 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month

I can pickup a 1 TB drive right now for ~$60

Add the cost of putting meaningful bytes on them. Platform, electricity, etc.

Instead of 1 year of service I can expect 5 years out of a SATA drive typically

Except if your house is robbed, you drop the drives, bad luck, fire, flood, short circuit, bad electronics, etc. All those things people don't care about until its too late.

So if nothing goes wrong, I've saved myself $480, if something does go wrong with both drives, I've saved myself $360

So, how do you backup those 2 drives to make sure you don't lose data? At that point, this kind of service seems really cheap.

As an example, I run my own online storage system, and have roughly 3TB of ZFS, redundant storage I use to backup my critical data. It's still around 0.02Eur/GB, plus the time to maintain it.


by rev0lt (#46487955) Attached to: 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month

Eh? Can't you just throttle it at your router? How hard is that? Hand in your /. credentials plz...

So, please care to explain how to throttle a specific upload on an HTTPS connection using a home router, please? So lets say you're uploading to Gdrive and want to keep using GMail...

Comment: Re:Why the gripe about Linux using BSD code? (Score 1) 288

by rev0lt (#46424693) Attached to: Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will

I am sorry, but I don't understand: why is it okay for Microsoft to use to BSD code, without giving BSD any credit, but not Linux?

Where did you get that idea? Microsoft used the BSD-based TCP stack on previous versions of windows, and the disclaimers are fairly well documented, even on the header files. The BSD clause is let intact, as required. The Microsoft Services For Unix was (AFAIK) based on OpenBSD tools and some GPL stuff, all also in compliance with the license (an old version is described in http://technet.microsoft.com/e...)

y understanding is: the ISC, MIT and BSD-licenses allow for sublicensing without making any modifications so the Linux devs are perfectly within the license when they sublicense the original code under the GPL

You CANNOT rip the BSD disclaimer. Its right there on the license. Theo is right.
And tecnically, you CANNOT dual-license a BSD file with GPL without any change. If you do it, the less restrictive license takes precedence. You can change the file and have your own modifications under GPL if you want, but for the rest of the code, the GPL clauses are void because BSD is less restrictive and the content is ALSO licensed under BSD.

Also, I am not sure that Theo is justified in ranting about "the Linux people" when this was one incident that happened about 15 years ago, and was corrected.

Another guy already replied to this. If a guy chooses GPL because he thinks its a better license, he should at least have the same respect for other licenses. More often than not, this doesn't happen. The fallacy of repeating RMS GPL bullshit as facts doesn't make them come to reality, and it hurts the OSS ecosystem as a whole.

Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.