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Friday, 30 March 2012
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Mitt Romney may be consolidating his lead over Rick Santorum in the race to secure the GOP nomination picking up an endorsement from Marco Rubio on Wednesday night and from members of the Bush family. But the Republican presidential hopeful is facing a new and potentially very serious crisis in his campaign.The former Massachusetts governor's most serious problem going forward-- one that the Wall Street Journal called attention to in early March -- is that his negative rating exceeds his positive rating by double digits.
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
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Jerry Lee Lewis Weds 7th Time?To Cousin?s Ex-Wife
Jerry Lee Lewis Weds 7th Time…To Cousin’s Ex-Wife
Veteran musician Jerry Lee Lewis has wed for the seventh time. The 76-year-old rocker tied the knot with his caregiver, who happens to be the [...]
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Cloud Storage Competition Heats Up With RiakCS
Add Basho to the companies looking to take a chunk of the cloud storage space. Today, the company announced RiakCS, a "multi-tenant, distributed, S3-compatible cloud storage platform" that runs on top of the Riak-distributed database. The question isn't really whether Basho can cut into Amazon's business, but how much.
According to J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth, Amazon Web Services overall is expected to be a $2.6 billion business by 2015. S3 is a pretty big chunk of that.
We've noted previously that Amazon S3 is seeing staggering growth. According to stats from January, Amazon had 762 billion objects stored in S3. That's a year-over-year growth of 192%, says AWS evangelist Jeff Barr.
RiakCS Versus Amazon S3
Is RiakCS competitive with Amazon S3? I guess that depends on your criteria. The feature-set for RiakCS looks competitive. According to the "Building Your Storage Cloud," (PDF) white paper from Basho, RiakCS looks like a robust and S3-compatible system.
The company is targeting service providers that might want to offer S3-compatible storage or Dropbox-like services, and companies that might want to host their own S3-compatible storage.
Note that the Basho white paper is inaccurate in at least one regard. The paper claims that Amazon offers "no guarantee of service - Amazon does not provide or offer a service level agreement to customers." Actually, Amazon does provide an S3 SLA, which promises "commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon S3 available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage (defined below) of at least 99.9% during any monthly billing cycle." If S3 is unavailable for some reason, customers can get a 10% credit for uptime less than 99.9% but more than 99%. They can receive a 25% credit for less than 99%.
It may not be a very good SLA, but it's an SLA.
There's at least one feature discrepancy between S3 and RiakCS, in terms of supported object size. RiakCS has a 5GB limit on object size, whereas Amazon S3 has a 5TB limit. Note that Amazon's object-size limit was 5GB until December of 2010, and was raised in part to cope with use cases like storing uncompressed movie files.
Pricing should be to Basho's advantage, kind of, for large-scale storage problems. When I asked Basho about its pricing, I was told that prices start at $10,000 per storage server. Assuming a 24TB server, they say, you should be looking at about $0.40 per GB total for the cost of RiakCS alone.
Amazon, on the other hand, starts at $0.093/GB per month for reduced redundancy storage or $0.125/GB per month for regular S3. Amazon's simple monthly calculator says that 24TB of storage will run about $2,718 a month, which means you'd pay off the licensing fees in less than four months.
On the other hand, the $0.40/GB cost that is projected by Basho doesn't take into account any hardware, energy or personnel costs.
RiakCS isn't the only game in town, of course. Eucalyptus Walrus provides an S3-compatible storage layer that companies could build on without any costs, though it doesn't seem to be quite as full-featured as RiakCS - particularly when it comes to the reporting/accounting features for RiakCS.
If you're looking at alternatives to Amazon S3, what features are most important? Is it enough for a company to offer a solid on-premises solution, or is there something that would make a cloud-storage offering the category killer?
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Obama, Gas Prices & Global Warming
Last week, Mitt Romney, who, it now seems, is going to become the Republican nominee whether anybody likes it or not, called on President Barack Obama to fire three of his Cabinet members: the Energy Secretary, Steven Chu; the Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar; and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson. According to Romney, the three have spent the past few years carrying out a not-so-secret plan to raise the price of gasoline at the pump. Only by firing the “gas-tax trio,” Romney told Fox News, can the President demonstrate that he did not approve of...
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Despite Policy Changes, Pinterest Still Doesn't Comply With DMCA
Despite changes over the weekend to its usage policies, Pinterest may still not be in compliance with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, according to copyright attorney and blogger Connie Mableson.
Pinterest said Amazon will be handling DMCA notices since Pinterest is hosted by the giant retailer. But Pinterest has still not updated its designated agent with the copyright office, as required under the DMCA, Mableson said, and that could cause problems if it tries to claim protections under the law.
"So, even though Amazon may be handling the DMCA notices, it still remains to be seen whether or not Pinterest qualifies for the DMCA safe harbor immunity," she wrote.
We've asked Pinterest and Amazon for comment and will update as soon as we hear back from either firm.
The change came about after the artist lobbying group, the Artists' Bill of Rights, asked Amazon to take over DMCA issues from Pinterest. But it appears as if all Amazon is doing for now is collecting complaints through an online form and forwarding them to Pinterest, which then makes the decision to take down content that violates copyright laws.
The group had originally been told by Amazon that it should contact Pinterest directly but pushed Amazon to take some control of the issue.
"This issue of infringement by Pinterest members is becoming ever more important due to other services being launched to profit from the infringed material on Pinterest," the group said.
For its part, Amazon responded to the group by saying, "We do monitor our customers with respect to DMCA compliance and will take whatever action we feel is appropriate if we believe a customer is not in compliance with the DMCA," according to the Daily Dot.
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Sunday, 25 March 2012
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Miley Cyrus Engaged? Shows Off New Ring (Photos)
Miley Cyrus Engaged? Shows Off New Ring (Photos)
Miley Cyrus is prompting speculation that she is engaged, after posting a photo on Twitter showing off her nail polish wearing a huge rock on [...]
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Pinterest Will Make It Easier To Report Copyright Violations
Bowing to pressure about how its uses content users post to its site, Pinterest announced changes to its service terms Saturday.
Pinterest said the new terms are easier to understand and were developed with feedback from users. The terms also address recent questions raised about the site's relationship to copyright law, making it easier for users and copyright owners to report violations.
In an email to users, the quickly-growing social network said it had removed terms that implied Pinterest reserved the right to sell content users uploaded to the site.
"Our original Terms stated that by posting content to Pinterest you grant Pinterest the right for to sell your content," Pinterest said. "Selling content was never our intention and we removed this from our updated Terms."
Among the other terms, which go into effect April 6, that Pinterest updated:
- Pinterest's acceptable use policy has been updated to ban content that "explicitly encourage self-harm or self-abuse."
- The company is releasing tools that will make it easier to report copyright violations and violations of its service terms.
- Pinterest "added language that will pave the way for new features such as a Pinterest API and Private Pinboards."
"Like everything at Pinterest, these updates are a work in progress that we will continue to improve upon," Pinterest said. Discuss