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Isn't Thiel a billionaire? I don't understand why he would do so much to promote a £9.99 book.


Getting exposure for your ideas is worth much more than however much money he would make on the book sales.


It's a very intriguing question. But yet we see examples of people with exceptional personal wealth, doing things and saying things that seem ... petty or at least beneath them in the financial context.

I think even billionaires want their causes to succeed, so even if it's a book that accounts for 1% of their wealth, they still want it to do well and will say and do things that help it to succeed.

Also, as AngrySkillzz pointed out, the "ideas" put forth in the book are more important to them (than the money earned) and they can indirectly benefit their business by having these ideas, or opinions take hold.


I've just read their main website. Out bandwidth at $0.01 per GB? Has anybody tried this? Looks too good to be true.


Disclamer : working @ovh

> "Looks too good to be true"

It's not :) we built a brand new network to be able to offer this at scale.


Is this "brand new" network substantively different from the one you launched last year? Looks to me like this is still based off of OVH's (oft never fully online) internal 1Tbps network + a lot of rented fiber or virtual-PoP over rented transit.

Is the bandwidth still part of the lackluster Volume network you use in your French DCs?


Brilliant, I can finally implement one of my bandwidth intensive ideas! Thanks Steven!


You're welcome ! feel free to feedback your impressions or remarks @runabove : https://twitter.com/runabove


IMO there should be some sort of header like

    x-whitehat: autopatch
which gives white-hats the opportunity to patch your system without exploiting. The why I see it, a malicious person is going to exploit your server anyway. This way white-hats could patch your system and not be prosecuted. With this, someone who discovered the patch could scan the internet, look for servers that say "yes, please patch me" and deploy a quick patch and nothing else.


Why a $1 plan? What if that user asks for support, would you value 15 or 30 mins of your time at $1?


I don't foresee a lot of issues once a user gets the hang of it, and I am expecting each user to have approximately 10 websites which should eventually pay off. Hopefully it works out :) I will also increase the amount of documentation/videos which should reduce the support required.


Nice work! From where do you get that expectation?


Thanks :) I didn't really do any research on that expectation, but from my personal experience many designers can host their clients' websites if they can get an inexpensive and reliable host, websrvr is trying to be that.


> The all-you-can-eat is capped (small print) at a "fair usage" of 25 Gb/month.

I can tell you that this is wrong, I've personally had months where I've used 100GB+ of data over 3G and had no problems (this is on a £15 top-up). I don't know if they throttle or not, I've never really noticed it.

> Tethering is disabled while roaming overseas on "feel at home", but not prevented at home.

I didn't get my handset from Three but I've been able to tether in Paris and used at least 2GB when I was there.


The limit only applies when roaming with Feel at Home (free roaming). Data is capped at 25GB, and I think calls are capped at 300 mins and texts at 3000, too.

When not roaming, there is no limit on data:

> "Does all you can eat data come with any limits? The limit is how much your device can consume – if you were to actively use data or the Internet on your phone every second, of every day, in every month (and we would be worried if you were !!!!) you would, subject to the current traffic management requirements (which vary from time to time), use up to 1000GB per month. So in essence there is a limit of how much data you can actually consume which is up to 1000GB. All this means that you can have absolute peace of mind and enjoy all the internet you need on your smartphone, without worrying."

(http://www.three.co.uk/Privacy_Cookies/Terms_Conditions?cont...)


$5 per 1k US visitors? How do you do that?


Thats not possible.


Why is this website not banned yet? They're very well known plagiarists.

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/infosec_institute/


It appears this article is a confirmation of that.

https://sites.google.com/site/pinczakko/nsa-bios-backdoor-a-...

It took a while to find the original, it's a PDF rather than a web page and it was plagiarized within days of being published, google picked up on the plagiarized copy before it ever saw the original by the looks of it.


I am not sure how you get from the PDF to the confirmation. The first page of the PDF says it is from “Infosec Institute” and “Darmawan Salihun”. If you want to show plagiarism, should you not be linking to a version that has the same contents but with different authors?


Darmawan Salihun is the author of both and according to his LinkedIn page:

BIOS/UEFI Security Researcher InfoSec Institute June 2012 – Present (2 years 3 months)

Plus the OP's article was published before that PDF (January Vs. Feb).


On that site the author is the same one as listed on the infosec article, and they claim he's a researcher for ISI.


1. Get loan

2. Don't pay it back

3. Ask debt collector friend to buy debt

4. Pay him off

Why would this not work?


They are sold in parcels. There isn't like a list of debtors in default the bank maintains that you can go pick from. It's more like here's 1,287 loans defaulted on, worth a total of $4,342,230 that you can bid on.


Debt collectors usually do not have the ability to target specific people's debt in the debt packages that they buy.


You still have a history of non payment and debt being sent to collections on your credit report.


debt collector friend....ha


StartSSL has an issue with Apple computers. I'll be getting a better SSL cert once I get more customers and revenue.


Hi, thanks for the feedback. I've asked for credit card details to prevent the abuse of this service since you can scan any website.

However, I'm currently in the process of working with the Google Analytics API to provide free scans for verified websites where the user can prove ownership -- this should roll out in about a week or so. Would you like me to drop you a PM when I release this feature?


Yes please, I'm @junto on Twitter.


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