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I'm curious? Why force them to give their money away?

It sounds counter-intuitive to me. Teach them the value of money, but then completely negate any value by forcing them to give it away?

Some examples would be nice.

Meanwhile, in the UK, Amazon appear to have opted to not use existing services like the Post Office (who are capable enough to deliver packages) and gone with their own "Amazon Logistics" (who don't seem to be able to deliver a package).

Flipside: GCSB bill.

Do restaurant's scale?

Find a bigger venue. Open another store.

Maybe they should just deploy to Heroku or Appengine and have them scale to meet their table needs.

I suspect this might be down to the 'dynamically generated' maps feature in the current maps.google.com preview.

Either way, unless Google has somehow managed to bypass extortionate data roaming charges, spotty local coverage, and absurd latency It's pretty much made maps useless for me.

At least before, when my phone has decided to not connect to the network, or latency has spiked up to 30s I could still look at the map and get places.

Mturk can be used as a source for automation training.

If you start writing bots to do the tasks, you're now the mostly-blind leading the blind.

I'd wager it's even simpler than that.

At some point the signal must

a) be converted from electrical to optical

b) be boosted down the wire

c) be converted from optical to electrical

Easiest solution? Tap in at A, B or C.

Who's going to notice that your repeater at the bottom of the ocean actually has a NSA listener plugged into its debug socket?

I doubt it's changed much.

Where would the traffic go?

It's hard enough replacing products & services from the 'big companies' (google, facebook apple, etc) with smaller ones operating inside the US. Let alone replacing them with services outside the US.

Where does the traffic come from?

Do the majority of users really care that they're being spied on. "If you have nothing to hide..." seems to be a reasonably common way of thinking.

It's Kim DotCom. He's both figuratively and literally larger than life.