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Google has quietly started offering Google Cloud CDN service, a new content-delivery network (CDN) that should appeal to independent developers who want their applications to load quickly.
For its "alpha" release, Google is now accepting applications from people who want to try the new service, which is limited in geographical availability. More locations will be added when the service becomes generally available.
"Google Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) uses Google's globally distributed edge caches to cache HTTP(S) Load Balanced content close to your users," the product description states. "Caching content at the edges of Google's network provides faster delivery of content to your users while reducing the load on your servers."
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poverty, n.:
An unfortunate state that persists as long
as anyone lacks anything he would like to have.
(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Tuesday December 15 2015, @08:44PM
Things like this and Cloud Flare are frightening to me because they sit between you and the web, tracking everything you do in aggregate to build vast profiles of the sites you visit. More and more sites are letting these services get between them and their users, building these vast data warehouses about Internet use. Who has this data? What are they doing with it? Is it secure? Are end users consenting to having a third party aggregate their data to build profiles just by using the Internet?
(E-mail me if you want a pizza roll!)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hyperturtle on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:44PM
If you are not asked for your concept, there is no opt to out of.
We aren't asked if our plates are being read and if we care, or if CCTV cameras capture our faces and if in malls, our phones rat us out as we walk around indoors. E911 even requires (or will soon, since it may not be fully implemented yet) determination of cellular callers in such detail that the floor floor of the building you call from is known.
And with ibeacons, the seat you sat in at that trendy restaurant can be known. Across all visits, and across participating vendors, and what aisles you lingered in and what items you stopped in front of and so on.
They cry that in public you have no expectation of privacy, and in private they say that by being there you expect none.
I am sure that soon, if you hadn't already agreed to some sort of arbitration clause giving up all of your rights, then by going onto the internet without encryption, they will say you are in public, and by accepting a connection to a website you passively agree to monitoring as part of the service agreement or you can't connect/would be kicked out of the store if you refused.
We're already been given our numbers for the tracking system--many people salivate over the latest way to carry that around.
I even recently received alerts on my phone for a service I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR, and I found that the privacy statement changed for the billing of that company, and any number entered they will text to and I would pay for the charges because its convenient for them. I can't opt out, but I can change the number. WTF is that? I wish I could get a telephone loopback of some kind that is valid for use yet won't contribute to unsolicited traffic between my devices... tell you what vendors, I'll log into your website to check out the exciting offer. it costs too much for me to get them at 10 cents per SMS. (unless, of course, those become free fastlane/network netural preferred vendor non violating traffic that consumers can't actually send themselves, of course. Just like how I cant host a server at home, I guess?)
uh sorry for the rant. tis the season for aggressive marketing
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @10:54PM
Airplane mode may be your friend. (if disables the cellular, but not WiFi radio). Of course, you can still be tracked by MAC address.
I am not clear what you mean by "loopback". In context, is sounds like you want to log onto their website (presumably in private browsing mode) to get any coupons.
I have been working on becoming my own cell-phone provider with the help of Astersisk. So far my phone only rings while I am "home" though. My Cellular WiFi hotspot get a private IP address from the phone company, so I need to tunnel to my PBX box to get calls to work elsewhere.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:41PM
Man, I don't know why Unistaters put up with that shit. You actually pay to receive calls and SMS's.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Wednesday December 16 2015, @12:41AM
Man, I don't know why Unistaters put up with that shit. You actually pay to receive calls and SMS's.
There are some exceptions, but most don't do that any more, because carriers finally started making SMS free for most plans. Competition's actually improved the situation there, along with voice call limits, because they've become "freebies" to entice people to use this or that carrier in the hopes of getting the profits off selling people smartphones or getting data overages etc. It also helped that data plans meant that users started circumventing paid SMSes using internet-based messaging systems; the SMS gravy train was doomed so they turned it into a freebie gimmick, same way things like voicemail and caller ID went from being expensive add-ons to status quo for phones.
That said, they had a really nice racket with SMS for a while, didn't they? Get users to pay to send AND receive data that's free for the carrier because it piggybacks on other essential traffic.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Sunday December 20 2015, @11:53AM
That wasn't really my point. If any telco in Oz had ever said "We're going to charge you for shit people send to you" they'd have been strung up by the balls five minutes later.
I want to send a message to some bastard = fine I pay for it.
Some other bastard sends me a message = fine he pays for it.
You want me to pay to receive messages = it'll be a cold fucking day in hell.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday December 20 2015, @12:21PM
Hey, I agree completely, just thought it was worth pointing out that it's not really the case any more for most people. I always thought it was bloody stupid and refused to participate until the game changed.
I think maybe they got away with it as long as they did in part because of other businesses footing the bill -- in their quest to keep employees available 24/7 as unpaid labour -- and in part because the telcos deliberately avoided stepping on each other's toes by offering better options. Everyone just got handed a "deal with it or gtfo" ultimatum with no alternatives. Sort of like how the ISP options in the US are terrible because you're lucky if you've got more than one internet option where you live. The ISPs set up deals with the apartment complexes, the towns, etc. and basically section off the cities so you can't change providers without moving to a new part of town.
The "pay to receive an SMS" thing reminds me of an old scam that used to be a thing before the US changed some laws to stop it. Sleazy people (or businesses) would send goods to people's houses in the post, unsolicited, and then follow up with a bill for the goods, requiring people to pay for the items they didn't even order. It was a common enough thing that the laws eventually had to explicitly provide protections for users receiving unsolicited goods.
Or, more recently (and humourously), there was a news article about a woman that would break into people's houses, clean them, and then leave them a bill for services rendered. She finally got busted for it because she broke into a house with a kid in it and the parents freaked out or something. Point is, apparently some people would actually feel guilty and pay her, like fucking morons.