Please provide kidney in lieu of long-term contract for free Apple TV or Fire Stick.

Interestingly, as a tier-2/regional operator, these cache devices are hard to get because they fill a certain role. We have worked with Netflix to try and get the caching device, and it just doesn't do any good if you have less than 3-4gbps of pure Netflix traffic. It does not work because the caches have to ... populate the cache! They do this regularly, and the do it overnight -- but it is an absurd amount of data, especially when there are multiple bitrates. I am told that the cache runs > 1.5gbps to populate, almost nightly. So if you don't push significantly more than that, it is not a cost winner.

As a transit provider/local ISP/bandwidth buyer, 3+gbps is a lot of traffic. We found it mildly more attractive to buy a 10gbps wave to a Netflix-available peering point and peer directly with them than to buy 2+gbps of transit from Level3/Cogent/HE, especially factoring in last mile costs.

Also of note, my own traffic engineering testing shows that Netflix *strongly* prefers Hurricane Electric (as of last fall), then Cogent, then Level3.

There is a really horrible hole between 1gbps and 10gbps of consumption that there isn't a good solution for. Netflix knows about it, but it is a very difficult target to hit -- it may be cheaper to buy transit, or it may not be, but hardware isn't the answer. This same situation exists for all CDNs - limelight, edgecast, akamai, L3.

As usual, peering is the answer. Our customers pay us to bring them Netflix ... so we buy a wave and backhaul it hundreds of miles to satisfy them. It'd be ridiculous for me to charge Netflix when my customers are asking for it!

This. Pilot G2 ultrafine (.38) are fantastic! Very narrow tip, tough, gel ink so no blobbing, instant drying. Very nice.

The idea is to work extra, save money, and use that to buy even more free time down the road (early retirement, for example).

But most people forget the saving part, and spend it as soon as they earn it, and wonder why they feel poor on $150,000 per year.

Boeing?

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/snapshots/59.html

... with a nice and warm Klemperer rosette in the center...

Don't forget to put on a Trojan before heading into the rosette...

... or by that nice feeling of wet pajamas rubbing against your skin reminding you that sometimes it's really better to go ...

Or maybe, that JCPenney makes most of its money in its brick-and-mortar stores rather than online?

Or most of their online customers go directly to JCPenney's rather than searching for a source of doodads or widgets?

In the end, google might have done JCPenney's a favor by showing them how little business their SEO games actually brought, and that this is an expense they can well do without...

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w00t!

That was not a torrent, that was a whooping big ocean!

... if you have no goatse.cx, nor goatse.cz, nor goatse.ch, nor goatse.fr to point the SQL-injected website to?

That's expected. The single quote between the O and the N crashes the search database...