Horrible reporting: This article leads people to believe Godaddy moved all of their customers DNS over to Verisign.
All Godaddy did was temporarily move their single godaddy.com DNS to verisign so they could display a 'we are working on it' message to visitors during the attack.
The startup incubator I work for in Beverly Hills is looking for an intern. They posted the listing below on craigslist a few days ago, so email job-5k6be-2228641808@craigslist.org if interested and in the subject line include Hacker News.
--- http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/bus/2228641808.html
Curious Minds brainstorms business ideas with the potential to shake up the status quo. As a technology incubator, we whittle sophisticated algorithms into simple, intuitive solutions. Our businesses have landed partnerships with Fortune 500 companies and nationwide press from ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR, Fox TV, KCAL 9, Good Morning America, CNET, Esquire, and USA Today.
We’re seeking an assistant to perform routine business development tasks. You should be tech-savvy, outgoing, and eager to get the job done.
Responsibilities:
- Transfer data from online databases into spreadsheets
- Actively seek new accounts through cold calls, emails, and faxes
- Research and write answers to support healthcare technology projects
- Resolve issues throughout the project cycle
- Develop new marketing collateral
- Write emails
Qualifications:
- Consistent, reliable, hardworking (e.g. we can count on you to show up and produce accurate work)
- Superior organizational and time-management skills
- Good writing and communication skills
- Ability to adapt in a rapidly-evolving entrepreneurial environment
- Positive, easygoing, nice, fun, smart, low-maintenance
Benefits:
- This is a paid (hourly) internship
- Has the potential to develop into a full-time position as an early employee in the company
- Exciting work environment that serves as an entrepreneurial training ground
- Assist in driving and managing one of the fastest-growing startups
- Kitchen filled to the brim with delicacies
- Beautiful office in the middle of Beverly Hills
While I think tor and something like torchat is good in theory, its big negative in reality is that the speed makes it unusable most of the time. Not to mention if you are altruistic and plan to run a node, you also run the risk of the FBI knocking on your door for someone who used your (exit) node to upload their kitty porn (the exit is not encrypted).
And if you do run that exit node, you can sniff what people are doing (so there goes the anon part).
Tor was pretty bad for web browsing - latency and pages requiring multiple resources meant that pages took forever to render. But how much is being transfered or rendered with chat? Not very much. IRC is usable even over atrocious connections. I rather imagine that textual chat over Tor would work fine.
and I say this as someone who ran a Tor relay on his Xbox to get 1 hop out of the way
You're missing the point: Business ideas do not need to be either unique or non-trivial to succeed when the goal is so small; he's not building an empire here.
Am I getting my 2.99 back? Or is the free version ad supported? In the process of trying to get more users, the free move might alienate their paying customers
If I'd paid $2.99, I simply would not pay for anything else from Alphonso Labs. I'd just wait until they gave it away free - that is a shame, because that way any app is unlikely to be successful enough to be given away free.
If they give it away free, then I would expect that they do something for previous purchasers. If they don't, they risk building a lot of bad will from early adopters that could kill their next venture.
Then again, one could argue that you paid that premium for early use of the app, and for $2.99 it's not worth holding a grudge and refusing to purchase their next product.
All Godaddy did was temporarily move their single godaddy.com DNS to verisign so they could display a 'we are working on it' message to visitors during the attack.