Oracle Suspended My Account

Post by sesm » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 6:26 AM UTC

Shorel wrote: post #213

mikro2nd wrote: post #181

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Yes. Exactly. Telling people what they've done wrong enables them to behave better in future. Isn't that what we want... rehabilitation?

"Your free instance used more than 12345* CPU credits under 24 hours, therefore you exceeded the threshold for automatic termination." This number is published, and someone creates a script to launch hundreds or thousands of free instances that all run exactly 12344 credits every 24 hours and are used as spam boxes, or cryptocurrency mining, or something similar that degrades the platform for all other users. * meani…

Post by intothemild » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 7:10 AM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #240

NaturalPhallacy wrote: post #232

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True. But he's also not wrong. I've lost track of how many companies have been on HN for doing this. Google especially. (I'm employed by neither oracle nor google.) Some automated system just cancels you, and somehow these big tech companies often just...don't have customer support phone lines so you can't talk to an employee unless you go to the office. It's a deliberate cost savings on their part that they seem to…

I think if you do pay Google money now (for Google One) they do have support. Or at least I think they do.

Post by intothemild » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 7:16 AM UTC

OrangeMonkey wrote: post #7

There is a pattern in technology companies and user reports of them: * User does thing that appears to be fine. * User is banned * User has no way of fixing this, ask for redress, they are just cut out now. I think this pattern is something that should be held in contempt and is eventually thrown away. If I had to guess, though, it won't be.

Post by bt4u » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 8:16 AM UTC

Bayart wrote: post #256

NaturalPhallacy wrote: post #233

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"vile, aggressive, hysterical rubbish." Also known as "wrongthink".

No. People who get shut down here aren't being targeted ideologically, they don't have a school of thought, they're not special, they're not even articulate. They're just narcissistic angry people shouting for their personal satisfaction at the expense of everybody else.

Post by yellowapple » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 8:52 AM UTC

PathOfEclipse wrote: post #164

mpol wrote: post #98

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Yes, the US is designed around the idea of a rich minority that is protected against the poor majority. How will that get fixed, what do you think? ;) The rich majority has their arm up in the government, the poor majority only gets the illusion of democracy and justice and freedom.

It will get fixed just as soon as the socialists and neo-marxists obtain power, and then ... create an oppressive, centralized, and corrupt authoritarian regime, just like everywhere else they gain power? Like, seriously, what are you talking about? The US is designed that way as compared to what other society? In every society under the sun, money translates to power, and people with more money tend to have more pow…