I get the feeling that the fact that the site never loads for me is intentional?
/dev/null as a Service
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#12I'm guessing this is a parody?
Yes, look at their upcoming product: /dev/random as a Service: Do you think every random-number-generator is broken? Well, we do! Simply trust us and use our numbers as your only seeding source!
http://www.random.org/
"RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use RANDOM.ORG for holding drawings, lotteries and sweepstakes, to drive games and gambling sites, for scientific applications and for art and music. The service has existed since 1998 and was built by Dr Mads Haahr of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland. Today, RANDOM.ORG is operated by Randomness and Integrity Services Ltd."
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#13At least these guys are honest:
We know that everyone cares about thier privacy these days. We promise we won't let anyone have a look at your data[1].
[1] Anyone excluding the following companies and departments. Just the good guys, you know?: NSA, Nestle, Communist Party of China (CPC), The Coca-Cola Company, the KGB, some of your coworkers and our friends (especially if there is something funny).
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#14They had me at "Use our distributed service located in over 380 countries!"
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#15At least these guys are honest: We know that everyone cares about thier privacy these days. We promise we won't let anyone have a look at your data[1]. [1] Anyone excluding the following companies and departments. Just the good guys, you know?: NSA, Nestle, Communist Party of China (CPC), The Coca-Cola Company, the KGB, some of your coworkers and our friends (especially if there is something funny).
This is actually implying that one of the listed entities is a department within company that produced this marvelous software. I wonder which.
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#16I'm guessing this is a parody?
No, this is real life. Services just like these already exist.
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#17Reminds me of http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
Oh this is brilliant. The link to the whitepaper 404'ing was extremely clever. Thanks for sharing :)
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#18IP address is owned by NSA Fort Meade office. Possible honeypot scheme? I can't think of any other reason it would have that attractive free tier.
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#19I'm guessing this is a parody?
I'm guessing it's inspired by the video "MongoDB is Web Scale" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Wow I can't believe that video has gone viral — I remember showing it around to a few friends 2 years ago or so when it only had a few thousand views. Ironically, MongoDB has since become my go-to DB of choice...
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#20/dev/null is way too polite. For my services I much prefer to rely on the http://foaas.com/ API