[Leica] OT: Web site host

[Nathan Wajsman]

If you are referring to the actions of the competition authorities, then this has nothing to do with bureaucracy. Margrethe Vestager is enforcing competition law to keep the likes of Google from abusing their monopoly power. This is a proper function of government, even in “The Wealth of Nations”.

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Nathan

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> On 04 Oct 2016, at 06:07, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Philippe,
> How credible are they? It always seems to me, from a zillion miles away,
> admittedly, to be bureaucrats running amok in a very rigid bureaucratic set
> up! Living in India, I have come to loathe an overactive bureaucracy
> protecting its powers, they are the worst impediment for growth and
> innovation in a country - even the politicians have to get reelected
> periodically, after all.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Philippe Amard <
> photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2532_en.htm
>> 
>> Ph
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2016-10-03 21:47 GMT+02:00 Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org>:
>> 
>>> As far as email - I think the single most important piece of advice I
>> can
>>> give (I give it over and over, solicited or unsolicited, and of course
>> it's
>>> roundly ignored) is: *never ever ever use an email address provided by
>> your
>>> internet service provider as your primary email address to give out to
>>> people* and hope to use consistently for years.  All that does is lock
>> you
>>> into continuing to use that ISP because of what a hassle is is to try to
>>> tell everybody a new address to use.
>>> 
>>> An ISP should be purely a utility, a pipe, a source of bandwidth you can
>>> switch whenever another carrier can give you better service or a better
>>> financial deal.  Don't let yourself get locked in by falling for that
>> free
>>> email address they'll offer you.
>>> 
>>> So... a gmail address remains a fine choice (they do good spam detection,
>>> and have really useful message archiving and search features).
>>> 
>>> Gmail isn't free - you pay for it by letting then advertise to you.  But
>> I
>>> still trust Google, because they have a good history of being transparent
>>> about how they'll use any information they glean about you (and I've seen
>>> them go well out of their way to make sure I saw and read any updates to
>>> those terms and conditions before they went into effect - this by
>> dramatic
>>> contrast with Facebook, which routinely slips changes in under the
>> radar).
>>> 
>>> You can use a regular @gmail.com address, or you can have Google handle
>>> email for your personal domain.
>>> 
>>> You can also opt to buy the Gmail and Google Apps / Drive service by
>> paying
>>> $5/month per user in lieu of being advertised to.
>>> 
>>> As far as a website... the number of options is insane.  Note that if you
>>> have a purely static, read-only-for-viewers, no backend functionality at
>>> all website...  a pretty straightforward way to put up a static site
>> which
>>> is really robust under load is to serve it from an Amazon S3 bucket.  You
>>> can look it up if you're interested and don't know what that means;  the
>>> approach may or not appeal to you.
>>> 
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