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Take my guns but not my memes!


Military-grade memes have no place in our communities!


This has been live for 3-6 months now.


Adobe provides the backend infrastructure for this and every other service except for Amazon. And yes, they have DRM but its trivial to circumvent with the proper tools. But consider the independent book stores that might stay open a little longer if you suggest they get with the program. I mention this because a longtime friend of mine opened her store 5 years ago and now that occasional Harry Potter release is not something she can rely on, she found Google's reseller program super easy to set up, maintain, and integrate with her main & mobile web sites. Look up St Johns Bookseller if you're curious.


Kragen is obviously not well informed of how the Internet works regardless of how long he's been online. Or to use one of his piss poor analogies, just because a cat is 20 years old does not mean he knows every cat in the neighborhood. His descriptions of DSL, wireless networking, p2p, network topology, and his guesses about the infrastructure behind major "evil" web sites are about as narrow sighted as a twenty year old feline.


I would be delighted to become better informed. Would you like to explain a couple of my errors to me?


$ dig static.ak.connect.facebook.com

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> static.ak.connect.facebook.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45796 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 9, ADDITIONAL: 9

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;static.ak.connect.facebook.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION: static.ak.connect.facebook.com. 858 IN CNAME static.ak.connect.facebook.com.edgesuite.net. static.ak.connect.facebook.com.edgesuite.net. 9684 IN CNAME a1875.g.akamai.net. a1875.g.akamai.net. 20 IN A 69.64.227.14


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