But but but.
We are only supposed to consume!
How could some career-politician who has never created anything real in their life understand otherwise? Seriously!
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Yes. Twitter has a very good specific use for me. None of these 'features' have anything to add to that use.
I will soon have to move all parties interested in what I have to say (yes such exists! In a very specific work-related way) to Diaspora* or similar. In the end, this isn't really the sort of thing that needs to be profitable for a specific organisation to exist if you go distributed.
NBN just put the outside box and fibre on my place a few weeks ago and a work colleague who lives 2 block north of me just got the internals plugged in, so if Exetel do want to terminate me, I am hoping they can hold off for another month or two when I have to switch plans anyway, so switching providers at the same time would not be much additional effort.
My impression has always been that Exetel is primarily focused on business users and they only connect home users (like me) because why-not. If that has become uneconomic for them, then pulling that side-service back would be expected.
What might make connecting home users suddenly uneconomic? Well being informed that they now have to go to the trouble to store 2 years worth of user-activity metadata might. That is, of course, pure speculation.
I have always thought if Exetel wasn't so good for my current needs that TPG might deserve my patronage if only for being the ISP that seems to always be standing up to our governments (all of them!) trying to get their sticky fingers in parts of the 'net they have no business being anywhere near.
Considering the apparent mish-mash of quantum theory and the sheer scale of the universe. I believe we live in an undergraduate-created simulation. Used the entire memory space, dragging the speed of light down in the process and had to keep patching the laws of physics in a 12-hours-before-submission all-nighter just to keep it stable.
I'd give it a C-
I always assumed robots.txt was just to flag parts of the tree that were not worth the robot's trouble. As both a courtesy to the search engines and to reduce bandwitdh to your web server. Nothing to do with security.
Using it for security is like leaving your front door open and a note on the table saying "please don't nick anything in the bedroom".