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Amazon calls it CloudFront, and it costs $0.17 – $0.22 per GB at the lowest usage tiers. It seems that you simply put your files in an S3 container, make an API call to share them, then let your users enjoy the lower-latency, higher performance service.

Their domestic locations include sites in Virginia, Texas, California, Florida, New Jersey, Washington, and Missouri. Internationally, they’ve got Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo covered.

Paul Bausch has concerns about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk:

I can imagine a world where my computer can organize my time in front of the screen better than I can. In fact, I bet [Amazon’s Mechanical Turk] will eventually gather data about how many [Human Intelligence Tasks] someone can perform at peak accuracy in a 10 hour period. Once my HIT-level is known, the computer could divide all of my work into a series of decisions. Instead of lunging about from task to task, getting distracted by blogs, following paths that end up leading nowhere, the computer could have everything planned out for me. (It could even throw in a distraction or two if that actually increased my HIT performance.) If I could be more efficient and get more accomplished by turning decisions about how I work over to my computer, I’d be foolish not to.

Foolish not to, but who wants to work at the behest of a computer? And that’s Paul’s complaint.

It’s good to know Hard to Find 800 Numbers.com is there when you need it. Here are the top five:

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  800-201-7575<br /> <br /> 877-251-0696<br /> <br /> 866-348-2492<br /> 206-266-2992
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  Cust. service<br /> <br /> Seller support<br /> <br /> Rebate status Local or int’l
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  24/7<br /> <br /> "<br /> " ( Press 0 to bypass menu) <br /> "
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  888-749-3229<br /> 800-322-9266
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  6:30a-5:30p<br /> M-F (Pacific)
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  888-215-5506<br /> 888-221-1161
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  6a-12midnight (Central) <br /> 7 days/wk
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  408-349-3300<br /> 408-349-5151
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  Corporate hq <br /> Billing cust. svc.
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  8a-5p M-F (Pacific) <br /> "
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  800-426-9400</p> 
  
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    800-936-5700</td> 
    
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      Sales<br /> Tech support:<br /> Personal support:
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      6a-6p M-F (Pacific)<br /> Option 2 <br /> 5a-9p M-F<br /> 6a-3p Sat/Sun
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