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NTT's Cool - Human Area Networking Technology
kvsnut writes "I4U is reporting about NTT's research project
called RedTacton - It 'safely
turns the surface of the human body into a data transmission path at speeds up
to 10 Mbps between any two points on the body.' There is a pretty interesting site (uses flash) setup to showcase the technology.
If you want to jump to a non-flash overview, try here. It be cool if I could sync my Treo (I'm
saving for) by just touching a cradle (or heck the PC)."
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From the wikipedia page:
At about 14:15 PST some circuit breakers were tripped in the colocation facility where our servers are housed. Although the facility has a well-stocked generator, this took out power to places inside the facility, including the switch that connects us to the network and all our servers. (Yes, even the machines with dual power supplies -- both circuits got shut off.)
After some minutes, the switch and most of our machines had rebooted. Some of our servers required additional work to get up, and a few may still be sitting there dead but can be worked around.
The sticky point is the database servers, where all the important stuff is. Although we use MySQL's transactional InnoDB tables, they can still sometimes be left in an unrecoverable state.
(Bolding mine.) This proves that MySQL is not ACID, there is no way that a power outage is supposed to cause corruption in a database. This is not a troll, this is a simple conclusion. I really think that Wikipedia should switch to PostgreSQL, which is considerably more mature in terms of ACID compliance.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Who would want this? -t http://www.scrapbookingdirect.com/
This is so unfair. Cool-humans get everything. I knew I should have played football in highschool. And showered.