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9/11 Made Us Safer, Says Bruce Schneier
richi writes "Security guru and BT CTO Bruce Schneier discusses terrorist attacks. In fact, Bruce seems to be saying that 9/11 actually made us safer from terrorists, which seems like a curious argument. While Bruce's blog post is interesting and no doubt insightful, I'm not sure I really buy it. And what's the deal with the new rules for searching the TSA No Fly List? Why is it, in 2010, we're still mucking about with publishing database extracts and waiting hours for them to be searched? How about checking within seconds of an update? Couldn't someone volunteer to show them how to implement a reliable, scalable, NoSQL setup? Instead, the TSA plan to fix this is a classic 'big government' solution."
Read Talebs Fooled by Randomness
People don't do anything unless they are clubbed on the head. Until then we are dumb as ever...
Ask yourself, ever been burnt? Or name somebody who has not been burnt. We all know we can be burnt and thus we don't need to experience the joys of a burn (regardless of the degrees). Yet we are all burn ourselves at one point in our lives...
"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
If I hear one more thing about NoSQL, I'm going to go crazy.
NoSQL is a niche application, and it's use is only valid for some very specific situations. I handle databases of several TB of data, and that is only a fraction of what some people handle, with MySQL. I have a distributed DB over 3 countries, with latencies over 150 ms between slaves, and it works like a charm. Have we suddenly forgotten how to optimize applications?
Suddenly, the min requirement to run any application is a quad core machine with 8 GB of RAM, and since we can't be bothered to optimize our RDBMS, we drop them altogether.
We don't need no NoSQL (Yeah, way too many double negatives in there). We just need to stop hiring retards in our IT departments.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?