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  1. Re:Doh! NH is a two-party consent to tape state on Leave a Message, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    What about if you're in a public place? In all 50 states an individual has no expectation of privacy if they are in a public place. TV cameras capture audio during live remotes from people all the time without getting consent.

  2. Disqus on Facebook Offers Easy Commenting Alternative · · Score: 1

    Already does this, and is everywhere. Facebook playing catchup?

  3. Re:In a free country on Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker · · Score: 1

    To be the devil's advocate - gathering evidence IS the attempt of proving guilt.

    That makes no sense. You can't break-into someone's house to gather evidence just because you feel like it. There are rules that must be followed, and yes, the law applies to the govt. too. Even if they have the means to skirt the law via warrants, etc, they must follow procedure. TBH, I'm glad the judicial branch is starting to get a backbone.

  4. Re:The first four chapters.. on Book Review: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance · · Score: 1

    Just say "postgres" - if the other person doesn't know what you're talking about feel safe walking way knowing you didn't waste more time..

  5. Re:continue the support yourself on Ruby Dropped In Netbeans 7 · · Score: 1
  6. continue the support yourself on Ruby Dropped In Netbeans 7 · · Score: 1

    'However, we strongly encourage our community of NetBeans Ruby users and developers to volunteer to take on development of Ruby on Rails support for the NetBeans IDE. " Remember Netbeans is just Forte - the whole thing is just a collection of modules. Fork the ruby module.

  7. Re:And Oracle supports EXABYTE sized databases on Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row · · Score: 1

    Try to deploy Postgres on a 5000 machine cluster, with replication and failover and then get back to me. And by "failover" here I mean the entire racks or ever network segments going away with nary a hiccup in serving, no manual intervention (except for bringing up replacement nodes), and no data loss.

    See this is the problem: redundancy isn't the job of the DB: it's the job of the infrastructure. Tell you what, I'll deploy my 5000 postgres nodes and have everything vmotion and swing luns like a stripper working for her tuition and we'll see exactly why NoSQL DBs are exactly that. Replication? The SANs are mirrored over MPLS. Checkmate.

    And if you think RDBMS are "suboptimal for straightfoward user profile storage.." there's a problem with your data model, not the system. A poor workman blames his tools.

    My intention is not to come-off as vicious, though it may seem that way. I'm just really tired of people doing shit and thinking it's innovation, only becuase they are too ignorant to understand the problems they created their solutions for; either that or they forgot that something older then 15 years is available to do the same thing, only better.

  8. Re:And Oracle supports EXABYTE sized databases on Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row · · Score: 1

    The killer feature is that it actually horizontally scalable and fault-tolerant out of the box.

    So is Postgres. Like the OP, I'm still waiting for a good reason to use NoSQL-type storage. I have to agree that these are all solutions looking for problems: trying to re-invent the wheel for no other reason then they don't know how to correctly do it with the existing products.

  9. Re:This is a triumph for hideously bad schema on Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row · · Score: 1

    Database? Psha - we only use Excel for our most critical data storage needs....

  10. Re:Quite Cool on Nobel Prize Winner Says DNA Performs Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    How do you figure? Wireless power transmission has been proven to work - Intel recently experiments demonstrating such. Some scientists are only now starting to experiment with power transmission over long distances using the ionosphere.

  11. Re:Simplified on Nobel Prize Winner Says DNA Performs Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    2 words: Schumann Resonance. I wonder if there is a relationship to life taking hold on this planet and the OP's intreguing discovery...

  12. Re:Quite Cool on Nobel Prize Winner Says DNA Performs Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 0

    A lot of people laughed at Tesla too. Only took 100 years to prove the man right, for the most part.

  13. I already see the /. comments.. on Google Wins Injunction Against Agency Using Microsoft Cloud · · Score: -1, Troll

    ..and find it amusing that people are making cracks about how the govt dropped the ball, instead of the obvious fact that the govt. chose MS after considering options and google is just jilted. Because that would be evil.

  14. Re:Sure on Microsoft Ready To "Take On'' Google and Apple TV · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You mean like they did with the Xbox?

  15. Eclipse Kills Birds on Double Eclipse Photographed, Sun, Moon, and ISS · · Score: 1

    I think the correlation explains itself.

  16. Re:Java, the original sin on The Care and Feeding of the Android GPU · · Score: 2

    Because it's not bad at all. A shoddy workman blames his tools.

  17. Re:Book value vs. Real Value on Goldman Invests $450m In Facebook · · Score: 1

    according to our best-guess, FB has ~2B in gross revenue. If each employe made 100k, that's 200mil/yr in salary costs. Add in their IT costs that are easily 2x that, and you have 600mil/yr in operating costs, which means their making 1.4 billion in profit per year: hardly a company worth 25x earnings.

  18. Re:Book value vs. Real Value on Goldman Invests $450m In Facebook · · Score: 1

    exactly - the only difference between FaceBook and MySpace(for all intents and purposes) is the timing.

  19. Book value vs. Real Value on Goldman Invests $450m In Facebook · · Score: 2

    Aside from development I trade as a second-job.(I'd call it a hobby but hobbies cost money.) The net result of this valuation is marketing hype. Regardless who think what FB's eyeballs are worth, this is a point-in-time snapshot of FB's worth. Based on trading experience, if this was publicly traded right now I would be opening a vertical put spread.(i.e. be massively short) It feels and smells like an overrated athletic team.

  20. gmail has lost accounts too on Some Hotmail Accounts Wiped · · Score: 1

    I think this has happened to every freemail provider at some point. Google has a long track-record of borking gmail accounts and worse: logging into other people's in-boxes.

  21. Re:Smear Campaign? on FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack · · Score: 1

    It's more than marketing. OpenBSD is a solid system, second only to a few of the Trusted *NIX flavors and private NSA builds. OpenBSD is secure enough the be on the "you cannot ship this out of the country" list in the US.

  22. Re:Tomcat? on Apache Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee · · Score: 1

    No, we'll still get tomcat goodness. There have been murmurs for a while about a massive fork taking place where everyone runs for the openjdk projects and ditches the reference implementations. Changing the licensing on Java toward the end of Sun's lifespan was the best thing that would have happened for the future of Java innovation.

  23. We've seen this before... on New Facebook Messaging System Announced · · Score: 1

    when it was called google wave. I suspect it will have similar measure of success, though that will be hard to measure as it's integrated into facebook.

  24. Re:Huh? on Oracle Launches 'Private Cloud' Box · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mainframe 2.0. See what I did there? Scared?

  25. bad story on £32k a Day For Birmingham Council Website · · Score: 4, Informative

    The summary is disingenuous: the cost is for their IT, not just a single HTML website.