There are several ways to do cross-database JOINs in Postgres including dblink, and even to other DBMSs via dblink-tds and DBI-Link, but try schemas first, as another poster mentioned.
Cryptography and Security are two completely different things. This is a key insight he has been sharing, and not always successfully. Just getting the word out on that is a worthy endeavor.
My computer, my kitchen utensils, and my car can't kill tens of millions of people. If you're going to say that someone could create a nasty biological strain with this that they couldn't have constructed without it, you'll have to provide some evidence. For example, if you simply take a stack of petri dishes, expose the first one to air, pick the fastest-growing strain, then lather, rinse and repeat 20 times, the resulting strain will be lethal.
What really bugs me is the automatic assumption that anything people can use their curiosity on will be so misused that we have to ban it in advance of any evidence that it will actually cause any harm.
A biowarfare construction kit distributed to the masses. Do you realize that you're making the argument for taking away everything from "the masses," which most emphatically includes you, that might conceivably be misused to harm someone. Are you ready to give up your car? Your computer? Your kitchen utensils?
Wrong: its a stealth-strike fighter, not for carpet bombing. And of course we know those "surgical strikes" never go astray, killing wedding parties or friendly forces, right?</sarcasm>
You can squarely blame Buckley v. Valeo for the current catastrophe. As long as money has free speech rights, the little people--that's you and me--will suffer without recourse.
It would also be good to limit the time an entity could hold an exclusive license. For example, you do something for Disney, and no matter what they say or do, they can't have exclusive rights to it for more than 5 years.
That would give people a taste of the OS, and for anyone other than the hobbiests, push them towards the hardware... I think they're right in assuming that people would stop with the OS (assuming it's un-crippled) or just get disgusted and continue with XP/*Ubuntu/etc. if it was crippled.
Do you have a way to make Postgres clustering work as well/easily as MySQL clustering? Although "clustering" is big in Buzzwordia these days, it's not clear what that term means. Are you talking about high availability? Failover? Read scaling? Write scaling?
Applications requiring one database or another should be ancient history. Why on earth would that be? Modern DBMSs aren't just data buckets. They're full-on application servers that happen to have a really killer storage subsystem. In the Free Software space, there's only one that's really modern in that sense, and it's not MySQL;)
However, whenever you look up a how to access MySQL from PHP, you'll find stuff that recommends using all the mysql_* functions. This is the quick way to creating an app that absolutely depends on MySQL. That's only a problem because of MySQL's limitations, not because it maxes out MySQL's capabilities.
Really people should be using PDO, instead of mysql_ or pgsql_. Of course the real solution is to use a database abstraction layer, but I've never found a good way to create an n-tier web appliction in PHP. I've never seen an automatic database abstraction layer that was worth a plugged nickel over the long haul. Other kinds--the kind where you create a database-interaction library and mandate that all database calls go through it--can scale out quite huge. The aforementioned approach has the added bonus of real OO design, which makes it *much* easier to maintain.:)
You were right to tell the kid's mother that there is no technological solution to this problem. She needs has issues around whatever she considers 'inappropriate content,' and a mental health professional could help her with those.
Whatever you choose in a framework, bear in mind that the first version is not an important one, and anything done to optimize its construction is overwhelmingly likely to bite you at every opportunity to do maintenance. I haven't yet found a framework which saves time in the long run, "the long run" being anything over a month.
That PRIVATELY OWNED BUSINESS happens to be located on a TAXPAYER-MAINTAINED STREET and when they get in trouble, they call TAXPAYER-MAINTAINED POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS. For a sample place where everything is PRIVATELY OWNED, you can head to SOMALIA and see how many minutes your sorry, flabby white ass lasts there.
> Has it occurred to anyone that there will most likely NEVER be another > successful hijacking of an airliner BECAUSE of 9/11?
The miracle of shoe bomber Richard Reid's story is that he landed in one piece. The rest of the passengers, who subdued him, were *seriously* pissed off.
> Any effort to do so will result in another Flight 93. It's not hard to be a > hero when you know the only other option is death...I doubt any group of > American passengers is likely to sit quietly the next time an Arab with a > box cutter starts barking orders.
Or passengers from anywhere else, or anybody else with any weapon. The principle used to be, "keep calm and they'll get their ransom." Now, it's, "wack the sons of bitches out pronto," and the passengers, unarmed, can handle that just fine.
> The over-the-top security measures at our airports are simply political > theater and not effective policing methods. I can't believe they still have > everyone removing their shoes...
Of course they do. They're interested in compliance, not security. I fly a hell of a lot world-wide, and only in (or going to) the US does this ridiculous charade occur.
> thank goodness no one tried to smuggle an IED on board in a bodily orifice. > And if anyone swiped MY kid's formula bottle because of some Kubrickian fear > of fluids, I'd be on my way to Gitmo for attempting to bend a TSA agent into > a pretzel.
It's a temptation every time they pull this crap, I've got to admit.
> Why can't they simply take a nod from Israeli Airlines and stick a guy with > an Uzi on board each plane?
That's not how El Al does it, but the people in charge of US flight security been consistently ignoring the advice of El Al security for many decades now, not just since 9/11.
> And why aren't these same security procedures in place at U-Haul? After all, > they haven't always used airplanes to blow up buildings...
How about port security, while we're at it? Best yet, how about some quantitative risk assessments? Terrorism killed fewer Americans needlessly in September of 2001 than either tobacco or drunk driving. Why get all upset about a piddling thing like that?
[snip] > It would be wise to remember that, througout history, many more people have > been killed or imprisoned by their own government than any foreign power. > It's probably not such a good idea to make it easy for them.
The Rheinheitsgebot, roughly translated as "purity requirement" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot was more about price controls than the "purity" of its name. Anybody tried soot- or fly-agaric-flavored beer? I'll bet either one of them would taste better than Anheuser Busch's stuff, which I suspect is really produced by the Clydesdales featured in their ads:P
Good points here, but you've left out one really important one: there already is horizontal gene flow. Cross-breeding does it, and it's more common that you usually think.
I don't know about your "real world," but in mine, businesses are forbidden from doing all manner of ill deeds, a few of which are:
Fraud Theft Extortion Murder for hire
When we as a society fail to prevent them--using "men with guns" as needed--from doing these things, it's a problem that we need to fix. It is not a time for a casual libertarian shrug and a bratty comment about some invisible hand--a hand frequently clenched into a fist, punching anyone who hasn't been born to wealth.
Let us know if you survive your trip to Somalia, oh wise anarchist.
The rest of us choose not to live in a Hobbesian state of terror, thank you very much, so how 'bout you exercise your sovereign right to move to a place where the fruits of over 200 years' of other people's labor are not just handed to you while the rest of us pay our fair share?
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Why didn't you give a rationale along with the instruction? A lot of people will do stuff when they know why.
I'm looking forward to the hooks you're working on that will make them more efficient :)
It is a lot safer than turning fsync off. That's the point of the feature :)
There are several ways to do cross-database JOINs in Postgres including dblink, and even to other DBMSs via dblink-tds and DBI-Link, but try schemas first, as another poster mentioned.
It's not just you. The failure modes here include, "sudden release of x years' worth of CO2," which sounds like a pretty bad failure mode to me.
What really bugs me is the automatic assumption that anything people can use their curiosity on will be so misused that we have to ban it in advance of any evidence that it will actually cause any harm.
If you want to make EtOH, it's easy. There's almost certainly a homebrewer's club near you, and they'll be delighted to show you how.
You can squarely blame Buckley v. Valeo for the current catastrophe. As long as money has free speech rights, the little people--that's you and me--will suffer without recourse.
It would also be good to limit the time an entity could hold an exclusive license. For example, you do something for Disney, and no matter what they say or do, they can't have exclusive rights to it for more than 5 years.
You can use DBI-Link for this kind of thing :)</>
A single-image Postgres box will beat the pants off a MySQL cluster on write-intensive loads. See http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?25,93181,93181 for an example.
You were right to tell the kid's mother that there is no technological solution to this problem. She needs has issues around whatever she considers 'inappropriate content,' and a mental health professional could help her with those.
Whatever you choose in a framework, bear in mind that the first version is not an important one, and anything done to optimize its construction is overwhelmingly likely to bite you at every opportunity to do maintenance. I haven't yet found a framework which saves time in the long run, "the long run" being anything over a month.
That PRIVATELY OWNED BUSINESS happens to be located on a TAXPAYER-MAINTAINED STREET and when they get in trouble, they call TAXPAYER-MAINTAINED POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS. For a sample place where everything is PRIVATELY OWNED, you can head to SOMALIA and see how many minutes your sorry, flabby white ass lasts there.
I prefer civilization, thank you very much.
> Has it occurred to anyone that there will most likely NEVER be another
> successful hijacking of an airliner BECAUSE of 9/11?
The miracle of shoe bomber Richard Reid's story is that he landed in one
piece. The rest of the passengers, who subdued him, were *seriously* pissed
off.
> Any effort to do so will result in another Flight 93. It's not hard to be a
> hero when you know the only other option is death...I doubt any group of
> American passengers is likely to sit quietly the next time an Arab with a
> box cutter starts barking orders.
Or passengers from anywhere else, or anybody else with any weapon. The
principle used to be, "keep calm and they'll get their ransom." Now, it's,
"wack the sons of bitches out pronto," and the passengers, unarmed, can handle
that just fine.
> The over-the-top security measures at our airports are simply political
> theater and not effective policing methods. I can't believe they still have
> everyone removing their shoes...
Of course they do. They're interested in compliance, not security. I fly a
hell of a lot world-wide, and only in (or going to) the US does this
ridiculous charade occur.
> thank goodness no one tried to smuggle an IED on board in a bodily orifice.
> And if anyone swiped MY kid's formula bottle because of some Kubrickian fear
> of fluids, I'd be on my way to Gitmo for attempting to bend a TSA agent into
> a pretzel.
It's a temptation every time they pull this crap, I've got to admit.
> Why can't they simply take a nod from Israeli Airlines and stick a guy with
> an Uzi on board each plane?
That's not how El Al does it, but the people in charge of US flight security
been consistently ignoring the advice of El Al security for many decades now,
not just since 9/11.
> And why aren't these same security procedures in place at U-Haul? After all,
> they haven't always used airplanes to blow up buildings...
How about port security, while we're at it? Best yet, how about some
quantitative risk assessments? Terrorism killed fewer Americans needlessly in
September of 2001 than either tobacco or drunk driving. Why get all upset
about a piddling thing like that?
[snip]
> It would be wise to remember that, througout history, many more people have
> been killed or imprisoned by their own government than any foreign power.
> It's probably not such a good idea to make it easy for them.
Amen!
Cheers,
D
The Rheinheitsgebot, roughly translated as "purity requirement" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot was more about price controls than the "purity" of its name. Anybody tried soot- or fly-agaric-flavored beer? I'll bet either one of them would taste better than Anheuser Busch's stuff, which I suspect is really produced by the Clydesdales featured in their ads :P
coppertop ;)
Good points here, but you've left out one really important one: there already
is horizontal gene flow. Cross-breeding does it, and it's more common
that you usually think.
Viruses reproduce by "horizontal gene flow."
I don't know about your "real world," but in mine, businesses are forbidden from doing all manner of ill deeds, a few of which are:
Fraud
Theft
Extortion
Murder for hire
When we as a society fail to prevent them--using "men with guns" as needed--from doing these things, it's a problem that we need to fix. It is not a time for a casual libertarian shrug and a bratty comment about some invisible hand--a hand frequently clenched into a fist, punching anyone who hasn't been born to wealth.
Let us know if you survive your trip to Somalia, oh wise anarchist.
The rest of us choose not to live in a Hobbesian state of terror, thank you very much, so how 'bout you exercise your sovereign right to move to a place where the fruits of over 200 years' of other people's labor are not just handed to you while the rest of us pay our fair share?