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  1. Thanks !! on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 1

    Many thanks for the explanation ! :)

  2. Re:The Monty crowd will blame this on Oracle on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 1

    ... in reality the move to Cassandra (or other NoSQL databases) is what a lot of web sites should be doing regardless of who holds the MySQL reins

    Please pardon me for being dense ...

    Can someone please tell me why web sites should move to Non-SQL databases from SQL?

  3. Re:Which DB is better? on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 1

    Note: Facebook, twitter, digg: they aren't moving to postgreSQL. Its not better enough to make any kind of difference for that kind of a scale. They don't need features, they need speed.

    That is exactly what I am looking for ---

    There are so many DB offerings, open-source and/or close-source, however, till now, I can't find a comparison chart or similar thing comparing the various DBs.

    Of course, I can talk to the sales rep. But as sales rep goes, they will tell you that the product they sell is the best.

    I don't only need speed, but also to think of scalability, plus I also need to know what type of features are they offering.

    Please help !

    Thank you all !

  4. Re:Which DB is better? on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the reply.

    It's not "switching for switching sake".

    The reason for switching is simple: When my site first launch, MySQL is more than enough for it.

    As it grows and grows, it's taxing MySQL more and more and right now it's already at the brim.

    So ... Anyone has any info on where to look for a "comparison chart" or anything like that?

    Please help !

  5. Which DB is better? on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 1

    I too have a site running on MySQL and I am thinking of switching.

    Can anyone tell me if there is any "comparison chart" listing the various features / usability of the various OSS DB packages available so I can make a better educated decision?

    Please help !

    Thank you !

  6. Re:The problem with "broadband" in the U.S. on FCC Asks You To Test Your Broadband Speeds · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then there is the problem of Italian influence, and the known fact that Italo-islamic spies have placed cable splitters in all the main telecom hubs of the U.S. and Mexico

    This is SERIOUS SHIT, if it is true !!

    Can anyone confirm the above claim, please ??

  7. Why the need of an addy? on FCC Asks You To Test Your Broadband Speeds · · Score: 2

    Can't they trace the IP instead?

  8. Luddites on A Balanced Look At Cellphone Radiation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A lot of those so-called "radiation sensitive" people are nothing but Luddites in disguise.

    In Malaysia, there have been cases of communities in uproar, having many people claiming that they suffer from "excruciating painful headaches" to "cancer" and all that, just because there is a cellphone station nearby.

    Those "radiation sensitive" people demand that the authority remove those "radiation hotspots" immediately, and it turns out that, in some of those cases, the so-called "cellphone stations" haven't even begun operation and never emit any radiation !

    Luddites !

  9. Political Correctness and Wikipedia on Why Wikipedia Articles Vary So Much In Quality · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The so-called "study" is a farce.

    There is no mentioned of articles which fit the "PC" criteria that are filled with lies and deceits, such as one article where the government of a certain country has posted, blaming every problem they have on their former British colonial masters.

    There is no "collaboration" whatsoever, in term of the Wikipedia readers/editors, for every time anyone tried to edit that said article will get nullified, as the government of that country has employed a "cyber patrol" group which will erase all the edited versions of the article and re-post with the "original".

    That article is still in Wikipedia, as we speak.

    Still filled with lies and hatreds.

    Still blaming every single problem on their former British colonial masters.

    But that article is Political Correct, though, for it's the British (Whites) are being blamed, and it's the non-Whites who are doing the blaming.

    So it stays, in Wikipedia.

  10. Use ALL 14 WIFI channels ! on Best WAP For Dense Crowds? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have read very good recommendations of having cells of WIFI routers giving 1,4,7,11 in one, 2,5,8,12 in another and 3,6,9 in the third, why lock yourself in?

    In Japan, you can use all the 14 WIFI channels, and if your event is the ONE TIME thingy, use all 14 channels !

    Do a 1,5,9,13 on router A, then 2,6,10,14 on router B, then 3,7,11 on router C and 4,8,12 on router D on group them into one cell.

    Try push all the users of router C and D to 5 GHz band, router B to 3.6 GHz band and router A to 2.4 GHz band.

    Use directional antennas, aim router A to North, router B to East, router C to South and router D to West.

    Then set up cells within the premise.

    In that way the signals that overlaps are not of the same channel, and not in the same frequency band either.

  11. Re:... shall have regard ... to any other matters on DMCA Amendment Proposed For UK · · Score: 1

    they might as well make a law, "everything that should be not be legal is illegal."

    Please, stop feeding them ideas !!

  12. Who can you trust? on DMCA Amendment Proposed For UK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The supposingly "defenders of the Internet" turn out to be the one who table the bill.

    Who else can you trust?

    Internet is indeed the whipping boy of the political scums !

  13. Huh ? on $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Just when your car accelerates out of control, and the brake doesn't work anymore, you think you are still coolheaded enough to do hit the [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[Delete] keys under the dashboard ??

  14. I tried it once on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Got myself a disk editor, and wrote something on the very first sector.

    After that I can't use the HD anymore.

    The computer can't even recognize it anymore.

  15. It's the computer on $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not that long ago an Airbus plane flying from Brazil disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean due to uncontrolled acceleration.

    Several years ago a BMW model that runs on an embedded version of Microsoft Windows screwed up so bad it locked the passangers inside the car, and people were blaming Microsoft for the mishap.

    Problem can happen anywhere --- from bugs to deficiency in programming language (embedded programming included), to the lack of thorough verifications (verification itself is extremely complicated by itself), to node clashing within the network, to stampede problem, and so on.

    Having 50, 60, all the way above 100 computers in a car or an airplane is always a disaster in waiting.

    For more than 30 years I've told people that computers are not 100% proof, and should never be trusted when lives are at stake.

    But are they listening?

  16. How about men like that dumb mayor? on Terry Childs's Slow Road To Justice · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why in the world that the good guy is thrown into jail and that idiot still remains the mayor?

    Is this the good old U. S. of A. that stands for Justice, Liberty and Truth?

  17. Can education contribute to IQ ?????? on The Role of Human Culture In Natural Selection · · Score: 1

    Education can contribute to IQ

    Say what?

    Remember that judge who tried to sue a little laundry shop millions of dollars?

    Remember that professor who broke into his own home (by kicking the front door) and when the cops came to investigate he insulted the cop's mother?

    Both examples above are people who are highly educated.

    Where is your so-called "education contributed to IQ" bit ??

    IQ is IQ, education is education, stop mixing up the two !!!

  18. What is happening to /, ? on SCO Zombie McBride's New Plan For World Litigation · · Score: 1

    How come we have /. posters who can't do math??

  19. Why is it illegal? on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They didn't rob the bank.

    They didn't print fake dollar bill.

    Every single dollar that they paid good money for purchasing the tickets are REAL money.

    What's illegal about what they have done??

  20. Hmm... on Google Acquires Online Image Editing Tool Picnik · · Score: 1
  21. What's the purpose of the secret DNA database? on Newborns' Blood Used To Build Secret DNA Database · · Score: 2, Interesting

    * To identify races?
    * To profile racial difference?
    * To track individuals (and/or families), crime involvement, education level, whatnots?
    * To look for certain special DNA strains?

    BIG BROTHER knows no bound, does it?

  22. Plastic? 10 years under the sun? on Caltech Makes Flexible, 86% Efficient Solar Arrays · · Score: 0

    When was the last time you find any plastic that can last 10 years under the sun?

  23. Try Africa, South America, or China on New Wave of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Go there and see for yourself how bad the situation is regarding the overuse of antibiotic.

  24. How do you define *Vandalism* ? on Developing a Vandalism Detector For Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Case in point --- There is an article in Wikipedia about a certain country.

    In that article, they blame their previous British colonial master for everything.

    I tried to make some corrections to that article to make it more "neutral", and they changed it back within 10 minutes.

    I tried again, and again they changed it back.

    For the third time, I was warned by someone from Wikipedia (dunno if it's a volunteer or something) that I have no right to make any correction to that particular article anymore.

    The "THEY" in question is the government of that country. They have a "cyber-patrol" group in charge of "online propaganda" and that Wikipedia article is one of their many lies, aka propaganda, they have put online.

    Now, how do you define vandalism in this case?

  25. It's plastic ! on Caltech Makes Flexible, 86% Efficient Solar Arrays · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How durable can this device be? It's made up of 98% plastic.