Which shouldn't be a reason to get rid of the internet. It should be a reason to go get laid so you stop obsessing about it. A) Get a hooker. OR B) screw your wife/girlfriend. If shes not willing, see A). OR C) Go out and find a girlfriend. If you can't get one see A).
Best: D) get a girlfriend / wife / hooker who actually likes sex and likes watching porn.
Correct me if im wrong, but wouldnt it be simple to write a routine to port data from one product to the other?
Depends on your definition of "simple":
1. You build a second system. 2. Your "porting routine" has to keep both systems constantly in sync, bidirectionally. 3. You rewrite every client for the first system, or add bridges, to talk to the new system. 4. Finally, once all the clients are updated, you can switch off the old system.
Academic purist discovers that one of the most prolific and successful database users in the world is using a system he doesn't approve of. He decides, with no insider knowledge at all, and despite all evidence to the contrary, that they should throw everything away and start over from scratch using a system that he thinks would allow them to see the performance and scalability that they've already achieved.
Presumably he's tired of Facebook being used as a counter-example to everything he's been preaching.
He's no academic purist. He's pushing his product, and he's either an outright liar or, worse, doesn't know what he's talking about:
Stonebraker said the problem with MySQL and other SQL databases is that they consume too many resources for overhead tasks (e.g., maintaining ACID compliance and handling multithreading)
I was under the impression that there was no feasible way, performance wise, to run something as big as Facebook without using a non-relational database system.
Am I mistaken?
Plenty of financial institutions are working on a similar scale to Facebook, and they use SQL-based DBMSs. Facebook doesn't need transactional integrity for a lot of what they do. They don't have an elaborate set of regulations that they need to be in compliance with, and a large set of accounts that must all be constantly balanced. And Facebook can't charge a fee for every transaction that takes place.
Your standard SQL DBMS is doing OLTP, or online transactional processing. That usually means that it's running lots of small transactions that must follow business rules. Facebook has a lot of processes that can be extremely lossy, and they do a lot of analytics behind the scenes. So while they could, theoretically, shoehorn it all into Oracle, it would just be ludicrously expensive. The MySQL databases they have would be only one system out of many, probably managing things like logins and privacy and such.
Who watches the watcher? No, do not look in the direction of Washington DC. Nobody there cares.
First off DC is not the only place to look. Texas has put together an "anti-groping" bill, supported by the governor. At least two presidential candidates have proposed abolishing it altogether. And there's a bill in the House aimed at making TSA agents liable for unwanted physical contact.
That's just from a quick search... there are plenty of legislators who are interested in reforming the TSA, but the specifics of how the TSA is run is the executive branch's responsibility, so you should probably write the President.
no, honestly, this is dumb. the terrorists have won.
You know, "if xxx then the terrorists have won" was idiotic back in 2001 and rightly parodied. Why on earth do people intone it as though it's a great profundity now?
Why don't you buy hardware that you can actually own? You know, so that you're not afraid that Apple will lock you out of your own hardware.
I do have hardware that I actually own. I can do anything I want on my desktop machines.
All my mobile devices are, for me, work devices. I don't want a dead battery or configuration problems or some terrible app crash my phone when I need to call 911. To me, there is a time to explore and to play, and there's a time to get work done.
If you want to portray it as renting, I'm fine with that: I also rent my apartment. I haven't bought a house because it doesn't make economic sense for me to do so, and it really sucks trying to hang pictures without nails. I'll buy a fully open phone when one that can replace my iPhone is on the market.
Overall, the iPad 2 just feels like a refined device, and the Android tabs feel like, well, a Microsoft solution.
iPad 2 wins, and therefore gets the developers.
That's why there have always been an order of magnitude more developers for Mac OS than for Windows, right?
Windows won the corporate sector on best $/features because the decision makers are bean-counters. It then took the consumer market because it was what people used at work. It also helped that Windows was essentially a transition from DOS, which was already embedded in the corporate market.
The iPad is leveraging the iPhone and winning on the consumer front, and making inroads from there into the corporate market.
They can do whatever they want, and have it amount to de facto indentured servitude.
Do you think that if you say "de facto" it makes you sound like less of an asshat than "literally"?
Indentured servitude means you have a massive obligation to that person that you're working off. How is an internship "in fact" indentured servitude?
To handle that and associated problems...
When you inflate the cost of employing someone to more than the benefit they can bring to the business, they just won't get a job. See, as a simple example, minimum wage laws and 75% teen unemployment.
Just checking their site: on the front page, there is one image and a few videos with girls. And the commercials, the merchandise and the blog highlight the girls.
But there are no girls on the major nav sections, except for domains, and none on the support or account creation. Most of the site has no models at all, not surprising since they probably charge per page.
There are a few problems with this: 1-you need to know where the cancer is (so why not remove it?) so it can't be used on spreading multi organ cancers 2-you need to stick a needle into it (this isn't safe for some parts of the body) 3-it won't always get all the cancer, just the parts you can reach so this will probably leave cancerous cells in the body afterwards that will settle into some other organ to grow.
So it's another therapy, not a panacea. In particular, if the cancer is near a important body parts, as in prostate cancer, this should have fewer side effects than a scalpel.
For me, work is mostly coding and writing, which is effectively browsing + text editing.
I think I'd want a tablet with a stylus for Photoshop, but I've never done that seriously. The only tablet I've tried, Wacom Bamboo, was a real disappointment, and not cheap either.
Using the magic trackpad with OS X is awesome for most work, especially any browsing since scrolling is so much better than with a wheel. The only thing I dislike is that the web hasn't caught up to gestures yet.
Funny thing, though, the only mouse I have is a gaming mouse because regular mice don't feel at all comfortable.
What does Fathers day have to do with anything? Is it a day that NSA cyber-ninjas are allowed to pursue personal projects, or something?
Not quite, the cyber-ninja division was doing Bring Your Apprentice Raised From A Young Age To Be A Cyber-Ninja Because He (or She) Witnessed the Untimely Death of His (or Her) Parents To Work Day, or as they affectionately refer to it at the NSA, BYARFAYATBACNBH(OS)WTUDOH(OH)PTWD.
WTF is up with the XKCD hate from some people? It's weird.
It's karma-whoring and contributes nothing to the discussion. It's usually the same comics over and over again. The comic itself is smug and pretentious.
This is a common argument (especially from republicans)
If only. Republicans != fiscal conservatives; you won't get Gov. Huckabee making this argument.
The reason they don't have to compete is because they don't share phone technology. EDGE, HSPA, EV-DO, LTE, etc. Users of one network can't take their business elsewhere.
Huh? I've only once stayed with a carrier after my contract expired. The fact that the phone costs virtually nothing, which you want to make illegal, means that I have nothing forcing me to stay with a carrier.
* Actually a duo-opoly, with ATT and Verizon sharing the exclusive access.
Yeah, there's always that footnote whenever people claim the government *has* to step in because of monopoly.
The legitimate reason for regulation is when there are natural barriers to entry to the marketplace.
There is then some hand-waving where the original argument goes away and is replaced with, well, we have to regulate when there's a monopoly.
And then there is some more hand-waving and the claim becomes, well, okay, *techincally* there are a dozen competitors, but only X and Y have significant market share so they're a "duopoly."
But go back to the original claim: barriers to entry. There are dozens of carriers competing in the US, they may not be competing in the retail market, but they are competing. Whatever barriers to entry there are, they have cleared them and they could provide retail service just fine. I can call absolutely any carrier in the US from any other carrier's phone, that's a fact. I can email or text any smartphone from any other smartphone in the US, that's also a fact.
So claims that we need regulation based on the supposed monopoly are bunk.
I guess it's easy to be in favor of campaign finance reform when you can offload most of your campaign operations to the press.
What's really unprecedented is that these papers are openly doing opposition research for the Democratic party, specifically for President Obama, and are then going to do campaign propaganda for them.
This is perfectly legal and protected speech, but it also happens to be speech that is regulated by campaign finance laws. These donations, including the time donated by the volunteers, should be investigated by the FEC to preserve the fairness of our election system, and to show that the Democrats are committed to the laws they pushed so hard for.
If I'm busy, I still have to deal with all the issues.
And people still have things they need me to do. The fact that I'm busy doesn't change that, and if people used this system it would just make it seem like I was less busy than I was, while the fires I needed to put out continued to smolder.
Gmail has a "priority inbox" which seems like the rational answer: handle the important tasks first.
Not only does it discriminate against machines (like it should) it discriminates against humans, too.
I long for the day when the Americans with Disabilities Act gets amended for the interbutt. You are an institution or you do commerce on the Web? You can no longer discriminate against the sight impaired ever again.
Most of the big name CAPTCHAs I've seen have an audio alternative, so what's the issue?
It is well known that if someone gets your hashed password, it is as good as cracked. 17 minutes vs 4 minutes is irrelevant.
Bullshit. It is well known by people who don't know what they're talking about, which includes TFA.
Do you seriously think that in the age of bitcoin we can't make a hash function that is arbitrarily difficult?
Use an adaptive cryptographic hash function: bcrypt, PBKDF2 or scrypt. The key feature is a tunable stretch factor that basically sets the number of rounds of hashing. Set that factor (by means of a simple timing loop) to require 1 second of CPU time (or GPU time or whatever) to hash.
Now the simplest 8 character A-Z password will take an expected 3,311 years to break. You'll obviously want a safety margin, and will expect them to have more computing power a few years down the road. But you can tune the stretch factor to ensure that a reasonably strong password is perfectly good against offline attacks.
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Which shouldn't be a reason to get rid of the internet. It should be a reason to go get laid so you stop obsessing about it. A) Get a hooker. OR B) screw your wife/girlfriend. If shes not willing, see A). OR C) Go out and find a girlfriend. If you can't get one see A).
Best: D) get a girlfriend / wife / hooker who actually likes sex and likes watching porn.
Correct me if im wrong, but wouldnt it be simple to write a routine to port data from one product to the other?
Depends on your definition of "simple":
1. You build a second system.
2. Your "porting routine" has to keep both systems constantly in sync, bidirectionally.
3. You rewrite every client for the first system, or add bridges, to talk to the new system.
4. Finally, once all the clients are updated, you can switch off the old system.
Academic purist discovers that one of the most prolific and successful database users in the world is using a system he doesn't approve of. He decides, with no insider knowledge at all, and despite all evidence to the contrary, that they should throw everything away and start over from scratch using a system that he thinks would allow them to see the performance and scalability that they've already achieved.
Presumably he's tired of Facebook being used as a counter-example to everything he's been preaching.
He's no academic purist. He's pushing his product, and he's either an outright liar or, worse, doesn't know what he's talking about:
Stonebraker said the problem with MySQL and other SQL databases is that they consume too many resources for overhead tasks (e.g., maintaining ACID compliance and handling multithreading)
Is that so? MySQL, as with virtually all SQL DBMSs, defaults to "repeatable read" transactional guarantees, and it doesn't even spend time guaranteeing foreign key relationships by default. About the only thing MySQL really guarantees out of the box is durability.
It's just nonsense to talk about all the "wasted resources" when, if they don't need them, it's a few lines in a config file to turn them off.
I was under the impression that there was no feasible way, performance wise, to run something as big as Facebook without using a non-relational database system.
Am I mistaken?
Plenty of financial institutions are working on a similar scale to Facebook, and they use SQL-based DBMSs. Facebook doesn't need transactional integrity for a lot of what they do. They don't have an elaborate set of regulations that they need to be in compliance with, and a large set of accounts that must all be constantly balanced. And Facebook can't charge a fee for every transaction that takes place.
Your standard SQL DBMS is doing OLTP, or online transactional processing. That usually means that it's running lots of small transactions that must follow business rules. Facebook has a lot of processes that can be extremely lossy, and they do a lot of analytics behind the scenes. So while they could, theoretically, shoehorn it all into Oracle, it would just be ludicrously expensive. The MySQL databases they have would be only one system out of many, probably managing things like logins and privacy and such.
Who watches the watcher? No, do not look in the direction of Washington DC. Nobody there cares.
First off DC is not the only place to look. Texas has put together an "anti-groping" bill, supported by the governor. At least two presidential candidates have proposed abolishing it altogether. And there's a bill in the House aimed at making TSA agents liable for unwanted physical contact.
That's just from a quick search... there are plenty of legislators who are interested in reforming the TSA, but the specifics of how the TSA is run is the executive branch's responsibility, so you should probably write the President.
Why does this not surprise me. Keep an eye on this I bet he gets a slap on the hand.
Maybe you can ask Blogger Bob (no relation to Baghdad Bob!) over at the TSA blog, WTF?
If he's been confessing for that long, you'd think they'd have stopped him before!
(Sponsored by the grammar police)
That's not likely; ambiguities are handled by the semantics police.
no, honestly, this is dumb. the terrorists have won.
You know, "if xxx then the terrorists have won" was idiotic back in 2001 and rightly parodied. Why on earth do people intone it as though it's a great profundity now?
Godwinned in one post. I'm impressed!
Heheh, the best was some douche showing off his vast cultural knowledge by linking oktoberfest.
Why don't you buy hardware that you can actually own? You know, so that you're not afraid that Apple will lock you out of your own hardware.
I do have hardware that I actually own. I can do anything I want on my desktop machines.
All my mobile devices are, for me, work devices. I don't want a dead battery or configuration problems or some terrible app crash my phone when I need to call 911. To me, there is a time to explore and to play, and there's a time to get work done.
If you want to portray it as renting, I'm fine with that: I also rent my apartment. I haven't bought a house because it doesn't make economic sense for me to do so, and it really sucks trying to hang pictures without nails. I'll buy a fully open phone when one that can replace my iPhone is on the market.
That's why there have always been an order of magnitude more developers for Mac OS than for Windows, right?
Windows won the corporate sector on best $/features because the decision makers are bean-counters. It then took the consumer market because it was what people used at work. It also helped that Windows was essentially a transition from DOS, which was already embedded in the corporate market.
The iPad is leveraging the iPhone and winning on the consumer front, and making inroads from there into the corporate market.
They can do whatever they want, and have it amount to de facto indentured servitude.
Do you think that if you say "de facto" it makes you sound like less of an asshat than "literally"?
Indentured servitude means you have a massive obligation to that person that you're working off. How is an internship "in fact" indentured servitude?
To handle that and associated problems...
When you inflate the cost of employing someone to more than the benefit they can bring to the business, they just won't get a job. See, as a simple example, minimum wage laws and 75% teen unemployment.
Plastering everywhere on the site?
Just checking their site: on the front page, there is one image and a few videos with girls. And the commercials, the merchandise and the blog highlight the girls.
But there are no girls on the major nav sections, except for domains, and none on the support or account creation. Most of the site has no models at all, not surprising since they probably charge per page.
There are a few problems with this: 1-you need to know where the cancer is (so why not remove it?) so it can't be used on spreading multi organ cancers 2-you need to stick a needle into it (this isn't safe for some parts of the body) 3-it won't always get all the cancer, just the parts you can reach so this will probably leave cancerous cells in the body afterwards that will settle into some other organ to grow.
So it's another therapy, not a panacea. In particular, if the cancer is near a important body parts, as in prostate cancer, this should have fewer side effects than a scalpel.
For me, work is mostly coding and writing, which is effectively browsing + text editing.
I think I'd want a tablet with a stylus for Photoshop, but I've never done that seriously. The only tablet I've tried, Wacom Bamboo, was a real disappointment, and not cheap either.
For games, I use a mouse with mappable buttons.
Using the magic trackpad with OS X is awesome for most work, especially any browsing since scrolling is so much better than with a wheel. The only thing I dislike is that the web hasn't caught up to gestures yet.
Funny thing, though, the only mouse I have is a gaming mouse because regular mice don't feel at all comfortable.
Are you surprised?
After all, Jesus died on the cross for our sins.
Worse, being omniscient, he's actually read the whole thesis.
What does Fathers day have to do with anything? Is it a day that NSA cyber-ninjas are allowed to pursue personal projects, or something?
Not quite, the cyber-ninja division was doing Bring Your Apprentice Raised From A Young Age To Be A Cyber-Ninja Because He (or She) Witnessed the Untimely Death of His (or Her) Parents To Work Day, or as they affectionately refer to it at the NSA, BYARFAYATBACNBH(OS)WTUDOH(OH)PTWD.
Gold is pretty, but in a combat situation, those gold bars are not going to be keeping the zombie hordes or marauders at bay.
It's awfully handy in case the Cybermen invade.
WTF is up with the XKCD hate from some people? It's weird.
It's karma-whoring and contributes nothing to the discussion. It's usually the same comics over and over again. The comic itself is smug and pretentious.
This is a common argument (especially from republicans)
If only. Republicans != fiscal conservatives; you won't get Gov. Huckabee making this argument.
The reason they don't have to compete is because they don't share phone technology. EDGE, HSPA, EV-DO, LTE, etc. Users of one network can't take their business elsewhere.
Huh? I've only once stayed with a carrier after my contract expired. The fact that the phone costs virtually nothing, which you want to make illegal, means that I have nothing forcing me to stay with a carrier.
* Actually a duo-opoly, with ATT and Verizon sharing the exclusive access.
Yeah, there's always that footnote whenever people claim the government *has* to step in because of monopoly.
The legitimate reason for regulation is when there are natural barriers to entry to the marketplace.
There is then some hand-waving where the original argument goes away and is replaced with, well, we have to regulate when there's a monopoly.
And then there is some more hand-waving and the claim becomes, well, okay, *techincally* there are a dozen competitors, but only X and Y have significant market share so they're a "duopoly."
But go back to the original claim: barriers to entry. There are dozens of carriers competing in the US, they may not be competing in the retail market, but they are competing. Whatever barriers to entry there are, they have cleared them and they could provide retail service just fine. I can call absolutely any carrier in the US from any other carrier's phone, that's a fact. I can email or text any smartphone from any other smartphone in the US, that's also a fact.
So claims that we need regulation based on the supposed monopoly are bunk.
I guess it's easy to be in favor of campaign finance reform when you can offload most of your campaign operations to the press.
What's really unprecedented is that these papers are openly doing opposition research for the Democratic party, specifically for President Obama, and are then going to do campaign propaganda for them.
This is perfectly legal and protected speech, but it also happens to be speech that is regulated by campaign finance laws. These donations, including the time donated by the volunteers, should be investigated by the FEC to preserve the fairness of our election system, and to show that the Democrats are committed to the laws they pushed so hard for.
If I'm busy, I still have to deal with all the issues.
And people still have things they need me to do. The fact that I'm busy doesn't change that, and if people used this system it would just make it seem like I was less busy than I was, while the fires I needed to put out continued to smolder.
Gmail has a "priority inbox" which seems like the rational answer: handle the important tasks first.
The quicker CAPTCHA dies the better.
Not only does it discriminate against machines (like it should) it discriminates against humans, too.
I long for the day when the Americans with Disabilities Act gets amended for the interbutt. You are an institution or you do commerce on the Web? You can no longer discriminate against the sight impaired ever again.
Most of the big name CAPTCHAs I've seen have an audio alternative, so what's the issue?
It is well known that if someone gets your hashed password, it is as good as cracked. 17 minutes vs 4 minutes is irrelevant.
Bullshit. It is well known by people who don't know what they're talking about, which includes TFA.
Do you seriously think that in the age of bitcoin we can't make a hash function that is arbitrarily difficult?
Use an adaptive cryptographic hash function: bcrypt, PBKDF2 or scrypt. The key feature is a tunable stretch factor that basically sets the number of rounds of hashing. Set that factor (by means of a simple timing loop) to require 1 second of CPU time (or GPU time or whatever) to hash.
Now the simplest 8 character A-Z password will take an expected 3,311 years to break. You'll obviously want a safety margin, and will expect them to have more computing power a few years down the road. But you can tune the stretch factor to ensure that a reasonably strong password is perfectly good against offline attacks.