Well, both the real and "trollish" answer is, MySQL has been trying to catch up for almost five years now - and doesn't look like their even close.
PostgreSQL has been a better database for a long time now. The pull of MySQL isn't its technical prowess but its "dumbness." Simply put, MySQL provides a lot in exchange for very little. Its the go to database for people who have little DBA experience, don't know what makes for a good RDBMS, or is simply needing a database where ACID doesn't matter.
Basically MySQL is popular because its the low hanging fruit. Its generally everywhere and most people who need a database don't know any better. So they've heard something about MySQL and its available with their hosting company. That's generally all they needed to know. Of course that completely ignores the fact that for most every project, PostgreSQL provides a vastly superior solution. The down side is, to use PostgreSQL vs MySQL in these cases, you'd have to read all of a dozen pages or so (actually far less, but lets play devil's advocate). And for most, that's simply far too much to ask.
Its basically the lazy or ignorant DBA's database. Or a database where reliability doesn't matter. Or integrity isn't an issue. There certainly are places for those kinds of databases - its just that most who pick MySQL don't realize they've made those trade offs.
Actually, most pilots make less than teachers. Its only on large commercial carriers with significant seniority, where passengers are involved, do pilots draw significant salaries. Many pilots are lucky to be able to afford to by a ten year old car. That's why pilots loath to give up their seniority and/or benefits - because they've earned it with many shitty hours and poor pay.
That's a great way to dumb down the differences. In reality, there are huge differences.
All pilots are tasked with "see and avoid." With no pilot on board, no one can "see and avoid". A limited view through a camera with limited POV, generally slow pan, and inability to quickly get a sense of a rapidly changing environment means everyone who isn't a UAV is put at risk.
With human pilots, when a transponder fails (assuming mode-c or better; reports position and altitude), a pilot can still report their heading, general position, and altitude as well as continue to correct for barometric changes in altitude readings. This is not true with a UAV. If a transponder fails, its literally a ghost for most controllers. That means every pilot in that area, assuming its controlled space, must now assume the burden of "see and avoid" for the AUV as well. Completely unfair and drastically increases the risk; this is after all, the entire reason the FAA was created. Basically, as is, mixing UAV traffic with MAV traffic is begging for mid-air collisions. Not to mention, is a total disregard for pilot and passenger safety.
Right now, organizations like CAP, Coast Guard, and the Air Force are tasks with escorting UAVs through controlled airspace - and with good reason. I see no reason to change this - none - zero - unless all AUVs are equipped with completely redundant equipment, including 360 radar, providing for zero blind spots. Not to mention an effective self destruction would certainly be a big plus should it ever lose communication - and yes, that does happen.
Not to mention you'll find plenty of MySQL DBAs with large multimaster deployments who swear calling it "replication", let alone multimaster replication generous even when everything is working correctly.
It would be nice for PostgreSQL to have an out of the box multimaster solution but those who claim MySQL is replication panacea and PostgreSQL has nothing to offer is only highlighting their ignorance. Slony is consistently used on very large datasets where ACID actually matters. We're talking about two completely different use cases here as far too often, MySQL users are more than happy to wave ACID.
I completely agree with you. While Slony isn't an "out of the box" replication solution, it is a very strong offering.
What I would love to see is some standardization for SQL languages.
There is a standardization. PostgreSQL is one of the few RDBMs which actually attempt to follow it. Just the same, "compatibility kits" have been created by third parties to allow for improved MySQL and even Oracle migrations to PostgreSQL. I don't know how well they work or how comprehensive the coverage.
I disagree on Lord of the Rings - the film managed to mess up the characters,
In the end, does that really matter? Was the act of telling the story enjoyable to watch? For the vast majority of people the answer is yes. We all understand lots of elements were not true to the books but it doesn't change the fact that the movies were still enjoyable in their own right.
That's basically the problem with book/movie translations. Many people get upset when its a literal translation. As such, they want something new which wasn't in the book. The inverse is also true - it must be literal and true else it completely sucks. Then there are stories such as LotR which are so long, have fairly developed characters, complex situations, so on and so on, its seems very reasonable that some things will simply not translate well while others are just too deep/complex to allow for a timely and comprehensible tale. Some say that means the story shouldn't be told then. Others say its a reasonable trade.
That doesn't change the fact that the system was vulnerable in the first place. Punish him for entering illegally but don't make him pay for repairs that should've been made anyway.
Good thing that's NOT what they are doing. They are making him pay for the repairs to remove all possible trace of his trespass. Period. That's many things but unreasonable or unfair are certainly not accurate descriptions.
For some reason, you're making the assumption that things need to be done over and above what their original state was. That's simply a very false assumption. Just because someone likely violated their security protocols and created an account without a password is not the same thing as assuming the system failed to meet any and all security requirements.
Bluntly, jail time and heavy fines are absolutely appropriate.
affect the way you perceive and react to the world.
That's true of social interaction. Legal comprehension in general is not affected. While he may not realize endlessly staring at a hot chick's tits is bad, especially when close enough to physically touch them. He understands breaking into computer systems absolutely is illegal. To boot, its extremely likely he has heard, been told, and read such actions are illegal.
Aspergers almost exclusively affects social cues and associated interactions. It does not affect comprehension or higher learning in general. If it did, its not likely he'd been able to master the skills he used to penetrate the networks. Bluntly, its all but impossible his disease is a significant factor here; aside from believing it was a good idea or that he wouldn't be caught.
The only problem is that the US is trying to get him to pay a fortune for damages, as if he created the vulnerability as opposed to exposing it.
Any time a system is penetrated it is considered completely compromised. Addressed compromised systems demands significant damages because damage has been suffered. The simple act of gaining illegal access requires untold hours of logging, following endless procedures, rebuilding the system (usually at a temporary loss of services), ensuring compliance with current standards (which are far from brief), so on and so on. For every system he violated, shit loads of both dollars and man hours must be spent cleaning up afterwards. And this all ignores the general assessment which must follow to determine if additional, unknown systems might have been accessed and/or compromised. Basically, this is a really big fucking deal.
In short, this guy is not only a complete idiot, but he deserves serious jail time and a life time of fines. He did, after all, work hard to earn it. Since he definitely did earn it, I don't have a problem with the government handing it to him. Its what he wanted after all.
So non-zero value is the same as full retail value in your universe?
Don't be an idiot - oh wait - too late.
You don't get to set the price. The market does. So long as they are selling at their set rate, the market has accepted the price. Therefore, THAT's the market value. Period.
Every game they want has a non-zero value, roughly equal to the cost of the electricity and bandwidth it takes to download it.
Again, the market sets the value. What you're saying are more incorrect lies told by pirates who steal from people.
The simple fact is, pirates are thieves and people need to treat them accordingly. I'm so tired of seeing the same old lies parroted time and time again this subject comes up. Clearly the lies are working - or people will just look for any lie to justify their stealing no matter how much they know their "justification" if completely full of shit.
Stealing because you don't agree with the price is still stealing. Go to your local Ferrari shop and hand them a check for $20,000. Then drive off with a Ferrari. You'll find yourself in jail really fast because that's theft. Yet it doesn't stop pirates from telling lies like you did trying to convince people that stealing is okay so long as you can come up with some completely bullshit excuse to do so. Wrong! Stealing is stealing and pirating is a form of stealing. If it were not, companies would never take a loss. And yet, for every pirated copy, ignoring sales, the market value of the pirated good immediately takes a loss. That's reality.
Like it or not, stealing harms the entire economy (that's you and me too, just so we're clear) - without regard for bullshit lies.
That's fully to be expected. Every "troll" or "flamebait" moderation validates everything I'm saying. Its easier to censor than it is to stop stealing and deceiving.
No, that's idiot logic employed by thieves. The fact that someone wants it means it has a non-zero value. Thusly blowing a huge hole in your entire bullshit theory. The economic works exactly as I said. The simple fact that pirates want something immediately assigns value to it.
If a pirate attributed something of worth as having no value, they wouldn't want it. Since both the market and pirates attribute a value to something completely establishes a non-zero value.
Funny how pirates only listen to a tiny, tiny portion of BASIC economics which bolster their thieving ways but completely ignore the whole of economics which directly implicates them as thieves.
I sure wish pirates would stop stealing and making shit up to justify their theft at every turn. Everyone pays for their actions and lies.
Using corrected numbers, 2 - 6 BILLION dollars is still a shit load of money by any measure. Stop making it sound like its some trivial number which isn't worth discussion. Even divided by 100 companies that's a significant loss of revenue and market value directly traceable to thieves. Hell, even divided by 1000 companies, that's a shit load of lost revenue.
it supposes that the Law of Demand does not apply.
Another fallacy of logic. Actually, it PROVES the law of demand - otherwise there would be no demand for pirated games/applications. None. Zero. Just because something is stolen does not in any way, shape, or form mean the law of demand is inapplicable. The exact opposite is true.
Furthermore, every pirated copy not only validates the product is priced too low (demand is after all high) but that the value of the product has been been diluted and therefore damaged. So not only does stealing hurt the original manufacturer in loss of sales, but it also hurts the value of the product itself. Which of course, also mandates continued high pricing to offset both the loss of revenue and market damages.
Its easy to see why such draconian measures are taken at every opportunity. No doubt about it - pirates are stealing. Pirates are thieves. Almost without fail, every complaint pirates use to justify their theft actually exists preciously because so many pirates so rampantly justify theft. In other words, pirates blame corporations for their own actions and ineptitude.
This is once again one of those numbers that will be thrown around by IP holders to get attention from the politicians. And yet the study does the same idiotic assumption as all the other ones.
With some fairly common corrections (10-20% conversions; which are commonly accepted statistics), that's still roughly 4 - 8 BILLION dollars of stolen revenue. Even with some additional adjustments to the original numbers we're still talking about 2-6 BILLION dollars of stolen revenue; which is an easily believable and reasonable range of numbers.
Now think for a second if you had a small company and that directly translated into the loss of hundreds of thousands to several million dollars for you - just for your small company. That difference in revenue means lost jobs, fewer bug fixes, fewer employees, fewer bonus, lower wages, fewer benefits, no plans to expand, less customer support, and potentially even one or two fewer product launches; which in turn further negatively spirals a company and the economy. Unsurprisingly, thieves often use the problems they create to justify their stealing ways. "They provide poor support so I'm justified in stealing."
For thieves who wrongly believe no one is hurt by their theft of products, think again. For whatever reason people believe only large, monolithic, "evil" corporations charge for their products. The reality is, people who steal harm all facets of the economy and directly negatively affects small and medium size business. Stealing games potentially is the same thing as stealing from your neighbor or best friend.
Now imagine working for a year or two and when it comes time to collect your check, you're told, "don't worry man, I was just trying you out. I decided I didn't like what you had to offer." And yet, that's EXACTLY what thieves do to companies and people every day. Yes, that sucks, but that's what happens when pirates steal.
Since theft negatively affects all aspects of almost every economy in the world, its no wonder the world is working hard to cut the huge losses imposed by these social and economic criminals. They have no choice but to become ever more draconian. Think about it - they have zero options. This in turn in a reason thieves use to justify their theft. The reality is, they are the very problem they are railing against. Its like bank robbers complaining about higher taxes to pay for a larger police force which is required to combat rampant bank robberies. Most people would call this circular logic retarded - yet that's the day in a life of most thieves.
Then don't sell it as a clean war. The whole "smart weapons make a war clean" drivel is bullshit.
Ahhh...no....
It actually underscores the stupidity of people in general who don't understand what, "smart weapon", means. Furthermore, I didn't see a single "smart weapon" deployed in the video so the use of the phrase only further underscores how inept many are, despite their willingness to comment and condemn.
If you MUST have someone to blame, blame our education system, but most importantly blame the media. The military is in no way, shape, or form, culpable for misunderstandings of the use of "smart weapons." Why? Because their introduction into the media was by means of statistical comparison and in general showing their accuracy. What now takes one or two bombs traditionally took hundreds. Heck, it wasn't even uncommon for the *wrong city to be entirely leveled - literally* before the use of smart weapons. So please, spare us your ignorance.
As you don't seem to understand the use, please refer back to WII statistics vs modern statistics of dropped bombs. Heck, consider for a moment that cities still stand in the country. Had it not been for "smart weapons", there literally would not be a single standing structure (at least not one with a roof) in the entire country. Literally. That's the difference smart weapons make. In fact, almost without fail, the majority of damage to buildings which no longer stand have been brought about by weapons which absolutely do NOT satisfy the moniker of, "smart weapon."
you're kinda suffering from his quirks
Oh please - yet more ignorance. Under his former rule, what has been killed to date, would be killed annually. That's far, far, far from "suffering from his quirks". Not to mention rape, pillage, and general plunder was the rule of the day. So please, spare us your general ignorance.
Is there anything you "know" which is at all reflective of reality in these wars? Thus far, you don't seem to know anything which is at all accurate.
The men in the 'collateral murder' video are (or were) an example of this. They lost their ability to evaluate targets and gave in to the urge to get a higher score than the other helicopters in the unit.
First of all, the use of the word, "murder". here seems to make the users sound very unintelligent. Given the use of the word, EVERY deployed military personal who has pulled a trigger is a murdered. That's bullshit as its use has very specific connotations. Thusly, users as such scream to the world they are unable to properly filter facts or employ logic. In other words, idiots.
As for their "loss of ability to evaluate targets", that too sounds extremely unintelligent. The reality is, you've lost the ability (assuming you ever had the ability - which is extremely unlikely given the surrounding remarks) to make judgment calls about military targets. Likely because you're parroting ignorance rather than attempt to make use of things known as facts.
The reality is:
o Most enemy targets (almost all) do not wear uniforms - this means the G.V. doesn't actually protect them. In fact, it condemns them.
o Most enemy targets in theater, immediately attempt to insert/remove targets and/or weaponry from an engagement before they can be captured so they can they claim massive civilian causalities.
o The original "targets" acted EXACTLY like local insurgents - which are not provided protection by the G.V..
o Contrary to the massive amounts of misinformation put forward put massive level of ignorance, they did appear to be a legitimate threat. At best, they were blending in with those were absolutely did satisfy the requirements for legitimate targets. And as such, are legitimate collator targets.
o Contrary to the ignorance spewed forth, you may take military targets from the scene for medical assistance - assuming you are properly marked. These people were not and in fact matched the M.O. of other illegal insurgents. So we have an established pattern set forth by seemingly legitimate targets.
o The various doctrines and conventions allow for the death of these people. They are actually allowed to be summarily executed on the spot. Meaning, we have legitimate targets being targeted and people coming to the rescue of legitimate targets who follow stardard operating procedures of those who have established M.O.s of other legitimate targets - none of whom are protected by the G.C..
In short, the uproar is by a large group of ignorant people who don't know their asshole from their elbow. Does that make what happened any better? NO! Does that suddenly make the cries for the heads of people doing their legal job legitimate?! No, absolutely not! It only means those crying for heads are all the more ignorant and disassociated from not only reality in general, but from the reality of modern war in general. Thusly validating they are fools at best.
At worst, this the the tragedy of war. At best, it soldiers doing their job who absolutely understand the realities of the world their country is demanding they operate. To condemn them is to condemn war and especially the piece of shits they fight. Nothing more, nothing less. And anyone who says otherwise, is an ignorant fool - unless they have proof the soldiers knowing were not engaging legitimate targets; aka willing committing murder.
What's wrong with sports? Sports teach leadership and teamwork,
This is crap parroted by sports to further their programs at the expense of programs that actually matter and require teaching. There are LOTS of ways to teach leadership and teamwork. In fact, in contrast, Japan and China excel at teaching both and generally without sports. Its part of their culture and "group think". Same is true for teamwork. Just like in America, the popular "group think" is, "sports teaches leadership and teamwork"; no matter how incorrect that may be.
Besides, social sciences CLEARLY shows leadership is an inherent part of being human which really does not require much teaching. And the areas which do require teaching are absolutely not taught in athletics. Time and time again, leadership is naturally asserted. Accordingly, a natural pecking order always falls out and leaders are naturally established. What follows are, well, the other people. The fact that roles in athletics are ASSIGNED actively defeats nature's role and other natural leadership capabilities.
Sports tend to elevate those capable of physical feats. Hundreds of years ago, and more likely, thousands of years ago, that made a lot of sense. It might even explain why their genes are still around today. These days, it makes little to no sense at all. These days if you want to get a head, its NOT by physical agility and strength. In short, not only does sports teach negative aspects of humanity (oppression by physics prowess), it emphasizes other aspects which are least likely to benefit humanity or themselves in the long run; as in, not brain power or higher learning.
What we can authoritatively say about athletics is, if you actually "learned" teamwork and leadership (which for most actually means shut up and follow), then you're dumber than a bag of hammers. If you learned teamwork in athletics, that means your parents, friends, and extended family all failed horribly, because that's where its actually learned.
To be clear, I don't have a problem with athletics. Everyone should enjoy competition, feel victory and defeat. Heck, the exercise alone is beyond rebuke. It absolutely does help with character building, social skills, learning reasonable expectations, even brain chemistry, so on and so on. There are lessons to be learned. Good lessons. Just the same, leadership and teamwork are not inherent qualities generally learned or taught by association. The fact this is commonly repeated means their brainwashing has been very successful - so their future funding won't be a concern.
Now if you want to argue sports can help improve social skills, I won't outright disagree. But then again, you'll find they are generally poor activities to do so. And if social skills were truly of concern, you'd see everyone following in the footsteps of the fairer sex as by all measure they appear to be experts as social skill development.
Its worse than that! In many states county judges (often requiring no legal background) and sheriffs are allowed to declare fines and court fees as extra income. In some cases you literally make the check out to the judge. In other words, despite the fact its a completely obvious conflict of interest, the judge who will hear your case directly reaps the benefits of punishing you. And surprise, surprise, the sheriffs are somehow at the top for the state in writing tickets and other violations which directly generate income for both themselves and the judges who will hear the case. And did you know in most states police require no evidence that they actually clocked you speeding? In other words, a cop can pull you over at any time for "speeding", and ticket you. And failure to accepted the ticket means you will be arrested on the spot from failure to comply. Nope - no conflict of interest there.
For those who ignorantly believe its a tiny minority who are bad eggs - you are oh so wrong. Sadly, it is a minority, but is it far from tiny.
The reality is, the US court system is completely fucked. Most people who believe they CAN afford a legal defense are surprised when they must declare bankruptcy - whereby legal fees are often NOT forgiven. And the majority don't believe they can afford to defend themselves. And believe it or not, if you run into a serious criminal situation, statistically speaking, chances are you WILL go bankrupt; regardless of your guilt or the resulting verdict.
People need to understand every element of our government is corrupt to some degree or another. In some cases we're all willing to look the other way because its really not that big of a deal (example, cop got friend off of a ticket because the cop is friendly with the judge). Then on the other side, we have bad cops in rigged courts.
Anyone remember the hundreds of police all up and down I-20 who were illegally seizing vehicles on trumped up drug charges, taking them to auction, and LEGALLY pocketing the money? Guess what, the courts got some of the green too. Some police cleared several million per year. Most cops were never prosecuted. These were cops in three of four southern states. It was rampant. This was less than a decade ago.
Then we have cases where credible witnesses have come forward saying someone locked up didn't do it. In many cases they even have proof. In some cases we even have the person in jail, who admits to doing the crime, with evidence proving, being ignored. Worse, DNA completely clears the wrongfully accused. And yet they are still sitting in jail. Last I heard its been over three YEARS since a wrongfully accused and prosecuted person was still rotting jail despite absolute irrefutable proof they are innocent.
This type of shit literally goes on and on and on; nearly endlessly. So those of you who think the system is not corrupted or that its just a few bad eggs are woefully ignorant of the very long list of corruptions and misdeeds which go on every day - and those are just the ones we, the general public, KNOW about.
Don't get me wrong. There absolutely are good cops and good judges, but don't fool yourself into believing the rotten amongst us are a "tiny" minority.
Lastly, we all know about the "blue code on honor". If "good" cops are looking the other way to protect "bad" cops, at the expense of innocent citizenry, are they really still "good" cops?
US TV shows can't resist putting in the effects of sugar on kids. And nobody ever noticed that anywhere else in the world. Maybe because IT IS NOT TRUE. Yes you can energy from sugar but the human body has plenty of sugar all the time on a normal diet. It isn't going to hyper because you add more fuel to it, you just get fatter because the body can now store fat for later instead of burning it as it should.
Please stop making this shit up.
Your body actively reacts to sugar. That's why diabetics have so many problems. That's why you feel a sugar crash after consumption of large amounts. That's why kids (and adults) feel a surge on the front side of the crash. The difference is, most adults are better equipped to handle it. Additionally, metabolically, some people are better equipped to handle sugar than others.
You get fatter because its not all burned. Your body is specifically designed to store excess energy as fat because a "natural diet" is actually fairly sugar poor. Just because your body stores energy doesn't mean it can't "surge" in the short term. And a surge doesn't mean its all consumed, or even possible to consume, all energy provided to it. Simply put, that's generally impossible. After all, that's exactly why your body is storing so much sugar as fat.
Yes, cafine is different from sugar in that it is a drug
Caffeine is naturally occurring just like sugar and even MSG. That's doesn't mean its any more or less of a drug than sugar or MSG. Frankly, the fact the FDA classifies one as a drug and the other as an additive is extremely arbitrary. The fact is, most every common disease known to man kind can be directly or indirect traced back to sugar consumption; including cancers. Heck, modern research even proves sugar consumption accelerates aging - which is also categorized as a disease. Really the only difference between sugar and caffeine is that your body requires a small amount of sugar whereas your body does not require caffeine. The average human, world wide, consumes many magnitudes more sugar that is actually biologically required.
Simply put, there isn't anything in your post which is remotely accurate or even makes sense.
...well known problems for people who don't know any better. That's why so many books have been written which simply explain, don't do the stupid stuff which the FQA author espouses. In fact, one could easily argue his FQA is the antithesis of a learned coder. Which raises the question, why does someone who is completely ignorant believe they are a subject matter expert? The short answer is, they are a delusion idiot or pushing an agenda.
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Honestly, I'm parroting. I can't answer that.
Frankly I'm just amazed that post wasn't market troll or flamebait as is usually the case when anything negative is said about MySQL.
Well, both the real and "trollish" answer is, MySQL has been trying to catch up for almost five years now - and doesn't look like their even close.
PostgreSQL has been a better database for a long time now. The pull of MySQL isn't its technical prowess but its "dumbness." Simply put, MySQL provides a lot in exchange for very little. Its the go to database for people who have little DBA experience, don't know what makes for a good RDBMS, or is simply needing a database where ACID doesn't matter.
Basically MySQL is popular because its the low hanging fruit. Its generally everywhere and most people who need a database don't know any better. So they've heard something about MySQL and its available with their hosting company. That's generally all they needed to know. Of course that completely ignores the fact that for most every project, PostgreSQL provides a vastly superior solution. The down side is, to use PostgreSQL vs MySQL in these cases, you'd have to read all of a dozen pages or so (actually far less, but lets play devil's advocate). And for most, that's simply far too much to ask.
Its basically the lazy or ignorant DBA's database. Or a database where reliability doesn't matter. Or integrity isn't an issue. There certainly are places for those kinds of databases - its just that most who pick MySQL don't realize they've made those trade offs.
pilots are expensive.
Actually, most pilots make less than teachers. Its only on large commercial carriers with significant seniority, where passengers are involved, do pilots draw significant salaries. Many pilots are lucky to be able to afford to by a ten year old car. That's why pilots loath to give up their seniority and/or benefits - because they've earned it with many shitty hours and poor pay.
I'm sure the life support system weighs
You mean a couple tanks of O2? Not even worth consideration.
The only difference between an UAV and a MAV
That's a great way to dumb down the differences. In reality, there are huge differences.
All pilots are tasked with "see and avoid." With no pilot on board, no one can "see and avoid". A limited view through a camera with limited POV, generally slow pan, and inability to quickly get a sense of a rapidly changing environment means everyone who isn't a UAV is put at risk.
With human pilots, when a transponder fails (assuming mode-c or better; reports position and altitude), a pilot can still report their heading, general position, and altitude as well as continue to correct for barometric changes in altitude readings. This is not true with a UAV. If a transponder fails, its literally a ghost for most controllers. That means every pilot in that area, assuming its controlled space, must now assume the burden of "see and avoid" for the AUV as well. Completely unfair and drastically increases the risk; this is after all, the entire reason the FAA was created. Basically, as is, mixing UAV traffic with MAV traffic is begging for mid-air collisions. Not to mention, is a total disregard for pilot and passenger safety.
Right now, organizations like CAP, Coast Guard, and the Air Force are tasks with escorting UAVs through controlled airspace - and with good reason. I see no reason to change this - none - zero - unless all AUVs are equipped with completely redundant equipment, including 360 radar, providing for zero blind spots. Not to mention an effective self destruction would certainly be a big plus should it ever lose communication - and yes, that does happen.
Not to mention you'll find plenty of MySQL DBAs with large multimaster deployments who swear calling it "replication", let alone multimaster replication generous even when everything is working correctly.
It would be nice for PostgreSQL to have an out of the box multimaster solution but those who claim MySQL is replication panacea and PostgreSQL has nothing to offer is only highlighting their ignorance. Slony is consistently used on very large datasets where ACID actually matters. We're talking about two completely different use cases here as far too often, MySQL users are more than happy to wave ACID.
I completely agree with you. While Slony isn't an "out of the box" replication solution, it is a very strong offering.
What I would love to see is some standardization for SQL languages.
There is a standardization. PostgreSQL is one of the few RDBMs which actually attempt to follow it. Just the same, "compatibility kits" have been created by third parties to allow for improved MySQL and even Oracle migrations to PostgreSQL. I don't know how well they work or how comprehensive the coverage.
You're not alone. That issue is one of the last MySQL staples which PostgreSQL users hear about.
I disagree on Lord of the Rings - the film managed to mess up the characters,
In the end, does that really matter? Was the act of telling the story enjoyable to watch? For the vast majority of people the answer is yes. We all understand lots of elements were not true to the books but it doesn't change the fact that the movies were still enjoyable in their own right.
That's basically the problem with book/movie translations. Many people get upset when its a literal translation. As such, they want something new which wasn't in the book. The inverse is also true - it must be literal and true else it completely sucks. Then there are stories such as LotR which are so long, have fairly developed characters, complex situations, so on and so on, its seems very reasonable that some things will simply not translate well while others are just too deep/complex to allow for a timely and comprehensible tale. Some say that means the story shouldn't be told then. Others say its a reasonable trade.
That doesn't change the fact that the system was vulnerable in the first place. Punish him for entering illegally but don't make him pay for repairs that should've been made anyway.
Good thing that's NOT what they are doing. They are making him pay for the repairs to remove all possible trace of his trespass. Period. That's many things but unreasonable or unfair are certainly not accurate descriptions.
For some reason, you're making the assumption that things need to be done over and above what their original state was. That's simply a very false assumption. Just because someone likely violated their security protocols and created an account without a password is not the same thing as assuming the system failed to meet any and all security requirements.
Bluntly, jail time and heavy fines are absolutely appropriate.
affect the way you perceive and react to the world.
That's true of social interaction. Legal comprehension in general is not affected. While he may not realize endlessly staring at a hot chick's tits is bad, especially when close enough to physically touch them. He understands breaking into computer systems absolutely is illegal. To boot, its extremely likely he has heard, been told, and read such actions are illegal.
Aspergers almost exclusively affects social cues and associated interactions. It does not affect comprehension or higher learning in general. If it did, its not likely he'd been able to master the skills he used to penetrate the networks. Bluntly, its all but impossible his disease is a significant factor here; aside from believing it was a good idea or that he wouldn't be caught.
The only problem is that the US is trying to get him to pay a fortune for damages, as if he created the vulnerability as opposed to exposing it.
Any time a system is penetrated it is considered completely compromised. Addressed compromised systems demands significant damages because damage has been suffered. The simple act of gaining illegal access requires untold hours of logging, following endless procedures, rebuilding the system (usually at a temporary loss of services), ensuring compliance with current standards (which are far from brief), so on and so on. For every system he violated, shit loads of both dollars and man hours must be spent cleaning up afterwards. And this all ignores the general assessment which must follow to determine if additional, unknown systems might have been accessed and/or compromised. Basically, this is a really big fucking deal.
In short, this guy is not only a complete idiot, but he deserves serious jail time and a life time of fines. He did, after all, work hard to earn it. Since he definitely did earn it, I don't have a problem with the government handing it to him. Its what he wanted after all.
So non-zero value is the same as full retail value in your universe?
Don't be an idiot - oh wait - too late.
You don't get to set the price. The market does. So long as they are selling at their set rate, the market has accepted the price. Therefore, THAT's the market value. Period.
Every game they want has a non-zero value, roughly equal to the cost of the electricity and bandwidth it takes to download it.
Again, the market sets the value. What you're saying are more incorrect lies told by pirates who steal from people.
The simple fact is, pirates are thieves and people need to treat them accordingly. I'm so tired of seeing the same old lies parroted time and time again this subject comes up. Clearly the lies are working - or people will just look for any lie to justify their stealing no matter how much they know their "justification" if completely full of shit.
Stealing because you don't agree with the price is still stealing. Go to your local Ferrari shop and hand them a check for $20,000. Then drive off with a Ferrari. You'll find yourself in jail really fast because that's theft. Yet it doesn't stop pirates from telling lies like you did trying to convince people that stealing is okay so long as you can come up with some completely bullshit excuse to do so. Wrong! Stealing is stealing and pirating is a form of stealing. If it were not, companies would never take a loss. And yet, for every pirated copy, ignoring sales, the market value of the pirated good immediately takes a loss. That's reality.
Like it or not, stealing harms the entire economy (that's you and me too, just so we're clear) - without regard for bullshit lies.
That's fully to be expected. Every "troll" or "flamebait" moderation validates everything I'm saying. Its easier to censor than it is to stop stealing and deceiving.
No, that's idiot logic employed by thieves. The fact that someone wants it means it has a non-zero value. Thusly blowing a huge hole in your entire bullshit theory. The economic works exactly as I said. The simple fact that pirates want something immediately assigns value to it.
If a pirate attributed something of worth as having no value, they wouldn't want it. Since both the market and pirates attribute a value to something completely establishes a non-zero value.
Funny how pirates only listen to a tiny, tiny portion of BASIC economics which bolster their thieving ways but completely ignore the whole of economics which directly implicates them as thieves.
I sure wish pirates would stop stealing and making shit up to justify their theft at every turn. Everyone pays for their actions and lies.
Using corrected numbers, 2 - 6 BILLION dollars is still a shit load of money by any measure. Stop making it sound like its some trivial number which isn't worth discussion. Even divided by 100 companies that's a significant loss of revenue and market value directly traceable to thieves. Hell, even divided by 1000 companies, that's a shit load of lost revenue.
it supposes that the Law of Demand does not apply.
Another fallacy of logic. Actually, it PROVES the law of demand - otherwise there would be no demand for pirated games/applications. None. Zero. Just because something is stolen does not in any way, shape, or form mean the law of demand is inapplicable. The exact opposite is true.
Furthermore, every pirated copy not only validates the product is priced too low (demand is after all high) but that the value of the product has been been diluted and therefore damaged. So not only does stealing hurt the original manufacturer in loss of sales, but it also hurts the value of the product itself. Which of course, also mandates continued high pricing to offset both the loss of revenue and market damages.
Its easy to see why such draconian measures are taken at every opportunity. No doubt about it - pirates are stealing. Pirates are thieves. Almost without fail, every complaint pirates use to justify their theft actually exists preciously because so many pirates so rampantly justify theft. In other words, pirates blame corporations for their own actions and ineptitude.
This is once again one of those numbers that will be thrown around by IP holders to get attention from the politicians. And yet the study does the same idiotic assumption as all the other ones.
With some fairly common corrections (10-20% conversions; which are commonly accepted statistics), that's still roughly 4 - 8 BILLION dollars of stolen revenue. Even with some additional adjustments to the original numbers we're still talking about 2-6 BILLION dollars of stolen revenue; which is an easily believable and reasonable range of numbers.
Now think for a second if you had a small company and that directly translated into the loss of hundreds of thousands to several million dollars for you - just for your small company. That difference in revenue means lost jobs, fewer bug fixes, fewer employees, fewer bonus, lower wages, fewer benefits, no plans to expand, less customer support, and potentially even one or two fewer product launches; which in turn further negatively spirals a company and the economy. Unsurprisingly, thieves often use the problems they create to justify their stealing ways. "They provide poor support so I'm justified in stealing."
For thieves who wrongly believe no one is hurt by their theft of products, think again. For whatever reason people believe only large, monolithic, "evil" corporations charge for their products. The reality is, people who steal harm all facets of the economy and directly negatively affects small and medium size business. Stealing games potentially is the same thing as stealing from your neighbor or best friend.
Now imagine working for a year or two and when it comes time to collect your check, you're told, "don't worry man, I was just trying you out. I decided I didn't like what you had to offer." And yet, that's EXACTLY what thieves do to companies and people every day. Yes, that sucks, but that's what happens when pirates steal.
Since theft negatively affects all aspects of almost every economy in the world, its no wonder the world is working hard to cut the huge losses imposed by these social and economic criminals. They have no choice but to become ever more draconian. Think about it - they have zero options. This in turn in a reason thieves use to justify their theft. The reality is, they are the very problem they are railing against. Its like bank robbers complaining about higher taxes to pay for a larger police force which is required to combat rampant bank robberies. Most people would call this circular logic retarded - yet that's the day in a life of most thieves.
Then don't sell it as a clean war. The whole "smart weapons make a war clean" drivel is bullshit.
Ahhh...no....
It actually underscores the stupidity of people in general who don't understand what, "smart weapon", means. Furthermore, I didn't see a single "smart weapon" deployed in the video so the use of the phrase only further underscores how inept many are, despite their willingness to comment and condemn.
If you MUST have someone to blame, blame our education system, but most importantly blame the media. The military is in no way, shape, or form, culpable for misunderstandings of the use of "smart weapons." Why? Because their introduction into the media was by means of statistical comparison and in general showing their accuracy. What now takes one or two bombs traditionally took hundreds. Heck, it wasn't even uncommon for the *wrong city to be entirely leveled - literally* before the use of smart weapons. So please, spare us your ignorance.
As you don't seem to understand the use, please refer back to WII statistics vs modern statistics of dropped bombs. Heck, consider for a moment that cities still stand in the country. Had it not been for "smart weapons", there literally would not be a single standing structure (at least not one with a roof) in the entire country. Literally. That's the difference smart weapons make. In fact, almost without fail, the majority of damage to buildings which no longer stand have been brought about by weapons which absolutely do NOT satisfy the moniker of, "smart weapon."
you're kinda suffering from his quirks
Oh please - yet more ignorance. Under his former rule, what has been killed to date, would be killed annually. That's far, far, far from "suffering from his quirks". Not to mention rape, pillage, and general plunder was the rule of the day. So please, spare us your general ignorance.
Is there anything you "know" which is at all reflective of reality in these wars? Thus far, you don't seem to know anything which is at all accurate.
The men in the 'collateral murder' video are (or were) an example of this. They lost their ability to evaluate targets and gave in to the urge to get a higher score than the other helicopters in the unit.
First of all, the use of the word, "murder". here seems to make the users sound very unintelligent. Given the use of the word, EVERY deployed military personal who has pulled a trigger is a murdered. That's bullshit as its use has very specific connotations. Thusly, users as such scream to the world they are unable to properly filter facts or employ logic. In other words, idiots.
As for their "loss of ability to evaluate targets", that too sounds extremely unintelligent. The reality is, you've lost the ability (assuming you ever had the ability - which is extremely unlikely given the surrounding remarks) to make judgment calls about military targets. Likely because you're parroting ignorance rather than attempt to make use of things known as facts.
The reality is:
o Most enemy targets (almost all) do not wear uniforms - this means the G.V. doesn't actually protect them. In fact, it condemns them.
o Most enemy targets in theater, immediately attempt to insert/remove targets and/or weaponry from an engagement before they can be captured so they can they claim massive civilian causalities.
o The original "targets" acted EXACTLY like local insurgents - which are not provided protection by the G.V..
o Contrary to the massive amounts of misinformation put forward put massive level of ignorance, they did appear to be a legitimate threat. At best, they were blending in with those were absolutely did satisfy the requirements for legitimate targets. And as such, are legitimate collator targets.
o Contrary to the ignorance spewed forth, you may take military targets from the scene for medical assistance - assuming you are properly marked. These people were not and in fact matched the M.O. of other illegal insurgents. So we have an established pattern set forth by seemingly legitimate targets.
o The various doctrines and conventions allow for the death of these people. They are actually allowed to be summarily executed on the spot. Meaning, we have legitimate targets being targeted and people coming to the rescue of legitimate targets who follow stardard operating procedures of those who have established M.O.s of other legitimate targets - none of whom are protected by the G.C..
In short, the uproar is by a large group of ignorant people who don't know their asshole from their elbow. Does that make what happened any better? NO! Does that suddenly make the cries for the heads of people doing their legal job legitimate?! No, absolutely not! It only means those crying for heads are all the more ignorant and disassociated from not only reality in general, but from the reality of modern war in general. Thusly validating they are fools at best.
At worst, this the the tragedy of war. At best, it soldiers doing their job who absolutely understand the realities of the world their country is demanding they operate. To condemn them is to condemn war and especially the piece of shits they fight. Nothing more, nothing less. And anyone who says otherwise, is an ignorant fool - unless they have proof the soldiers knowing were not engaging legitimate targets; aka willing committing murder.
What's wrong with sports? Sports teach leadership and teamwork,
This is crap parroted by sports to further their programs at the expense of programs that actually matter and require teaching. There are LOTS of ways to teach leadership and teamwork. In fact, in contrast, Japan and China excel at teaching both and generally without sports. Its part of their culture and "group think". Same is true for teamwork. Just like in America, the popular "group think" is, "sports teaches leadership and teamwork"; no matter how incorrect that may be.
Besides, social sciences CLEARLY shows leadership is an inherent part of being human which really does not require much teaching. And the areas which do require teaching are absolutely not taught in athletics. Time and time again, leadership is naturally asserted. Accordingly, a natural pecking order always falls out and leaders are naturally established. What follows are, well, the other people. The fact that roles in athletics are ASSIGNED actively defeats nature's role and other natural leadership capabilities.
Sports tend to elevate those capable of physical feats. Hundreds of years ago, and more likely, thousands of years ago, that made a lot of sense. It might even explain why their genes are still around today. These days, it makes little to no sense at all. These days if you want to get a head, its NOT by physical agility and strength. In short, not only does sports teach negative aspects of humanity (oppression by physics prowess), it emphasizes other aspects which are least likely to benefit humanity or themselves in the long run; as in, not brain power or higher learning.
What we can authoritatively say about athletics is, if you actually "learned" teamwork and leadership (which for most actually means shut up and follow), then you're dumber than a bag of hammers. If you learned teamwork in athletics, that means your parents, friends, and extended family all failed horribly, because that's where its actually learned.
To be clear, I don't have a problem with athletics. Everyone should enjoy competition, feel victory and defeat. Heck, the exercise alone is beyond rebuke. It absolutely does help with character building, social skills, learning reasonable expectations, even brain chemistry, so on and so on. There are lessons to be learned. Good lessons. Just the same, leadership and teamwork are not inherent qualities generally learned or taught by association. The fact this is commonly repeated means their brainwashing has been very successful - so their future funding won't be a concern.
Now if you want to argue sports can help improve social skills, I won't outright disagree. But then again, you'll find they are generally poor activities to do so. And if social skills were truly of concern, you'd see everyone following in the footsteps of the fairer sex as by all measure they appear to be experts as social skill development.
Its worse than that! In many states county judges (often requiring no legal background) and sheriffs are allowed to declare fines and court fees as extra income. In some cases you literally make the check out to the judge. In other words, despite the fact its a completely obvious conflict of interest, the judge who will hear your case directly reaps the benefits of punishing you. And surprise, surprise, the sheriffs are somehow at the top for the state in writing tickets and other violations which directly generate income for both themselves and the judges who will hear the case. And did you know in most states police require no evidence that they actually clocked you speeding? In other words, a cop can pull you over at any time for "speeding", and ticket you. And failure to accepted the ticket means you will be arrested on the spot from failure to comply. Nope - no conflict of interest there.
For those who ignorantly believe its a tiny minority who are bad eggs - you are oh so wrong. Sadly, it is a minority, but is it far from tiny.
The reality is, the US court system is completely fucked. Most people who believe they CAN afford a legal defense are surprised when they must declare bankruptcy - whereby legal fees are often NOT forgiven. And the majority don't believe they can afford to defend themselves. And believe it or not, if you run into a serious criminal situation, statistically speaking, chances are you WILL go bankrupt; regardless of your guilt or the resulting verdict.
People need to understand every element of our government is corrupt to some degree or another. In some cases we're all willing to look the other way because its really not that big of a deal (example, cop got friend off of a ticket because the cop is friendly with the judge). Then on the other side, we have bad cops in rigged courts.
Anyone remember the hundreds of police all up and down I-20 who were illegally seizing vehicles on trumped up drug charges, taking them to auction, and LEGALLY pocketing the money? Guess what, the courts got some of the green too. Some police cleared several million per year. Most cops were never prosecuted. These were cops in three of four southern states. It was rampant. This was less than a decade ago.
Then we have cases where credible witnesses have come forward saying someone locked up didn't do it. In many cases they even have proof. In some cases we even have the person in jail, who admits to doing the crime, with evidence proving, being ignored. Worse, DNA completely clears the wrongfully accused. And yet they are still sitting in jail. Last I heard its been over three YEARS since a wrongfully accused and prosecuted person was still rotting jail despite absolute irrefutable proof they are innocent.
This type of shit literally goes on and on and on; nearly endlessly. So those of you who think the system is not corrupted or that its just a few bad eggs are woefully ignorant of the very long list of corruptions and misdeeds which go on every day - and those are just the ones we, the general public, KNOW about.
Don't get me wrong. There absolutely are good cops and good judges, but don't fool yourself into believing the rotten amongst us are a "tiny" minority.
Lastly, we all know about the "blue code on honor". If "good" cops are looking the other way to protect "bad" cops, at the expense of innocent citizenry, are they really still "good" cops?
US TV shows can't resist putting in the effects of sugar on kids. And nobody ever noticed that anywhere else in the world. Maybe because IT IS NOT TRUE. Yes you can energy from sugar but the human body has plenty of sugar all the time on a normal diet. It isn't going to hyper because you add more fuel to it, you just get fatter because the body can now store fat for later instead of burning it as it should.
Please stop making this shit up.
Your body actively reacts to sugar. That's why diabetics have so many problems. That's why you feel a sugar crash after consumption of large amounts. That's why kids (and adults) feel a surge on the front side of the crash. The difference is, most adults are better equipped to handle it. Additionally, metabolically, some people are better equipped to handle sugar than others.
You get fatter because its not all burned. Your body is specifically designed to store excess energy as fat because a "natural diet" is actually fairly sugar poor. Just because your body stores energy doesn't mean it can't "surge" in the short term. And a surge doesn't mean its all consumed, or even possible to consume, all energy provided to it. Simply put, that's generally impossible. After all, that's exactly why your body is storing so much sugar as fat.
Yes, cafine is different from sugar in that it is a drug
Caffeine is naturally occurring just like sugar and even MSG. That's doesn't mean its any more or less of a drug than sugar or MSG. Frankly, the fact the FDA classifies one as a drug and the other as an additive is extremely arbitrary. The fact is, most every common disease known to man kind can be directly or indirect traced back to sugar consumption; including cancers. Heck, modern research even proves sugar consumption accelerates aging - which is also categorized as a disease. Really the only difference between sugar and caffeine is that your body requires a small amount of sugar whereas your body does not require caffeine. The average human, world wide, consumes many magnitudes more sugar that is actually biologically required.
Simply put, there isn't anything in your post which is remotely accurate or even makes sense.
...well known problems for people who don't know any better. That's why so many books have been written which simply explain, don't do the stupid stuff which the FQA author espouses. In fact, one could easily argue his FQA is the antithesis of a learned coder. Which raises the question, why does someone who is completely ignorant believe they are a subject matter expert? The short answer is, they are a delusion idiot or pushing an agenda.
My money is on him being a Java or C# developer.