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  1. Re:Big Data != toolset on Is Big Data Leaving Hadoop Behind? · · Score: 1

    +1. Without analysis, big data is just a bunch of data

  2. Re:they're right! on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 1

    Apparently, he /didn't/ do anything, at least in the eyes of the law. Since he died before his appeals were exhausted, his conviction has been / will be abated.

  3. Re:Commodore 64, baby! on What Was Your First Computer? · · Score: 1

    +1 on the C-64 awesome-ness. But my first was actually the VIC-20. Had it for two weeks before bumping into its limitations. It was replaced by a C-64.

  4. Re:RSS on Lucene in Action · · Score: 1
    As an aside, can Lucene be used for local searches?

    Yes, but...

    The distribution contains some demo applications that you can point to a filesystem. One app will index the text, another will index HTML (or maybe one does both, I can't remember). Then you execute another app to query the index.

    The hard part is to get Lucene to index non-text files such as Office files. The version of Lucene I've used is the Java version. Third-party libraries exist for Word and Excel docs (on a Windows filesystem), but none for PowerPoint, as far as I know. PDF is pretty easy using other third-party libs.

    The demo apps are just that. You really either need to get SearchBlox (not OSS, but built on top of Lucene) or roll-your-own if you want a full-featured app.

  5. Re:America has a choice.. on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 1
    Perhaps you could explain to me the liberal bias inherent in ... a multi-body gravitation problem

    The liberal solution likely doesn't involve Intelligent Falling.

  6. Re:Time for a change... on Extra Daylight Savings May Confuse the Gadgets · · Score: 3, Funny

    I heard that the Babylonian king went to his most trusted advisors and asked what base should they keep time in. All six of the advisors simultaneously held up both hands, finger spread....

  7. Re:Cordless Telephones on Injecting Audio Into Insecure Bluetooth Handsets · · Score: 1

    Spreading the spectrum won't make the conversation secure in a cryptograhic sense, but it will make it harder for a casual evesdropper to listen-in.

  8. Turn Left At Orion on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 1

    Dr. Consolmagno book "Turn Left At Orion" is an excellent introductory book on astronomy. I tend to give out copies to anyone who gets a telescope as a gift. As the title implies, it teaches the night sky relationally (e.g. "Draw a straight line from Orion's belt to the left. See that bright star? That's Sirius"), aka "star-hopping". Consolmagno's (et. al.) writing style in the book is very approachable.

  9. Grill on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A Weber Grill, old hair dryer (metal barrel), and various compression fittings hack nicely into a turbo-grill. Just attach the dryer to one of the bottom ash-emptying holes (and turn it (the dryer) on, 'natch). Turns out Alton Brown also did this. He is the ultimate kitchen hacker.