and give it a command-line / greenscreen interface. Make it run in a shell on your android phone. And add an output "Copyright Rich0 1989" to the "- - version" option...
Yes, I assume that, too. But that is not enough. You must keep that metadata in an index, in order to enable users to search through them. And that indexing must go damn fast. Let us assume a song lasts 5 minutes, and you track 100,000 stations. On average, then, you must index 100,000 / ( 5 * 60 ) = 333 songs / second. Although elasticsearch and / or Apache Lucene do that in a breeze, you prolly throw away the results each 5 minutes. This is atypical for an indexing engine, and brings you to do some extra delete-related I/O on top of the put-related I/O ops you already do. Sequitur: you need to do some pretty damn fast I/O. And I wonder how, with what tech, they reach that goal ?
Dude, you're stone-age old ( if I my attach any correlation value to your userID ), which is a compliment in and by itself. I myself am not young. But really: you need to get laid. Get yourself a hooker and some pot, or a line of coke, and blow off some steam. Dude.
Yep. Blackberry did it ( until shortly, at least ). Some plastic Linda-out-of-a-box going regularly all ecstatic about some bland RIM thing. The IDF have some of those, too.
You're right on the "research out there". Social networks tend to grow not so much at their edges ( where the less well-connected nodes are ) but on the inside, at the already well-connected nodes. Just read it last night, a compendium edited by one IBM guy, Aggarwal is his name if I remember correctly.
Which is the gist of what I said, without having wanted to say it *that* explicitly. With the current state of affairs, I would simply refuse to travel to the US, even if ordered to do so by my employer.
The most interesting position, in the whole parallel, is that of the shepherd dog. For sure, he can be broken - but as long as he is not, leads a quite interesting life: charged with the interests of both sheep and shepherd, he has "some wolf" in him.
is simply a police state, in the velvet-clad incarnation of a surveillance state. [ This goes true, alas, also for certain western European states, most of all Britain and the Netherlands- ]
Fear, indeed, may be a good label to stick upon some of the deeper undercurrents that began flowing through, or rather: under, western culture since september 2001. As bad a motivator as it is, fear is a powerful one. Couple that with consumption and the benumbedness of the lower socio-economic strata ( in the US case I think explicitly of the urbanized black population in its pit of misery ) and you have the most effective tool there is, for less-than-well-intended or simply *stupid* politicians. to bring society under minute control. All the while, most John Does in that same society will still think they live in a "free" country, even bragging about it.
The only thing that would help here were revolution, a revolution of courage. I think of citizens, united in new parties, declaring independence - of or in smaller states. Although for a very unjust cause, the southern states were fighting for just reasons and stood on justified ground. Their attempt at breaking away from the Union could be repeated with peaceful means. Next year, Scotland will be voting on formal independence from the UK - an historical opportunity to get those hateful cameras off their streets, and GCHQ out of their backyard. In the Netherlands, it will needs be done with different means, as breakaway is nearly impossible in such small entities.
All in all, though, I wonder how millions of reasonably smart citizens can undergo the current climate of repression [ see Sarah Harrison's comment on calling a duck a duck ] without a tinge or mere inkling of revolt ?
Frankly, Germany would be better off selling excess electricity to the Swiss, who then pump their lakes full, and then buying that electricity back when needed. This is around 70% efficient, and a hell of a lot friendlier to the environment.
They already do that with us here in Austria. They sell excess electricity to us, we pump Danube water up barrages with it, and when we need power, release the water over turbines again. Part of what we generate, we sell back to the Germans. Good deal, both sides are satisfied: the Germans with a place to store their excess kWh, we with cheap power.
As much as I may hold Edward Snowden in esteem - and that is a lot of esteem, actually - I tend to get all prickly and uncomfortable when the word "truth" is used in such a pontifical way as in the "manifesto". There is no such thing as absolute truth, although Mr. Snowden seems to tacitly imply and quietly assume so. There is your truth, your way of experiencing things - and there is mine. What we call "truth" is the sum vector of all these tiny vectors.
Mr. Snowden had better used a word such as "information" or "openness". I am reminded of 2 Russian words, whose meaning lies in this direction, that became rather famous: glasnost and perestrojka.
are turning into a police state, or at least into the velvet-gloved version of it: a surveillance state. So are certain western European states. What are we going to do about it ?
Only solution. If you want a job done properly, then you best carry it out yourself. Buy a relatively cheap server, equip it with whatever you need to get a backup to it working, and have that server hosted. You'll pay for the hosting and the bandwidth ( in many cases, the latter is included in the former ). All cards are in your own hands. It takes some work, but except for man-in-the-middle attacks - which are always possible, BTW, and in any scenario - you are safe.
Now you hang on for a minute, bro. I understand your objection. Here, however, are a few indicators that something fundamental is wrong in the US:
- The US has the only western regime that puts its own citizens to death
- The US is the only western state where a major minority lives in poverty and intellectual benumbedness, without much access to such services as higher education. Being of a certain race strongly predisposes for this poverty and intellectual benumbedness
- No greater percentage of the population in any Western country is in prison than in the US. Being of a certain race, again, strongly determines ones chances to do time in prison
- There is actual collusion between church and state in the US, it being virtually impossible for a non-christian to become president or hold other high offices. Said churches are mostly uncritically behind the regime
- There is no real budget control, nor is there hardly any consciousness that continued living on credit will drive the country into ruin
- Under pretexts of security and protection against ( true ? imaginary ? ) external threats, basic civil liberties are infringed upon each day
- The US constitution is a mere non-functional piece of old paper
- US Congress does not truly govern: it perpetuates itself
- No western country has begun so many wars, in the last 68 years, as the US have
This all eerily reminds one of a velvet version of Germany in the '30s...
Perhaps real viking power can be observed today, in 2013, in Norway: the capacity to earn your own money on your own soil, to be conscious of your own worth without being a pain in the neck for any neighbors, and to deal in a thoughtful, peaceful with national trauma.That would we "viking power " in my eyes.BTW: neither do I live in Norway nor am I Norwegian.
I am just, right now, reading a book called "History of a German". It is the story of how a well-educated, clever young man ( Sebastian Haffner ) lived through the rise of the Nazi regime. The feelings he describes having had in 1933, when the Nazis had just come to power - he writes in 1939 - are similar to yours.
I am feeling something similar, though not an American citizen. I am, so to say, a child of the cold war, born in 1967. The US were the epitome of what was good and desirable, in the Western Europe of the 70s and 80s. Then and there, my political ideas and outlook upon the world where formed. Now, after the Soviet Union lost the cold war, after Afghanistan, after Iraq, after the NSA scandal, after having seen documentary films about the ridiculous "War on Drugs", I know what you know: that the US regime is not obviously or visibly better than Nazi Germany, or North Korea.
My world view is being turned upside down, right now, in these months. Yes, I am lucky: I leave in a very peaceful place, one of the smaller European countries, with a high standard of living. I would say: it would do you good to leave the US. There is not absolute freedom here, either - but the air is fresher here. The same sun that has set over the America we once believed may soon be rising here.
Mod parent up. I have made the same experience ( and have seen other software architects make identical experiences ) over and over again. No-SQL frameworks against Oracle or MySQL RDBMS products. Open programming languages vs. "product" ( proprietary ) languages. Products, as TFA so well describes Flex with calling a duck a duck, vs. frameworks ( Qt ).
I am currently looking for a security solution for what is gonna be a server-side piece of software. I will never, never ever ever, choose a product for that. I am close to choosing Apache Shiro: a framework with a vibrant community, which is standards-based, and can be modded / extended by me our our developers.
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and give it a command-line / greenscreen interface. Make it run in a shell on your android phone. And add an output "Copyright Rich0 1989" to the "- - version" option...
Yes, I assume that, too. But that is not enough. You must keep that metadata in an index, in order to enable users to search through them. And that indexing must go damn fast. Let us assume a song lasts 5 minutes, and you track 100,000 stations. On average, then, you must index 100,000 / ( 5 * 60 ) = 333 songs / second. Although elasticsearch and / or Apache Lucene do that in a breeze, you prolly throw away the results each 5 minutes. This is atypical for an indexing engine, and brings you to do some extra delete-related I/O on top of the put-related I/O ops you already do. Sequitur: you need to do some pretty damn fast I/O. And I wonder how, with what tech, they reach that goal ?
How do they do it ? Do they use a near-real-time indexing technology like elasticsearch or Apache Lucene ? Did they build something by themselves ?
WTF ? I mean, with such a job title, how ridiculous can one be ???
Besides coding, yes, they prolly are.
Such a thing is called a bubble, as current terminology goes
Said the cowardly anonymous user...
Dude, you're stone-age old ( if I my attach any correlation value to your userID ), which is a compliment in and by itself. I myself am not young. But really: you need to get laid. Get yourself a hooker and some pot, or a line of coke, and blow off some steam. Dude.
Yep. Blackberry did it ( until shortly, at least ). Some plastic Linda-out-of-a-box going regularly all ecstatic about some bland RIM thing. The IDF have some of those, too.
You're right on the "research out there". Social networks tend to grow not so much at their edges ( where the less well-connected nodes are ) but on the inside, at the already well-connected nodes. Just read it last night, a compendium edited by one IBM guy, Aggarwal is his name if I remember correctly.
.. it already is an Orwellian police-state...
Which is the gist of what I said, without having wanted to say it *that* explicitly. With the current state of affairs, I would simply refuse to travel to the US, even if ordered to do so by my employer.
...will it run Linux ?
The most interesting position, in the whole parallel, is that of the shepherd dog. For sure, he can be broken - but as long as he is not, leads a quite interesting life: charged with the interests of both sheep and shepherd, he has "some wolf" in him.
is simply a police state, in the velvet-clad incarnation of a surveillance state. [ This goes true, alas, also for certain western European states, most of all Britain and the Netherlands- ]
Fear, indeed, may be a good label to stick upon some of the deeper undercurrents that began flowing through, or rather: under, western culture since september 2001. As bad a motivator as it is, fear is a powerful one. Couple that with consumption and the benumbedness of the lower socio-economic strata ( in the US case I think explicitly of the urbanized black population in its pit of misery ) and you have the most effective tool there is, for less-than-well-intended or simply *stupid* politicians. to bring society under minute control. All the while, most John Does in that same society will still think they live in a "free" country, even bragging about it.
The only thing that would help here were revolution, a revolution of courage. I think of citizens, united in new parties, declaring independence - of or in smaller states. Although for a very unjust cause, the southern states were fighting for just reasons and stood on justified ground. Their attempt at breaking away from the Union could be repeated with peaceful means. Next year, Scotland will be voting on formal independence from the UK - an historical opportunity to get those hateful cameras off their streets, and GCHQ out of their backyard. In the Netherlands, it will needs be done with different means, as breakaway is nearly impossible in such small entities.
All in all, though, I wonder how millions of reasonably smart citizens can undergo the current climate of repression [ see Sarah Harrison's comment on calling a duck a duck ] without a tinge or mere inkling of revolt ?
No. It was both foreseeable and unavoidable, knowing Oracle's true nature.
Frankly, Germany would be better off selling excess electricity to the Swiss, who then pump their lakes full, and then buying that electricity back when needed. This is around 70% efficient, and a hell of a lot friendlier to the environment.
They already do that with us here in Austria. They sell excess electricity to us, we pump Danube water up barrages with it, and when we need power, release the water over turbines again. Part of what we generate, we sell back to the Germans. Good deal, both sides are satisfied: the Germans with a place to store their excess kWh, we with cheap power.
are the answer to firearms. And then even more. Sure. What could possibly go wrong ?
*forehead slap*
As much as I may hold Edward Snowden in esteem - and that is a lot of esteem, actually - I tend to get all prickly and uncomfortable when the word "truth" is used in such a pontifical way as in the "manifesto". There is no such thing as absolute truth, although Mr. Snowden seems to tacitly imply and quietly assume so. There is your truth, your way of experiencing things - and there is mine. What we call "truth" is the sum vector of all these tiny vectors.
Mr. Snowden had better used a word such as "information" or "openness". I am reminded of 2 Russian words, whose meaning lies in this direction, that became rather famous: glasnost and perestrojka.
WDYT ?
are turning into a police state, or at least into the velvet-gloved version of it: a surveillance state. So are certain western European states. What are we going to do about it ?
Only solution. If you want a job done properly, then you best carry it out yourself. Buy a relatively cheap server, equip it with whatever you need to get a backup to it working, and have that server hosted. You'll pay for the hosting and the bandwidth ( in many cases, the latter is included in the former ). All cards are in your own hands. It takes some work, but except for man-in-the-middle attacks - which are always possible, BTW, and in any scenario - you are safe.
Now you hang on for a minute, bro. I understand your objection. Here, however, are a few indicators that something fundamental is wrong in the US:
- The US has the only western regime that puts its own citizens to death
- The US is the only western state where a major minority lives in poverty and intellectual benumbedness, without much access to such services as higher education. Being of a certain race strongly predisposes for this poverty and intellectual benumbedness
- No greater percentage of the population in any Western country is in prison than in the US. Being of a certain race, again, strongly determines ones chances to do time in prison
- There is actual collusion between church and state in the US, it being virtually impossible for a non-christian to become president or hold other high offices. Said churches are mostly uncritically behind the regime
- There is no real budget control, nor is there hardly any consciousness that continued living on credit will drive the country into ruin
- Under pretexts of security and protection against ( true ? imaginary ? ) external threats, basic civil liberties are infringed upon each day
- The US constitution is a mere non-functional piece of old paper
- US Congress does not truly govern: it perpetuates itself
- No western country has begun so many wars, in the last 68 years, as the US have
This all eerily reminds one of a velvet version of Germany in the '30s...
Perhaps real viking power can be observed today, in 2013, in Norway: the capacity to earn your own money on your own soil, to be conscious of your own worth without being a pain in the neck for any neighbors, and to deal in a thoughtful, peaceful with national trauma.That would we "viking power " in my eyes.BTW: neither do I live in Norway nor am I Norwegian.
I am just, right now, reading a book called "History of a German". It is the story of how a well-educated, clever young man ( Sebastian Haffner ) lived through the rise of the Nazi regime. The feelings he describes having had in 1933, when the Nazis had just come to power - he writes in 1939 - are similar to yours.
I am feeling something similar, though not an American citizen. I am, so to say, a child of the cold war, born in 1967. The US were the epitome of what was good and desirable, in the Western Europe of the 70s and 80s. Then and there, my political ideas and outlook upon the world where formed. Now, after the Soviet Union lost the cold war, after Afghanistan, after Iraq, after the NSA scandal, after having seen documentary films about the ridiculous "War on Drugs", I know what you know: that the US regime is not obviously or visibly better than Nazi Germany, or North Korea.
My world view is being turned upside down, right now, in these months. Yes, I am lucky: I leave in a very peaceful place, one of the smaller European countries, with a high standard of living. I would say: it would do you good to leave the US. There is not absolute freedom here, either - but the air is fresher here. The same sun that has set over the America we once believed may soon be rising here.
It would be nice if the US had something resembling a working, operational constitution.
Mod parent up. I have made the same experience ( and have seen other software architects make identical experiences ) over and over again. No-SQL frameworks against Oracle or MySQL RDBMS products. Open programming languages vs. "product" ( proprietary ) languages. Products, as TFA so well describes Flex with calling a duck a duck, vs. frameworks ( Qt ). I am currently looking for a security solution for what is gonna be a server-side piece of software. I will never, never ever ever, choose a product for that. I am close to choosing Apache Shiro: a framework with a vibrant community, which is standards-based, and can be modded / extended by me our our developers.