If you don't want a search engine to decide what you have access to, you have all the freedom on the Internet to conduct your search elsewhere. Just because Google is one of the most popular search engines doesn't mean you have to use it, and it doesn't mean Google has to provide free access to information.
This isn't the first thing Google's done to limit information. You can never find links to download mp3's, whether they are legal or not, for example.
This is censorship in the same way cable stations censor words out or choose which shows they will show, even though there is no legislation that requires them to. Or in the same way bookstores choose which books they want to carry.
I see the correlation of the cold war to putting man on the moon, but what correlation does it have to Iraq? This is flawed logic at its worst, considering we've had Mars missions long before the Iraq war, and we're constructing the International Space Station in the name of world peace and cooperation.
We've really only had one big mission to the moon so far, and I predict this lunar mission will have nothing to do with the war in Iraq or any other war/peace situation.
I wonder what's more difficult, solving the puzzle or figuring this construction out? I think after finally constructing it, I've spent the last of my sanity... which defeats the purpose of the Rubiks cube in the first place.
Hey, now, get out of the 70's. Nerds are starting to get increasingly popular with the ladies. They're starting to realize that computing is just about the most sexual thing, what with the fact that we connect male-female sockets together and even have kinky master-slave role playing stuff.
I don't see it as any more of a risk than having a database of your medical history on file for your doctors to see. This just serves as a convenient way to find the database entry. Hackers probably already have all your medical history from a hospital with bad security.
...we got a movie based on politics that really doesn't have a bias or an op-ed piece, and just around Election Day. It's just a movie making fun of everyday politics and the current events that we face. Sometimes we just have to look at what's going on and laugh instead of picking sides and blaming people for it.
Re:SQL is good for some things, but not for others
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Since MySQL is usually the database of choice in Unix-based web servers, especially with PHP in the mix, I usually pick on it.
There are many get-arounds with MySQL (many to many relationships can be simulated with a table inbetween it) but it would be very helpful in database structure to have a way around that... maybe with a new field type that holds an array of id's instead of a foreign key in a two-column table.
I haven't had much experience with SQL databases outside of MySQL, I admit.
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Right, but when you have a host, and can't afford a T1 connection and web server, you gotta take what they got.;)
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One big thing I think a database could use is a hierarchy key instead of using parentid's as "foreign keys", is just one of the shortcomings.
If I wanted to make a threaded thing for my forums, for example, I'd have to make a big PHP script just to sort it properly. I would have loved to have MySQL do it automatically.
SQL has a very limited syntax, as well, and is inconsistent.
"INSERT INTO table VALUES ('', '', '');"
That's one of the only times you see the parenthasis used in that way. You don't see it here:
"SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = '';"
or
"UPDATE table SET id = '';"
I would like to have the ability to easily use my own functions just as you do with any language. It's especially important in database software.
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If you don't want a search engine to decide what you have access to, you have all the freedom on the Internet to conduct your search elsewhere. Just because Google is one of the most popular search engines doesn't mean you have to use it, and it doesn't mean Google has to provide free access to information.
This isn't the first thing Google's done to limit information. You can never find links to download mp3's, whether they are legal or not, for example.
This is censorship in the same way cable stations censor words out or choose which shows they will show, even though there is no legislation that requires them to. Or in the same way bookstores choose which books they want to carry.
Considering the comment I replied to was scored Insightful with a 5 rating, I'm not the only one.
I see the correlation of the cold war to putting man on the moon, but what correlation does it have to Iraq? This is flawed logic at its worst, considering we've had Mars missions long before the Iraq war, and we're constructing the International Space Station in the name of world peace and cooperation.
We've really only had one big mission to the moon so far, and I predict this lunar mission will have nothing to do with the war in Iraq or any other war/peace situation.
...can anyone tell me how being close to the equator makes it easier to get to space?
Anyway, great for Brazil! Hopefully the US won't look down on them like they did the Chinese.
I wonder what's more difficult, solving the puzzle or figuring this construction out? I think after finally constructing it, I've spent the last of my sanity... which defeats the purpose of the Rubiks cube in the first place.
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Hey, now, get out of the 70's. Nerds are starting to get increasingly popular with the ladies. They're starting to realize that computing is just about the most sexual thing, what with the fact that we connect male-female sockets together and even have kinky master-slave role playing stuff.
So, if any of you folks have a barcode with "666" in it, lock yourself in a room and don't make eye contact with ANYBODY for 1000 years.
I don't see it as any more of a risk than having a database of your medical history on file for your doctors to see. This just serves as a convenient way to find the database entry. Hackers probably already have all your medical history from a hospital with bad security.
Hey, I'm not saying op-eds are a bad thing, and I'm all for pointing fingers where they belong, but every so often you need some comic relief.
Since there's no such thing as not satisfying everybody, "equally offending everyone" is exactly what unbiased means. :)
...we got a movie based on politics that really doesn't have a bias or an op-ed piece, and just around Election Day. It's just a movie making fun of everyday politics and the current events that we face. Sometimes we just have to look at what's going on and laugh instead of picking sides and blaming people for it.
Since MySQL is usually the database of choice in Unix-based web servers, especially with PHP in the mix, I usually pick on it.
There are many get-arounds with MySQL (many to many relationships can be simulated with a table inbetween it) but it would be very helpful in database structure to have a way around that... maybe with a new field type that holds an array of id's instead of a foreign key in a two-column table.
I haven't had much experience with SQL databases outside of MySQL, I admit.
Right, but when you have a host, and can't afford a T1 connection and web server, you gotta take what they got. ;)
One big thing I think a database could use is a hierarchy key instead of using parentid's as "foreign keys", is just one of the shortcomings. If I wanted to make a threaded thing for my forums, for example, I'd have to make a big PHP script just to sort it properly. I would have loved to have MySQL do it automatically. SQL has a very limited syntax, as well, and is inconsistent. "INSERT INTO table VALUES ('', '', '');" That's one of the only times you see the parenthasis used in that way. You don't see it here: "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = '';" or "UPDATE table SET id = '';" I would like to have the ability to easily use my own functions just as you do with any language. It's especially important in database software.