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  1. Heresy! on A New Approach To Database-Aided Data Processing · · Score: 2

    Everyone knows database systems designed for concurrency and parallel processing across threads, cores, servers, and data centers are best used as a bit bucket for a warehouse full of Java VMs.

  2. ...eventually on Is the Era of Groundbreaking Science Over? · · Score: 1

    " Those scientists who were able to throw off the yoke of established knowledge and break new ground on their own are revered and respected."... many years later. Their contemporaries often criticized and ridiculed them, even threatening excommunication if they didn't recant.

  3. Lots of gems in this one. on US Government Announces National Day of Civic Hacking · · Score: 1

    They use the term "hacking" when they mean "coding". They use the term "Day" when they mean "weekend". They hope to have an event in a city in "all 50 states and territories". Someone is bad at geography, math, grammar, or a mix of the 3.

  4. Re:typical fear mongering on Seas Rising Faster Than Projected · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You seem to be confusing storm surge and a big*ss rain cloud with sea Levels rising. A few mm of sea rise didn't flood Manhattan. Your underlying point may well be valid, but your supporting argument of it doesn't float.

  5. Wastewater, not fracking on Earthquakes Correlated With Texan Fracking Sites · · Score: 1

    It's not the fracking, its the wastewater. Simply prevent earthquakes by dumping the wastewater on the ground or the nearest river or kiddie pool. What could possibly go wrong?

  6. prior art on Apple Planning To Build Private Restaurant · · Score: 1

    The cafeteria The break room The watercooler A conference room, with catering A conference room, bring your own food.

  7. Re:Making money on Ask Slashdot: How To Share a SharePoint Site? · · Score: 1

    Funded by taxpayers doesn't infer the taxpayer has open use of what they funded. The B2 was taxpayer funded, but I can't just walk onto a base and ask to fly one, or get plans to build my own and offer joy rides for my own profit. I know there are probably several large holes in my analogy; maybe a car analogy would be better?

  8. I, for one... on Solving Climate Change By Bioengineering Humans? · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our new Bovine Overlords. Without their primary predator, cattle will take over the world.

  9. Re:Hard drives need upgraded on A Glimpse Inside Google's South Carolina Data Center · · Score: 2

    None of which matter in Google's general architecture. It's not like they're running a bunch of W2k8 RAID5 servers. Everything is massively redundant and replaceable.

  10. This is great! on Turning GPS Tracking Devices Against Their Owners · · Score: 1

    I often need to be in 2 places at once. With this "service", now I can!

  11. Large Privacy Implicatons? on Man Open Sources His Genetic Data · · Score: 1

    Because anyone would guess his bank account password matches the first 5 markers? Medical info, ok sorta, but otherwise I'm missing the privacy issue here that could be exploited. Then again: " From:pharmco... Re:your genetics... We see in your genes you are due to have "performance" issues soon. Order your v14gra today! "

  12. Bowl $trategy on Will Patents Make NCAA Football Playoffs Impossible? · · Score: 1

    1. Patent college football playoff system.
    2. Sit on it so nobody else can.
    3. Create the BCS.
    4. PROFIT!

  13. Re:You have nothing to fear. on Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 · · Score: 1

    I don't see a merge as feasible in any way. The two RDBMSes have drastically different architectures. I could maybe see some moves toward common programming syntax, but a merge doesn't make technical sense.

  14. Re:Pfah. on Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable · · Score: 1

    So what do you do when the boss asks for data in a way the application didn't anticipate? Give me how many widgets we sold in June to evil inventors in the tri-state area, for example. I know I can do that relationally, and I know I can with cube-based DBs, but I've not understood how NoSQL systems handle the unexpected ad hoc needs, so I'm genuinely interested and not trolling.

  15. Re:backups are important. on What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? · · Score: 1

    You might want to look up the difference between a temple and the tabernacle before making yourself look as uninformed as you think the parent is. Parent post 1 - LK 0.

  16. Re:Bagel on LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure · · Score: 1

    Oracle Licensing, is that you?

  17. Re:Autopilot on Can Unmanned Aircraft Mix With Commercial Planes? · · Score: 1

    Source unknown: "Planes of the future will be completely automatic, with a pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The dog is there to make sure the pilot doesn't touch anything. The pilot is there to feed the dog."

  18. Re:fixed that for ya on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    I don't normally feed trolls, but OK. (Maybe you just hit reply on the wrong post?)

    This was a pithy turn of phrase to point out that it is most often the educational community that emphasizes "Darwinism", rather than the scientific community arguing amongst itself.

    I didn't say anything about creationism or my personal beliefs, let alone religious dogma. I think the summary (no I didn't RTFA) makes the point well that "Darwinism" and "evolution" are not equals. Darwin's work is part of the study of evolution, but is often presented as the entire concept. That's not poor science, that's poor education.

    Since you brought it up... if you are right then, logically, sin does not exist so lying is irrelevant and neither moral nor immoral. If you're wrong then whoever you think you're arguing with would be correct and, therefore, not lying.

  19. fixed that for ya on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    ...educators have just ditto-headed Darwin rather than challenging and testing his ideas, or adding vast new knowledge.

  20. Re:Bizarro World on Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry to pinch you, but he named people to a review team which is advising a transition team, not exactly an important government post. He still has time to put doofuses there.

  21. Oracle's Example on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    First version of the database was 2.0, precisely because of that marketing logic.

  22. Re:Mirror on How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes · · Score: 1

    I have mod points, but don't see the option I need (-1, Dammit I fell for it)

    Next time I'll RTFUrl

  23. Re:My friends on Can Static Electricity Generate Votes? · · Score: 3, Funny

    This electron was rigged!

    No, you're just observing the spin from a different point of reference.

  24. Re:This shows a failure of imagination. on First Photos of the Reentry of the ATV "Jules Verne" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If we really want to become a spacefaring civilization, we have to stop thinking in terms of billion dollar garbage runs, and start thinking in terms of what can we do with what we have.

    Of course, this is the same civilization that makes it cheaper to scrap a printer and buy a new one than replace the ink.

  25. Re:Oracle appliance? on Oracle To Sell Database Hardware · · Score: 1

    It's a big-a$$ data warehousing appliance, apparently good for OLTP also, if you need an OLTP app that big.

    More details here: http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/oracle-exadata-storage-server-software-part-i/
    and here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/017553_EN.doc

    Target market seems to be big companies that don't want the usual hassle of configuring storage+hardware+RAC+consultants to make it all work together.