A covert form of communication employed to circumvent the speech inhibitors used by government forces. If they weren't evil, they wouldn't need to hide anything!

I want a slashdot story about this more than about the gun itself.

I haven't done much configuration of desktop distros. Would OpenSUSE have a policy option like Windows does where you can grant install privileges to non-admin users for different types of device drivers?

There are smartphones that I wouldn't refer to as "quality" that would work as well. I have a Huawei made Android phone. It was $100 new without contract. I don't have a dataplan and I find it delightful to use. I still find myself using it on Wifi pretty regularly. More than I ever expected.

1) I wrote that in the middle of a work day so, obviously, I was drunk.

2) Users don't program Facebook. It definitely programs them. It programs them to click like buttons, to "friend" people, to share as much as possible, to tag as much as possible, to share their location data, to check in at places, Not because it actually wants people to perform those actions. It's programming at a higher level. It programs users to perform those actions so that the users can then collect and return the desired information. It's basically a RDBMS for the human race.

Why would you say that? That's actually going to be a thing now.

They based this on a marketing survey conducted in the parking lot of RIM headquarters. Still only 15% :-(

It is beneficial the same way The Matrix was beneficial to the machines. You plug into it. You accept the programming because you do have a choice. But, since so many of your friends and family are on it and they are planning their events and spreading information through it, you might only be aware of the choice at a subconscious level since, in the right situation, choosing to disconnect can feel like giving up the world you know and the people you've met in it.

Once you are plugged into it, Facebook begins harvesting demographics and interaction data the way the Machines harvested BTUs and processing power.

And, much like Agent Smith assimilated the virus-like behavior that he had once disdained in humanity, Facebook has assimilated human behavior into its process for expansion, ensuring an ever growing net of data capture.

I think configuring Apache well requires enough understanding that automating it could lead to big issues. That's just my gut reaction though. I have only configured Apache for a few different use cases. Nothing creative or even all that complex.

I think if they got to the point of adding auto-configure it would be like admitting they have a problem but not actually addressing the problem. Firefox can make a lot of assumptions about how it is going to be used. I don't think there's a realistic way to do the same thing in Apache's case. Even with looking at the installed mods. I think it would end up creating more headaches than if they expected the person managing it to be able to configure it for his or her use cases.

Yep, that's exactly what I said. But thank you for reiterating.

It sounds like the RAM isn't actually the real boost. This is MySQL Cluster. The last time I used it, it kept everything in RAM already. I think since then they let you store non-indexed tables onto disk, but that's it. The speed boost sounds like it is for NDB, not InnoDB. NDB doesn't support foreign keys and removing that constraint probably helps its performance too.

In this case, the actual boost is from AQL, which allows for a query to be split up by JOINs and sent out to different servers to run against their local tables in parallel.

I wonder when it became an issue to patch games? I remember seeing arcade games change as updates were released for them in the arcade. They couldn't push out patches to N64 and PSX games, but they still did different versions of them. They'd produce a batch. Update the game to fix issues. Then the next batch would have a slightly different version.

It's how games have tended to work for a while. I guess it's probably online play (which I would guess tends to require matching versions to work well) and the fact that people see the download happen vs going to the arcade and finding a game had been updated to use version 1.1 rom chips instead of 1.0.

I don't care about what wars we're fighting. I'm just enjoying my 20 grammes of chocolate.

Somewhere a TF2 player sporting a $1500 Unusual hat is chuckling about how cute this is.

So, nature is more complex than we credit it for and, as a result of that, we should dumb down our understanding of modern physics to ignore mass-energy equivalence and binding force. Got it.