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Comment Re:I'm waitnig for the counter suit by EFF (Score 4, Informative) 87

Because the false claims section is toothless crap (c-3-A-v and vi). The only bit that is enforced by penalty of perjury is the declaration that the declarant represents who they say they do. The claim that the material is infringing isn't covered by perjury at all, just a "good faith belief".

However it appears that Prenda Law was not representing who they said they were representing. So this could be one of those rare times that the false claims section comes into play.

One thing that is not clear from the reports is whether or not the head of litigation at Morrison Foerster's LA office made a personal appearance on behalf of Verizon or not (He is listed as one of Verizon's attorney's on the declaration submitted by Verizon).

Comment Re:So what? No thanks. (Score 1) 577

If you are going to build your own tablet or smart phone I suspect you are going to want a 3d printer to make the case, which adds a significant amount to the up front costs.

Personally, I suspect one could make ones own smart phone for under 3k, but I haven't had the time to try. Would be a cool project though.

Comment Re:So tablets at PCs now? (Score 1) 577

I would argue that a smart phone is actually more of a Personal Computer than the workstation on my desk, which I use mostly for work.

I would guess that over 80% of my personal stuff is done on my phone.

My ipad is mostly for reading at night because the kindle does not have "paper white" display that you can read after the lights are out.

Comment I guess It is about time to move to chrome 26 (Score 4, Informative) 99

I am posting with from:
Google Chrome 25.0.1364.5 (Official Build 174090) dev
OS Linux
WebKit 537.22 (@138211)
JavaScript V8 3.15.11.2
With silent update the meaning of these announcements is that it is time to check Can I Use? to see if any more css3 elements are now in widespread use so you can use them in web development.

Comment Re:NoSQL? Then what? (Score 1) 55

One of the useful features of solr/lucene is the MLT key word (which stands for More Like This).

Another useful feature of many NOSQL databases is faceted searches with good performance.

It seems to be a very common practice to store the data in an SQL database and duplicate that database in a nosql database to use for searching, then if the nosql database gets corrupted you rebuild from the original data and your searches are incomplete while the rebuild goes on. (worst case I've had to deal with is a couple days for the rebuild).

Many sites use both SQL and NOSQL databases. Eventual consistency is fine for a lot of use cases, in others use cases eventual consistency renders the application completely useless.

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