Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 134
Amazon.com often has an inferior search system to what old Demoniod had.
That there is a fine example of damning with faint praise.
Amazon.com often has an inferior search system to what old Demoniod had.
That there is a fine example of damning with faint praise.
"in Javascript" is a classic headline decorator at Slashdot, which it never outgrew, and probably needs to.
It really does. Netcraft confirms it.
A government could order human soldiers to shoot their fellow countrymen and they would likely rebel.
Kent State, 1970.
Big government agencies with huge budgets have no more computational ability than some random volunteer DBA with a handful of Leenoks desktops, and will never surprise us by being able to do things we thought undoable.
Yes, that sort of thinking has never come back to bite us later.
Conversely, bad guys all have amazing telepathic powers which permit them to instantaneously know the methods used to track them and take evasive maneuvers.
Interesting reality you inhabit.
Data Laundering: The government circumventing the illegal search and seizure provisions of the constitution through the use of private corporations vast databases of information on all citizens.
Which is pretty much like saying, "I didn't kill that person, I hired someone else to kill him." It's still unconstitutional, but they've decided that pretty semantics make it ok.
Analyzing that much data takes a lot of analysts.
If only there were some sort of computing device which could, with what one might call "programming," do all sorts of tedious analysis automatically for us. I guess it's lucky for us that everything still needs to be done manually by humans.
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. -- R.S. Barton
