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Comment Re:Remove one head..... (Score 1) 80

Anonymous != LulzSec. LulzSec != Anonymous.

Oh, whatever...anonymous runs around saying it's anonymous and you can't define anonymous and anonymous is an "anarchic, digitalized global brain". So for all you know, there is a lot of overlap or even 100% overlap. You don't really know.

Comment Re:Linode (Score 1) 225

Weeellll...they are a fantastic provider, but what you pay a lot for bandwidth. You get a great VPS, but they're not really designed for this kind of high bandwidth, unless you also need correspondingly high cpu.

Maybe linode coupled with a good CDN.

Comment Why? (Score 5, Insightful) 355

Attacking the Catholic Church in 2012 over the priest abuse scandal is like attacking Britain over John Major's policies.

The abuse scandal was a pattern of abuse and cover-up that exploded into the media spotlight in the late 80s/early 90s. The Church did wrong, but since then, they've done a lot of right - there's a zero-tolerance policies, lots of priests have been defrocked, billions in settlements have been paid, hundreds were jailed, etc. There will always be sexual abuse in any large organization with access to children - schools, Boy/Girl scouts, the YMCA, the Mendocino Physics Club, Gencon, whatever. So yes, there may be some that goes on today on a small scale...but what has changed is the organizational response. In 1970, a Bishop might have shuffled a pedophile priest to a different parish. Today, there's zero tolerance, formal processes, and a much greater awareness.

So...why attack in 2012? What is the point? If this was 1990, it'd be more understandable.

I think "anonymous" (aka a half-dozen bored kids) is just desperate to remain in the spotlight. The attention-getting is more important than any "cause". In fact, attention-getting is the cause.

Comment Re:Why not both? (Score 1) 164

This isn't totally true. In MongoDB, for example, you don't even really have to think about the "primary key" for every document. Many times I don't know it or even care to. If you wants to look up customers in by name, you'd index the last_name and first_name fields and then do your query like so: db.users.find({last_name : 'Cluster', first_name : 'Lost'})

An excellent example.

I think of the NoSQL world as "get a document/piece of data by an indexed data column". It works very well for that. SQL is better for "correlate and compute summation on these data with these sets of conditions".

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