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Comment This doesn't make sense at all. (Score 3, Insightful) 154

by d474 (#33656072) Attached to: Google Publishes Censorship Map
When the Government asks Google for information about a user, how is that "censorship"? It may be a violation of privacy, but it's not censorship unless Google admits that the government then used that information about the user to censor their online activities. Of course, I did not RTFA. I prefer to censor myself ;P
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Google Publishes Censorship Map 154

Posted by CmdrTaco from the finger-pointing-is-fun dept.
Entropy98 writes "Google has released a censorship map showing how often countries around the world request user information and censor services such as Youtube. The US government asked Google for user information 4,287 times during the first six months of 2010. Information on China is conspicuously absent."
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The Big Promise of 'Big Data' 78

Posted by CmdrTaco from the hope-they-do-direct-withdrawl dept.
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Frank Ohlhorst discusses how virtualization, commodity hardware, and 'Big Data' tools like Hadoop are enabling IT organizations to mine vast volumes of corporate and external data — a trend fueled increasingly by companies' desire to finally unlock critical insights from thus far largely untapped data stores. 'As costs fall and companies think of new ways to correlate data, Big Data analytics will become more commonplace, perhaps providing the growth mechanism for a small company to become a large one. Consider that Google, Yahoo, and Facebook were all once small companies that leveraged their data and understanding of the relationships in that data to grow significantly. It's no accident that many of the underpinnings of Big Data came from the methods these very businesses developed. But today, these methods are widely available through Hadoop and other tools for enterprises such as yours.'"

Comment Not the worst ever... (Score 4, Funny) 157

by d474 (#33386870) Attached to: Pentagon Confirms 2008 Computer Breach — 'Worst Ever'
In 1983, a high school kid named David Lightman hacked his way into DOD computer @ Norad called the W.O.P.R. which almost resulted in an all out nuclear war between the U.S.A. and Russia. I believe they made a movie about it.

So until I hear a story that tops that, keep your "worst ever" superlatives to yourself. Oh, wait...

Comment Re:Accountability (Score 2, Insightful) 1018

by d474 (#33083226) Attached to: High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay

And if said software screws up and costs a few hundred million, or otherwise causes other "bad things" to happen, what's the accountability of the programmer or the manager?

Nothing. CEO's wreck companies/cause damages all the time, and all that happens to them, personally/financially is NOTHING. Maybe they get fired and then receive a nice golden parachute. Why should it be any different for the programmers who are the architects of the entire groundwork allowing the company to exist in the first place?

Comment Not necessary.... (Score 1) 439

by d474 (#32496448) Attached to: BP Buys "Oil Spill" Search Term
I follow BP on twitter @BPGlobalPR to quench my thirst for oil spill info. Their latest tweet:

By the way, we made it so if you google image search "oil spill" or "bp" you'll see some great celeb sideboob pics. #bpcares

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