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Comment Free "in memory" analytics app Qlikview (Score 1) 124

Download a free (as in the beer) app http://www.qlikview.com/us/explore/experience/free-download and see for yourself what current commercial software can do. I load as much as a hundred GB into the RAM for analytics with this application. Just keep in mind that star schema is the best for this software. Get your tables from an existing database as flat files, load them "as is" and start analysis immediately.

The Military

Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones 123

Pickens writes "Fast Company reports that Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Margaret Hinkle will soon issue a decision on an intellectual property-related lawsuit that could ground the CIA's Predator drones. Intelligent Integration Systems (IISi) alleges that their Geospatial Toolkit and Extended SQL Toolkit were pirated by Massachusetts-based Netezza for use by a government client and is seeking an injunction that would halt the use of their two toolkits by Netezza for three years. The dispute goes back to when Netezza and IISi were former partners in a contract to develop software that would be used, among other purposes, for unmanned drones. IISi's suit claims that both the software package used by the CIA and the Netezza Spatial product were built using their intellectual property and according to statements made by IISi CEO Paul Davis, a favorable ruling in the injunction would revoke the CIA's license to use Geospatial. If IISi prevails in court this would either force the CIA to ground Predator drones or to break the law in their use of the pirated software. But there's more. Testimony given by an IISi executive to the court indicates that Netezza illegally and hastily reverse-engineered IISi's code to deliver a faulty version that could cause predator drones to miss their targets by as much as 40 feet. "

Comment Re:How does the rest of the world feel about this? (Score 1) 1088

Russia seems to fullfill the proverbial "In Soviet Russia" joke. So much "leaked" stuff is being published there in the official press that nobody cares anymore. Especially because authoryties were mostly not impressed either and did not do anything after the articles were published.

Interesting enough recent blog posts in the livejournal tend to get direct attention up to president and prime minister level (Medvedev /Putin). I would explain it with the elitarist stucture of Russian society. The online crowd represents mostly the middle/upper class of it and so gets real attention. Whereas newspapers and TV are for the unwashed masses.

Wine

Wine 1.2 Released 427

David Gerard writes "Stuck with that one Windows app you can't get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9 is well-supported and DirectX 10 is getting better. Packages should hit the distros over the weekend, or you can get the source now."
Space

Black Hole Emits a 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Gas Bubble 145

PhrostyMcByte writes "12 million light-years away, in the outer spiral of galaxy NGC 7793, a bubble of hot gas approximately 1,000 light-years in diameter can be found shooting out of a black hole — one of the most powerful jets of energy ever seen. (Abstract available at Nature.) The bubble has been growing for approximately 200,000 years, and is expanding at around 1,000,000 kilometers per hour."

Comment The citation is about Russia, not Georgia. (Score 1) 153

Russian is my mothertongue and Google has an acceptable translation of the article (originally in Russian). The OP has got the citation in a wrong context. Second part of the article is almost completely dedicated to the situation in Russia and its dominant oil export industry.

FYI: Some are talking about the "oil damnation" of the country in Russia a.k.a. as Dutch disease. Good news is that current Russian President openly aknowleges it in a way. Shifting weight of the Russian export from natural resources to the innovative and industrial production is a topic for active discussion in Russian media. This is the context of that problem.

Comment Re:Pftt (Score 1) 487

Very large companies need to have a disaster recovery plan in place, and contacts to call when downtime is costing money. ... So you don't modify the code, and you buy the support package.

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Very large companies would die if they loose their key personnel, because it's the very reason they grew big. I doubt any vendor can do enough to rescue such a company in a case of a disaster.

Comment Greed (Score 1) 198

Should this to persist and people to get frightened by the harvesters, they would stop buying wifi devices. The whole market will be destroyed. This scandal is even good for Google in the long run, because this particular feature (wifi navigation) will not be banned completely. They just will have to obey certain rules (privacy laws).

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