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Comment Re:its a scam (Score 1) 228

by RockMFR (#37113756) Attached to: Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation"
There are all kinds of strategies that can be used to speed this up.

Let's say that we're trying to find a short path between someone in the US and someone in China. Start by trying to find a link that allows you to hop the Pacific ocean as quickly as possible. Try to find an American friend of the Chinese guy, or vice versa. When you've got it to two people in the same country, then start picking the nodes that allow you to hop the greatest distance.

You could come up with a group of highly-connected people to start with - the people who have lots of connections in various countries, economic classes, interests, etc. Create a graph of these people and pre-compute all the shortest paths between them. Then when you're going through all the combinations, you just need to get to brute-force your way to this central graph.

Of course this won't get you the shortest path between each pair of people, but it'll probably get you pretty close. Close enough to say if an average of "six degrees" is reasonable.

Submission + - Amazon EC2 US-EAST-1 Outage (amazon.com) 1

Submitted by RockMFR
RockMFR writes: It appears that the entire Amazon EC2 US-EAST-1 region is inaccessible. Amazon's status page current states "We are investigating connectivity issues for EC2 in the US-EAST-1 region." Initial reports of the outage began around 10:29 EDT. Reports of the outage are of course flooding into Twitter.

Comment Chicken pox (Score 1) 284

by RockMFR (#36412120) Attached to: Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove
There was a series of chicken pox vaccine emails from around January 18, 2008, that caught my eye. Somewhat worrying that these emails have so many redactions. Seems like there might have been a turf battle between the governor's office and the Board of Education, and maybe the governor's office was engaging in some campaign to torpedo the immunization regulations. Here's part of them:

From: Sarah Palin
To: Frank Bailey; Sharon Leighow; Beth Leschper; Kristina Perry; Talis Colberg
Subject: Re: Fw: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations

Thanks - the Lt. Governor's release will hopefully clarify. I'll ask Talis to [REDACTED]

From: Frank Bailey
To: Sarah Palin; Sharon Leighow; Beth Leschper; Kristina Perry
Subject: Re: Fw: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations

We can try to get this word out. I believe Gail Neubrugge's grandaughter (?) was severely disabled by a vaccine. Dan Saddler's pretty sharp on this issue as well. This'll be a tough pill for some folks.

From: Sarah Palin
To: Sean Parnell, Mike Tibbles
Subject: Re: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations

[REDACTED]

From: Sean Parnell
To: Mike Tibbles
Cc: Sarah Palin
Subject: fyi-Chicken-pox immunization regulations

We received a regulations packet from the Board of Ed in which they mandate immunizations against chicken-pox for kids in school beginning July 1, 2009. [REDACTED]

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