Oracle is only good for huge implementations. I see a lot of organizations that use Oracle but at a level were it isn't nessary.
And many of the other product open source and closed commercial are actually quite good, and not like in the 1990's
Where you had Oracle and crap systems that peaked at around 500,000 rows.
oddly enough just as long as you don't have dumb ass vendors switching to an other database system isn't as hard as it seems. Just as long as you don't make the mistake and become a "vendor" shop.

Such! Quiet!, We want to be outraged on all things. We can be unreasonably outraged from all things, with bringing in logic and reason to the argument. What are you some sore of Unamerican, elitist academic or something.

By that logic if I had an app for my credit card company. If I deleted the app, my balance should be gone, and my account closed.
I think the biggest sin here is having a third party app that enables and OS Feature. But on the other hand, having delete an app witch will also delete my account, could be a disaster. As I may be getting rid of one device, or not using it for that app, and switching to an other.

I am all for adds in websites... However many of them had became too intrusive, to take up so much bandwidth, or chew up too much cpu power to make it worth it.

Adds should be relative to the content of the site/page, they should be clearly marked as adds, they in total should not take up more then 20% of the total sites resources. (Bandwidth, CPU, screen real estate... )

I get it, a site offers service free of charge, so they use some space for advertising... I get that. However the goal is to get you to the adds by whatever means necessary, or the add company hijacks the site, then it goes too far.

We watch TV we expect a 3 minute Commercial slot every 12 minutes. It is clear that it is a commercial. When stations go too far. people stop watching that station, as too much of the show is cutoff.

For an enterprise environment there isn't much of an advantage of SSD.
1. You are using rather powerful servers: in general the 20/80 rule is effect 20% of the data is used 80% of the time. With Servers with hundreds of gigs of active RAM, most of the speed is going on in the RAM. With the buffered write, and the occasional lookup of data that isn't there. So you can have a slower drive because your drive isn't being used as much.
2. You should have a good RAID setup. RAID is for data protection and it also offers faster performance too.
3. Redundant servers they just don't sit idle, they do their share of the work too. splitting the usage.

Having SSD for most cases (not all mind you) on an enterprise environment isn't really worth it.

SSD are good for Laptops and mobile devices. So you can access data quickly, with less power. On systems with relatively low RAM.
Having an SSD on a Desktop PC, is kinda a crap-shoot, unless you get one of the really high performance ones, you probably won't notice much.

Let me guess you figured if you plugged them in a 220 volt slot you can double the speed.
Normally for laptops I have found SSD to be much more relabel, as they get moved and bumped around. Actually I haven't experienced any issues with SSD at work as well?

If a road is abandoned, who gets the rights to that property? If it is public land then does the public still have access to it? If they do does the government have responsibility to keep it safe? If they public isn't allowed on it, how will this be enforced?
If the land goes to the adjacent private property kinda like a reverse eminent domain, does the land holder have to pay for this land, do they get it for free. Will this extra land area raise their property taxes. What about getting rid of the old pavement?

The problem with certification is they are normally very particular to the tool being used.
So you get a C#.net certification you don't get much skill that transfer to Java or Python or C++. The course is very set on trying to utilize the cool features that sets the product apart and less on using it to solve real problems.

I have a 15 year old computer science degree and when I do programming I know how to research the answer in nearly any language thrown at me.
Why? Because the college degree taught me how to learn, not so much on what to learn.

Sure I just recently been using C++ after a huge time period. Yes I have forgotten how many of the commands work. But I know what to lookup and relearn them. And I also realized a lot of the things I learned in other languages are now available in the newer versions of C++ so I am actually more skilled and productive then when I was using it regularly in the past.

640kili-Terabytes should be good. That way we can buffer over a full year of 8k video.

Austin, that had already happened.

Don't you watch TV.
Every 80% of the American population live in California, 10% New York City, 3% Chicago, 2% everywhere else.
There is a 1/3 chance that someone is an aspiring actor/actress/comedian. Those who do not live in the city are somehow poor/less civilized. And live in shabby brown homes.

I don't get your argument. Perhaps you are letting your political view get in the way of rational thought.
F-150 Pickup truck. How does that make bad drivers? They have a higher viewing angle and can see more of the road in-front of them.
85 MPH speed limit. Long flat straight driving area. 85Mph isn't that crazy of a speed. Especially as I have seen New Englanders go 85mph on roads safe at 55mph.
How does a gun rack create bad driving? A best I would say it may block your field of vision?

Austin is also a rather liberal city in Texas.

Or should you just go on I hate everything Texas because they voted republican. Do you really think your political vies are that much different or better?

Lying is a self defense mechanism. When someone faces a threat it takes more energy to build up the courage and tell the truth, because our natural instinct is to tell a lie point the finger to someone else. For the most part telling the truth is better long term, but for many of those white lies it is probably better.
Now on more of a point.
This technology isn't about finding lying, nor is Though shalt not lie one of the 10 commandants. It is baring false witness or perjury. In essence where they need to take your statements as truth. So in this article electronic data is useful in solving crime and if you lied in court then you can be shown that you did, due to more evidence. Was I talking on the cell phone when the cop pulled me over? We can take his word for it, or we can just show the court the phone bill showing that we didn't make a call at that time. Is that acquisition that I did something that day true, perhaps there is digital evidence that I wasn't there. A cell phone log, where I was getting some data at a different location, or on the other side showing that I was indeed there.
Now with this technology it can go both ways, that why it is extremely important that we don't have blanket over-site of our data, from the NSA, or other officials, unless via a warrant. We can't have truth cops, or even being flagged for suspicious activity if we very from our normal activities.

That happens more often then you would think.
Usually what happens the CEO gets fired with all the little people too.
Mergers, Acquisitions, Re-Organizations are things as employees you should be worried about mostly.
Mergers - You put together two companies. Now there are a lot of people now doing duplicate jobs, who job can scale up, to support a larger organization. Lets say a system administrator, a good one can say handle 100 servers nearly just as well as 200, their ability won't be cut in half, because they will have/make tools that allows him to monitor and run maintenance in bulk. So we now have 2x the System admins where with the increased size we will only need 1.25x. So chances are someone is going to end up gone.
Acquisitions - depending on which end you are on. For the most part if your company is the buyer you are usually safe, if you are the one being bought you could be in trouble.
Acquisitions usually happen for following reasons, a failing company is bought to get its customer base: If you work there your job is in serious jeopardy. You will be there until the customers get indoctrinated with the parent company. Then for the most part you are part of the looser company.
The larger company who is slowing down buys a fast growing company: Now this is where a lot of Really stupid stuff happens. The buyer often doesn't realize that growth is strongly due to a good corporate culture. And implements their bad culture that no longer works in, just because they are bigger.
You are bought because you offer a unique service to complement the company: You job if you are focused on the unique part, is safe, other jobs the company doesn't care about, isn't.

Finally re-orgs: Let hope you made friends with other departments, and worked well with other units and projects. Or you are on a project that is bringing in a lot of money and has a good growth potential. Otherwise you will have no idea on what will go on.

Ohh Nooo a Military organization who's job is to support the military! OMG!!!!

The other things are not Cancers, however they mostly need oversight and controls. Like the rest of the world we have to have tradeoffs.
Sure sometimes countries get a bit over zealous in their bid to host the Olympics.
Nuclear Power and Fracking, isn't as Clean, Safe, and reliable as the industry says.
Yes the Catholic church isn't operated by a bunch of saints.
Is anyone really that stupid to think otherwise?
However they are not a set of complete villeins either. Nuclear Power, is a good low carbon pollution power source (Right now Carbon Pollution is a bigger issue then radioactive waste)
Fracking is one of the safer methods to get Fossil fuels.
The Catholic church really tries do do good things.

Creating fear and disgust against such things, prevents from actually trying to work on a better compromise where we can reduce many of the risks, without loosing all the benefits.