I'm not a big supporter of gun rights here in the US but it just occurred to me that now I understand the argument that 'only people that have guns will be the criminals'.

In this case, the only people with rootkits installed on their machines will be the law abiding citizens.

PS: I assume they'll also make it illegal to remove a rootkit, so people that just care about their privacy instantly become criminals too.

Well, 'we' did not bail them out, our 'duly elected' politicians bailed them out.

Politicians...
...that are heavily dependent on campaign contributions from the companies needing the bailing out, and
...that have close personal ties to the executives from said companies, and in some cases used to run said companies

Some rules that remove the responsibility for responsible decision making from our so-called leaders would be a good thing.

I'm an American, and I worked factory jobs before, during, and AFTER getting a BS in physics.
Those jobs...
1) Gave me the motivation to finish school and keep looking for a better job.
2) Eventually helped me get a job because potential employers saw that I had good work ethic and knew how to show up and work every day.
3) Paid the bills.

I wouldn't hire someone that sat on their ass after getting out of school.

Just rich would suffice...

No they dont.
You have to also toss them into water that's deep enough to drown them.

Ortiz was aware that Swartz suffered from depression and pursued outrageously exaggerated charges against him anyway.
She essentially knew he was wearing concrete shoes and tossed him overboard anyway...

I assemble my own home machines. I spend a little extra money on low noise hard drives and CPU fans. I use nightstands from IKea for the case. I line the inside with foil tape and I leave the back panel off. Leaving the back off gives the case *plenty* of ventilation and stays very cool. I mount all the components to the side and bottom of the case with industrial velcro. The velcro sucks up *all* vibration*. Using low noise components means I can hardly hear the machine when its on it even though the back of the case is open. If there is any other background noise at all I cannot detect if the machine is on.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were delayed reactions to an act of terror. At least Obama's reactions dont cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of lives.

It sucks that 'the help' only did the wash on weekends.

I'm not again alternative energy. But these storms would have ripped solar panels off of roofs. And you can go to youtube and see videos of wind turbines ripping themselves apart in high winds. But power plants dont get destroyed in a storm and power lines can be put in the ground.

I think that the corporate-owned leaders in the USA want *exactly* the same things that China wants...

They dont. You rerun test suites after making a change because you cant be sure that the code still works. The only reason to keep testing is because changes keep being made.

That's an informative reply, thanks for taking the time to post it.

Yes, traditional joins run in a single process but AFAIK there no reason why a join could not be distributed across many processes by implementing the join with Map/Reduce. Right?

I see this comment a lot and I don't get it. Somehow Map/Reduce is considered *webscale* and joins are not. But I can implement a join with Map/Reduce so why don't the webscale databases provide join functionalty that is built on top of Map/Reduce and save us all the trouble of reinventing the wheel?

like he said, you end up doing joins in your application