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Comment Re:Hmmm ... (Score 2, Insightful) 189

Sounds like what mint.com was doing. Bank of America gave them information including account numbers, names, and email addresses. mint.com then created accounts for those people without their permission. I had never heard of mint.com when they sent an email to me with the last few digits of my BoA account and the balance. Later they added information with Chase so they sent an email with my credit card balance. I had never use mint.com, but they created an account with my private information. They are scumbags even worse than these dating sites.

Comment Bullshit, Republicans don't believe in science... (Score -1) 57

so they're going to destroy NASA now they they have seized control of it and are now ruling it. They're going to make the engineers and their families homeless and most likely they'll starve them to death. That is the way of their kind. This /. post again is proof that the CONservatives rule here and are only posting Republican propaganda.

Comment Re:Desparate Microsoft pulls a "Sun Microsystems" (Score -1) 525

The company is going almost completely Indian. Both my roommates worked on Windows phone and were laid-off because they're white. Now every person left is Indian. When companies start making decisions based on race rather than on qualifications, they simply can't be competitive.

Comment Re:Analytics + mssql = fail (Score 0) 147

Like Oracle, READ COMMITTED is the default transaction isolation setting for Microsoft SQL so if this is the problem, it is because they strangely changed the default.

FYI, for data warehouse work, MySQL does pretty darn well if you relax the transaction isolation level. By default, InnoDB uses a stronger transaction isolation than either Oracle or Microsoft. You can change it with this command:

SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED

InnoDB defaults to REPEATABLE READ which while very nice (and nicer than Oracle's READ COMMITTED), but it is too high for either large tables or for high loads.

For our data warehouse with several billion row tables that are queried on every user login to do correlations between product purchases and views in order to recommend other products, changing that setting reduced the time it took to login from about three seconds down to less than 200 milliseconds. There's a good reason Oracle and Microsoft default to a looser transaction isolation setting in order to try to make their databases appear more performant.

Comment Re:Who Loses Their Executive IT Position? (Score 5, Interesting) 99

> moving of data,

If FDR hadn't fought so hard in 1935 against adding a check digit, monitoring for SSNs over the network would be so much easier. Canadian SIN have check digits so a couple of times we were able to detect suspicious file transfers. Yes, the US did a great job getting 25 million SSNs issued within three months, but we're still paying for that decision.

Comment Re:Coastal people live in their own universe (Score -1, Interesting) 264

It is the only reasonable state in the country. Just look at this morning where the NRA is telling owners of guns with certain cosmetic features to lie and claim they stole the rifle if it is worth less than $950 and they are caught with it. The punishment for stealing the rifle is less than the punishment for owning it. Punishing rifle owners, as the voters decided on Tuesday, more than you do people that steal rifles is the only way we're going to reduce the number of guns. CA showed again that they have the best voters in this country.

Comment Re:Kansas City - not the best market to look at (Score -1) 108

Good point. Here in Seattle, home prices keep rising even though in much of the city, dial-up is the only connectivity option. Comcast was given the monopoly, and they do not offer service to much of the city. Most of the phone lines are fifty or more years old so DSL is not an option for about 1/4 of the city. Where I live, I have 576 kbps DSL, and I have the fastest connection out of any of my friends. Most of my coworkers are still on dial-up or ISDN. Despite the extremely slow Internet connectivity options, the average price of a home in my neighborhood has increased by almost 75% since 2009. Rents have more than doubled since I moved to my current place in 2005.

Comment Re:Lucky for Stripe (Score -1) 353

LOL at the just parts part. He is selling a Republican wet dream. The tools he sells are used to murder minorities. That is their purchase. He and his kind are disgusting for pursuing this race-driven enterprise. For the Republicans, everything is about either stealing from minorities or killing them. It is the way of their kind.

Comment Re:News For Nerds? (Score -1) 401

> he has no legal authority to do so

Then why has he been talking about it? If he didn't have the authority to do it, then he, more than just about anyone, would know that. He is a Constitutional scholar and former Ivy League Constitutional law professor. He knows he can do it.

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