It'd take some time to create the pages of addresses, even if automated, and the incidental cost to spammers of an extra million invalid email addresses would be negligible.

Basically, good guys spend time to create these, bad guys don't notice much difference. I wish it were so easy, "sigh".

The real question is, "why do people buy from spammers?" Or, "why does comment spam increase page rank scores?"

Now, where's that "your idea won't work because..." form? That thing is hilarious.

They can ask him to change the domain name and remove the logo, and it could be argued that they're just doing basic trademark defence, but they ought to know that he's under no obligation to make the changes. Of course, they ought to have known about and also considered the Streisand effect.

At least they were polite and not bumptious, censorious douche nozzles about it.

I am pretty sure that even if you post as AC, your moderations get undone.

I gave the lone mod point to a post, then responded as AC later in the thread for the same reason you have.

When I checked the score on the post I moderated, it was back to default.

Has anyone made a truly useful, fully functional office suite on tablets?

I don't have one, so can't say, but it seems from what I've read in passing that it's an issue that hasn't been solved well, except maybe on Apple products?

I haven't heard much good about MS Office on tablets, but again, I don't know the state of tablet & office technology.

ISOhunt had 5-6 million dollars - presumably from hosting ads along with links?

That makes the "we weren't hosting any infringing content ourselves" defense, which I've always been sympathetic toward, somewhat inconsequential.

The fact that the site (owners) profited to the tune of multiple millions of dollars by facilitating copyright infringement kind of rubs me the wrong way. Had they done it for not much more than hosting fees I'd be more aligned with them receiving a "shut down, now" penalty.

And before I'm called a corporate shill, I fight the mess that copyright laws have become by boycotting the big content producers. They haven't made one single cent from me in many years, nor have I pirated any of their content. I've learned that I just don't need what they're selling.

Oh, also wanted to add, #postgresql on irc://chat.freenode.net is superb - the best IRC support I've ever seen.

I'm in awe of RhodiumToad over there particularly.

They sure could use more examples, but FreeBSD has better man pages that qualify as "good".

Better than Linux / GNU and certainly better than, for example:

dir /?

Bell Canada land lines: $2+ / month touch-tone fees.

And pulse dialing is not available according to Bell.

Touch-tone, that new-fangled tech from the 1970s...

Fuck you Bell.

If one unit of carbon is burned, how many units of co2 is created?

I recall reading somewhere that it would be > 1 unit of co2 due to the binding with a pair of oxygen atoms / molecules, but I'm not up on chemistry.

I guess if there are 3,000,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon left in the ground and we were to burn a total post-industrial-revolution quantity of 1,000,000,000,000 tonnes, that should be more than a trillion tonnes of co2 release?

Of course I can. But would prefer not to have to, which speaks to the GP poster.

This is, sadly, true - no argument from me.

Well, I don't know about pg_dump & pg_restore yet but I think I need to check it out now that you mention it, so thanks for the heads-up.

Not so, from what El Reg says:

Google swaps out MySQL, moves to MariaDB
'They're moving it all,' says MariaDB Foundation headman

...

Google's widespread MariaDB push may be an attempt by the Chocolate Factory to shift developer allegiance from MySQL to MariaDB, and in doing so dilute Oracle's influence over the open source database ecosystem.

...

  the Chocolate Factory now runs on a custom MySQL 5.1 build, Cole said in his talk at XLDB. But now Google is moving to MariaDB 10.0. This version of MariaDB is roughly equivalent to MySQL 5.6

PostgreSQL is a great database - why are there so many assholes like yourself responding to posts about it with bile?

You'd have to be illiterate to read my post as a knock against PG - I said, in fact that "I'm itching for a good reason to switch."

And, in case you're both illiterate and stupid, I also said, "I'm playing with it now, and growing more comfortable with psql", so no, I haven't read all the doc's, but had the schema page open in another tab at the time of posting.

And unlike you, others have posted things like the \connect DB_NAME as a handy trick instead of use DB_NAME, so... thanks for nothing?

This isn't about using bound parameters. It's about encapsulating the data within the client app, not an external application. More a case of someone posting on Slashdot in 2013 about something that they don't remotely understand.

It's about create table `tab1` (`name` varchar(20) default "" not null); being dumped via mysqldump but not loading in psql.

For the record, mysqldump --no-data --compatible=postgresql is how to get properly-quoted fields for table (re-)creation.

It's about COMMENT ON COLUMN table.column IS "a comment"; not working because double quotes have special meaning: single quotes required.

So, now you're less ignorant than you were before posting. You're welcome.

Too late, asswipe, the \connect trick was pointed out long ago by someone who is not suffering douche-bag-itis. Also pointed out reasonably by Greg.

It's a tough choice: remain ignorant or learn from someone like you. Guess it isn't really a choice - I learnt from the user above and you brought... nothing.

Hell, you can't even quote properly!

I'd say the reference book has likely become outdated and current info is easily found on the internet.

But books like the Perl Camel book - much more than merely a reference - those are valuable for long after their topic is upgraded.

My 2 cents. Good luck...