"MongoDB is webscale"

For those that have not seen it yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It doesn't matter WHAT the spec is. Companies will just release whatever the hell they want, with whatever branding they want, and the spec will just be changed to match what the companies are selling. Just go and check the early history of 4G "spec", what the carriers listed as "4G" (because it had to be a number higher than 3G, regardless of what the spec said), and then the spec organization backpedaled to match what the carriers where using in their BS marking.

"You cannot use that technique, we have no learned that in class yet!" THIS is the reason why there is a lack of critical thinking, not the tool chains themselves. Far too often students are punished for self-learning and creativity. While no, this isn't a problem in all classrooms, it is far too common to NOT be an issue.

So, how many Libraries of Congress is that anyways? ... oh wait ... the Google blog post (ya'know, the actual artist, not the article talking about the article which was linked from the summary) actually states!

"Our current generation — Jupiter fabrics — can deliver more than 1 Petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth. To put this in perspective, such capacity would be enough for 100,000 servers to exchange information at 10Gb/s each, enough to read the entire scanned contents of the Library of Congress in less than 1/10th of a second." = Source: http://googlecloudplatform.blo...

"In security engineering, security through obscurity is the use of secrecy of the design or implementation to provide security. A system relying on security through obscurity may have theoretical or actual security vulnerabilities, but its owners or designers believe that if the flaws are not known, then attackers will be unlikely to find them." - Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

TLDR: Your system is already a failure. Leave security up to the security experts.

No problemo. You can find my IP address here: https://torstatus.blutmagie.de...

But is it powerful enough to run the Windows 10 Minesweeper game?! http://wscont1.apps.microsoft....

Seriously, no joke. The Win10 version of games are horribly resource hungry for fuck knows what reason. In the time it took to just load Minesweeper on the Win 10 tech preview, I loaded up a web browser, played an entire game of mines in it, closed the browser, came back, and it was STILL loading.

I originally played Minesweeper in Windows 3.1 on a 386sx 16MHz. I'm now on a 3GHz quad-core. On raw cycle processing power alone, that is literally 1,000 the speed (this is before accounting for enhancements to the architecture over the past 20 years). And yet the game struggles on modern hardware!? If this isn't the definition of bloat, I don't know what is!

Nintendo's hand held gaming dates back even further then that. Gameboy Color supported classic Gameboy games (yup, the GBC had an upgraded processor, not just color). The GBA fully supported any GB/GBC game. And then of course the DS supported all GBA titles.

I'd advise you to take a look at this then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Additionally, a nice little technique. Find out what the company uses to refer to their internal tiers of tech support. When calling up, just explain: "oh hey, sorry. I was chatting with Tier 3 tech support and got disconnected, can you direct me back to them please?" - Not sure about nowadays, but I know this used to work easily and consistently with Comcast.

This is a problem EVERYWHERE. I have a business cable line with a small local ISP. I went back and forth fighting with them for TWO WEEKS because they were blocking various TCP/UDP ports. This is normal practice for residential customers (blocking SMTP for example), but is supposed to be open for business subscribers.

What did I do? I documented everything. Forwarded it to the CEO of the company. I found his contact details via LinkedIn. Needless to say, I was invited in to talk with him and a few others in person, and things were fixed super quick at this point. The reason they invited me in was for a job interview. Only problem is that they were offering crap hours for crap pay doing types of work I didn't want to do. (I'm done being a field technician for customers, I'd rather manage a data center or small campus at this point)

Too much talking. Not enough YYYYEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! http://cow.org/csi/

https://xkcd.com/932/

The media is so fixated on these two companies that they're leaving out other competitors that don't come to mind in this exact same sector.

Facebook now has their own language: Hack. It runs on their own interpreter: HHVM.

This is similar in mind to the jump from C to C++, wherein existing PHP code mostly runs on HHVM unmodified, but switching to Hack adds a couple restrictions (fixing long standing issues with the PHP language), while adding countless new features (such as type safety and parallel I/O)

But Facebook is just "those other guys", right? They're not a tech company at all, they're just some web thingiemajigger.

Trust me, it is NO BETTER here in the States for either Business or Residential connections. I manage plenty of clients on several ISPs at both class levels, and I have yet to see any of them receive IPv6 support from an ISP. The only time I've had access natively is working directly within a co-location environment. For everything else, I've setup HE.net/TunnelBroker on countless sites, too. Funny enough, HE.net is also the main backbone for the current co-location I work with!