I've been using VpnPop.com's OpenVPN service for about 6 months now. A good distribution of endpoints, very fast bandwidth, and low prices. Right now I'm registered for the 0.5 Mb/s full-duplex at $3-some a month, but I'm often able to get speeds of up to around 2MB/s (yes, B).

This will be really cool in a week or so when the servers recover from having 10 gigapixel images slash-dotted...

It is, but two square meters is not a square with 2 meter sides. :)

that's exactly the behavior that could be exploited for a dos attack I think. post censored stuff everywhere, and let them block the whole internet.

And what relational algebra languages "of all the alternatives" other than SQL are database professionals such as yourself using to query RDBMSes? Tutorial D?

So-called NoSQL DBMSes started out by requiring you to use object oriented facilities of your preferred client language to painfully build up queries.

It's no surprise to me that so-called NoSQL DBMSes are now developing SQL or SQL-derived query languages upon finding, as we seem to go through this same cycle every few years for the past 30, that SQL is pretty good at what it does.

I used to work for a small computer firm in Weybridge, England. Oh, damn it, since it collapsed ten years ago, I may as well name it: MTA (Computer Consultants) Ltd. We had a project between 1997-9 to write a software demonstrator for a radar resource manager for the Eurofighter project, for DERA Malvern. The project was divided into two parts, of which phase 1 went through a successful factory acceptance task. However, a few bugs had been found in the programme after this, one of them, due to me, was fairly serious. It was a small mathematical error but I produced a bug in a few mninutes.
Now MTA had gone through a turbulent time, having to sack all of its staff because of the lack of money and the rehiring them. MTA were annoyed that DERA decided to stall the programme while it did a full evaluation of the software, rather than go to phase 2, which would have provided money for the coffers. At this point, the only thing keeping MTA afloat was hope for this project and a tiny project. MTA stalled on delivering the software, saying they would only do so when the software went to phase 2. By the time MTA had backed down and provided the patch, I had already left. DERA cancelled the project and MTA went bust within the year.
Moral? It doesn't pay to piss off those who pay you.

That's explaining why journalism needs a kick in the teeth, not further doting encouragment. Nobody in this world needs opinions given to them on a plate, and if you think that, then you believe that people should be uninvasively lobotomised on a large scale by having their own thought processes undercut. You can't contribute anything to anyone if you are just regurgitating what everyone else has said, you just become another domino for somebody else's self amusement.

At least they didn't jump on the bandwagon and blame file sharing :p

there are 2 things that's holding bakc pc-gaming..: 1. too much difference in end-user GPU/CPU performances.. one of the problems a developer faces is the variety of users, you cannot only target the high-end pc's and you also must keep in mind the lowest-specced pc's. But by the time you are finished the difference has advanced enormously between a high-end and low-end.. these days about every other month there is a new GPU which is even faster as the one before that.. The biggest market isn't the high-end (most 'gamers' don't have triple SLI hexa-core PC's).. 2. too much piracy on the PC.. well some of you will effectivly deny this, but piracy is another big factor why publishers aren't investing less and less money into new PC games (without it being a console-'port'). Piracy is also a problem on the Wii and xbox360, but compares to the PC it's very small.. PS3 still hasn't got any piracy (yet) so that platform is even more interesting for publishers now (Except for the slightly more difficult architechture). Personally I'm also beginning to think consoles are a better target for developing especially because it's fixed hardware, and 'we' learn more and more about using that hardware instead of relying on consumer to just buy a better CPU/GPU or more memory (the latter is actually the biggest problem with the current consoles especially the PS3).. The only problem with consoles is the controllers which makes it harder to do certain types of games..

when you create an sdfs volume, you specify an arbitrary volume size - 8EB must be the maximum size you can specify. I'm guessing the current implementation is only able to deal with 32TB worth of deduplicated chunks - so if you have 8EB of data which you can get a 250000:1 deduplication ratio on, then you could fill up the 8EB volume.

Seriously? You get points for being technologically backwards?

And what if you're not allowed to?

So, leading a boring life is bonus points too?

I tried that once with my cellphone? It did seal it very well.

Except the plastic ended up squashing all the buttons, including the power button, which turned it off. I tried letting a little air in, but then you couldn't hear or be heard. It was a nice try, but failed.

Not in 30-40 degree heat as well. Sadly, deserts are both dusty AND hot. Worst place in the world for computers. Except maybe the arctic, since LCD's just don't work. Even there though, you can always add heat to the equation. It's a lot harder to remove heat..
I think the best suggestion so far has been the "buy a decent machine and stick it in a bar-fridge and run the cables out to cheapo monitors and keyboards".

Really? Who asks that besides people with a slight technical inclination who can also easily be taught 'Hard drive marketing droids decided to be devious and they are measuring a base-two storage device using base-ten'.

And those people that give you a glossy look are probably the kind of people to just say 'Oh--ok' and accept it. They are also the kind of people who get confused when you start talking about SI in the first place.