Hash the credit card number, associate the hash with the customer ID. Every time a card is swiped, see who's hash it matches. Card number isn't stored. Hash is useless if stolen.

Combined with a Loyalty card, it's a great way to see who's married to who, since the card minimally gives you the names of the people who are swiping. Names provide geneder information. Purchase history provides information on age, family status, etc.

My experience has been that stretching after exercise is beneficial.

Before any strenuous exercise, I would usually start with a warm up, and then I'd roll out all my joints to make sure that they were properly loose and lubricated. I'd exercise, and then finish the workout with a session of stretching.

I found that this approach would generally improve my exercise performance more than if I had stretched before hand, and resulted in less pain.

I would presume that with a little experience, he'll learn that that particular shade of purple looks like black to most other people, and will learn to correctly identify the object in question. He could do this for the same reason that when a man says he like a red scarf, a woman realizes he's probably referring to the burgandy one.

There's a huge difference between not being able to differentiate two colors, and seeing two colors where someone else only sees one.

Cutting defence spending would actually make things worse, not better. The government, no matter the programme, is a giant mechanism to pay its own citizens money from other citizens. If you cut defence spending by 500 billion dollars that 500 billion dollars worth of people who now collect unemployment, income supplements etc. And there's no other jobs eagerly awaiting those people unfortunately, oh and all of the stuff they were working on no longer exists to try and sell to other people.

The CEO of Boeing isn't going to go on unemployment. You will certainly see reduced wages and layoffs in the military industry complex if you cut that budget, but the impact to the economy will be significantly less than what was cut, and the gains significantly better if the money is invested in something that actually grows our economy.

Maybe not the 'main' bottleneck, but it depends on the application, no? Seems to me there are at least a few firehose situations where you can never have enough write bandwidth (say, uncompressed video-capture).

Centralized backup, especially of large data-stores. You have to write massive amounts of data on a regular basis, but rarely read the data, and when you do you usually only need a small subset of what's been written. I could imagine it being useful for certain kinds of RAID configurations and network filers as well.

You cannot, because there is no law in the US that protects you from having your opinion mocked. However, appearently in india, there is a law against mocking one of the state sanctioned religions. Unfortunately, Athiesm is not state sanctioned in India, and you cannot sue on such grounds there. You might have better luck in a Communist country.

Google has a policy of obeying the local laws, so it probably took the results down for the india domains. The decision shouldn't affect us directly.

Wanting to control our boarders is not racist. Wanting to close our boarders to anyone with brown skin is racist. Policies to make it more difficult for people who don't know English to travel our country, while we enjoy multi-lingual support pretty much everywhere else in the world is racist.

I expect this to backfire for 2 reasons:

1. Store brand products are usually crap. Anyone who goes searching online is going to instantly realize that it's a store specific product, with potentially iffy support and take a pass.
2. Smart phones are becoming common. More and more of us are reading reviews of products as we shop... In fact, I usually check amazon just for the reviews, and buy locally. No online reviews, no purchase.

Facebook messaging is encroaching on email turf, but I doubt it will ever replace an independent email service; no one trusts them, and it's unrealistic to force all your email recipients to join Facebook; this was AOL's downfall as well.

Now that we've invented the screw, why the hell would we ever use a nail?

Yeah, seems pretty pervasive in technology that whenever a new technology comes out, there are thoughts that it will completely replace the old technology. Email and the FAX have certainly cut into snail mail's market share, but I don't see them replacing it completely. Hell, there's still a place for typewriters in the modern age (great tools for filling paper forms, when you don't have a digital copy handy.)

The good news is that ResierFS has been slowly killing off the other, lesser known filesystems.