Yep. I worked on a cybercrime startup idea for a while, and every single "cost of cybercrime" calculation I found - even from government agencies - was based on the same estimate from MarkMonitor. After a few years, MM was able to cite the more "official" sources with a circular reference.

If nothing else, because the sounds you (the musician) hear on overdubs will affect the sounds you sing and play. Late binding and lazy evaluation is not always a feature in music production.

GIF patent was on the compression used by GIF, not GIF itself. The patent was held by UNISYS, not AOL/CompuServe.

Oh, we were... I remember trying (and failing) to convince Cisco that they should make some type of load balancer. They didn't see the need.

Others have commented on the security benefits of prepared statements, but one problem with them, at least on Postgres: Since you're planning the query before executing it, the planner doesn't have as much information as it will at execution time, and it might not pick the optimal plan - especially if the database changes significantly between PREPARE and EXECUTE.

OTOH, I suppose you could take every statement and turn it into a group of PREPARE/EXECUTE/DEALLOCATE. Not sure if there are performance implications with that, though.

What's a New York Times?

I was just thinking "Hasn't Karl Auerback been trying to get the world to realize this for a decade?" Thanks.

latency will finally be a worry of the past

To be replaced by fear of decapitation, no doubt.

They work with the SAS - that's Super Army Soldiers!

So was L. Ron Hubbard right about "engrams" causing PTSD?

Page 194.

Dianetics.

Thanks; I'll check my vitamins for lutein and zeaxanthin. I'm a vegetarian, but a bad one - I'm really more of a pastafarian - so I probably don't get enough anything from dietary intake! FWIW, the silicone hydrogels allegedly let in far more oxygen than hydrogels, although at the moment all the data I'm finding is a physics model saying that's not true and some very strong marketing from hydrogels claiming it doesn't matter.

I've been sleeping in my extended wear lenses as well, and I've worried I'm taking a theoretical risk. Were these modern disposable silicone hydrogels, or the older extended-wear kind? As I understand it, cataracts arose as a side effect of microbial keratitis, and the risks of a severe infection are lower with silicone hydrogels (as well as with disposables in general).

What sort of eye nutrition do you recommend?

They couldn't verify my high school GPA. Not surprising, I graduated 40 years ago.

Suuure, you did. In Kenya.

Network Solutions is, in fact, a horrible registrar for corporate domains. This winter we changed our DNS from NetSol to Amazon Route 53. When NetSol repoints domains, it *immediately* starts serving generic "parking page" A records from the old DNS server. Combine this with the fact that many ISPs ignore the SOA TTL record, and you have a domain that's down for over a day for your customers at BellSouth, Cox, RCN, and probably others. We did get them on the phone, and was told "that's the way it works".

Why is 44kHz seen as sufficient to capture all that information?, let alone the complexity of a song?

Because you're thinking of the samples as "points along a line, which I can use to approximate the original wave." The power of Nyquist is that it's not an approximation; those points are sufficient to reproduce the EXACT waveform. A better way to think about it is this:

There is only one waveform that goes through exactly those points. Given those points, you know which waveform it was.

Think of a simpler version: Instead of sine waves, use a straight line. All straight lines are of the form y = mx+b. I have two samples: (1,2) and (2,4). I now have all the information in the original line. Not some of it, not an approximation, not an estimate - ALL of it.

Nyquist/Shannon says that if your sample rate is greater than twice the highest frequency, you have ALL of the information.