I'm confused like you, if you're going to use SQL, use it properly. If you want a big flat file of data, just write it out as a pickled Python object or something.

Properly normalized data with properly maintained indexes is efficient and fast despite the people with crap drives trying to prove otherwise.

I see walking GPS and transit stop announcements ... other people see porn and voyeurism.

Sometimes I suspect the perspective reflects the individual more than the technology.

whooosh

Actually the stall isn't public, its private, it has a door -- you have an expectation of privacy.

If you're walking down the street you don't.

I see very few reasons to fix Glass and a number of reasons to fix the way we police ...

The police get paid to arrest people and look like they're being competent.

Google gets paid to provide a service to its users to the advertisers have someone to sell product to.

The people I want the police to catch are already good enough at not doing what they do in front of cameras ... the essentially innocent people who look like they might be doing something bad but are easy to catch? They'll be on camera.

Most people I know barely benefit from gigabit Ethernet. Most people I know are not running Exchange servers and huge file sharing projects on their LANs but hosting their data on their local PC and using their network for E-mail and the web.

While 10-100Mbit made a huge difference to peoples' networking abilities, and going from that to gigabit helps with smooth transfers of larger files, there's still a lot of people running 100Mbit and quite happy with it because modern switches are pretty good at what they do.

Sure, as a geek, I'd love to have 1Tb/s streaming but its really not that relevant to most small business or home users.

For reference, at 12MB/s (100Mbit), you can transfer a 9GB DVD in about 12.5 minutes. At gigabit speeds, you can do it in just over one minute instead. Jumping up to 10GbE brings that down to around 7 seconds or so ... but why are you moving a 9GB DVD any faster than one minute? It takes longer than that to burn or watch.

And that, my unreading friend, is why the notebook only offers 25 hours of battery life if you buy an additional battery pack -- because its rarely useful.

Yawn ... I do in fact write software, and I know how long it takes to proof-test patches. That doesn't change that Microsoft has historically been incredibly sluggish at acknowledging vulnerabilities in the wild until they go public.

You did live through IE 3 and 4 right?

Since when is raising the alarm about an *actual* vulnerability FUD? Because when you stop and realize there's an *actual* and *exploitable* vulnerability out there, you should stop claiming its political and realize its a problem.

Yawn, I am actually a sysadmin and I'm thrilled that people do what's necessary to make vendors do their jobs. I spent too many years hoping nobody would exploit Windows systems that were vulnerable with no patches available ...

Luckily I now maintain primarily Linux boxes, and much of that is because of my history working with NT 3.51 and 4.x ... thank God for source code.

So the old refrain "those who ignore history are bound to repeat it" means nothing to you?

Making decisions based on historical precedent is the only logical course of action.

History tells us that telling Microsoft privately puts it on their radar for three to five years out. Disclosing publicly actually gets a patch to users.

I don't have a weight problem -- I could care less about my weight. I have a joint and asthma problem, neither of which is helped by your suggestions.

cf. actual studies on how fat people spend less time in hospital than skinny people in the UK before you assume so much based on pop culture rather than actual medicine.