PostgreSQL is also nice because it isn't lazy with the commands and can likewise support spatial systems, as well as integrate into apache a little IIRC (if you use stack builder).

Postgres isn't the king of open source databases for nothing.

The tagging of the photos, as well as all the brutal geo-tagging and exif data put into photos nowadays make it damn nice to mine photos for data.

Not only can they get your face, name and profile, they can also figure out WHERE the photo was taken and what time etc...
Facebook has it figured out, they know exactly what they're doing with this and they're trying to do it because they know how much of a gold mine this information is.

I'm personally glad Germany has taken a stance on it, it's about time others do the same.

PERL!? Garbage!

The only language we can use to protect the business market is COBOL!

Now get off my lawn you insensitive clod!

Kind of like the no Homers club. You're allowed one.

I do miss the days where men were pedophiles, women were men and kids were FBI agents in a van outside your house.

Back then, I at least knew who I was talking to...

You forgot sudo.

Or do you just assume root all the time and/or disable the UAC?

With all the idiots they're chasing after on facebook, how many of the criminals who don't use facebook will go un-caught? Seems like an invasion of personal privacy and waste of tax dollars, IMHO.

They should stop trying to filter every little online program and just do the actual work. I'm sure that a majority of these "criminals" are just underage kids drinking or smoking pot and then uploading pictures to facebook, and there's no point in trying to go after them, kids are stupid, and they'll likely do what they want anyways.

To think nowadays this sort of mistake is made by DBANning the disk or "sudo rm -rf /*". And even though that's hard to do, it still seems common that people do this on advice of trolls.

I'm glad I'm just the right age to have never fought with this crap though.

Now if only we could control those pesky, random power consumption bugs from the 11.04 kernel.........

I kid I kid. I don't know if that specific issue still affects people because I haven't upgraded, but I plan on installing either 11.10 or 12.04 when they come out.

This is still pretty impressive stuff though, good job Canonical.

In a robotic potato. PotatOS sounds catchy, no?

In that line of thinking we'll have to adopt the Firefox method of versioning if we ever want to get to 7 in the next ten years.

They can't get me, officer! I have norton!!!

Then K-Splice, and then the WHOLE OPEN SOURCE WORLD.

Oracle will shit on anything and buy out anyone they can in order to do such.

I question whether their management is run by businessmen, engineers, users, or professional trolls.
It could just be both the very former and the latter, but it's starting to get old.

I mean, it's one thing if something like Microsoft buys Skype, that's not so bad, but at least Microsoft isn't retarded enough to make Skype "Windows Only".
If I'm thinking this through properly, taking away the user base of a product is almost a greater hit than just not having the product itself. Isn't the user base and market share where it's all at nowadays anyways?

Now if only their Websites were this secure...... *coughAnonymouscough*

Though really, the imprint is left on the network, even if it's encrypted. and something might be left over BIOS, mechanical keylogger... There's probably a lot of ways these guys could be found out, but it could be a good thing that they're at least using SSH and a portable OS, it shows they're TRYING.

They'll probably hand out the first batch to people like Mr. Anthony Weiner just to avoid that kind of embarrassment, if not for national security...

I get most of my books this way, but I also legitimately buy textbooks from the library at my university.

Depends though, if I ever find a small enough child with a copy of University Physics or Calculus: A complete course, I'm taking that shit.