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Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed 423

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 02, 2009 @05:56PM from the sql-like-a-pig dept.

ericatcw writes "The inaugural NoSQL meet-up in San Francisco during last month's Yahoo! Apache Hadoop Summit had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party. Like the Patriots, who rebelled against Britain's heavy taxes, NoSQLers came to share how they had overthrown the tyranny of burdensome, expensive relational databases in favor of more efficient and cheaper ways of managing data, reports Computerworld."

States Push Makers' Role In Disposing of Electronic Waste 199

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @11:02AM from the pretty-well-known-huh dept.

AaronParsons writes "An interesting NY Times article describes currently available programs for post-consumer electronics. One of the many interesting points in the article is that electronics manufacturers should be held responsible for recycling their products post-consumer: 'Maybe since they have some responsibility for the cleanup, it will motivate them to think about how you design for the environment and the commodity value at the end of the life.'"

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