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Comment Single point of failure! (Score 1) 142

Okay, let's say that I am enemy of organization X which host everything in that big-fat-oversized datacenter, just do something really stupid like [set/fly/throw] a [bomb/explosive/ddos/plane] [in/on/into/over] the datacenter and everything is gone... What? I hear someone yelling "DR and backups"? Nah!! the bad publicity will make the rest. The thing is that as bigger the datacenter is, the complex to manage will be and could be easy target because it is OVERSIZED.

Comment Re:Sure they can (Score 1) 385

Unless they are using some sort of transparent proxy which rewrites the request. I was working for a company which does content filtering using this technique. So the limitation you are assuming is not a limitation at all, and of course jumping the ship will be the temporary solution after all ISPs start doing the same.

As what others have said, the only viable thing to do is to use https and I heard about efforts for looking at https traffic by faking the certificate. How? By having all traffic being inspected and modified everything can be done.

Comment Re:First Time Supported with *Cash* (Score 1, Insightful) 181

What? This is what page rank is used for... Is the nature of Google, so having said that I wouldn't say that:

Google has kept Wikimedia afloat with gimmicked page rankings and search results for years.

Google hasn't done anything for them... except of course the 2 million dollars donation.

Comment slashdot (Score 0) 1146

is where many brilliant people gather to make comments...

I believe that is why he asks for some advise, I don't believe he is going to accept it just because is posted here, however some of the comments here are very interesting, you can see several points of view from people with different backgrounds and cultures(well maybe not).

Therefore If I wanted to ask people an advise for something is very important to me, I would like to read from someone who has maybe another _intelligent_ perspective.

Yes, maybe the best thing to do is ask to a relative or something but it doesn't hurt to ask in slashdot.
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The Incredible Shrinking Genome 113

Shipud writes "Mammalian genomes have been shrinking for about 65 million years, roughly since the dinosaur extinction. Why? And why were ancient mammalian genomes three times larger than they are today? A new article in Genome Biology and Evolution tries to explain this bizarre finding, and why the genomes of mammals (but not of other living groups) are still shrinking. 'Once [the dinosaurs] were gone, mammals started to radiate, fill those niches, and a whole new level of competition arose. The selective advantage of not having a genome encumbered by potentially damaging mobile DNA elements has probably become critical at this "be ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein" stage. In effect, the genomes of mammals has been shrinking by removing mobile DNA elements, just after the KT boundary. And according to the model presented in this study, this process is still ongoing: mammalian genomes are not at an equilibrium size. Unlike flies, mammals are still cleaning up.'"

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