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oker writes:
Google has finally added SQL to its cloud platform offering — Apps Engine. So far developers had to use Datastore service which not only provides a vendor lock-in threat but also is not supported by most of existing software and libraries. The SQL service should definitely improve Apps Engine adoption. It is currently in limited preview mode.
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oker writes:
From the article: "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon were able to not only match unidentified profile photos from a dating website (...) with positively identified Facebook photos, but also match pedestrians on a North American college campus with their online identities. (...) we predicted the interests and Social Security numbers of some of the participants (...) the goal of Experiment 3 was to show that it is possible to start from an anonymous face in the street, and end up with very sensitive information about that person, in a process of data 'accretion.' ". Do we really enter "Minority Report"-like world?
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oker writes:
Yesterday Google has announced Apps Engine to enter production mode shortly as a fully supported product. Unfortunately it also means new pricing model, which is less appealing since free quotas has been lowered and you need to pay at least $9 per month if you go for paid version.
