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by nknight 15y ago
> Because a bunch of academics managed to create a collision after 2 weeks of trying on a beefed up machine? Really? WTF?! Are you out of your mind ? MD5 was exploited to falsify a real-world RapidSSL CA certificate... in 2008 . MD5
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by nknight 15y ago
Content-addressable storage concepts can be quite valuable. See git, for example. Using MD5 for this is undeniably a bad habit, of course. Just use the output of an SHA-2 function, even if you have to truncate it to 128 bits. Anything to ge
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by nknight 15y ago
You can apparently invoke a level of synchronous behavior in MongoDB with the getLastError command: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/getLastError+Command Conceptually, its abilities look a lot like Cassandra's "configurable consistency
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by nknight 15y ago
Ahhh, and presumably replication doesn't start until the entire object is loaded. Now it makes sense. There are ways that could be fixed, but at least now it's just a lack of optimization instead of sounding like something's completely turn
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm still confused. Why does replication hit the disk on the primary? If the secondaries aren't already way behind, shouldn't the data be going straight from RAM out the network interface?
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by nknight 15y ago
I might be missing something due lack of experience with MongoDB, but what did disk I/O have to do with the secondaries falling behind, and why did effectively eliminating one of the secondaries "fix" that? The description makes me think th
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by nknight 15y ago
I have no problem in general with the lossless compression of text or the transparent re-compression of images on websites, especially since most people are utterly clueless about how much bandwidth they waste on poorly-packed PNGs, obscene
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by nknight 15y ago
> competent polling In practice, that's basically an oxymoron. Any sort of application-level polling is problematic, and even where necessary, developers almost always take a naïve and highly sub-optimal approach.
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by nknight 15y ago
It's less magical than it sounds, but a lot of work goes into it. Depending on the system, hardware can partially wake at fixed intervals to check for incoming traffic, and fully wake to process that traffic. Notably, most of the stack can
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by nknight 15y ago
Opera Mini is extremely aggressive in its "optimization", which is lossy, quite specific to the web, creates a sub-par user experience, and is utterly inapplicable to the kind of data NTT is complaining about. At best, you could wrap the pr
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by nknight 15y ago
I believe Dropbox uses a method analogous to block-level dedupe. That is, files are split up into smallish chunks and then the chunks are what get "deduplicated". A "file" basically consists of a list of pointers to chunks. This makes thing
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by nknight 15y ago
There is no general authority for the police to abruptly shut down a business. Once a warrant has been executed, the police leave and the business can reopen at its leisure, even if it might need to replace some equipment and staff. The aut
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by nknight 15y ago
> You very clearly were trolling and I will certainly will not apologize. Well, you'll be happy to know I'll be ignoring anything you post from now on. I certainly won't engage with someone who can't tell the difference between honest
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm not the one who injected a question of quality into the discussion, and not agreeing with the obviously-biased founder of DDG is not "trolling". Please apologize.
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by nknight 15y ago
duck.co is not the URL for the DuckDuckGo search engine, nor are most people even aware of its existence. The search engine is at duckduckgo.com, right where it should be.
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by nknight 15y ago
> (1) the manner in which the domain name(s) is/are identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights; and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry > (2) why the Responde
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by nknight 15y ago
Your "ethical perspective" is only relevant if DDG is a "good" search engine. Considering the extreme slowness and utter irrelevancy of results, I think you'll find that a highly debatable issue.
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by nknight 15y ago
> The more valid way of looking at it is what percentage of his user base are confused by it. Hence my question. All he said was "consistent". What does that mean? It's not a quantifiable unit. He could get a complaint every minute, o
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by nknight 15y ago
No, it really isn't. These are the same people that can't locate the Pacific Ocean on a map.
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by nknight 15y ago
> They should just donate the domain to DuckDuckGo if only to squash conspiracy theorists. No, it should go to Black Duck Software. Or perhaps Duck Records. Actually, it should go to Disney. Duck Guides Inc.? How about Automatic Duck
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by nknight 15y ago
Define "consistent". There are over 300 million people in the US alone. If 1% of them are stupid enough to be confused, you could get as many as 3,000,000 such pieces of feedback. That doesn't mean it's a substantive problem.
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by nknight 15y ago
> the agents acting in their official capacities would likely be found to have immunity You appear to be confusing the general concept of sovereign immunity with the much narrower concept of qualified immunity, which generally protect
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by nknight 15y ago
Most of us are more concerned about the real world than a "standard" that is routinely ignored.
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by nknight 15y ago
> The fact that Linux starts up differently is because Linux never was UNIX they are two different OSes, pretty much from the ground up. No, it really has nothing to do with that at all. Linux can boot in pretty much the same way the
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by nknight 15y ago
> We can't standardize on RDP because it closes the remote display when we need someone to walk our help desk through what they are experiencing That means you're looking in the wrong place. You don't want Remote Desktop. On Windows X
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by nknight 15y ago
> people actually make videos on youtube demonstrating how to download files for free from sites like MegaUpload While I have little faith in the intelligence of the average human, a dog that's been dead for six weeks could have figur
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by nknight 15y ago
[none of this means the cases will go anywhere] 1. Not many US federal court cases end up in front of juries anymore. 2. Many jurisdictions outside the US don't use juries at all, others use them only in criminal cases, not civil. 3. The pl
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm not clear why people are dragging "libertarian" into it. Most people I know wouldn't describe themselves as libertarian, and certainly aren't in their belief system. Libertarians do not have a lock on advocacy of the free market. The mo
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by nknight 15y ago
With which statement do you disagree, exactly? Because all I'm saying is what I've observed. Unless you were present when I made these observations and have a better memory than I do, arguing with me about it isn't exactly going to be produ
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by nknight 15y ago
Guess all you want, and I'll do likewise. My guesses are based off the fact that virtually every one of my fellow Americans I talk to don't understand why we have antitrust laws in the first place, and think the government getting involved

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