Ben Strong's Blog: Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You?

http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat-on-slow.html

interesting article about ACID in SQL

http://danweinreb.org/blog/acid-in-theory-and-practice

Also an interesting link to Postgres' implementation of true Serializable isolation.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Serializable

point and crack

https://groups.google.com/group/pyrit/browse_thread/thread/6fb00f6c41e6ee0c?pli=1

I like that I now have the option to drop $20 to crack any wifi in a couple hours.

I really want to donate...

So I was reading wikipedia (of course) and they are asking for donations (cool)...
I see the usual donate (10,20,50) dollars buttons... But the "Other" box caught my attention.
If you keep mashing numbers into the box you can get it up to "inf" dollars.
I'm going to sleep on it but I really want to charge infinite dollars to my credit card just to see what it does.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA010/en/US?utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=20101117BT01&utm_source=2010_JA1_Banner9_US&country_code=US

More stuff to read:

Collection of impossibility results for distributed computing.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.7.9472

map reduce plus stream processing

http://horicky.blogspot.com/2010/11/map-reduce-and-stream-processing.html

rules of drinking

http://www.drunkard.com/issues/01-02/01_02_booze_rules.htm

I can poop $100

Funny: "I got $100 for doing this huge thing. I can poop $100"

Under 5 things google did wrong in their hiring/incentivizing etc...  only mildly interesting except for the quote.

http://piaw.blogspot.com/search/label/google

who's suing who

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-in-the-telecoms-trade/

Part of me wants to say "ha ha, losers!"
But part of me fears that some day soon I won't be able to create something that sprang wholly from my brain simply because someone thought of it first, and got a patent.