links for 2009-02-25

Main way to scale to that large of a system: "database centric –> cache centric –> memory grid"

Interesting poll especially when it came to health care.

Maybe it's due to the some of the laws made in the past decade or the stupid way we have treated education and immigration?

Krugman makes his argument to temporarily nationalize the banks. He makes a good case, I'm not convinced though.

"The European Commission will require Microsoft to give users of its ubiquitous Windows operating system the opportunity to choose between different Internet browsers to avoid breaching EU competition rules, the bloc's antitrust spokesman told EurActiv." Not official but in everything but it's going to happen.

Stupid politicians proposes stupid, the worst part of the whole thing it's my senator.

I love it when people don't just distort information but wind up using facts that actually refute their point by saying it proves them.

I think you have to really evaluate if this person has the chops to make decisions.

"While women use both sides of their brain, men only use the right half to judge if a piece of work is beautiful, a team of scientists discovered." I can see that.

I have a hard time believing this survey.

"At the end of the day, the question isn't whether a given smartphone interoperates with your friend's phones, but whether it interoperates with your cloud services." 100% agree.

"US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke has warned Congress that without the right policies from the government, the US recession could last into 2010." And we haven't already known this?

"It wasn't so long ago when one of the GOP's greatest rallying cries — apart from keeping homosexuals away from wedding chapels — was the elimination of frivolous lawsuits. "Tort reform," they called it, evoking images of ambulance-chasing, money-grubbing "trial lawyers" and greedy, spoiled Americans eager to sue over so much as spilled coffee. But really, what could be less frivolous than a little old-fashioned infighting? On Tuesday, Senator Jim Bunning threatened to sue fellow Republicans if they do not support his bid for reelection in 2010." Yes I am amused.

Factcheck.org takes on the stimulus bill and the myths pushed by the GOP.

"The officials acknowledge that the strikes and raids by the Pakistani military are proving effective, having killed as many as 80 Qaeda fighters in the past year. But they express growing alarm that the drone strikes in particular are having an increasingly destabilizing effect on their country." Makes sense.

Okay so this really makes me want the new Kindle even more. Birthday gift anyone??

Hey what do you know some countries don't like their citizens to be tortured.

Possible better replacement for SIFR.

It seems weird that Murdoch would apologize after all I very much doubt he approved it or in any way had a hand in it.

"A British Catholic bishop embroiled in a row over Holocaust denial has flown out of Argentina days after being told to leave the country."

Is there a new web server on the loose or just a rebrand of Apache?

Not going to make it through the courts.

I think that is something that a large part of public doesn't seem to get to pay for more services or even as the number of people covered by services goes up due to population, taxes invariably rise. We can't and won't go back to a time where there is no social safety net in place.

Who pays when companies dump waste into the public land/water?

What the Kindle really is.

I'll sure miss out on that new Office that I won't use.

What happened with Ma.gnolia and how they didn't do a proper backup system.

Different selector engines in MooTools.

Nothing to add.

That's positive news.

God what a stupid show.

This is one of the major reasons why I would never become a true libertarian, acceptance of an irrational side is an important part of being human. "Woodstock is ..a celebration of carnal emotionalism, mysticism, and collectivism, its revelers typified a cultural trend abhorring the individual and the mind", which I think is in certain amounts not a bad thing.

If you are going the route of cloud-computing remember to have a backup.

App Engine finally lets you grow your app beyond the free quotas and start creating a real business.

Do you have a Plan B in case the worst happens? Personally, I have a halfway decent Plan B (survive on tons of student loans).

"The pilot of a plane that ditched into the Hudson River in New York has called on US airlines to invest more in recruiting and training pilots." Is that really how we keep people safe with training, I would have never thought that.

Almost a $300 million mission failed, because the rocket never made it into orbit.

Looks like this could become a law, though whether the courts will allow it is another thing.

About time we applied ergonomics beyond just business and into the classroom.

Google is jumping into the fray just as Google is looking like it is likely becoming a monopoly in and of itself.

Yes Gmail went down for a little while, late at night though morning to early afternoon for Europe.

Pretty freaking cool.

Makes sense if nobody wants to hire than why have a recruiter.

For those of you who really want Safari.

Depressing to hear, but good to hear the service is getting tons of traffic.