The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday. via nytimes.com
"I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change," said Lovelock in his first in-depth interview since the theft of the UEA emails last November. "The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful." One of the main obstructions to meaningful action is "modern democracy", he added. "Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being.
Khamenei considers the Koran to be the ultimate source of guidance. One Koranic tenet is that you should deceive your enemies until you are strong enough to destroy them. Khamenei is employing this when he makes his declarations to the West. via csmonitor.com
Continuous Deployment means running all your tests, all the time. That means tests must be reliable. We’ve made a science out of debugging and fixing intermittently failing tests. When I say reliable, I don’t mean “they can fail once in a thousand test runs.” I mean “they must not fail more often than once in a million test runs.” We have around 15k test cases, and they’re run around 70 times a day.
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I’ve been getting solidly flamed recently, as have my former coworkers at Digg, my friends at Twitter, etc. about our adoption and promotion of various NoSQL storage systems. It seems that some DBAs are very, very upset that us internet kids are considering abandoning SQL’s ship. I’m not here to throw out a bunch of insane numbers, benchmarks, or flame back, but I did want to point out why SimpleGeo and others are jumping onto the NoSQL bandwagon.
In short, for those who are now privately insured through employers or by direct purchase, there would be substantial incentives to become uninsured until they become sick. The resulting rise in the cost to insurance companies as the insured population becomes sicker would raise the average premium, strengthening that incentive. via washingtonpost.com
So today we’re announcing the public release of our modified version of Clearance, which we’re calling Blue Light Special. In addition to its user authentication system, Blue Light Special provides a simple role system with built-in support for admin users, the ability for an admin to impersonate other users, and starting points for your application layout and administration interface. via blog.envylabs.com
Mojito is a WiFi enabled stand-alone device to display your chosen content & services. MyMojito is the online control panel we designed so you can quickly and easily customize and organize the services you wish to subscribe to. MyMojito & Mojito work as a system to create the best live notification system with built-in social networking features and great new content discovery tools to keep you forever inspired. via mymojito.
This is Rack middleware that provides logic for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests to Rack applications. You can use Rack::Throttle with any Ruby web framework based on Rack, including with Ruby on Rails 3.0 and with Sinatra. via datagraph.rubyforge.org