In a Reg Developer blog entry, this scion of history goes off on optimization. Quite amusing stuff actually. Amusing unless you’re the CIO of Google with over 450,000 servers because optimization shouldn’t be done. His arguments are, essentially, claims that nobody can do it, that hardware is evolving so fast it will make the optimizations irrelevant, and that since nobody can do it, they’ll screw things up.
It’s a classic example of being unclear on the concept. ‘Nuff said.
Code Moores LawA Washington Post Article merely confirms what critics warned about USA PATRIOT Act and friends. The title”FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data”, a report from an internal depeartment auditor, merely reports what you’d expect. The rules and procedures are inadequate and the FBI (among others) routinely violates citizens’ civil rights.
What a surprise. So when Mr. Self-Righteous Hatch (R-UT) got righteously indignant that We The People didn’t trust the FBI (government as a whole) to respect the laws and protect our legal rights, he was wrong. What a surprise. What a hypocrite.
Now, he’ll ignore this on his way to the next step of implementing the Republican Party’s much-desired police state. Wonder who the Party’s benevolent dictator will be next.
Not feeling any better about the Democrats. They seem generally in agreement with all this. No hew, cry, or even a pompous expression of mild concern.
hypocrisy police state politicsIn eXile, the War Nerd Gary Brecher answers the question recently asked, sarcastically, in he Senate. The Nerd’s answer is not as sarcastic and is very much on point.
The bottom line: Iran, China, and India, in roughly that order. And it’s hard to argue. The losers? In similar order: Iraq, the US, and Britain. In reality, the biggest loser in absolute value is the US. Iraq is the biggest loser in relative value.