I have a news segment on DBAs@Midnight (our live weekly webshow, tune in tonight at 11pm Central time), and I’ve decided to make it a semi-regular thing to blog about the relevant* news and fluffery** I’ve gathered in the last several days. Here again is your weekly update.
Actual News
- Via Reddit: More Good News About The ‘Scientific Accident That May Change The World’ | Science | ReWire”
- @BoingBoing: Time to get your @EFF on, people. CISPA is back, and it’s nasty. The worst Internet law since SOPA: fight it! http://t.co/Gg2ChVd4
- Via Reddit: “2 out of every 3 Americans lost Fourth Amendment protections to DHS” Illegal search and seizure (electronics) is now legal for anyone within 100 miles of the border. Any U.S. border. Definitely time to panic. http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/21805/2-out-every-3-americans-lost-fourth-amendment-protections-dhs
- Via Reddit: “Petition to make unlocking phones legal again passes 100,000 signatures ; White House now required to respond” http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/21/petition-to-make-unlocking-phones-legal-again-passes-100000-signatures-white-house-is-required-to-respond/
- @Phil_Factor: Facebook will pay no tax on $1.1 billion profit; gets refund instead http://t.co/nC1Lkey0
- @Wilw: OMG IT’S HERE IT’S HERE YOU GUYS IT’S FINALLY HERE!! http://t.co/bhdtaFvk < Downloadable Twitter archive.
- Via Brent Ozar (@BrentO): Dolphins call each other by name when they’re separated: http://news.discovery.com/animals/whales-dolphins/dolphins-call-each-other-by-name-130219.htm That’s a hauntingly beautiful thought.
- Manned mission to Mars, anyone?
Good Reads
- @MidnightDBA: Why is adopting #PowerShell so hard?: One of the biggest battles I fight when I teach PS or show it. http://t.co/2Lfs0fF7QT.
- Via Reddit: “TIL There’s a thing called “Rubber duck debugging” in which a programmer explains the code to an inanimate object in hopes of finding the bug”
- @wilw: How I learned to stop worrying, and love failure http://t.co/2sFoivjr “There’s nothing quite as safe — and ultimately boring — than not taking a risk, creative or otherwise. ”
- @DevNambi: [Reading] MSFT marketing speak, vomit-inducing edition http://t.co/v398YbmA
- @redgate: Easy access to @simple_talk’s backup & recovery articles http://t.co/2sFoivjr – check out our new Highway to Database Recovery.
- @GFritchey: Just read: It’s a Fact: Opinions Are Not Facts http://t.co/2sFoivjr
Products and Events
- Project Glass looks rather cool: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Glass “The product (Google Glass Explorer Edition) will be available to United States Google I/O developers for $1,500, to be delivered in early 2013, [1] while a consumer version is stated to be ready within a year of that.”
Fluffery, Etc.
- Via Reddit: “This is my friend’s resume. He got the job.” http://imgur.com/vjdVFqO
- Again, Reddit: “My uncle started a facebook page called “Be Adequate Today”, dedicated to motivating low-lifes to achieve the bare minimum of societal expectations. Here is one of the pictures.” http://i.imgur.com/6knvKCp.png Discussion: http://reddit.com/comments/18rdz4
- @sqlagentman: If The Walking Dead was real the 1st thing I would’ve done after coming out of my coma in an abandoned hospital is check twitter.
- @scalzi: I do think people forget that “It’s stored in the cloud” is a pretty way of saying “It goes to a server farm.”
Happy days, y’all…
Jen McCown
http://www.MidnightDBA.com/Jen
* Relevant: As determined by me. Generally tech- and/or geek-related.
** Fluffery: Not actually news, but interesting* or amusing*.
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