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Notes on machine-generated data, year-end 2014
Most IT innovation these days is focused on machine-generated data (sometimes just called "machine data"), rather than human-generated. So as I find myself in the mood for another survey post, I can't think of any better idea for a unifying theme.
1. There are many kinds of machine-generated data. Important categories include:
- Web, network and other IT logs.
- Game and mobile app event data.
- CDRs (telecom Call Detail Records).
- "Phone-home" data from large numbers of identical electronic products (for example set-top boxes).
- Sensor network output (for example from a pipeline or other utility network).
- Vehicle telemetry.
- Health care data, in hospitals.
- Digital health data from consumer devices.
- Images from public-safety camera networks.
- Stock tickers (if you regard them as being machine-generated, which I do).
That's far from a complete list, but if you think about those categories you'll probably capture most of the issues surrounding other kinds of machine-generated data as well.
2. Technology for better information and analysis is also technology for privacy intrusion. Public awareness of privacy issues is focused in a few areas, mainly:
- Government snooping on the contents of communications.
- Communication traffic analysis.
- Photos and videos (airport scanners, public cameras, etc.)
- Commercial ad targeting.
- Traditional medical records.
Other areas, however, continue to be overlooked, with the two biggies in my opinion being:
- The potential to apply marketing-like psychographic analysis in other areas, such as hiring decisions or criminal justice.
- The ability to track people's movements in great detail, which will be increased greatly yet again as the market matures — and some think this will happen soon — for consumer digital health.
My core arguments about privacy and surveillance seem as valid as ever.
3. The natural database structures for machine-generated data vary wildly. Weblog data structure is often remarkably complex. Log data from complex organizations (e.g. IT shops or hospitals) might comprise many streams, each with a different (even if individually simple) organization. But in the majority of my example categories, record structure is very simple and repeatable. Thus, there are many kinds of machine-generated data that can, at least in principle, be handled well by a relational DBMS …
4. … at least to some extent. In a further complication, much machine-generated data arrives as a kind of time series. Many (but not all) time series call for a strong commitment to event-series styles of analytics. Event series analytics are a challenge for relational DBMS, but Vertica and others have tried to step up with various kinds of temporal predicates or datatypes. Event series are also a challenge for business intelligence vendors, and a potentially significant driver for competitive rebalancing in the BI market.
5. Event series even aside, I wish I understood more about business intelligence for non-tabular data. I plan to fix that.
6. Streaming and memory-centric processing are closely related subjects. What I wrote recently about them for Hadoop still applies: Spark, Kafka, etc. is still the base streaming case going forward; Storm is still around as an alternative; Tachyon or something like it will change the game somewhat. But not all streaming machine-generated data needs to land in Hadoop at all. As noted above, relational data stores (especially memory-centric ones) can suffice. So can NoSQL. So can Splunk.
Not all these considerations are important in all use cases. For one thing, latency requirements vary greatly. For example:
- High-frequency trading is an extreme race; microseconds matter.
- Internet interaction applications increasingly require data freshness to the last click or other user action. Computational latency requirements can go down to the single-digit milliseconds. Real-time ad auctions have a race aspect that may drive latency lower yet.
- Minute-plus response can be fine for individual remote systems. Sometimes they ping home more rarely than that.
There's also still plenty of true batch mode, but — and I say this as part of a conversation that's been underway for over 40 years — interactive computing is preferable whenever feasible.
7. My views about predictive analytics are still somewhat confused. For starters:
- The math and technology of predictive modeling both still seem pretty simple …
- … but sometimes achieve mind-blowing results even so.
- There's a lot of recent innovation in predictive modeling, but adoption of the innovative stuff is still fairly tepid.
- Adoption of the simple stuff is strong in certain market sectors, especially ones connected to customer understanding, such as marketing or anti-fraud.
So I'll mainly just link to some of my past posts on the subject, and otherwise leave discussion of predictive analytics to another day.
- WibiData has some innovative ideas in predictive experimentation.
- Nutonian has some innovative ideas in non-linear modeling for pattern detection/root-cause analysis.
- It's still at the anecdotal level, but there have been interesting ideas in the rapid retraining of models.
- Ayasdi reminded us that there's room for innovation in clustering.
- My Thanksgiving round-up post points to a lot of my prior comments on predictive modeling.
Finally, back in 2011 I tried to broadly categorize analytics use cases. Based on that and also on some points I just raised above, I'd say that a ripe area for breakthroughs is problem and anomaly detection and diagnosis, specifically for machines and physical installations, rather than in the marketing/fraud/credit score areas that are already going strong. That's an old discipline; the concept of statistical process control dates back before World War II. Perhaps they're underway; the Conviva retraining example listed above is certainly imaginative. But I'd like to see a lot more in the area.
Even more important, of course, could be some kind of revolution in predictive modeling for medicine.
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WibiData's approach to predictive modeling and experimentation
A conversation I have too often with vendors goes something like:
- "That confidential thing you told me is interesting, and wouldn't harm you if revealed; probably quite the contrary."
- "Well, I guess we could let you mention a small subset of it."
- "I'm sorry, that's not enough to make for an interesting post."
That was the genesis of some tidbits I recently dropped about WibiData and predictive modeling, especially but not only in the area of experimentation. However, Wibi just reversed course and said it would be OK for me to tell more or less the full story, as long as I note that we're talking about something that's still in beta test, with all the limitations (to the product and my information alike) that beta implies.
As you may recall:
- WibiData started out with a rich technology stack …
- … but decided to cast itself as an application company …
- … whose first vertical market is retailing,
With that as background, WibiData's approach to predictive modeling as of its next release will go something like this:
- There is still a strong element of classical modeling by data scientists/statisticians, with the models re-scored in batch, perhaps nightly.
- But of course at least some scoring should be done as real-time as possible, to accommodate fresh data such as:
- User interactions earlier in today's session.
- Technology for today's session (device, connection speed, etc.)
- Today's weather.
- WibiData Express is/incorporates a Scala-based language for modeling and query.
- WibiData believes Express plus a small algorithm library gives better results than more mature modeling libraries.
- There is some confirming evidence of this …
- … but WibiData's customers have by no means switched over yet to doing the bulk of their modeling in Wibi.
- WibiData will allow line-of-business folks to experiment with augmentations to the base models.
- Supporting technology for predictive experimentation in WibiData will include:
- Automated multi-armed bandit testing (in previous versions even A/B testing has been manual).
- A facility for allowing fairly arbitrary code to be included into otherwise conventional model-scoring algorithms, where conventional scoring models can come:
- Straight from WibiData Express.
- Via PMML (Predictive Modeling Markup Language) generated by other modeling tools.
- An appropriate user interface for the line-of-business folks to do certain kinds of injecting.
Let's talk more about predictive experimentation. WibiData's paradigm for that is:
- Models are worked out in the usual way.
- Businesspeople have reasons for tweaking the choices the models would otherwise dictate.
- They enter those tweaks as rules.
- The resulting combination — models plus rules — are executed and hence tested.
If those reasons for tweaking are in the form of hypotheses, then the experiment is a test of those hypotheses. However, WibiData has no provision at this time to automagically incorporate successful tweaks back into the base model.
What might those hypotheses be like? It's a little tough to say, because I don't know in fine detail what is already captured in the usual modeling process. WibiData gave me only one real-life example, in which somebody hypothesized that shoppers would be in more of a hurry at some times of day than others, and hence would want more streamlined experiences when they could spare less time. Tests confirmed that was correct.
That said, I did grow up around retailing, and so I'll add:
- Way back in the 1970s, Wal-Mart figured out that in large college towns, clothing in the football team's colors was wildly popular. I'd hypothesize such a rule at any vendor selling clothing suitable for being worn in stadiums.
- A news event, blockbuster movie or whatever might trigger a sudden change in/addition to fashion. An alert merchant might guess that before the models pick it up. Even better, she might guess which psychographic groups among her customers were most likely to be paying attention.
- Similarly, if a news event caused a sudden shift in buyers' optimism/pessimism/fear of disaster, I'd test that a response to that immediately.
Finally, data scientists seem to still be a few years away from neatly solving the problem of multiple shopping personas — are you shopping in your business capacity, or for yourself, or for a gift for somebody else (and what can we infer about that person)? Experimentation could help fill the gap.
Notes and links, December 12, 2014
1. A couple years ago I wrote skeptically about integrating predictive modeling and business intelligence. I'm less skeptical now.
For starters:
- The predictive experimentation I wrote about over Thanksgiving calls naturally for some BI/dashboarding to monitor how it's going.
- If you think about Nutonian's pitch, it can be approximated as "Root-cause analysis so easy a business analyst can do it." That could be interesting to jump to after BI has turned up anomalies. And it should be pretty easy to whip up a UI for choosing a data set and objective function to model on, since those are both things that the BI tool would know how to get to anyway.
I've also heard a couple of ideas about how predictive modeling can support BI. One is via my client Omer Trajman, whose startup ScalingData is still semi-stealthy, but says they're "working at the intersection of big data and IT operations". The idea goes something like this:
- Suppose we have lots of logs about lots of things.* Machine learning can help:
- Notice what's an anomaly.
- Group* together things that seem to be experiencing similar anomalies.
- That can inform a BI-plus interface for a human to figure out what is happening.
Makes sense to me.
* The word "cluster" could have been used here in a couple of different ways, so I decided to avoid it altogether.
Finally, I'm hearing a variety of "smart ETL/data preparation" and "we recommend what columns you should join" stories. I don't know how much machine learning there's been in those to date, but it's usually at least on the roadmap to make the systems (yet) smarter in the future. The end benefit is usually to facilitate BI.
2. Discussion of graph DBMS can get confusing. For example:
- Use cases run the gamut from short-request to highly analytic; no graph DBMS is well-suited for all graph use cases.
- Graph DBMS have huge problems scaling, because graphs are very hard to partition usefully; hence some of the more analytic use cases may not benefit from a graph DBMS at all.
- The term "graph" has meanings in computer science that have little to do with the problems graph DBMS try to solve, notably directed acyclic graphs for program execution, which famously are at the heart of both Spark and Tez.
- My clients at Neo Technology/Neo4j call one of their major use cases MDM (Master Data Management), without getting much acknowledgement of that from the mainstream MDM community.
I mention this in part because that "MDM" use case actually has some merit. The idea is that hierarchies such as organization charts, product hierarchies and so on often aren't actually strict hierarchies. And even when they are, they're usually strict only at specific points in time; if you care about their past state as well as their present one, a hierarchical model might have trouble describing them. Thus, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) engines may not be an ideal way to manage and reference such "hierarchies:; a graph DBMS might do better.
3. There is a surprising degree of controversy among predictive modelers as to whether more data yields better results. Besides, the most common predictive modeling stacks have difficulty scaling. And so it is common to model against samples of a data set rather than the whole thing.*
*Strictly speaking, almost the whole thing — you'll often want to hold at least a sample of the data back for model testing.
Well, WibiData's couple of Very Famous Department Store customers have tested WibiData's ability to model against an entire database vs. their alternative predictive modeling stacks' need to sample data. WibiData says that both report significantly better results from training over the whole data set than from using just samples.
4. Scaling Data is on the bandwagon for Spark Streaming and Kafka.
5. Derrick Harris and Pivotal turn out to have been earlier than me in posting about Tachyon bullishness.
6. With the Hortonworks deal now officially priced, Derrick was also free to post more about/from Hortonworks' pitch. Of course, Hortonworks is saying Hadoop will be Big Big Big, and suggesting we should thus not be dismayed by Hortonworks' financial performance so far. However, Derrick did not cite Hortonworks actually giving any reasons why its competitive position among Hadoop distribution vendors should improve.
Beyond that, Hortonworks says YARN is a big deal, but doesn't seem to like Spark Streaming.
A few numbers from MapR
MapR put out a press release aggregating some customer information; unfortunately, the release is a monument to vagueness. Let me start by saying:
- I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing Derrick Harris was incorrect in suspecting that this release was a reaction to my recent post about Hortonworks' numbers. For one thing, press releases usually don't happen that quickly.
- And as should be obvious from the previous point — notwithstanding that MapR is a client, I had no direct involvement in this release.
- In general, I advise clients and other vendors to put out the kind of aggregate of customer success stories found in this release. However, I would like to see more substance than MapR offered.
Anyhow, the key statement in the MapR release is:
… the number of companies that have a paid subscription for MapR now exceeds 700.
Unfortunately, that includes OEM customers as well as direct ones; I imagine MapR's direct customer count is much lower.
In one gesture to numerical conservatism, MapR did indicate by email that it counts by overall customer organization, not by department/cluster/contract (i.e., not the way Hortonworks does).
The MapR press release also said:
As of November 2014, MapR has one or more customers in eight vertical markets that have purchased more than one million dollars of MapR software and services. These vertical markets are advertising/media, financial services, healthcare, internet, information technology, retail, security, and telecom.
Since the word "each" isn't in that quote, so we don't even know whether MapR is referring to individual big customers or just general sector penetration. We also don't know whether the revenue is predominantly subscription or some other kind of relationship.
MapR also indicated that the average customer more than doubled its annualized subscription rate vs. a year ago; the comparable figure — albeit with heavy disclaimers — from Hortonworks was 25%.
Hadoop's next refactoring?
I believe in all of the following trends:
- Hadoop is a Big Deal, and here to stay.
- Spark, for most practical purposes, is becoming a big part of Hadoop.
- Most servers will be operated away from user premises, whether via SaaS (Software as a Service), co-location, or "true" cloud computing.
Trickier is the meme that Hadoop is "the new OS". My thoughts on that start:
- People would like this to be true, although in most cases only as one of several cluster computing platforms.
- Hadoop, when viewed as an operating system, is extremely primitive.
- Even so, the greatest awkwardness I'm seeing when different software shares a Hadoop cluster isn't actually in scheduling, but rather in data interchange.
There is also a minor issue that if you distribute your Hadoop work among extra nodes you might have to pay a bit more to your Hadoop distro support vendor. Fortunately, the software industry routinely solves more difficult pricing problems than that.
Recall now that Hadoop — like much else in IT — has always been about two things: data storage and program execution. The evolution of Hadoop program execution to date has been approximately:
- Originally, MapReduce and JobTracker were the way to execute programs in Hadoop, period, at least if we leave HBase out of the discussion.
- In a major refactoring, YARN replaced a lot of what JobTracker did, with the result that different program execution frameworks became easier to support.
- Most of the relevant program execution frameworks — such as MapReduce, Spark or Tez — have data movement and temporary storage near their core.
Meanwhile, Hadoop data storage is mainly about HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). Its evolution, besides general enhancement, has included the addition of file types suitable for specific kinds of processing (e.g. Parquet and ORC to accelerate analytic database queries). Also, there have long been hacks that more or less bypassed central Hadoop data management, and let data be moved in parallel on a node-by-node basis. But several signs suggest that Hadoop data storage should and will be refactored too. Three efforts in particular point in that direction:
- HDFS caching, about which I know relatively little.
- Tachyon, in which I gather Spark's creators continue to believe.
- Cloudera's deal to run Hadoop against Isilon storage and its associated interest in also supporting other kinds of storage, such as the object storage commonly found in clouds.
The part of all this I find most overlooked is inter-program data exchange. If two programs both running on Hadoop want to exchange data, what do they do, other than reading and writing to HDFS, or invoking some kind of a custom connector? What's missing is a nice, flexible distributed memory layer, which:
- Works well with Hadoop execution engines (Spark, Tez, Impala …).
- Works well with other software people might want to put on their Hadoop nodes.
- Interfaces nicely to HDFS, Isilon, object storage, et al.
- Is fully parallel any time it needs to talk with persistent or external storage.
- Can be fully parallel any time it needs to talk with any other software on the Hadoop cluster.
Tachyon could, I imagine, become that. HDFS caching probably could not.
In the past, I've been skeptical of in-memory data grids. But now I think that a such a grid could take Hadoop to the next level of generality and adoption.
Related links
- One recent trigger for this line of thinking was Eric Frenkiel's idea of MemSQL/Spark integration.
- The most recent Tachyon slide deck I've seen cited my April, 2012 post on many kinds of memory-centric data management.
Notes on the Hortonworks IPO S-1 filing
Given my stock research experience, perhaps I should post about Hortonworks' initial public offering S-1 filing. For starters, let me say:
- Hortonworks' subscription revenues for the 9 months ended last September 30 appear to be:
- $11.7 million from everybody but Microsoft, …
- … plus $7.5 million from Microsoft, …
- … for a total of $19.2 million.
- Hortonworks states subscription customer counts (as per Page 55 this includes multiple "customers" within the same organization) of:
- 2 on April 30, 2012.
- 9 on December 31, 2012.
- 25 on April 30, 2013.
- 54 on September 30, 2013.
- 95 on December 31, 2013.
- 233 on September 30, 2014.
- Per Page 70, Hortonworks' total September 30, 2014 customer count was 292, including professional services customers.
- Non-Microsoft subscription revenue in the quarter ended September 30, 2014 seems to have been $5.6 million, or $22.5 million annualized. This suggests Hortonworks' average subscription revenue per non-Microsoft customer is a little over $100K/year.
- This IPO looks to be a sharply "down round" vs. Hortonworks' Series D financing earlier this year.
- In March and June, 2014, Hortonworks sold stock that subsequently was converted into 1/2 a Hortonworks share each at $12.1871 per share.
- The tentative top of the offering's price range is $14/share.
- That's also slightly down from the Series C price in mid-2013.
And, perhaps of interest only to me — there are approximately 50 references to YARN in the Hortonworks S-1, but only 1 mention of Tez.
Overall, the Hortonworks S-1 is about 180 pages long, and — as is typical — most of it is boilerplate, minutiae or drivel. As is also typical, two of the most informative sections of the Hortonworks S-1 are:
- The section called Management's Discussion and Analysis.
- The footnotes to the numbers, starting a couple of pages in.
The clearest financial statements in the Hortonworks S-1 are probably the quarterly figures on Page 62, along with the tables on Pages F3, F4, and F7.
Special difficulties in interpreting Hortonworks' numbers include:
- A large fraction of revenue has come from a few large customers, most notably Microsoft. Details about those revenues are further confused by:
- Difficulty in some cases getting a fix on the subscription/professional services split. (It does seem clear that Microsoft revenues are 100% subscription.)
- Some revenue deductions associated with stock deals, called "contra-revenue".
- Hortonworks changed the end of its fiscal year from April to December, leading to comparisons of a couple of eight-month periods.
- There was a $6 million lawsuit settlement (some kind of employee poaching/trade secrets case), discussed on Page F-21.
- There is some counter-intuitive treatment of Windows-related development (cost of revenue rather than R&D).
One weirdness is that cost of professional services revenue far exceeds 100% of such revenue in every period Hortonworks reports. Hortonworks suggests that this is because:
- Professional services revenue is commonly bundled with support contracts.
- Such revenue is recognized ratably over the life of the contract, as opposed to a more natural policy of recognizing professional services revenue when the services are actually performed.
I'm struggling to come up with a benign explanation for this.
In the interest of space, I won't quote Hortonworks' S-1 verbatim; instead, I'll just note where some of the more specifically informative parts may be found.
- Page 53 describes Hortonworks' typical sales cycles (they're long).
- Page 54 says the average customer has increased subscription payments 25% year over year, but emphasize that the sample size is too small to be reliable.
- Pages 55-63 have a lot of revenue and expense breakdowns.
- Deferred revenue numbers (which are a proxy for billings and thus signed contracts) are on Page 65.
- Pages II 2-3 list all (I think) Hortonworks financings in a concise manner.
And finally, Hortonworks' dealings with its largest customers and strategic partners are cited in a number of places. In particular:
- Pages 52-3 cover dealings with Yahoo, Teradata, Microsoft, and AT&T.
- Pages 82-3 discusses OEM revenue from Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, and Teradata, none of which amounts to very much.
- Page 109 covers the Teradata agreement. It seems that there's less going on than originally envisioned, in that Teradata made a nonrefundable prepayment far greater than turns out to have been necessary for subsequent work actually done. That could produce a sudden revenue spike or else positive revenue restatement as of February, 2015.
- Page F-10 has a table showing revenue from Hortonworks' biggest customers (Company A is Microsoft and Company B is Yahoo).
- Pages F37-38 further cover Hortonworks' relationships with Yahoo, Teradata and AT&T.
Correction notice: Some of the page numbers in this post were originally wrong, surely because Hortonworks posted an original and amended version of this filing, and I got the two documents mixed up. A huge Thank You goes to Merv Adrian for calling my attention to this, and I think I've now fixed them. I apologize for the errors!
Related links
- Hortonworks business notes, not all of which turn out in retrospect to have been wholly accurate (August, 2013)
- Spark vs. Tez (October, 2014)

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Yeah, today is the day the Internet becomes worthless for information.
Just today? Are YOU behind the times or what? And this on Slashdot...
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Yeah, today is the day the Internet becomes worthless for information.
Just today? Are YOU behind the times or what? And this on Slashdot...
The Turks are fully capable of running a power grid that's reliable so something tells me that there is a lot more to this story than we are being told. It's not like Turkey is the crown jewel of stability and democracy of the middle east or anything. Somebody did this on purpose and it is NOT easy to take down a power grid in a country. You can do small parts of a country, a few towns, maybe a city pretty easily, but a whole country? That's something that will take either some incredible luck or a significant amount of skill and knowledge to do.
Think about it. Who would want to disrupt things that are going on in Turkey? Who has the ability to do something like this? I think if you match the two lists up there are only a few names left.
Mark my words, there is something big afoot...
The 'classified' orbits of previous missions have been tracked by many amateur astronomers.
It is extremely hard to hide something the size of a pickup truck in orbit no matter what you try to do. The major problem being that there is a very limited amount of sky you can get the object into when you launch from a specific place at a specific time and launches are pretty obvious things. Plus, it takes a lot of energy to make significant changes in orbit if you want to do it over a short time so the people tracking you won't know where to look anymore. I's not that all of these challenges are impossible, it's just that they are expensive to do.
Makes you wonder though, what we don't actually know about. Something tells me that the Air force has assets in space that are not being tracked by anybody. Surely they have worked on stealth for satellites and have delivery systems that can throw stuff up there without much public notice.
So why can't we trace ransomware transactions? They are always in BTC.
Who says they cannot be traced? The problem we have with ransomware is that it usually involves an area of the world where the authorities don't care so even if you trace it, nothing will be done.
Do we even want a society where everyone has the exact same amount of money?
The only way to make everybody equally rich/poor is to just take everything away from everybody and make us all wards of the state. We tried that a few times in history, it's not a pretty outcome. Besides, there is always those capitalist types that end up holding more than their fair share of the wealth for one reason or another...
The link is between nutrition and brain development, and considering the odds of poor nutrition is higher in poorer families than in wealthier families, the conclusion does not seem bad at all. Nothing says that all families that live in poverty will have children with developmental problems, but it does argue you're much more likely to see the phenomenon in such families.
I can't imagine why anyone would see this as controversial.
For instance, there is a whole generation in North Korea where starvation was common during the second Kim's reign and they show marked problems with mental development if they where malnourished during specific phases of their development. They will NEVER recover, nor will they reach their potential but the real tragedy is that this will affect their children too. So you loose not one but two generations. (According to the documentary I remember watching once.)
I mean these guys evidence/affidavids would have been shquashed and unidminssible if this came out during/before the trial. Now this is corruption at its best. Les see if we can find out if the prosecutors knew about this dring the trial.
The REAL question is did the defense know. If the defense knew, there isn't much else to be said but "see you at the big house DPR".
If the prosecutors knew, you can BET the defense would know as it is misconduct to withhold evidence from the defense. Literally NOTHING is really left to chance at a trial. Everybody KNOWS what the evidence is or isn't, where it came from, how it was collected and who did the collecting. So if the prosecutors knew but didn't tell the defense, they are going to loose their license and likely go to jail.
The facts seem to indicate that this was discovered AFTER the trial. Which tells me TWO things (at least). ONE, they are still following the evidence and there are other charges which are pending, or at least they have strong reason to believe they can bring others up on charges. TWO, they switched investigation teams for some reason, which indicates that somebody caught something suspicious with these two and it was serous enough to investigate further even given the risk that they might have to retry the original case.
Seems the process works..
Internal affairs investigators, oversight committees, shift managers, prosecutors, defense attorneys... there are just about as many people watching the watchmen as there are watchmen themselves.
These days, even more than that. Seems everybody has a camera phone now and many whip them out and start taking video of anything they see out of the ordinary. Then there are all the dash cams, body cams and such that are literally an unblinking eye on the police. Not to mention of all the crazy eye witnesses who are more than willing to recount their version of any event you might be interested in...
Pretty darn hard to trace, and very usable as alternative currency.
Said the two investigators just before they got perpwalked in handcuffs..
People cannot be serious. BTC is very traceable, it's in the blooming design. What do people think the block chains are for? They are a complete history of the coin. Yea, you might need a map of what wallet matches with what person, but once you can tie someone to a transaction, the mapping becomes obvious for the rest of that wallet's coins. After that it's a game of connect the dots by going back though all the publicly known block chains... It's a blooming PUBLIC transaction log, easy to trace, publicly published to the miners every time a coin changes hands. It's like a bank published every transaction processed every day by account number. Yea you might not know who is account # 2011025, but you know they transferred $1 Million to that offshore account.... Eventually you can figure out who that is.
Yeah, you're wrong... The Linux admins are far better at their job than the Solaris (and shudder HP-UX) admins.
There are bad apples in all the barrels. I've known good and bad Linux admins, good and bad Windows admins and a whole series of admins who don't know enough to realize they are making problems for themselves and others....
Gee, most of what you claim is not possible truly IS possible on Linux/Unix solutions IF you know what you are doing.
With the possible exception of the Active Directory vrs OpenLDAP gripe of yours (and I'm just not prepared to argue that point with you, I think it's possible if properly managed and configured that OpenLDAP would scale just fine) everything you complain about are not issues without solutions, but solutions that you may not understand how to setup and use.
Linux generally has solutions to the above problems which do work and work well for the back of house stuff. What Linux doesn't have though is the developed "tribal knowledge" of skilled administrators who understand the solutions and how to properly implement them. (Not that the tribe of Windows administrators always understand their OS of choice either.)
Your complaints seem more born of frustration with people who didn't know what they where doing or what tools did what you are accustom to seeing than being actual limitations with Linux. Or perhaps you have had some bad experiences with Linux because somebody thought it was going to be cheaper to forget the license costs of Windows and run some half baked Unix solution instead. I can tell you that if you do the Linux thing because it is cheaper up front, you are sadly mistaken and wasting your time and money. Usually Linux requires as much budget up front as the Microsoft solution and only saves you money in years to come. Much pain is caused by half understood, improperly implemented and under funded efforts in either Microsoft or Linux worlds...
All that is needed is a rule that all the code that is required to fulfill a government requirement is open to inspection.
You know, that's a great idea except... Usually there is no way to map from the source code you are given to the executable you where provided unless you have instructions on how to *build* the executable for your self.
We either do or we don't have religious freedom here and if that freedom doesn't extend into how people can conduct business and what activities they choose to be involved in and what they refuse to do, then we really DON'T have the freedom,
So it seems your view is that religious freedom must trump every other freedom or right. But that cannot work. Not everyone follows the same religion (if any). Ensuring that is the whole point of religious freedom. But each religion has its own idea of what its followers must do. Some say unmarried women who have sex must be stoned. According to your argument, making that illegal would be denying these people their religious freedom. Sure you may not agree with their religious mores, but you cannot question or deny theirs while refusing your right to discriminate based on yours to be questioned or made illegal.
What a jaded view. Let's discuss another right we have and then apply the same logic. What of "freedom of speech"? This right says that you have the right to have and express any opinion you choose. Where you are "free" to say something, you are not free from the consequences of what you say. There ARE limits to this freedom too. The classic "yelling fire in a crowded theater" comes to mine, as does inciting riots. These boundaries have usually been carefully defined by our courts and ALWAYS error on the side of freedom. Indeed, proving that someone actually crossed the line into non-protected speech is extremely hard.
Now, lets discuss freedom of religion. I've never said there are "no limits" to what you can do in the name of religion in this country. There ARE limits. However, these limits are clearly defined and must error on the side of freedom. You cannot kill somebody say sacrifice your first born male child, or kill your sister for being pregnant out of wedlock. Both will get you a murder charge and a "it was my religion" is not a valid defense. However, other things are not so clear cut. It is these "other things" that we are discussing. In these cases my right to freely exercise my religion and conduct my life according to MY moral values must be protected and the burden of any laws upon this must be the minimum necessary to achieve a valid governmental purpose. (Reference the Hobby Lobby SCOTUS majority ruling).
Oh, and I'd like to point out that the law we are discussing was passed and signed into law by the FEDERAL government way back during Clinton's terms in office, was also adopted by 20 individual states including Illinois where B. Obama was serving at the time (and offered no objections to at the time). The only reason we are discussing this in Indiana is political theater....
On that note, I'm pretty much done with you on this.... I have better things to do than argue about your definition of what cannot be religious freedom in your view, because in reality your framework of reason is really more of an authoritarian "Government knows best" solution that is not about preserving freedom, but about something else....
Hobby Lobby is a recent example of businesses which are run by people with specific beliefs that have affected how they do business, Chick-Fil-A is another. Both businesses are closed on Sunday out of deference to their religious beliefs. Are you implying they should NOT be free to do that?
Entirely a different argument. In the case of those two businesses imposing their own private "blue laws", there is absolutely NO DISCRIMINATION against a CERTAIN CLASS of the population. NO ONE can shop at those two businesses; it isn't just the "heathens" that are excluded.
So I cannot say, not do business with people who have pink underwear? Private businesses are FREE to discriminate based on you appearance, your smell, or even your gender as they see fit. They also have the right to refuse entry to individuals if they run a retail store. (No kids in the china shop for instance), "No shirt, no shoes, no service!" etc. Yes there are protected classes codified into law (as well there should be) but the first amendment is abundantly clear that government does NOT have the right to insert itself by law into the religious beliefs or expression of these beliefs and that includes how a business chooses to conduct it's business. You don't give up your religious freedom just because you have a business.
In the case of the Religious Bigotry Protection Act, we have actually CODIFIED an Entanglement between Religion and Government, without even the slightest scintilla of "Overriding Public Interest" in endorsing this discriminatory behavior UNDER COLOR OF LAW.
Actually what is wrong is those who UNDER COLOR OF LAW attempt to force businesses to act or do things outside their religious values. That Gay couple that sued the bakery for refusing to make them a wedding cake (you've heard the stories) when the owners objected to participating in the wedding in any way. Having the courts order them to violate their moral values is doing exactly what you say shouldn't be done. My religious freedom trumps your right to force My business UNDER COLOR OF LAW to do what you decide is right. Or we really have no religious freedom...
Don't Have to Serve Someone who Doesn't Agree with Your Religion (without having to CLEARLY POST your Religion): Where's the Public Interest?
It's in the constitution, first amendment actually. It's also discussed in the declaration of independence. But Just so you know what I'm talking about:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Which was promulgated to include the states by the 14th which states in part: " No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States"
Seems pretty clear that what I'm advocating for is constitutional. Where I wish laws like this where unnecessary, unfortunately there are those who UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW seek to limit others religious rights and I don't see a constitutional issue with making a state law that protects such rights.
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A Stalinist Antibiotic Alternative
By Lawrence Osborne
Published: February 6, 2000
In a barely heated ward for newborns on the top floor of the Georgian Republic Children's Hospital, Tamila Gogitidze carefully opens a glass ampul filled with amber liquid. The hospital, in the Degomi suburb of Georgia's decaying capital city, Tbilisi, is a spartan affair: its radiators are ramshackle, the electricity intermittent and the raw concrete heavy on the eyes. A few American posters of babies cavorting in cabbages seem direly out of place. The liquid trapped inside the ampul, meanwhile, can be identified from a box on the floor. Its label is Latin: Bacteriophagum Intestinalis Fluidum. Gogitidze, a nurse on the intensive care unit for newborns, cracks open the ampul, pours the liquid onto a teaspoon and prepares to administer it to one of her babies, a 3-month-old boy abandoned at the hospital a few days before by his impoverished family. He is screaming lustily.
''Look,'' Gogitidze says, holding up a tiny wrist. ''The parents made a kind of crude tattoo so that they can identify him later on. But for now, we must focus on his intestinal infection.''
The fluidum is tipped like any cough syrup into the boy's blubbering mouth. His face contorts into a horrible wince; I look apprehensive. But Dr. Tamar Gotua, head of the intensive care unit, takes my arm and says: ''We use them with almost all our children. Don't look so worried!''
It's hard not to feel worried in Georgia. After years of bloody civil war following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the republic is in free fall. Electricity runs for only part of the day; blackouts are a daily, if not hourly, occurrence. Nevertheless, in this dilapidated neonatal ward a possibly revolutionary medicine, one essentially unknown in the West, is being casually administered on a simple teaspoon: bacteriophages, or microscopic viruses that actually ''eat'' bacteria.
Downstairs in the same hospital, I talk with Dr. Irakli Pavlenishvili, head of pediatrics, in an office so cold that our breath mists. The doctor offers me some Greek brandy and warms his hands by a portable electric heater. We chain-smoke furiously. ''We've been using phages for years,'' he says briskly, looking up nervously at the flickering lights. ''There are no major side effects. They're a living, natural force, not a toxic chemical. I wish our electricity were as reliable!''
Today, the West is paying renewed attention to this unheralded therapy created behind the Iron Curtain. The reason: antibiotic resistance. Although drugs like penicillin have held killer bacteria at bay for half a century, the bugs keep genetically adapting to them, evolving into tougher, smarter variants of ancient adversaries. The systematic overuse of antibiotics by doctors, especially in the United States, has helped breed ''superbugs'' -- bacteria resistant to even the most potent antibiotics, like vancomycin.
Last year, The New England Journal of Medicine published an alarming editorial about superbugs. ''The outlook is rather grim,'' it wrote. ''The adaptive potential of the microbial world is such that for each new antibiotic that is introduced, several escape mechanisms are soon devised.''
Alexander Tomasz, a leading microbiologist at Rockefeller University, agrees: ''The miracle days of antibiotics are over. We simply didn't think enough about the evolutionary consequences of drug use.'' With leading medical researchers in the West looking anxiously for antibiotic alternatives, bacteriophage therapy is suddenly looking ''very promising,'' as Tomasz puts it.
''I'm convinced that bacteriophages will work,'' says Carl Merril, chief of the biochemical genetics laboratory at the National Institutes of Health. ''But there's the psychological obstacle of a new treatment coming from the former Soviet Union. It's unusual, to say the least.''
They may sound exotic, but bacteriophages are in fact among the most common organisms on earth. (The word derives from the Greek phagin, ''to eat.'') Viral predators only one-fortieth the size of the average bacteria cell, they swarm unseen around us, busily searching and destroying their favorite food: germs. In electron microscope images, phages show up as ghostly, spiderlike creatures with transparent box-shaped heads, rigid tails and a tangle of legs for gripping their prey. They are so tiny that a single drop of tap water may contain a billion of them.
How do phages kill bacteria? The answer is, with chilling efficiency. Latching onto the walls of a bacteria cell, the phage injects it with the genetic material stored in its very own head. Like a living syringe, it gradually empties itself into the victim and takes over its genetic machinery. Inside the helpless bacteria, bits and pieces of ''daughter'' phages begin to appear with sinister rapidity: rows of little heads, lines of tails, then legs. These different body parts assemble into miniphages, using the host cell as a kind of factory. As the phages multiply exponentially inside it, the bacterium's walls weaken -- then explode like a soap bubble. Scientists call this rather nightmarish process ''lysis.'' It is the flash point of a gigantic microbial war between phages and bacteria, in which humans are a mere side issue.


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(Español) Un paraguas, el maravilloso patio de Casa Batlló y una gran dosis de ingenio y creatividad son los ingredientes que han hecho de esta imagen la ganadora del mes de febrero del concurso de fotografía mensual que organiza la Joya Arquitectónica de Gaudí
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Pink sky on the roof of Casa Batlló seen through the lens of @dominicbeaven, winner of January #photocontest
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Gaudí's architecture is a synonym of Art. Not surprisingly, serves as a source of inspiration for many artists, whether they are illustrators, poets or fashion designers, that find in its live ways and in the multitude of colours countless ideas that eventually move in pieces of clothes.
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Sencillamente increible, una casa impresionante con muchos detalles que recuerdan al mar y a criaturas marinas de fantasia.
Got online tickets so gladly skipped a line. I also got an audio tour, this way you learn about lots of trivias and facts of this house. Lovely place, gives you a glimpse into Gaudi's way of thinking and working.
Gaudi was a man of superpower! My mouth dropped at the details and purposeful designs incorporated in this building. I'm sure I am one of the few people who will say that...I love Casa Batllo more than La Sagrada Familia.
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If you like Gaudi`s work you should visit this place. I think modernism architeture is very interesting. I enjoyed this place very much.
Mayra A
Absolutely unique, a Gaudi masterpiece well worth a visit after a visit to Sagrada Familia another Gaudi masterpiece
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Take your time (a few hours) to visit this stunning place. The more you look around you, the more you see and the more impressed you are. Don't forget to take the audio-tour with you, the additional info is certainly worth while.
"Unique Architecture"
This is another house by the architect Gaudi and well worth a visit. The house is unique and interesting and I could only imagine the lucky family that got to live here. I am sure they had some amazing parties in the unbelievable living room with the big windows. The stairwell has beautiful tile work in varying shades of blue.
"The best of the houses we visited"
We also did La Pedrera and if we had to choose to only do one it would be Casa Batllo. La Pedrera was very interesting as well but not as stunning as Casa Battlo. A beautiful place and not to be missed
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We enjoyed a guided tour. It really brought to life the architecture. This is one of the landmarks of Barcelona and is a well preserved Gaudi building.
"Architecture/Art at it's best"
Nothing like this place. A residence designed by Gaudi all the way down to the furniture. Do a guided tour so you don't miss a detail of this wonderful place!
"The most beautiful of Gaudi's work"
I know other houses and buildings get more attention, but this small house is just so Idilic and gorgeous I was breathless. The staff is well prepared, gracious and really attentious! I recommend (like any other activity in Barcelona) you book your tickets online in advance.
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Looking Ahead 2015: Week 21
February 27, 2015
March is the month that tries fantasy hockey owners' souls. The season is winding down, the stakes a...
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Milan Lucic scores twice as Bruins down Rangers
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Boston, MA, United States (4E Sports) - Forward Milan Lucic scored twice as the Boston Bruins spoiled the return of New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist with a 4-2 win Saturday at TD Garden.
Carl Soderberg and Reilly Smith added a goal each as the Bruins (37-25-13) survived the loss of goaltender Tuukka Rask to win for the first time in seven games.
Rask left the game 10 seconds into the second period after stoppage of play. He didn't show any sign of being injured or ill but he went straight into the dressing room and was replaced by Niklas Svedberg . Rask had 14 saves while Svedberg had 16 saves.
With the win, the Rangers increased their point total to 87, two points ahead of the Ottawa Senators for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the Eastern Conference.
Lundqvist , who made his first start in 26 games, finished with 26 saves while Matt Hunwick and Rick Nash scored for the Rangers (47-20-7), who had a six-game road winning streak ended.
Despite the loss, the Rangers remained atop the Eastern Conference with 101 points, one ahead of the Montreal Canadiens , who play the Florida Panthers Saturday.
Lucic snapped a six-game goal drought at 1:41 of the first period with a little help from video review. The rebound of a Patrice Bergeron shot went off Lucic's skate and past Lundqvist .
The goal was disallowed on the ice but the NHL Situation Room overturned the call because in accordance with Rule 49.2: "A puck that deflects into the net off an attacking player's skate who does not use a distinct kicking motion is a legitimate goal."
Lucic doubled his scoring for the day and the Bruins' lead to 2-0 at 9:26, when he beat Lundqvist with a wrist shot from the left circle after defenseman Torey Krug gained the zone and dished off during a drive to the net.
Soderberg's solo effort extended the Bruins' lead to 3-0 at 14:27 before Smith's first goal in 15 games gave the Bruins a four-goal lead at 5:53 of the second period.
At 16:49 of the second, Nash beat Svedberg with a backhand shot that cut the Bruins' lead to 4-1. Hunwick provided the final margin with 23 seconds remaining in the third.