It is not mentioned in the docs, but not only EBS performance is unreliable, but it is also not uncommon to get a "stuck" EBS volume, where no I/O operations go through at all. So you have to a) monitor and be ready to take action on "dead" hosts stuck on IO and b) not completely rely on EBS as perfect (it is possible to recover data, in most cases, but it is much easier if you can just create a new one and kill the misbehaving volume, automatically).
So in case of running custom data-intensive setup you could:
1. create a RAID out of several EBS volumes, maintain that - predictable speed, much better reliability
2. easier if you need a small scale solution - regular ebs snapshots and be ready to lose some inbetween snapshot data. Also, I think performance of disk is not a big issue in MongoDB case, so case 2 might be enough for your application. EBS failures are rare, afterall, so unless your data is critical and there is no way to do replication, snapshots would do.
A lot of people hated the most toilet-like car I can think of, the 1998 Fiat Multipla. It still sold a whole lot, and I personally liked it. Making design pronouncements is a tricky business.
G+ definitely needs a circle exclusion option. Then you could have public posts with several circles excluded (they can still read it since it's public but it won't pollute their stream unless they reply).
But they will pick it up soon, no doubt. The need is there, technical possibilities are endless, so submit your feedback as I did and wait.
So you still have a major disappointment ahead when your online personas (all of which are public btw) will clash with undesired consequences. At least in G+ you are controlling your privacy, not just luck/obscurity which you currently seem to rely on.
run away from such sites as they obviously store your password in a database. there should be no difference which length is the password since database only stores constant length salted hash of it.
Keepass is quite advanced and has exporting ability. I switched to it several years ago from PINs using export in half an hour. No problems with transition. Also lost quite a few harddrives and laptops during those years - no problems if you have a backup, and you always have because your passwords database is synced across all of your computers (or it does not make sense).
So, no, there are no problems using password managers. I don't understand how somebody can be NOT using one in this day and time, seems pretty crazy to use insecure or similar passwords.
Hope they won't actually enforce this patent unless they start going out of business.
This is going beyond ridiculous now, trivial ideas with trivial tech behind them have no value and should not be protectable with a patent - it's not like there is a face recognition technology involved, or anything an intern can't "invent" and code within an hour.
Right, but this is a trivial idea that's trivial to implement. Facebook would have created this feature with or without the patent system's existence, so the patent is a net loss for society.
Agreed that they were first to fully implement this particular "graphical" tagging with confirmations. However the technology is nevertheless too simplistic to be patented.
Just saying that any business which is a leader in some new field comes up with similar inventions daily - not because they are ingenious or full of great ideas, but because nobody before even considered this path. It does not make them patent-worthy.
If moon astronauts would have patented their first step, nobody would have followed (example is bad on purpose :) ).
But anyway, still hoping that it was a defensive step. This whole system is so poisonous that it pushes well-intentioned companies into playing the stupid game to be protected.
Actually, that is precisely what the patent system is supposed to protect.
(IANAL, but...) The deal with the patent system is that the creator of an invention gets an exclusive and time-limited right to production and sale (or if method, use) in exchange for openly disclosing the details of the invention with society. Society benefits by gaining knowledge, the inventor benefits by having a temporary right to what they have created.
In the United States, the patent system is defined as "first-to-invent" (the alternative being first-to-file). By definition, it protects the "first to come up with an idea," as long as the idea is useful, novel, and non-obvious. The idea must also meet a statutory requirement, which is to say, patentable.
This is where arguments can be made, as programs may be considered mere "descriptive material."
