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MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL technology, and it's marketed to beginners and amateurs more than other NoSQL technologies are.
If an inexperienced developer botches security, they probably do it with technology that's common among inexperienced developers.
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Then why don't we see a similar number of mysql databases left wide open to the internet? It's the default backend to the most popular language among the clueless, PHP, but those sites are almost always pwnd via the webserver not by directly siphoning the database.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The MySQL team has had a lot more time to idiot-proof their default installations and beginner guides, while the MongoDB team is still focusing on other things first.
Read the following article for its side notes (which reveal insights into MongoDB's development):
https://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html
In any case, (whether you like it or not) a few security disasters won't slow down MongoDB adoption, but slowing down development to handle random things (such as idiot-proofing the product) can have large negative impacts on adoption rates.
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For the same reason PHP pages are the most vulnerable to attacks and software written in Visual Basic usually sucks.
Give monkeys dangerous tools, get zillions of injured.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Mongo only pawn in game of life.
Sorry. I couldn't resist.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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It's the VB thing -- there's nothing actually wrong with it except the skill level of most of its users.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The point I find shocking is not the "massive data leak". It is the dystopian world where everyone needs to know about others' location in real time.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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RedMonk's lastet programming language popularity report singles out TypeScript as a big mover among an otherwise fairly static ranking of the usual leaders. Who knew people like data types?
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Language I don't care about climbs a popularity scam I've never heard of.
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As a little side-project, I have been working on putting the artificial neural networks of AI Gigapixel to the test and having them upscale another favorite thing of mine... Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9). Finally: a useful project for machine learning
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Finally: a useful project for machine learning
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I always called it Deep Throat Nine because it was barely palatable!
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally!
JaxCoder.com
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MIT researchers describe an NAS algorithm that can directly learn specialized convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for target hardware platforms—when run on a massive image dataset—in only 200 GPU hours, which could enable far broader use of these types of algorithms. Is our AI learning?
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Implanted devices from Medtronic can have their firmware rewritten, DHS warns. A heart-breaking story
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A heart-breaking story
Not funny.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I thought it was quite funny. Humour is famously subjective.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I just checked out the share price of Medtronic and I am amazed that it has not plummeted!
I would have thought that this sort of issue would bring a company down overnight.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I would have expected too... but the world lost logic and common sense a while ago (if it ever was there)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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A consumer spyware vendor left a lot of incredibly sensitive and private data, including intimate pictures and private call recordings, for all to see on a server freely accessible over the internet. And it still hasn’t taken the data down. But...you just did?!
And now I did. O.o
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The topic of the article is a big face palm.
But on a side note... I don't know what is more worrying, that a company earns money with that, or that so many people buy / use it.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Key Takeaways
Complexity is the greatest impediment to a software company’s growth and profitability.
Development costs increase exponentially with respect to the complexity of your code base.
The choice between speed and simplicity is a false dichotomy. Investment in simplicity is investment in speed.
Few executives recognize the cost of complexity because they don’t understand the nature of the products they’re selling.
Software is a product like no other — a hybrid product-service with a very unique warranty.
Complexity is a characteristic of your company’s source code. It’s usually the consequence of several failings. "Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."
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I am alone in seeing a touch of irony in a big long "manifesto" that essentially says "K.I.S.S."?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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