Your morning commute identifies you uniquely : ‘analyzing data from the U.S. Census [shows] that for the average person, knowing their approximate home and work locations — to a block level — identifies them uniquely.’ are location-based services fundamentally incompatible with privacy
(tags: privacy location security fireeagle via:schneier commute where census)over 500k ops/sec from memcached with an UltraSPARC T2 : test load used 90% gets and 10% sets. sub-millisecond response times
(tags: sun solaris via:adriancockroft memcached scalability benchmarks performance)Sriracha comes from the US : I had no idea my favourite condiment wasn’t Thai or Vietnamese in origin. there you go
(tags: sriracha food condiments yum thailand vietnam hot-sauce)AWS Import/Export : send a USB/eSATA storage device to Amazon and they’ll bulk load data to S3 (or, in future, vice versa), for $80 + $2.49 per hour of transfer time. ‘If loading your data over the Internet would take a week or more, you should consider using AWS Import/Export.’ aka, sneakernet now a supported interface
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I’m not sure about that paper -they make the assumption that only one person commutes from the same (home, work) area, then show how that information doesn’t get degraded when sampling across larger areas. But it doesnt say they can uniquely identify everyone by their (home,work) latlong pairs.