Links for 2009-05-21

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
(tags: amazon aws import export data-portability s3)