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Transparency: The Key to Cloud Security

If your cloud provider refuses to answer any specific question about their security architecture related to your security requirements, run--don't walk--away from that vendor

Active Facebook Users By Country

Since I last posted numbers on Facebook's user base six week ago, the company has added close to 20 million active users. I've had a few requests for detailed numbers by country so I quickly assembled an update for each of the regions shown above....

PyMOTW: multiprocessing, part 1

The multiprocessing module includes a relatively simple API for dividing work up between multiple processes based on the API for the threading module.

Judith Krug: heroine of libraries, Internet, PATRIOT Act resistance

Consider giving a donation to your local public library this week in honor of Judith Krug, whose death at the age of 69 was announced this morning. Krug defended libraries and the Internet from censorship, and advised librarians how to protect their patrons from government spying on their reading habits.

Character-length restrictions, RPC, and choosing FriendFeed over Twitter

Database field-length silliness has haunted me throughout my career as an data/information architect, and I've never liked it. "VARCHAR(255)? What? Because in the lifetime of that data, which by the way you'd better be planning to exceed the lifetime of this miserable application, you're never going to need more than 255 characters?" ... So here comes Twitter with it's damned 140 characters.

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