Overnight Open Thread
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
— Mark Twain
'Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so...
‘They Didn’t Spare Women or Children’
The murderers who staged the Mumbai attacks were ruthless: Scene of Unimaginable Carnage Inside Taj Majal Hotel.
The scene Saturday night inside the Taj Majal hotel was one of unimaginable carnage in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist onslaught across Mumbai.
Two Indian commandos told FOX News that 150 bodies still were inside the hotel, and dead victims were found all over the hotel, on all five floors.
The terrorists used incendiary bombs, or grenades thrown on gas or fuel canisters, indicating they had access to the Taj hotel in advance, though the Taj Majal hotel denies any staffers were involved. …
The siege was particularly troubling because “they didn’t spare women or children.”
UPDATE at 11/29/08 6:32:35 pm:
And there was slaughter at the Chabad House.
There is no honor in Islam. There is no G-d in Islam. Islam is the belief system of cockroaches. What does one do with cockroaches? No mercy on the wretched souls of those who believe in Mohammad. Any feeling of...Finally, the Pressing Issue of Tubers
The headline says it all: USDA Official Takes Courageous Stand Against Interstate Countercyclical Potato Pricing.
These guys are sic! There should be a new techno term for this type of humor not unlike the term fauxtography...maybe: fauxhoax or fauxhaux, fuaxhaha, fauxsatirical, fauxpolfunny, fauxfauxthepriceofone, fauxfoolery, fauxdya, '...to everything faux, faux, faux', fauxshishel, aperfaux, 1fauxall, awlfaux, fauxsadistic,...Tech Note: Live Comments, 2
I had to take down the front page live comment updates for a couple of days to figure out why MySQL was deadlocking. We all know how painful that can be.
Turns out that MyISAM tables suffer from an obscure problem related to concurrent reads and writes, that’s exacerbated when the SELECT query uses a GROUP BY clause. The comments at LGF need to be stored in MyISAM tables in order to allow the use of FULLTEXT indexing, which greatly helps with searching. But the Ajax DB query that periodically checked for new comments in each front page thread was causing that deadlock condition.
The solution was to use a separate table in InnoDB format (which doesn’t have the concurrent deadlocking problem) that is updated every time a comment is posted, with just the info needed to display the live comments on the front page. This ends up being much faster as well, which is a good thing since the code runs in every logged-in browser, every 15 seconds. It’s been running for over an hour with no sign of deadlocking, so I’m prepared to pronounce the bug dead.
If that made no sense to you, worry not. Hey, look! An open thread!
re: #428 Charles Charles, http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ It's pretty easy to set up. I can answer any questions you have as well. Also, updates to your table will be *way* faster getting rid of FT. FT kind of sucks ;) CaptTofu/KrsnaDasSaturday Afternoon Open
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.
— P.J. O’Rourke
I recently went for four years without health insurance. Now retired, it was too expensive on my own, and I took the chance and decided to eat and pay the mortgage/bills instead. I had several problems over that time; there...Rather Defensive
As we’ve written previously, the mainstream media seem to be slowly but surely re-legitimizing the “Rathergate” documents, casting doubt on whether they really were fraudulent. Matthew Hoy points out the latest example, a column at the Miami Herald by Edward Wasserman: Dan Rather’s defenders.
I know (as does the rest of the world) that the flippy memo gif image that originated on this web site was instrumental in debunking the TANG story. Since then, everyone on the left has been trying to rationalize that...Video: Mumbai Police Cleaning Up
Here’s a Reuters video clip on the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks.
re: #2 Age Of Freedom Revisited the video because on first listen I did not really, clearly hear the reporters useage of 'Islamist'...but, she does in a drive-by manner. The word was presented in a quick almost muffled fashion as...Mumbai Terrorism Updates
The terrorist attack in Mumbai is finally over.
Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday, ending a 60-hour rampage that killed 195 people in India’s financial capital, as authorities shifted their focus to who was behind the attacks.
A previously unknown Muslim group claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed 18 foreigners including six Americans. Indian officials said the sole surviving gunman was from Pakistan and pointed a finger of blame at their neighbor. Islamabad denied involvement and promised to help in the investigation. A team of FBI agents was on its way to India to lend assistance.
Some 295 people also were wounded in the violence that started when at least a dozen heavily armed assailants attacked 10 sites across Mumbai on Wednesday night. At least 20 soldiers and police were among the dead.
Orange flames and black smoke engulfed the landmark 565-room Taj Mahal hotel after dawn Saturday as Indian forces ended the siege there in a hail of gunfire, just hours after elite commandos stormed a Jewish center and found nine hostages dead.
With the high level of training, preparation, and coordination these terrorists showed, it’s pretty clear that this was more than just a local battle. It was a strike at the heart of India’s financial sector, it was targeted primarily against Westerners and Jews, and it was a message to the incoming Obama administration that the global jihad is alive and well.
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