[ NNSquad ] A seriously loony "Hadoop is evil" article

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

A seriously loony "Hadoop is evil" article

"Netflix, Facebook - and the NSA: They're all in it together"

http://j.mp/179OqbS  (Salon)

    On June 9, the Wall Street Journal reported that for the last few
    years the National Security Agency has been relying on a software
    program "with the quirky name Hadoop" to help it make sense of its
    enormous collections of data. Named after a toy elephant that belonged
    to the child of one of the original developers of the program,
    "Hadoop," reported the Journal, is a crucial part of "a computing and
    software revolution a piece of free software that lets users
    distribute big-data projects across hundreds or thousands of
    computers."

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Oh brother, this "Hadoop is evil" article -- even in a week of loony
articles -- is in the running for the looniest.  

--Lauren--
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