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Some telcos seem quite intent on charging more for bandwidth than the cost of a film in a bargain bin. If telcos continue to strangle bandwidth then physical media will remain viable for a longer period.

It may be that each search term in a full-text index is held in a separate but hidden table and therefore large chunks of text create a large number of rows. This would explain why inserts would be slower and why quotas are more likely to be encountered.

The dataset is available via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=218782 and a tag cloud is available via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227932

Why are you not performing a one way hash on passwords?

Sending passwords via plain text forms and plain text emails are both bad practices. However, plain text email is distinctly worse because the data can linger for months or years in less secure systems.

A credit card number sent over unencrypted HTTP may only be vulnerable for a brief period. However, a credit card number sent over SSL and forwarded as a plain text email may be vulnerable until the credit card expires.

Well, you'll be much less likely to loose a remore control.

> I started a group for people with the same last name as me

This is blatant discrimination against people with common names and common surnames! They obviously wouldn't like the Lloyd Woods' Newsletter: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/others/newsletter...

(If you're wondering how hundreds of people called Lloyd Wood refer to each other then the convention is to use middle name and/or location.)

> nor do I want constant emails or notices

Is Facebook unaware of Nagle's algorithm? It is trivial to reduce bandwidth by batching notices. You could even set the maximum frequency yourself. Or is this not implemented because it would make the service less addictive and less viral?

http://www.howstuffworks.com/ is a good primer.