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Comment Re:This Just In (Score 1) 767

by DaoudaW on Sunday September 21, 2008 @09:37PM (#25098759) Attached to: Palin Email Hacker Found

Not that I like her, but everyone's entitled to having personal accounts which should be respected. If she used her .gov account for everything some people would be complaining about her usage of public resources to email her family. Now, about what was found in the yahoo account: Obviously it would inadmissible in court, but it's very useful to her enemies anyway. Which I find disgusting.

You are pointing out the real issue without reaizing it. She has a history of making the public private and the private public. Cases in point: she appears to have used her Yahoo account to hide conversations with state officials from public scrutiny which is clearly illegal, but she revealed details of ongoing cases to her husband Todd which he used to exert inappropriate pressure on those with whom she disagrees.

Submission + - 'Dumb Terminals' Can Be a Smart Move for Companies

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Carl Bialik from WSJ

on Tuesday January 30, 2007 @12:32AM

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes: "More companies are forgoing desktop and laptop computers for dumb terminals — reversing a trend toward powerful individual machines that has been in motion for two decades, the Wall Street Journal reports. 'Because the terminals have no moving parts such as fans or hard drives that can break, the machines typically require less maintenance and last longer than PCs. Mark Margevicius, an analyst at research firm Gartner Inc., estimates companies can save 10% to 40% in computer-management costs when switching to terminals from desktops. In addition, the basic terminals appear to offer improved security. Because the systems are designed to keep data on a server, sensitive information isn't lost if a terminal gets lost, stolen or damaged. And if security programs or other applications need to be updated, the new software is installed on only the central servers, rather than on all the individual PCs scattered throughout a network.'"

Water Cooling Computers With A Swimming Pool 241

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday January 06, 2007 @11:27AM from the take-your-pc-for-a-dip dept.

guzugi writes "This is a project I have been working for several months and been hypothesizing for much longer. The basic idea is to shortcut the need for an air conditioner when cooling multiple computers. Swimming pool water is pumped into the house and through several waterblocks to effectively cool these hot machines. This greatly reduces noise cooling requirements."

A Sneak Preview of KDE 4 350

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday January 05, 2007 @05:59AM from the pretty-gooey dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In recent times, a lot of discussion has been generated about the state of KDE version 4.0 and as Linux users we are ever inquisitive about what the final user experience is going to be. This article throws light on some of the features that we can look forward to when KDE 4.0 is finally released some time this year. The article indicates that the most exciting fact about KDE 4.0 is going to be that it is developed using the Qt 4.0 library. This is significant because Qt 4.0 is released under a GPL license even for non-Unix platforms. So this clears the ideological path for KDE 4.0 to be ported to Windows and other non-Unix/X11 platforms."

Fuel Cell Powered Japanese Trains on Trial in July 295

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @10:43PM from the clean-choo-choo dept.

ScorpFromHell writes "As per this yahoo! news item, "East Japan Railway Co. is to conduct a test run of the world's first fuel-cell-powered train in July. The fuel cells, which generate power from a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, will help reduce environmental pollution compared to the existing electric and diesel engines, the company said." But I wonder how much energy did it consume to produce those huge amounts of Hydrogen & Oxygen? Will it be lesser than the power generated by the reaction between them? In other words, can this technology be used by countries with not so deep pockets as Japan?"

MAKE Switches To BUY 43

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 01, 2006 @06:38PM from the be-a-good-consumer dept.

ptorrone writes "It's been a rough year for MAKE Magazine, you see, everyone wants to buy things and not make things, so we're switching our format and rebranding the magazine to BUY. The next volume will be filled with wonderful things you can buy and directives on things to do, like buy more. Our new designer, Nada, has some shots of the next volume here."

Google Accused of Bio-piracy 248

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 30, 2006 @10:56AM from the ahoy-maties-turn-over-those-ribonucleic-acids-if-you-please dept.

Simon Phillips writes "ZDNet is reporting that Google has been accused of being the 'biggest threat to genetic privacy' this year for its plan to create a searchable database of genetic information. From the article: 'Google was presented with an award as part of the Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy in Curitiba, Brazil, this week. The organisers allege that Google's collaboration with genomic research institute J. Craig Venter to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet is a clear example of biopiracy.'"

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