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Comment Re:I won't move to VOIP. (Score 1) 288

by general scruff on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @08:35AM (#24098513) Attached to: Telecoms Suing Municipalities That Plan Broadband Access

16.95 is a bargain. After all the fees and with no long distance, I would still be paying twice that in Maine. Its going to get even worse now that Fairpoint bought all of Verizon's lines in Maine, NH, and VT.

Bookmark Nintendo pledges to pour out more Wiis (reghardware.co.uk)

by general scruff on Friday April 27, 2007 @10:20AM

Feed Neural Implants Help Injured Go (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday February 16, 2007 @05:12PM

People with spinal-cord injuries can't urinate on command, but implants promise to reconnect their bladders to their brains. In Bodyhack.

Feed Feds Pull Traveler Help Site (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday February 16, 2007 @05:12PM

Homeland Security pulls down a website link for travelers with watchlist problems after 27BStroke6 points out security flaws. But TSA won't say whether the site was legal. In 27B Stroke 6.

Server Power Consumption Doubled Over Past 5 years 148

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, 2007 @05:05PM from the lets-get-that-fusion-thing-going-huh dept.

Watt's up writes "A new study shows an alarming increase in server power consumption over the past five years. In the US, servers (including cooling equipment) consumes 1.2% of all the electricity in 2005, up from 0.6% in 2000. The trend is similar worldwide. 'If current trends continue, server electricity usage will jump 40 percent by 2010, driven in part by the rise of cheap blade servers, which increase overall power use faster than larger ones. Virtualization and consolidation of servers will work against this trend, though, and it's difficult to predict what will happen as data centers increasingly standardize on power-efficient chips." We also had a recent discussion of power consumption in consumer PCs that you might find interesting.

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