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Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC 287

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @05:03PM from the googly-attrition dept.

Ted Samson IW writes "InfoWorld reports on an experiment in air economization, aka 'free cooling,' conducted by Intel. For 10 months, the chipmaker had 500 production servers, working at 90 percent utilization, cooled almost exclusively by outside air at a facility in New Mexico. Only when the temperature exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit did they crank on some artificial air conditioning. Intel did very little to address air-born contaminants and dust, and nothing at all to deal with fluctuating humidity. The result: a slightly higher failure rate — around 0.6 percent more — among the air-cooled servers compared to those in the company's main datacenter — and a potential savings of $2.87 million per year in a 10MW datacenter using free cooling over traditional cooling."

EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and VP Cheney 267

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @01:10PM from the aw-heck-why-not dept.

VisualE writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the illegal, unconstitutional, and ongoing dragnet surveillance of their communications and communications records. The five individual plaintiffs are also suing President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and other individuals who ordered or participated in the warrantless domestic surveillance."

Open Access For Research Gaining Steam 64

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 02, 2007 @01:35AM from the popularity-contests dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that open access to research is gaining steam as more than 20,000 people, including Nobel Prize winners, have signed a petition calling for greater access to publicly-funded research. While publishers are fighting open access, a growing number of funding agencies and universities are making it a mandatory requirement."

Marvin Minsky On AI 231

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 02, 2007 @12:18AM from the dreaming-of-electric-sheep dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a three-part Dr. Dobbs podcast, AI pioneer and MIT professor Marvin Minsky examines the failures of AI research and lays out directions for future developments in the field. In part 1, 'It's 2001. Where's HAL?' he looks at the unfulfilled promises of artificial intelligence. In part 2 and in part 3 he offers hope that real progress is in the offing. With this talk from Minsky, Congressional testimony on the digital future from Tim Berners-Lee, life-extension evangelization from Ray Kurzweil, and Stephen Hawking planning to go into space, it seems like we may be on the verge of another AI or future-science bubble."

Journal Journal: F-22 Navigation Glitch: "It worked fine in the lab" 4

Journal by DingerX on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:20AM

IFENs aren't the only computer system you can crash in flight, evidently. The shiny-new F-22 raptor arrived in Okinawa this weekend, the first overseas deployment for the USAF's most advanced and most expensive fighter. The arrival was a week late, due to a

Feed Steve Jobs, Proud to Be Nonunion (feedburner.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @09:12AM

Apple's CEO thinks teachers' unions ruined education. Maybe teaching can be outsourced to Chinese iPod factories where unions aren't a problem. Commentary by Leander Kahney.

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