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Submission + - New Type of Cloud Discovered (wired.com) 3

Submitted by phantomfive on Saturday October 10, 2009 @12:19AM

phantomfive writes: In Iowa and Scotland there are reports of a type of cloud not yet recognized by the World Meteorological Foundation. It seems the cloud does not match any of the clouds in the International Cloud Atlas, and thus there is a campaign underway to have it included. Some have said the clouds look like armageddon has arrived. For me, writing clouds all these times makes me want to eat cotton candy.

Submission + - What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent for warez? (computerworld.com)

Submitted by ericatcw on Friday October 09, 2009 @10:24PM

ericatcw writes: Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites like RapidShare, reports Computerworld. According to anti-piracy vendor, V.I. Labs, 100% of the wares in its survey were available on Rapidshare, which according to Alexa, is already one of the 20 largest sites in the world. V.I. Labs' CEO predicts file-hosting sites such as Rapidshare to supplant BitTorrent, as the former appear better protected legally.

Submission + - Open Source could have saved Ontario $1 billion (iphone.cbc.ca)

Submitted by Platinum Dragon on Friday October 09, 2009 @08:38PM

Platinum Dragon writes: Ontario's auditor-general released a blistering report this week detailing how successive governments threw away a billion dollars developing an integrated electronic medical record system. This CBC article highlights an open source system developed at McMaster University that is already used by hundreds of doctors in Ontario. As one of the developers points out, "we don't have very high-priced executives and consultants," some of whom cost Ontario taxpayers $2700 per day.

Submission + - SPAM: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe

Submitted by coondoggie on Friday October 09, 2009 @06:15PM

coondoggie writes: The U.S. House of Representatives has taken its last mainframe offline, signaling the end of a computing era in Washington, D.C.

The last mainframe supposedly enjoyed "quasi-celebrity status" within the House data center, having spent 12 years keeping the House's inventory control records and financial management data, among other tasks. But it was time for a change, with the House spending $30,000 a year to power the mainframe and another $700,000 each year for maintenance and support.
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Comment Re:9 more books! (Score 1) 1021

by soluzar22 on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @05:57PM (#29663563) Attached to: What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class?

I hope you're joking about David Eddings, since his work seems to me simplistic in the extreme and a perfect example of how to write boring fantasy by the numbers. Especially when your next choice of author is the excellent Greg Bear, this seems bizarre.

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