The probability of digging into any old hillside and create a facility like this is quite low and would be quite expensive. The reason this exists is due to a (profitable) mining operation in the first place. So, that should answer your question. Yes, mining is a profitable business and it is worth the cost to take natural elements out of a mountain. Once the resources have been harvested simply starting a data center in the space left over would be worth the cost. Another geological bonus for this location is a nearby underground lake that can be used as for thermal transfer.

Unfortunately you posted to undo bad moderation with bad content. The video is of a game playing quick and snappy (60 fps), but according to TFA there was a video creation problem. *speculation* One possible reason could be due to youtube only allowing 30fps. If the content is created at 60fps and it is displayed at 30fps, it would be twice as slow. *end speculation*

Any place someone feels (correctly or incorrectly) they've been treated wrongly, it is a place for lawyers to grow and make money.

This is silly even before the stated "instant and ever-present" information. The only way something like this works is if the newspaper sends out retractions after a criminal leaves prison. Ummm, today 57 criminals were released from prison, but we cannot say their names, so please throw away Section B, C and J from December 12, 2001 to March 3, 2006. This law is completely idiotic. I can understand their thoughts about "new" news articles, but the articles that are already there are stating facts that cannot be erased...get over it.

After backing up my 9.04 install, I performed a fresh 9.10 install which allowed me to change from ext3 to ext4 (kept /boot as etx3).
Blank and flickering screens: No
Failure to recognize hard drives: Nope
Defaulting to old 2.6.28 Linux kernel: Nope, I'm on 2.6.31-14
Failure to get encryption running: well, yeah, but only because I didn't use it.

PulseAudio now works in Skype
My webcam now works and doesn't freeze after 3 minutes.
Boot times are a lot faster (although I haven't really had to reboot except to install the nvidia 185.18.36 driver)
Movie Player now actually plays video while Firefox is running.
Sound in VMWare works without making any changes or customizations.
My dual monitor setup now works properly through the Nvidia control panel
Flash video works a lot better in Firefox.

OK, can all of these good things be attributed to 9.10? Probably not, but I'd just like to show that 9.10 is working great. I've submitted a bug report already, but I always do. Great work to the Ubuntu and Linux community. I have a lot of friends that have upgraded and all have had tons more positives in 9.10 than negatives.

From the Summary:
"The article states that some subscribers have had their access cut off for more than two years." WRONG.

From the Article:
"The terms and conditions Karoo enforce are not new - the BBC has spoken to customers whose accounts were suspended over two years ago." In actuality, this only means that the enforcement of this policy has been in use for over two years, not that actual customers have been without internet access for that time duration.

Agreed. I'm optimistic that there will be a day when there are no wars, but unfortunately I think that will be right after the meteor wipes us humans off the face of the earth.

Sometimes keeping people employed on large projects is a good enough reason for a government job, stimulating the economy and trying to keep unemployment numbers down.

I'm sorry, but all of these are irrelevant arguments. Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel, so he already had his money. Mozart was in debt for most of his life, but he was likewise paid in advance for most of his pieces. Leonardo da Vinci also was commissioned to create most of his art. Don't compare the artist to the people who paid for the art. If the Sistine Chapel wanted to charge an admittance fee to see the art they purchased, that would be absolutely fine.

Your examples can be generalized, did some artist that sold his art try to return after the sale and demand that he be given more money? No, because he had already sold his right to do so.

Look, I hate Sony just as much as the next guy and cannot remember the last time I actually purchased a Sony product accidentally or planned. Even if the PS3 becomes the only console out there, I wouldn't buy it. I would make my own console out of cardboard and imagine the game being projected on the wall. Every time Sony puts a product in the marketplace it is an investment on their part. The only option that I have to protest their idiocy is by not giving them a ROI (money). If enough consumers actually care about Sony's practices and likewise refuse to purchase their investments, then Sony will have to adapt. Anyway, I have no idea how your comments were marked as "Insightful" as they lack insight and are blindingly fallacious.

We had a contractor wire our office and had no problems until we started using roaming profiles. A few of the connection terminators were bad and only allowed a 1mb/s connection. The computers that had these problems normally only transfered a text files from the server, or surfed the internet and weren't really using more than that bandwidth anyway. So, with large file copies associated with roaming profiles, we finally found the problem. At that point, I distrusted the contractors work and had every connection redone (40 total) and retested to the full 1000mbs our network actually supported.

So my suggestion is this. Unless someone kicks the cable every day, there isn't much to go wrong. Monitor for abnormally high number of collisions on one port, and yearly perform throughput tests.

I too was down to 20 minutes or so, but then I bought a new one off eBay for $27 shipped. I debated getting a new laptop since mine is over 5 years old, but ya know what, it runs Linux just perfectly. My laptop has a really nice video card and screen resolution and I wouldn't be able to replace that for under $800. So, my new battery purchase was a no-brainer.

You forgot to correct the AC on his/her ellipse usage. Although ellipses are accepted in less formal settings, a semi-colon is often preferred. For a more pedantic view of the English language, you should read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation." It's amazing how many nationalized differences there are with punctuation usage and spelling.

And now for something on-topic that doesn't feed the trolls. Although the "horse already left the barn", that won't stop the MPAA from getting the FBI to nail someone to the barn door. Given enough publicity, even a pathetic attempt at stopping the spread of an already leaked movie will probably deter some people from future movie pirating. This makes me think of older criminal punishments with a high "public spectacle" quotient like the stockades or the fictional "Scarlet Letter." Anyway, through their eyes, disrupting 50 business and possibly 911 services is a minor inconvenient means to an end.

The vote happened at 22:45 (10:45pm). So, let's hypothetically walk through the events of the night leading up to this point. 41 hours and 40 minutes earlier (TFA doesn't actually give a start time), so they started discussions Wednesday morning at 3:05am. This seems amazing for Frenchmen. Anyway, after about 40 hours and 55 minutes, around 10:00pm the next day, everyone thinks it's late and this is getting a little over the top. So, everyone starts mingling around and leaving. By 10:40pm just about everyone is gone, so the decision to take the vote happens. The four who voted "no" were actually supposed to vote "yes", but were so tired at this point that they raised their hands at the wrong time. With marathon sessions like this, no wonder silly laws get passed. By the end they don't even know what they are voting for.

Right now, I live in a house with 8 other guys. No one has a TV, so most of the guys use legal sites like Hulu to watch shows they like. We have a house rule of only legit movie/music/app torrents unless your name is on the bill. Since, he's the one to potentially get in trouble if the RIAA comes knocking so let him take the risk if he really wants to. Anyway, even with that rule in place, we would cruise through a 40Gb/month plan in a little more than a day, and a 40GB/month plan in just over a week. If everyone was torrenting, I don't even want to know how quickly we would hit the limit at 20Mb/s down and 10Mb/s up.

I was cramming to finish a children's book for my literature class in high school. I worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday (without sleep); printed it out at Kinko's Monday morning and was at school by 7:30am. I finally fell asleep during my last class of the day, missed the bus and had to wonder around the building until I found someone to drive me home.