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Very far, if it's a nuclear train

Informative, thanks for clarifying.

From TFA - it's an energy company with existing customers, they are planning to use those for distributed computing projects - security uptime and connection bandwidth is not an issues. Servicing clogged fans might be a hassle. Obviously they are going to charge customers for those "e-Radiators" - so basically energy company pays for hardware in electricity.

I guess more CPU intensive, less bandwidth hungry - you gonna freeze on media download and a like, very little CPU power needed to saturate fat pipe - those belongs to data-centers.

Quick googling on a topic shows different numbers , like "most of the world’s data centers, 63 percent of the power is associated with cooling the IT equipment" , new DC designs lowers ratio of power used for cooling to about 30%, etc. Less than 9% for cooling is in Iceland DCs, right?

I'm writing this from a wooden hut in rural Thailand. Place between 2 small towns, river view, 20 km to nearest 7-11, local children still amazed when they see foreigner - it's as far from civilization as it gets in Thailand. ADSL, Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps) 7168 / 506 - could be better, it's cheapest tariff, something less than $15/mo. My point is - there is no excuses for 64kbps torture anywhere in a country that invented the thing!

In Russia somebody made an android app for blocking debt collector agencies calls. Users add offending numbers to global list. Can something like this work to filter out telemarketers or they can freely change caller id?

You mean you wasted valuable time of their calling program? They probably pay very close to zero calling rates per minute, why bother? Or there is live person that will speak to you if you do not hang up after listening to the message?

Yeah, just wait a bit until Doomsday vault is full of seed samples, just in case.

If they'll add ~32 gigs of ssd cache for delayed writes (and faster reads as a bonus, and reliability in case of power failures) - it'll be overall winner.

Wanna bet?

Because what we perceive as the color of some surface is really a reflection of ambient light from that surface. So color of the surface would change depending on color of the light that it is reflecting. But our brain has auto white balance image preprocessing filter that fixes surface color for us based on light color , which is computed partially using our knowledge on what color things should normally have. In this picture dress could be white if it is not in a lighten by yellow colored light behind it, but lighten by blueish light source, and camera white balance is set somewhere in a middle. Otherwise it's blue.

Interestingly, the above link to dailymail redirects me to this http://203.113.26.210/ - I had to use ssh tunnel to get there. I, for one, welcome my local government censor overlords!

Population of this planet consume resources much faster than they are renewed, it can not last long. Our options are limited - we can continue as now, until real peak oil, peak population, peak production is reached, then kill each other for the leftovers. Another possibility is building a stable society - all the green stuff, birth control, no wars, probably no private enterprises, probably one de facto world government and total control - stagnation. Next is a science fiction dream - we colonise another planets, continue extensive development - wild west all over again, Firefly. The only path that guarantee survival of the humanity in a long run, but the least probable of all - looks like we gave up hopes on this one. And the last option would be to kill that 90% of population, more contagious ebola with longer incubation period? Considering that it is probably much easier to secretly develop bioweapon with cure or vaccine than to create cure in relatively short time - game theory in action, this outcome looks almost inevitable, even MAD not gonna help this time. Why I was telling all this? Because of the bright side - you probably should not worry about future unemployment :)

Kazahstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan - probably mostly those "parts of the former Soviet Union". Definitely not eastern Europe, and not Russia.