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It really amazes me the lengths that people go to not have to put any effort into anything. When someone gets something that's free and it stops working they make all the complaints in the world to get some form of credit so it gets them free money they were never entitled to in the first place. This young lady is I'm sure violating the school's honor code by doing this, but granted she spent money so she wants her product. I agree the company did kind of pull a dochebag move, but the girl should have also known the risks of cheating.

Data Center Campus Will Generate its Own Power->

Submitted by 1sockchuck
1sockchuck writes "A large data center project in Reno, Nevada plans to generate its own power from natural gas and renewables, allowing tenants to use the local utility as a backup. As the cost and capacity of power becomes the driving force in data centers are built, The Reno Technology Park is expanding the traditional role of the data center builder. The developer plans to double as a power company, providing at least 440 megawatts of on-site power generation from natural gas, wind, solar and geothermal sources."
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Piracy

Georgia College's New Policy — Reporting All P2P Users To the Police 421

Posted by timothy
from the because-networking-is-wrong dept.
An anonymous reader excerpts from an article at TorrentFreak: "Georgia's Valdosta State University has updated its network with software that can pinpoint students who use P2P software. The university is committed to stop file-sharing on its network even if that results in prison sentences for students. Offenders will be disciplined by the school and then handed over to the police, the university has announced." School policy is one thing ("don't use file-sharing software on our resource-constrained network, or we may kick you off"), but I suspect the police wouldn't appreciate the task of sorting out legal from illegal use of widespread, essentially neutral software tools. Update: 11/15 18:27 GMT by T : Reader (and VSU alumnus) Matt Baker contacted the school; he reports that the school's IT director Joe Newton in response flatly denied the claims in the TorrentFreak article, and says the school hasn't installed such P2P tracking software, and doesn't hand students over the police, and says instead "I cannot foresee that we would ever do so." Thanks, Matt.
Google

Google Preparing To Launch G-Town 251

Posted by timothy
from the owe-my-soul-to-the-company-store dept.
theodp writes "The Mercury News reports that Google's aggressive online growth increasingly has a counterpart in bricks and mortar, with the company's Mountain View HQ mushrooming in the past four years to occupy more than 4 million square feet. And that's just for starters. On Silicon Valley's NASA Ames base, Google is preparing to build a new corporate campus with fitness and day care facilities and — in a first in the valley — employee housing, adding 1.2 million sqare feet to Google's real estate holdings. 'I don't want to say it's the new company town,' said commercial real estate VP Gregory M. Davies of Google's role, 'but it's not far from it.' Presumably, no anti-suicide nets will be needed for this one."
Microsoft

SPAM: McAfee apologizes after “false positive&rdqu

Submitted by IP-192.com
IP-192.com writes "Antivirus company McAfee apologized for it’s for its latest update that took down thousands computers around the world. "We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused our customers," said Barry McPherson on a McAfee blog post. The false positive brought thousands of computers running Microsoft’s Windows XP, SP3 to its knees. Affected companies and owners will have to manually clean their machines to get them working again.

"In the past 24 hours, McAfee identified a new threat that impacts Windows PCs. Researchers worked diligently to address this threat that attacks critical Windows system executables and buries itself deep into a computer’s memory," said McPherson. "McAfee is aware that a number of customers have incurred a false positive error due to this release. We believe that this incident has impacted less than one half of one percent of our enterprise accounts globally and a fraction of that within the consumer base..."

Meanwhile, McAfee’s Business Community blogger site and Twitter are awash with comments from angry users. It seemed that the National Science Foundation, hospitals, and local police stations were affected, among many others. Computers that used McAfee’s VirusScan 8.7 started to reboot randomly after a critical Windows system file was flagged as a potential virus."
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