How much have they saved now? Probably not much, and probably spent more.

It costs money to find the location, arrange the contracts, hire new people/lay off or move staff, and move equipment between rooms. Even then, many organizations may say it's cheaper to buy new hardware than it is to move 5+ year old servers.

However, the efficiency once many of those data centers is closed will become apparent. Space/power/cooling/networking/staff isn't cheap. Consolidating will give you some amazing savings a few years in.

Nah, only Sagan could do it. There's nobody around these days that could possibly....

Uhm..nevermind.

Yeah, I play with friends and we're all over the place for levels (I'm 68, one is 80, another 60, and the other two are in the teens). While I'm doing much of the same running around and questing with the lower level people, I'm still able to gain XP at a pretty good rate, and there's plenty of other things to do while they're off getting hearts.

Last I saw, FMLA says unpaid leave. Yahoo(!) is offering paid leave. Dads can still take 12 weeks, but the last 4 have to come out of vacation or unpaid time.

My GS3 has better battery life than the HTC Thunderbolt which had somewhat better battery live than my OG Droid. Your assumption of worsening battery life doesn't live up to what I've seen.

This is what they were able to build. Rev 2. (probably when they get to mass producing it) will have better battery life

Go read some of the comments about the Boston Marathon bombing on Yahoo and tell me you didn't lose a few brain cells in the process.

Why would Netflix build a separate infrastructure for the few sets of original content they distribute? Do you really want to have two Netlix apps, log in twice to a web site? Figure out which site has which content? Any money they'd earn in new subscriptions for HoC would be pretty much wiped out by the development and maintenance costs.

The permissions in NTFS far more granular than standard POSIX (though xattr does address this a bit, it's not in common use).

Hackers could abuse ______ to _____ a/the ____.

I'm serious that this was reported here. I'm also serious that not a single person here believed it.

Ah, found it:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/11/17/204207/message-from-kabul

The C64 has the edge. I seem to remember a certain former /. contributor who told the story of Afghanis getting their C64s out of hiding after the US invasion, connecting them to the Internet, and watching movies.

Couldn't do that with a Trash-80.

Yes, which is the exact same problem as using the gold standard - there's only so much gold out there (and it has way more uses than sitting in a vault backing currency).

So you didn't read what Holder wrote? It's a pretty short letter with small words. I'm sure you can understand it.

Atty. General Holder made the position of the administration quite clear in his letter to Sen. Paul.