Part of the reason Prineville is attractive is the local ambient temperature. Many of the datacenter projects (including Facebook) in eastern Oregon use ambient outside air to cool the datacenter most of the year.

Ever been to Eastern Oregon? It kinda is it's own little country.

This.

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, it's a bit of a fun drive to head out to Prineville and play "Spot the Datacenter." It's so out of place it's real easy to spot. It took me all of about 10 minutes of driving around to find it.

This is getting to be a pet peeve.

I have to support visually impaired users, and users who don't like a lot of change. I've had more than one person who saw the upgrade message in 10.04 and upgraded to 11.(whatever) and managed to not only completely hose all of the "assistive technology" stuff we set up for them, but to add fuel to the fire they couldn't even navigate around the desktop enough to get onto the "log me in to your computer" page.

Even Microsoft hasn't foisted this many major UI changes on their end-users. KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF.

That rarely happens, at least in the United States.

And even if it does, in many cases you will be in a better facility than a maximum-security prison, depending on the state and the crime you are accused of. You will likely eventually be released, and you will have not been convicted of the crime, therefore retaining your civil rights (if you were accused of a felony).

That, or eventually they crack the crypto.

"I forgot."

Um.. they did it once. It was called the "telegraph."

Hmm.. they don't really say which railroad, but..

Given that they imply "passenger service" was affected and use terms like "rush-hour", there's really only two railroads that could have been affected.

My money's on the smaller of the two: P&W. Anybody else care to lay a wager?

I know the relationship has gone a little cold, but Microsoft makes a few phone calls to NBC and they have all the news content Bing needs.

Google has enough change in their pockets to build their own news gathering organization.

  "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."