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IEEE Seeks For Ethernet To 'Go Green' 166

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:47PM from the stop-packet-waste-now dept.

alphadogg submitted a piece at the NetworkWorld site about the IEEE's efforts to introduce energy efficiency to Ethernet use. The group's Energy Efficient Ethernet group is looking into methods by which standards can be tweaked to encourage power savings. Current plans include ways to make computers 'choosier' about what level of bandwidth they're using. Idle systems would only run at 10Mbps, while email might draw 100Mbs, and scale up to 1000Mbps for large downloads and streaming video. The group is planning to discuss changes to the Ethernet link and higher layers. No restrictions are planned for device manufacturers, although the article suggests some companies might try to use energy efficiency as a competitive advantage. The EEE group estimates some $450 million a year could be saved via the use of energy efficient Ethernet technology.

Submission + - Viacom Orders YouTube Take Down 100,000 Clips

Submitted by

NewsCloud

on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:46PM

NewsCloud writes: "Viacom has asked YouTube to take down its remaining copyrighted content as negotiations between the companies broke down:

"Filtering tools promised repeatedly by YouTube and Google have not been put in place, and they continue to host and stream vast amounts of unauthorized video," Viacom said in a statement.
First reported by Slashdot last October, the issue became confused when talks started with Viacom claiming they had only requested whole episodes and long clips be removed. Using the Google Cache and the YouTube API, we created this analysis and reporting engine last fall to show which clips had actually had been removed and which were left. Viacom-owned iFilm now hosts most show content."

Submission + - Test video game predictions by trading game stocks

Submitted by

Brian Shiau

on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:44PM

Brian Shiau writes: "The simExchange, the virtual video game stock market, helps gamers learn about upcoming video games and predict how well they will sell. Countless new games are on the horizon all the time and it is too time consuming to read up on all of them. The simExchange applies the Wisdom of the Crowds concept to upcoming video games. You can quickly identify the most anticipated upcoming games by simply checking out the most valued game stocks or the most traded game stocks. Because game stock prices forecast the worldwide lifetime sales of a game, the simExchange also aims to fill the sales data vacuum in the video game industry. The simExchange was featured in the past week on Joystiq, About.com, Midas Oracle, and Loading Reality."

Submission + - French students to get open-source software on USB

Submitted by pitt on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:43PM

pitt writes: French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks loaded with open-source software to Parisian high-school students at the start of the next school year. http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/020207-french- students-to-get-open-source.html

Submission + - Games You Would Like to See Recreated

Submitted by

JoeCommodore

on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:40PM

JoeCommodore writes: "In the over 40 years of videogames (arcade, home and compnuter) many really great games have come and also have unforunately gone with the platforms they were played on. Some of which never got the audience they deserved, partly because of the platform not being as popular as other or the original, the publisher could not advertisee it, was a 'cult-classic', or maybe it was just eclisped by some other game at the time.

What are the games you wish were once again made native for the modern arcade, game sytems or computer for you and your fellow Slashdotters to enjoy?"

Submission + - Purdue University develops BioRefinery

Submitted by

AnExKahn

on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:39PM

AnExKahn writes: "The Purdue University has developed a biorefinery This device takes trash and converts it into ethanol and then burns the ethanaol as to generate power. It uses diesel for the first few hours just to get started. Finally we can power our Time Machines"

Submission + - Gates Reacts to Apple's latest Ads

Submitted by

fr8_liner

on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:36PM

fr8_liner writes: "Apparently Bill Gates thinks Apple's latest adverts are misleading if not untruthful. He even claims that "security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.""

Submission + - DSL: $2.15 a gallon? Who knew?!

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:36PM

coondoggie writes: "This gas station in Southborough, MA. seems to be selling high-test gas and high-speed Internet access. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1106 5"

Submission + - Bill Gates Claims Mac OS X Exploited Every Day

Submitted by

NMerriam

on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:31PM

NMerriam writes: "Bill Gates has a very candid interview with Newsweek talking about the release of Vista. He says that Apple should stop lying in their TV ads, and by the way "Every single day, they come out with a total exploit [of Mac OS X], your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.""

Submission + - Bill Gates on Vista

Submitted by

klubar

on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:23PM

klubar writes: "Newsweek recently interviewed Bill Gates on why Vista makes a difference. His answers on why upgrade, Microsoft future, Vista security and innovation are interesting — and surprisingly well reasoned.

He points out that Microsoft has had a number of major releases since Windows XP (as this is a consumer-oriented interview, he doesn't mention the business releases, like Server 2003, SQL, etc.) He also claims that Vista is highly secure and the underpinning is better than that of the Mac. The interview also addresses who is copying who (always a gray area) with the claim that many of the OSX ideas were develped first at Microsoft. He also claims that "security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.".

As an aside, based on a quick preview of Vista and Office 2007, I'm impressed. Both of them together really makes XP with Office 2003 and the OSX look dated."

Submission + - Vista can run life support systems

Submitted by

Etherfast

on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:11PM

Etherfast writes: "While on a visit in Romania, where Bill Gates participated in the celebration of 10 years since the Microsoft branch has been running there, and the launch of Vista, Microsoft's president declared that, with the right amount of administration, the new Vista could run life support systems in hospitals."

Submission + - Idiots file Class action Lawsuit against Nvidia

Submitted by

XMAN26

on Friday February 02, 2007 @02:10PM

XMAN26 writes: "If you go here, http://www.nvidiaclassaction.org/, you'll find someone who seems to think that Nvidia should be sued for lack of drivers for MS Vista. He should try writing 20+ million lines of code for 3 generations of video cards for a brand new OS that already has a 300MB+ SP schedueled for release and was changed 3 times in 45 days prior to being released to MSDN customers. He also seems to think that Nvidia and other hardware companies sat in on all the coding for vista for the last several years."

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