Comment Re:Surprise, surprise (Score 1) 319
The only use of a server in IM should be as a directory and participant availability service, not to carry the conversations, unless both participants are behind NAT.
That is precisely how ICQ works
Comment It is the same ElcomSoft of 2001 Adobe fame (Score 1) 189
Just to put the story into perspective, it is the same ElcomSoft that was behind Dmitry Sklyarov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Sklyarov) who wrote software to get around the copy protection in Adobe E-book format and was imprisoned in the US for that, becoming the first person to be tried under the DMCA.
Submission + - Microsoft Plans Data Center in Siberia (datacenterknowledge.com)
miller60 writes: "Microsoft has announced plans to build a data center in Siberia. The facility near the city of Irkutsk will be able to hold 10,000 servers. Officials in Microsoft's Russian business unit said the region had a stable power supply, and will be able to support a 50 megawatt utility feed. The average winter temperature is below zero in Irkutsk (which is perhaps best known to gamers as a territory in Risk). Microsoft recently announced huge data center projects in Chicago and Dublin, Ireland, and is clearly ramping up its worldwide infrastructure platform as it competes with Google. The power and cooling challenges in modern data centers are well documented. But a data center in Siberia?"
Comment Re:Highly frustrated researcher (Score 1) 64
> I inevitably get a useless abstract and the offer to sell it to me for something on the order of $20/page
In most cases there will also be a list of authors with their respective e-mail addresses, many of whom would be only happy to send you a copy of the paper.
In most cases there will also be a list of authors with their respective e-mail addresses, many of whom would be only happy to send you a copy of the paper.
