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First Town In US To Become 100% Wind Powered 391

Posted by kdawson from the can't-get-much-greener dept.
gundar99 writes "Rock Port Missouri, population 1,300, is the first 100% wind-powered city in the US. Loess Hill Wind Farm, with four 1.25-MW wind turbines, is estimated to generate 16 gigawatt hours (16 million kilowatt hours) of electricity annually. 13 gigawatt hours of electricity have historically been consumed annually by the residents and businesses of this town."
It's funny. Laugh.

Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References 182

Posted by timothy from the knuth-beats-satan dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Krugle, a software search company, had some time on its hands — it compared frequency of mentions in open source code of presidential candidates, Beelzebub and yes, Britney Spears." I wish they'd link to a nice long list of the other terms this revealed — there are probably a lot of subtler funny references and asides.
Microsoft

Does Ballmer Need To Go? 568

Posted by kdawson from the strike-two-and-the-crowd-goes-wild dept.
Pickens notes a TechCrunch analysis wondering — after Windows Vista and the failed Yahoo bid — whether Steve Ballmer's days at Microsoft are numbered. "Ballmer has been the big driver behind [the Yahoo] deal at Microsoft — some would say to the point of obsession. After the disaster that has been Windows Vista, Ballmer may have realized he needed to redeem himself in the eyes of Microsoft's board. And the 'transformative' deal with Yahoo was the way he was going to do it... If Microsoft's board loses patience with him, it might have to ask Bill Gates to temporarily come back as CEO until it finds a replacement. After all, Ballmer has already made a strong and convincing case for why Microsoft needs Yahoo to make its online and advertising strategy work. It's not clear whether Microsoft can achieve its objectives on its own or through other acquisitions. Maybe Ballmer thinks he can still do the deal by making Yahoo's stock price collapse and come back with a hostile offer."

Comment Re:The problem isn't telecommuting (Score 4, Insightful) 250

by Fudge.Org (#15573375) Attached to: Telecommuting Backlash
Having some asshat steal a computer full of data doesn't really happen that often to people who keep their computers locked in an office at their employer's campus.

Consider yourself lucky to have never experienced two floors (dozens of employees) of locked PC's and laptops removed overnight... more than once. In my experience it isn't someone but some group and they know what they are after and they have tools. Yes, most criminals are stupid, but many are organized and professional.

What's the bigger payoff?

a) single telecommuter setup in home where there is someone that is around most of the time

b) office space with dozens of systems guarded by the lowest price bid security firm/system

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