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Submission + - Judge denies Diebold request to block ES&S pac

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beetle496

on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @04:19PM

beetle496 writes: "Computer World reports that Judge denies Diebold request to block ES&S pact with Massachusetts. This is a follow-up to earlier /. story that Vendor [Diebold] contends state erred in selecting AutoMark voting machines of rival. From TFA: "The suit is still there, but they went zero for three yesterday," the spokesman said. No further hearings have been scheduled yet, he said. The actual accessibility concerns have been discussed over at the TEITAC ListServ, including a few telling observations from experts familar with accessible voting and at least one state insider."

Submission + - NASA Commemorates Space Shuttle Tragedies

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eldavojohn

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @11:05AM

eldavojohn writes: "Space.com is covering NASA's commemoration of the Apollo 1 crew & the last shuttle crews of both the Challenger and Columbia orbiters. The Apollo 1 crew was lost forty years ago today to a fire while testing their spacecraft on a launch pad. From the article, "While the nearly two decades separating NASA's three space disasters allowed room for the agency to grow complacent, the relatively short time between the 2003 loss of Columbia and the end of the shuttle program could avoid a repeat of such behavior.""

Submission + - Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter

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passthecrackpipe

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @09:15AM

passthecrackpipe writes: "Where can you find a (rhetorical) 11.38 petabits per second bandwidth? It appears to be inside the Lucasfilm Datacenter. At least, that is the headline figure mentioned in this report on a tour of the datacenter. The story is a bit light on the down-and-dirty details, but mentions a 10 gig ethernet backbone (adding up the bandwidth of a load of network connections seems to be how they derived the 11.38 petabits p/s figure. In that case, I have a 45 gig network at home.) Power utilisation is a key differentiator when buying hardware, a "legacy" cycle of a couple of months, and 300TB of storage in a 10.000 square foot datacenter. To me, the story comes across as somewhat hyped up — "look at us, we have a large datacenter" kind of thing, "look how cool we are". Over the last couple of years, I have been in many datacenters, for banks, pharma and large enterprise to name a few, that have somewhat larger and more complex setups.

It used to be so that the the SFX industry had the largest, coolest, hottest technology around. Is this still the case?"

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