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Comment Re:No such time zone (Score 1) 97

by harrumph on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @02:58PM (#41821083) Attached to: CodeWeavers Announces Flock the Vote Software Giveaway

Umm, except that it says “Central Time”, and assuming this means U.S. Central Time (CT) that’s UTC–5—not UTC–6, GMT+6, or anything else—all day on the day(s) in question and most of the year. Central Time is UTC–5 (Central Daylight-saving Time, CDT) until 20121104T0700 UTC when it becomes UTC–6 (Central Standard Time, CST).

Comment “Microsoft Research” (Score 0) 234

by harrumph on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @01:44PM (#29965746) Attached to: Unfinished Windows 7 Hotspot Feature Exploited

Seriously? It took their “research” division to come up with NAT, DHCP, and DNS caching or proxy? Seriously?

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 234

by harrumph on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @01:40PM (#29965682) Attached to: Unfinished Windows 7 Hotspot Feature Exploited

No, you're only thinking of Mac OS X. It was in the classic Mac OS, too, starting several years earlier.

The Environmental Impact of Google Searches 516

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 11, 2009 @06:33PM from the compounding-wild-ass-guesses dept.

paleshadows writes "The Times Online reports that researchers claim that each query submitted to Google has a quantifiable impact. Specifically, two queries performed through a desktop computer generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a cup of tea. From the article: 'While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 [whereas] boiling a kettle generates about 15g [...] Google is secretive about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. It also refuses to divulge the locations of its data centers. However, with more than 200m Internet searches estimated daily, the electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused by computers and the Internet is provoking concern. A recent report [argues that] the global IT industry generate[s] as much greenhouse gas as the world's airlines — about 2% of global CO2 emissions.'" Google makes an interesting focus for such claims, but similar extrapolations have been done before about, for instance, the energy costs of sending a short email.

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