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Submission + - Two More Google Software Dogs Go to Heaven

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Two more software products will be going to Google Software Heaven shortly. On Friday, Google issued a death certificate for Google Health (date of death = Jan. 1, 2012), and added that the lights will go out on Google PowerMeter on Sep. 16, 2011. 'We've observed that Google Health is not having the broad impact that we hoped it would,' said Google. 'There has been adoption among certain groups of users like tech-savvy patients and their caregivers, and more recently fitness and wellness enthusiasts. But we haven't found a way to translate that limited usage into widespread adoption in the daily health routines of millions of people.' Regarding PowerMeter, Google's 'Green Energy Czar' had this to say: 'We're pleased that PowerMeter has helped demonstrate the importance of this access and created something of a model. However, our efforts have not scaled as quickly as we would like, so we are retiring the service.' Google added that the White House will carry on the fight after being inspired by success stories like the Harker School (tuition: $36,435), which used grant money to acquire off-the-shelf sub-metering technology that revealed their energy bill could be reduced by not air conditioning the gym from 9pm-3am.

Comment Re:When this happens to the US or its allies (Score 1) 406

by odd42 (#34894476) Attached to: New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet

Uh. The US barely 'won' against a FAR inferior Iraq, and is losing badly against a stone age country. I'm pretty sure Iran would do just fine, especially seeing as how they have control of 100% of the straits of Hormuz.

Long-term Iraq and Afghanistan "wars" were failures as police-actions (after any major military conflict) in attempts to eliminate civilian casualties, having this goal to maintain legitimacy in initiating the conflicts. Iranian war on the US (the feasibility of which if judged according to the above US difficulties in Iraq/Afghanistan) is not advisable by any sane person.

Comment Re:Pick the one that CREATES energy... (Score 1) 633

by odd42 (#34683354) Attached to: Trek Tech That Most Needs To Be Invented Before I Die:

Pick the one that CREATES energy... not consumes it. The only logical choice is the warp drive.

The first law of course is 'Energy can neither be created nor destroyed: it can only be transformed from one state to another.'
Though your general line of reasoning stands, in solving the energy problem.

Comment Re:What are they going to do? (Score 1) 1217

by odd42 (#32545768) Attached to: MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks
I concur on the hardware and parts access completely, but you have difficulty reimaging?

Really? Because my experience is the exact opposite. Grown up working on Windows and now supporting all OS's, Mac is the easiest to reimage.

NetRestore is stupid-easy & fun; there's ASR multicast (have serious switches and it can be a beauty); and there's even easier Firewire800/400/usb images - what else do you want??
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Submission + - Google.cn Still Remains in China (wired.com)

Submitted by hackingbear
hackingbear writes: Google appears to be content to remain in China doing business as usual while it finds a way to work within the system, according to one of the search giant’s founders. This despite a strong statement 30 days ago that it would stop censoring search results in China and possibly pull its business out of that country. And the company is still unwilling to confirm or deny if the alleged attacks were carried out by the Chinese government. "I don't actually think the question of whether [the attacks were performed by] the Chinese government is that important," Brin said. (That's the difference between state-sponsor vs individual hacking. Why is that not important?) At the mean time, shortly after we celebrated google.cn lifted censorship, the exact same censorship has been quietly re-enabled as proved by this Chinese search query on June 4, despite the lack of any concrete actions by the Chinese government who has so far made only useless general and standard statements on the matter.

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