As many commentators and “global warming skeptics” have observed, climate science has metamorphosed into a religion—or, more accurately, a cult in religious dress.
(frontpagemag.com)
Interesting - shallow depth continuing since 2010/01/17
-update 14 -within hours: 7.0 off Japan, 8.8, 6.2 off Chile
Chile has two more 6+ aftershocks, Taiwan a 6.4
LINK to U.S. 1.0+ M list within.
So far, no published "summary" of this flurry of quakes in San Bernardino and region.
UPDATE: 8.8 Chilean quake
Update: 6.1 Turkey quake - not insignificant...
(VarLinux.org)
This email I received is too true to be funny. Lots of places have this same problem. When I registered my kids for school, I think I filled out my name and address and my kids' names and address (and SS# and other things) on ten separate forms. For some reason, they can't seem to take the information off one form and distribute it or duplicate it. It's almost as bad when you go to a new doctor, but government is the worst.
(VarLinux.org)
Make no mistake - The hedge fund offer for Novell could effectively mean the end of the company. And Microsoft could suffer the worst, says Peter Judge
-read Andy Updegrove's article linked within-
(eweekeurope.co.uk)
Sun Microsystems' veteran Simon Phipps quit his chief open source officer post at the Oracle-owned company yesterday. Phipps, who had worked at Sun for nearly a decade, confirmed his decision to walk in a blog post on Monday.
His resignation marks the latest in a long line of big guns at Sun who have left the firm following Oracle's $7bn acquisition, which finally got regulatory approval in January this year.
(theregister.co.uk)
A new BBC poll found that four our of five people around the world believe internet access is a fundamental right. The survey - of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries - found strong support for net access on both sides of the digital divide. Countries such as Finland and Estonia have already ruled that access is a human right for their citizens. International bodies such as the UN are also pushing for universal net access.
(hardocp.com)
The pendulum is moving toward IT consolidation as CIOs try to save money & gain efficiencies. But it's possible to go too far
When the economy plummeted at the end of 2008, the Western U.S. branch of The Salvation Army was ahead of the cost-cutting game. CIO Clarence White had centralized the IT organization a year or two earlier, and he had consolidated the database and storage servers from the business units into a single data center in Long Beach, Calif.
The move wasn't aimed at cutting costs, but "the timing was good," White says. It reduced the charitable organization's technology footprint, encouraged more virtualization and lowered maintenance and power costs. "It was an unanticipated benefit," he says. "We looked like geniuses."
(networkworld.com)
More and more businesses are looking to hosted e-mail services to reduce costs and ease management, and the choice often comes down to Google's Gmail (the key component of Google Apps) or a hosted version of Microsoft Exchange.
(networkworld.com)
Electron-furtling boffins claim 100x li-ion energy
(theregister.co.uk)
In the book of Job, God poses the questions, “Where does darkness reside?...Do you know the paths to their dwellings?”1 For centuries, science students were taught that darkness was not some kind of stuff but rather simply the absence of light. Thanks to recent astronomical discoveries, we now know that the oldest book of the Bible is correct in stating that darkness is a real substance residing in specific locations in the universe. These same recent discoveries also strengthen the establishment of the biblically predicted big bang creation model.
(reasons.org)
