| Startup plans floating data centres
A STARTUP is planning to build floating data centres on knackered cargo ships. San Francisco Bay Area company International Data Security (IDS) envisions it will have up to 50 decommissioned container ships housing data server farms, moored in various ports around the world including 22 in North American cities. IDS believes using cargo ships will give it flexibility and enable expansion limited only by the availability of ships and port space instead of real estate constraints. Its first location will be available at Pier 50 in San Francisco starting in April and it already has, ahem, anchor tenants signed, a source close to the company said. Shipboard cargo spaces will be built out as data center floors and deck space will be used to stack modular data centers in standard shipping containers.
Aussie world champ charged with drug offences
The arrests are part of police efforts to dismantle a large criminal syndicate in which the two men are allegedly involved. During the four month covert operation, 28,500 MDMA tablets have allegedly been seized, with a street value of $1.4 million. Police said more than one kg of MDMA powder was also seized, which could potentially be made into tens of thousands of tablets worth about $1.1 million. Police have also charged a third man and are questioning a fourth. A 25-year-old man from Newrybar in NSW will appear at Byron Bay Local Court on December 7 charged with possessing prohibited drugs, possessing equipment for administering prohibited drugs and having goods in custody. A 23-year-old man from Suffolk Park was arrested at his home tonight and is being interviewed at Byron Bay Police Station.
ATM: Houses and more houses in Roaring Fork Valley
The project has been before Garfield County since the mid-1980s, but it's no better now than before, says the dissenting commissioner, Jim Martin. "We are not preserving agriculture and our heritage. What we have done is create a new gated community," he said.
Dual-language students heading to high school
EAGLE VALLEY - The dual-immersion program that began at an elementary school in the Vail area will produce its first students at Battle Mountain High School next year.
The students in the program are split evenly between native English speakers and native Spanish speakers, and the students learn from each other as well as the teachers, explains the Vail Daily. Reading, math, science and social studies classes are conducted in Spanish and English.
The Hidden Wounds of Congo's Wars
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo—The postelection mayhem in Kenya is introducing new ethnic groups' names into our global vocabulary. Soon, terms like Kikuyu and Luo may become common household words, like Tutsi and Hutu. It takes as little as days, even hours, for an ethnic war to flare up. But it takes decades to quench it. On the day when dozens of Kikuyus were burnt alive in a Kenyan church, I was visiting a hamlet in Congo where old tensions started by the Rwandan genocide between Hutus and Tutsis still linger. The village of Karambi is in the northeastern part of North Kivu, just a few miles from the Ugandan border, and it is breathtakingly beautiful. At the health center where we work, covering a population of some 20,000, a midwife told me (in fluent French—this is a former Belgian colony) that cows were seen in the vicinity grazing on corn, manioc, and beans, an obvious sign of ethnic oppression of Hutus by Tutsis.
Man of the Year
Merkel's timing in sending a human rights message to Beijing was carefully chosen, coming just a few weeks after the chancellor's trip to China (which was overshadowed by reports of PLA cyber attacks against German government computers), and less than a year before the start of the 2008 Olympics. Despite the blustering, Beijing knows too well that it would be counterproductive to make too big of a deal of the Dalai Lama visit, especially since it does not herald any major shift in Germany's China policy. Just today, the ruling conservative CDU/CSU Bundestag group announced that Chancellor Merkel will give a major major foreign policy address on Asia at a conference in Berlin on October 26. She will leave for another Asia trip right after the speech, thus emphasizing the region's growing political and economic importance.
Weeding Out Flaws in Open-Source Apps
What does Coverity's focus on hardening open source mean? Is it an indictment of open-source security or a government endorsement of open-source software? Analyst Brad Shimmin said it's more the latter. "It's an understanding that open source -- unlike closed source -- can actually be improved by interested outside parties," he said. .
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