Live Earth switch-off is vetoed
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Al Gore's plan for a symbolic switch-off of lights during the UK Live Earth gig is vetoed by the National Grid.
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Al Gore announced Friday a surprise Live Earth concert in Washington, foiling Senate Republicans who blocked Gore's attempt to bring his global warming extravaganza to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.
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By Clint Swett, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 10--As the clock ticks toward 2 a.m. Sunday, when timekeeping in most of the country shifts to daylight-saving time, computer experts hope for a non-glitch switch.
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Tycho:  I don't know whose fault it is exactly, mine or theirs, but I won't be installing Vista anytime soon.  I would like some crazy shit to happen when I minimize something don't get me wrong.  I want my windows to go Waja-wajow(!) is possible.  But if there's a great reason to "trade horses midstream" or whatever the going metaphor is I haven't discovered it.
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Â· Channel controller refuses to resign over editing error  Â· Staff are urged to look for any further 'incidents'
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InfoWorld - Two important votes&#160;concerning San Francisco&#39;s plan for citywide Wi-Fi that were set for this week have been pushed back, delaying what may be life-or-death decisions on the controversial network.
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EU adopts green energy plan.Plus: Robotic salamander sides with evolution.... President Bush says go solar? And more.
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UNITED NATIONS: The United States yesterday vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution demanding that Israel stop a major offensive in the Gaza Strip that has cost at least 68 Palestinian lives.
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Global warming concerns are pushing bulbmakers and environmentalists to talk about phasing out the common light bulb.
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It paid to share the microphone this year. Collaborative efforts ruled the Grammy nominations announced yesterday. Whether it was the duets on senior statesman
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Ford will return hundreds of electric cars to Norway after protests about its plans to scrap them. Also: IBM and SCO Group tussle over Unix lawsuit & hellip;. Former Enterasys Networks CEO pleads guilty to fraud conspiracy charge & hellip;. and more.
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The BBC has scrapped its planned Planet Relief environment day, which has come under fire from news executives for lacking impartiality. By John Plunkett.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Saturday vetoed a bill that would have required utilities to prepare long-range plans to meet their customers' power needs, a change that supporters said would keep electricity prices from skyrocketing.
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The electric grid can be protected from big blackouts by deliberately disabling a few key power stations.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - It would play right into the hands of critics if the seven Live Earth concerts to be staged worldwide July 7 were to come off in an unfriendly environmental way.
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Back in February, Ralph Green asked me to speak at the North Texas Linux Users' Group. I discussed Linux administration and then took questions. Some one in the audience asked me about Mono. I gave a cavalier answer having a bias against it. Then someone else in the audience said that I needed to get my facts straight.
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A California man pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he shut down the datacenter responsible for managing the state&#39;s electrical supply.Lonnie Denison, 33, is now facing as much as five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after admitting to breaking a glass cover and hitting the emergency &quot;off&quot; switch at the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) data center in Folsom, California, on April 15. By doing so, he shut off the power in the datacenter. He was formerly a contract Unix system administrator at the center.Cal-ISO is the nonprofit organization that manages California&#39;s power. By knocking these systems offline, Denison effectively cut the state off from the energy market, leaving California vulnerable to blackout conditions. No blackouts occurred, however, because the data center went down at 11:23 p.m. on a Sunday -- a time when electricity demand is typically at a lull. &quot;If this deliberate shut-off had occurred in the morning ... things would have been far more severe,&quot; wrote Matthew Amant, the California Highway Patrol officer assigned to investigate the incident, in an affidavit.It&#39;s not clear why Denison would have wanted to flip the switch on California&#39;s power, but according to U.S. attorneys, he was in a dispute with co-workers and just minutes before the incident had discovered that his computer privileges had been revoked.Prosecutors allege that he followed up the power outage by sending an e-mail bomb threat the next day to an unnamed Cal-ISO employee, saying, &quot;Hey, at one point I respected you ... you have a new kid. So this is only because of him. Get out before the timer expires. Not long now. Take care.&quot;Following this threat, Cal-ISO evacuated about 500 employees from all three of its Folsom campus buildings, transferring control of the grid to a second control center.That same day Denison spoke with a friend, admitting that he had tried to &quot;shut off the power grid,&quot; according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.The Sunday night incident knocked the data center down for about two hours, but it took 20 computer technicians about seven hours to fully restore the system. The total cost of the outage is estimated at $14,000.Denison, of Sacramento, California, is set to be sentenced on Feb. 29, 2008, in federal court.