Break Xbox Live With The Push Of A Button

That button may look like a joke, an elaborate piece of stock art, or something out of Ghostbusters, but it’s not. It’s the emergency shutdown button located in a Microsoft server facility in Quincy, Washington.

There’s a fascinating article over on the NY Times’ website about server warehouses, with the author taking a trip to a Microsoft complex in Tukwila, Washington that is “one of the global homes of Microsoft’s Xbox Live”. While the above picture is from a different, nearby facility (in Quincy), they’d surely be the same all over.

One push and a million angry nerds cry out in terror, then are suddenly silenced.

Course, it’d take more than one shutdown to bring the whole network down - after all, there’s a global network of servers running the thing - but it’d surely make a dent in a lot of people’s evenings.

Me, I’d have to hit it, if only once. Just so I could say “When the light is green, the trap is clean”.

Source: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/06/break-xbox-live-with-the-push-of-a-button/

Powerball Numbers May 27 2009 - One Winner Announced

May 28, 2009 11:08 AM EDT (Updated: May 28, 2009 11:16 AM EDT)

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Well, the Powerball Numbers for May 27 2009 are in and there is only one winner. That one winning ticket was sold in South Dakota and the winner will receive $232,100 dollars over 30 years or a one-time cash “lump sum” amount of $118,005,530. The winning numbers are 5 6 12 16 21 7 (Powerball).

Like most people hit by the economy, I threw my hat into the Powerball ring by buying $5.00 worth of tickets. The best I could do was to match 2 numbers on the same ticket. Although, in the past, I have actually matched 4 numbers two weeks in a row. At that time, matching four brought home a whopping $32.00.

I don't put my hopes on the Lottery, expecting to ever win or have it change my life. I usually only buy a ticket when the pot gets to be really big. But for a short period of time, it's nice every now and then to wonder, what if?

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Prepaid wireless: In search of the perfect bargain

Americans are looking for ways to cut back their monthly expenses. And prepaid wireless plans offer a great alternative to expensive contract plans.

Traditional prepaid services or pay as you go services allow people to buy their own phone at full retail price and then put a certain amount of money in an account that is deducted based on usage. Some plans offer buckets of minutes for a set price, and some allow people to just put however much money they want in their prepaid phone accounts. These plans allow people to know exactly how much they are spending each month, and if they run out of minutes or money in their accounts, they simply add more online, over the phone, or at a retail location.

Read more here.. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10241876-94.html

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