p2pnet news view P2P:- Every now (usually when we run out of time) we post headline roundups.

Now M&M, friends in eastern Canada, are taking charge of the posts on a regular basis. And they’re broadening the scope to include anything and everything they think’ll interest you.

Here’s the first of their series.

(Thanks much, M&M )

How much energy does Googling burn? Globe & Mail

Thanks to an Internet mini-controversy this week,  inquisitive minds now have a pretty good approximation: 0.0003 kilowatt hours. Urs Hölzle, Google’s senior vice-president of  operations, countered on the company’s official  blog that the average search time is about 0.2  seconds, meaning the servers that do the heavy  lifting work on a query for only thousandths of a  second. Mr. Hölzle said that in the time it takes  to run a Google search, the user’s personal  computer consumes more energy than the company does to answer the query. In addition to the work performed before the  search request, Mr. Hölzle produced an estimate  of 0.0003 kilowatt hours of energy for each  search, equivalent to about one kilojoule. The company also provided an estimate of how much  carbon dioxide a single search is equivalent to: 200 milligrams.

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Vatican to get own YouTube channel Reuters

The Vatican will soon have its own channel on the video sharing site YouTube where the Catholic faithful or the curious will be able to see Pope Benedict or Church events, a Vatican source said on Saturday. It will mark the Vatican’s deepest plunge into new media. The Vatican opened up its website, www.vatican.va, in 1995.

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Microsoft is accused by EU again BBC

The commission said it had reached the preliminary view that the US software giant had undermined consumer choice and infringed EU rules.Microsoft and the European Union have engaged in legal battles over competition issues for years.Last year, the EU fined Microsoft 899m euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m).

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Young Pirates get Government Funding Torrent Freak

Ung Pirat, or `Young Pirate`, is the youth organization associated with the Swedish pirate
party. Yesterday it was a big day for the group, getting 1,325,744 Swedish Krona (Approx €121,900,
or $161,700 US) from the national board for youth affairs. The amount is based on a membership count of around 1280 members, but with current membership of around 4,872, next years amount should be even greater.Not everyone has been pleased about the government funding though, with the IFPI chief
among them. IFPI`s Swedish director Lars Gustafsson wasn`t happy at all, saying It is surprising. Ung Pirat works in principle to encourage something illegal. That they then receive money from a state institution is remarkable.This is of course, the same Gustafsson who last year urged ISPs to spy on its customers, which is of course completely illegal

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Boy George jailed for 15 months over bizarre false imprisonment The Register

Boy George was jailed for 15 months on Friday following his conviction for falsely imprisoning a male escort in his flat.The flamboyant former Culture Club frontman (real name George O’Dowd) claimed he handcuffed his victim, Audun Carlsen, to a wall in a bid to retrieve stolen photos from a laptop. Carlsen and O’Dowd hooked up via a gay social-networking site before meeting up for a pornographic photo session at O’Dowd’s Shoreditch flat, during whichCarlsen supposedly swiped the photos.A jury rejected arguments that fears about blackmail justified O’Dowd’s action, finding him guilty of false imprisonment.

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Bizarre deep sea creatures discovered in Australian waters Livenews.AU

Bizarre carnivorous sea squirts, large spider-like creatures and an ancient fossilised coral reef have all been found in a voyage into ultra-deep Australian waters.At up to 3,000 metres were thousands of sea spiders, creatures about 30 centimetres in diameter that look like land spiders but are in fact unrelated.At 3,500 metres were millions of sea anemones, Dr Thresher revealed.”They had never been described before. They had never even been observed before,” he said.

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One Man’s Bid To Save A Scenic Landscape CBS

The Bush administration has only two days left, but right up to the end, it’s been taking actions that have environmentalists fuming.One of those actions had been a plan – enacted in the waning months of the administration – for the Bureau of Land Management to auction off oil-and-gas drilling leases in Utah on spectacular scenery near national parks and ancient rock art panels.But environmentalist Tim DeChristopher had an unorthodox plan to disrupt those auctions, reports CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker.DeChristopher planned to disrupt the auction with shouts of protest. But, on the spot, he came up with a more disruptive plan: He bid on the oil leases, driving prices way up on some parcels and outright winning bids on 22,000 acres of land for $1.7 million – money that he has neither the means nor the intention of paying.He threw the auction into chaos.But what the environmentalists couldn’t do, DeChristopher did, and under the Obama administration, the land likely will not go on the auction block again.

January , 2009

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