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The News International (Pakistan,) September 24, 2012
ISTANBUL: The jailing of hundreds of Turkish army officers including top generals accused of plotting to topple Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan underscored how far he has come in gaining control of the country’s once all-powerful military. But Erdogan, 10 years in power, must grapple with suspicions among critics and even some sympathisers that he is using this and other coup investigations to silence opposition as he sets about taming a militant secularist establishment. Far from flinching, he may seek more power in a revamped presidency.
The verdict against 325 officers at the end of the 21-month trial on Friday would have been unthinkable a decade ago, when generals regularly intervened in policy-making as self-appointed guardians of Turkish secularism.
Judges in the case, dubbed Sledgehammer, handed down prison sentences ranging from six to 20 years against the officers for plotting to wreck Erdogan’s rule almost 10 years ago, soon after his Islamist-rooted party swept to power with the biggest share of the vote in decades. Hilmi Ozkok, who was head of the armed forces at the time, rejected accusations the court’s decision was driven by revenge. “The ruling will serve as a deterrent and has a lesson for everyone ... in understanding how much Turkey and the rest of the world has changed,” Ozkok told Milliyet newspaper on Sunday [....]
Comments
[Hi AA, unrelated, but don't have good way of sending message on dead news posts]
Re: your data center energy post, I spent last few minutes reviewing technology updates, which include some great improvements in SSD storage (much more energy efficient than traditional hard drives, new upgrade kits for traditional PCs, plus much better performance starting up & running apps).
Also Dell put out new converged infrastructure blade server, comparing to HP:
- has 55 per cent fewer storage configuration steps
- supports 48 per cent more users
- supports 42 per cent more users per watt
- has up to 96 per cent more usable capacity.
In short, this kind of energy improvement is very much on everyone's minds. However, it needs to be built into the devices intuitively, as rearchitecting a data center with 100,000 servers is huge work
Microsoft has some good developments to allow easier cloud access for new version of Windows devices. (pushing its own cloud system of course.)
However, all of the big cloud providers have proved recently that the cloud is still fragile and subject to bad crashes. So they can't optimize as much yet as preferred simply because they need to keep some pretty non-optimal redundancy there that will probably take another 2-3 years to get rid of at least obvious stupid inefficiencies.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/24/2012 - 9:03am
Hey Peracles, re:
don't have good way of sending message on dead news posts
Do you know about the tracking feature on this software? Hit "My Account" and then "Track" It is an easy way to find any thread you were on recently and also any new comments by others on any that you started or commented on. Every time there's activity on any thread you were on, it pops to the top of the list, the red indicates what's new.
Anyhew, thanks for the comment, I will copy your comment on the thread.
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/25/2012 - 11:23pm