A good driver isn't someone who obeys the law as if it were the gospel. Same for the opposite.
What is a good driver? well to me its like this:
-Pays attention to the road. If you keep alert you can avoid allot of accidents and other problems. Case in point: Friend of mine was at an intersection with a blinking red light for him (same as stop sign) and blinking yellow for the main road. The road he was entering was a 2 lane divided road with a truck just sitting at the light preventing him from seeing traffic. He waits until the trucker beeps his horn and waives him on. So he just goes and guess what a guy comes flying down the main road and plows into him, thankfully hitting the front of the car and not the side. Who's fault? Well I would say mostly his but the other driver was partially at fault as well. My stupid friend should have proceeded with caution, he couldent see on coming traffic. And the other driver should have saw a stopped truck and slowed down. How did he know someone wasnt going to pop out from in front of the truck? You have to be ready for all sorts of stuff
-Doesent drive like he/she is a pretend race car driver. Living in New York City I see this all too often. Young kids with riced out Honda's or souped up domestics driving like Mario Andretti on the highways or local streets. I have seen guys cut between two cars with inches to spare, extremely dangerous. They weave around traffic as if someone is holding a checked flag at their exit or destination. No they arent good drivers, they just think they are. You also frequently see those same cars with body damage from previous accidents they most likely caused.
-Tailgating moron. Another race car like driver who is pissed off you are doing 70 in the hammer lane on a highway with a 50/55MPH speed limit. They ride your tail at a distance of as little as 5 or 6 feet and wait for any opportunity to zoom around you only to get ahead another 50-100 feet to tail the next person. Again are they looking for a checkered flag? Plenty of accidents on the highways and parkways caused by these morons.
-The soothsayer driver. These people sit at a red light and accelerate just a few seconds before the light goes green sometimes clearing the intersection before the light goes green. These guys seem to think they can predict the fact that no one is going to blow their light. Well I once witnessed first hand the lack of foresight the soothsayer driver has. Both cars were demolished and one driver was unconscious. I didn't stick around long enough buy the fire fighters went to work on extracting the unconscious driver. He was alive but pretty banged up and he did live from what I hear.
-Similar to the soothsayer is the stop sign late stopper. These are the people who stop for a stop sign after they passed it and are now sticking out into the intersection forcing traffic to swerve around them. Some stop literally in the middle of the damn intersection. As a kid riding the bus, the bus almost hit one such driver. What happened to stopping at the stop sign?
This is just a partial list but to me these are the worst offenders on the road.
Companies don't buy Vista. They got vista pre-installed on their new desktops when they underwent their three (or whatever number) year hardware upgrade cycle. Businesses don't spring for a new OS unless it makes financial sense. Usually IT stays away from new shiny stuff until it has been proven and tested thoroughly. Hell my old school still had windows 98 desktops when XP was released. They only went to XP and later Vista after they underwent an upgrade cycle.
I don't think the programmer(s) were at all ignorant of what they were doing. They could have been given too little time to deliver the solution or they knew management was ignorant of security and delivered any old pile of crap to get paid.
Did you bother to read the actual Jindalee Radar System article? Or was the poorly written brief description on the Australian Invention article enough for you? Whoever wrote that nonsense was clearly trying to bash the American military or perhaps America itself. From the actual article:
It is also reportedly able to detect stealth aircraft; aside from the fact that most stealthy aircraft are optimized for defeating much higher-frequency radar from front-on rather than low-frequency radars from above, JORN is reputedly able to detect aircraft wake turbulence.
Nothing mentioned about the 11 billion spent or the actual ability to detect stealth aircraft.
After dealing with the flimsy crash prone ISP provided DSL modem/router I trashed it three years ago and setup a m0n0wall router in about 10 minutes using old spare PC parts. I have never looked back and highly recommend it. Sure if you use a standard PC your going to use quite a bit more power but I switched mine to a cheap $150 Atom setup with a dual LAN card in the PCI slot. Works like a charm. I even have my old Linksys WAP connected to the third port and isolated from my LAN, except for SSH.
When Apple came up with the App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch the press was excited and rejoicing over the new age of digital distribution. Now it's Sony's turn and suddenly it's a bad thing.
Apple did not have a physical distribution system before the app store. Sony had an acceptable, physical method for distributing games. Sure some people didn't like it because it was more propriety Sony BS, but it was there and it worked. There is a difference between introducing a platform with digital only distribution and releasing a platform with physical distribution and then taking it away.
I used to own a PSP but sold it after only a month. I used it as a music & Video player but the game titles released at the time didn't interest me. Bottom line is if you don't like the new PSP and don't want to be locked into another Sony system then don't buy it. I know I would not touch it with a 10 foot pole. Same goes for the iphone and ipod touch. If I cant directly control what I put on my hardware then I don't buy it. You arent going to die without without one.
A friend of mine is customs and border patrol agent at a major international airport. During the course of the day a female co-worker out of the blue points out a person that she feels is suspect of something. What she didn't know but she made sure she handled his entry. So he gets to her line and she begins to search his personal belongings and finds a large CD book. Flipping through she finds a bunch of boot leg DVD movies. He claimed the book was his and that he had nothing "bad in there. But still she checked the label on each and every DVD. Boot leg DVD's aren't illegal to bring in as long as you posses only one of each as that counts as personal use. So toward the back of the CD book she finds a bunch of porn DVD's. No big deal except she notices two of the DVD's have pictures of kids on them. She questions the man as to why the movies were separated from the porn but those two weren't. He claimed he didn't know and she said to him "I hope this isn't what I think it is". She calls her supervisor who takes the suspect DVD's to a room where they can be examined and he comes back 10 minutes later and confirmed that both DVD's did in fact contain child porn. He was immediately placed under arrest for possession of child porn. Best part was he changed his mind and claimed he was bringing the CD book back for a friend which earlier he claimed was his. He is a US citizen so of course he will be charged and have his life ruined by megans law.
Shows you how stupid some people really are. Had he altered the DVD labels or grouped it with the movies she would have never thought to check them. So yes there are plenty of idiots that get caught by customs trying to bring in contraband.
You forget service and support! Sun will make sure that for the serviceable life of your machine they will have replacement parts on hand and technical support for your machine. Imagine a commodity system looses a motherboard, will you be able to get the exact one three years down the line? And with pretty much every board maker located in Taiwan will they give you proper tech support in a timely manor? Will they ensure you get matching memory and CPU's? That's the other strong point of server class hard ware that is thoroughly supported by the vendor.
"The trucks do all the damage to the roads, and crowd the highways, but don't pay their fair share for it."
I am not trying to be an ass but where did you get that information?
If I fill up in New York and deliver to Ohio and come home on the same tank of NY gas, I drove through two states without paying them road taxes. But here is the catch, you need to have apportioned plates or another type of interstate registration to legally cross state lines. If I didn't have those plates on my truck I could be pulled over and heavily fined in PA and OH. So to ensure I pay my fair share for using the PA and OH roads I get an IFTA license (sticker) and keep track of mileage in those states. The money I pay to the IFTA tax is used to pay PA And OH. So even though I never bought gas in those states, I still wind up paying for the use of those roads. Of course if you drive on toll roads you are exempt from paying because you paid the toll. And Trucks pay allot of money when they travel on toll roads. The charge isn't proportional to the weight but if it was the costs would be astronomical. Imagine if a 3000 pound prius is charged 5 dollars to use the toll road. An 80,000 pound tractor trailer would be charged about 132 dollars if you want to go by weight.
As for deregulation, it was a bad move. Since then it has been a race to the bottom. Companies and drivers are trying to undercut each other to the point where they sacrifice maintenance and safety for profit. Too many drivers pushing the limits if their rigs and themselves. That's when something gives and you have truck accidents which have come to demonize the industry.
And as for the "more rail" comment: They couldn't deliver goods in a timely manner before deregulation, and they sure arent going to do it now. Besides you fail to realize the scope of the trucking industry and how incredibly diverse it is. There are many, many areas of trucking trains simply cannot touch. I am not against the rail roads, they are the most efficient at moving BULK freight. LTL, expiditer, construction, and other vocational trucking cannot simply be carried out with trains. A train cant carry a load of dirt to a construction site, they cant bring your food to the supermarket and they certainly cant bring you that time critical piece in a matter of a few days or less. Again apples to oranges. Trucks can go anywhere, trains need tracks that run through government provided right of ways.
Funny how Volvo sold the car business but the both companies still pull the same shit. Volvo Trucks now owns Mack and the new Mack's come with Volvo engines re branded as Mack engines. Any service needed on them cost thousands and phone calls to Volvo for tech support can cost hundreds. I believe the Volvo diagnostic system is called VCADS. Volvo gouges their own dealer network for diagnostic and tech support. They would rather rip their dealers and customers off than build a solid reputation with them.
First off, don't you dare compare Commercial Trucks to oversize vehicles like SUV's. Commercial vehicles are a vital part of the nations infrastructure. They deliver ALL of the nations goods to local stores and other points of sale. The hummer is a gas wasting passenger vehicle that is just for looks. A tractor trailer has one purpose: move goods. Sure you can try to group them together but don't bitch when the price of goods rises due to an increase in fuel tax surcharges.
Besides, trucks already pay a shared highway fuel tax known as the IFTA. I don't know the details but you essentially pay money into a tax pool that states you drove in get a share of. You might fuel up in California and not have to refuel until you hit the Mississippi. You drove through allot of states without buying fuel in them to pay for their roads. You tally up you mileage for the year in each of the states you traveled in send it in and you get taxed for it. If you operate in state only you will have a registration that says so and you will pay a tax at the time of registration depending on the weight class and then you just pay road tax through the diesel tax.
Have you watched the History Channel special: The crumbling of America? Well if you did the "terrorists" have nothing to worry about, they just have to sit by and watch us fall apart.
The roads are shot along with bridges. Sewer systems overloaded, water supplies in jeopardy, levies and dams in a state of serious disrepair. And an electrical grid that teeters on the edge of blacking out every day.
Its wasn't all doom and gloom as its not too late. Th1ere are many technological advances to replace and update our infrastructure with better and longer lasting replacements. Problem is money, there is simply not enough to go around and in some cases there is no money at all.
Even a ROM system could be hacked if there were vulnerabilities. Consider an embedded Linux system that uses a flash disk that is hardware write protected. You aren't going to write to that flash disk no matter how hard you try but the kernel does need scratch space and that's going to be a ram disk. So you could temporarily infect the ram disk but as soon as the reset button is pressed your back to running normal again. But plenty of hardware devices today need some type of writable space to hold settings and other types of data that needs to be manipulated. And that is vulnerable.
You should care if you want to develop for the cell processor or want to build a cheap and powerful cluster. Currently there is no other stand alone Cell powered computer available besides the PS3. IBM only offers two different Cell processor blade servers which would cost well over ten thousand dollars. The PS3 is the only "personal computer" that is cell powered. Even if some company came along and started to offer a Cell powered PC the price will be many times that of the PS3.
So for anyone who is interested in Linux Cell computing this is a major blow. Sonylooses money on the hardware (consoles) and makes money on the software. People or organizations who buy PS3's for Linux/Cell development or clustering are costing Sony money. Its a logical business move but sucks for hobbyist developers or researchers. I was hoping myself to snag a new PS3 for me and my brother to tinker with Cell programming under Linux and regular Gaming. Looks like I am going to have to buy a PS3 now before I cant get a new Linux friendly model anymore.
Cooperation like this is a great gesture. MS releasing code to help Linux run better in their VM's is a good thing and I am glad Red Hat returned the favor. With shops today running a mixed environment this helps them with transitioning or running apps side by side. Great for Linux development/testing on Windows and now better Windows development/testing on Linux systems. Now if only Apple would allow OSX to run in a VM. Developers could have one system running the OS of their choice and do all their cross platform development and testing on one system. Great for small developers who might code on a laptop or prefer to have a single system for development.
It might be that they county/state does not allow the aquifer table to be used for such a purpose. You don't want water from a data center contaminating the ground water supply that is also used for drinking. Even a heat exchanger could leak causing contamination. The law might also state that the aquifer table cannot be used for industrial/commercial processes or require costly annual permits.
If the data center is located near other buildings, a system of pipes could be used to bring heated water to nearby buildings for heating. Or if the data center is housed in a larger building with other occupants the waste heat could be used to heat the the entire building, the tenants could be billed by the data center to recoup energy costs. Plenty of ways to use the heat but often the initial installation costs make it cheaper to just dissipate the heat into the atmosphere.
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A good driver isn't someone who obeys the law as if it were the gospel. Same for the opposite.
What is a good driver? well to me its like this:
-Pays attention to the road. If you keep alert you can avoid allot of accidents and other problems. Case in point: Friend of mine was at an intersection with a blinking red light for him (same as stop sign) and blinking yellow for the main road. The road he was entering was a 2 lane divided road with a truck just sitting at the light preventing him from seeing traffic. He waits until the trucker beeps his horn and waives him on. So he just goes and guess what a guy comes flying down the main road and plows into him, thankfully hitting the front of the car and not the side. Who's fault? Well I would say mostly his but the other driver was partially at fault as well. My stupid friend should have proceeded with caution, he couldent see on coming traffic. And the other driver should have saw a stopped truck and slowed down. How did he know someone wasnt going to pop out from in front of the truck? You have to be ready for all sorts of stuff
-Doesent drive like he/she is a pretend race car driver. Living in New York City I see this all too often. Young kids with riced out Honda's or souped up domestics driving like Mario Andretti on the highways or local streets. I have seen guys cut between two cars with inches to spare, extremely dangerous. They weave around traffic as if someone is holding a checked flag at their exit or destination. No they arent good drivers, they just think they are. You also frequently see those same cars with body damage from previous accidents they most likely caused.
-Tailgating moron. Another race car like driver who is pissed off you are doing 70 in the hammer lane on a highway with a 50/55MPH speed limit. They ride your tail at a distance of as little as 5 or 6 feet and wait for any opportunity to zoom around you only to get ahead another 50-100 feet to tail the next person. Again are they looking for a checkered flag? Plenty of accidents on the highways and parkways caused by these morons.
-The soothsayer driver. These people sit at a red light and accelerate just a few seconds before the light goes green sometimes clearing the intersection before the light goes green. These guys seem to think they can predict the fact that no one is going to blow their light. Well I once witnessed first hand the lack of foresight the soothsayer driver has. Both cars were demolished and one driver was unconscious. I didn't stick around long enough buy the fire fighters went to work on extracting the unconscious driver. He was alive but pretty banged up and he did live from what I hear.
-Similar to the soothsayer is the stop sign late stopper. These are the people who stop for a stop sign after they passed it and are now sticking out into the intersection forcing traffic to swerve around them. Some stop literally in the middle of the damn intersection. As a kid riding the bus, the bus almost hit one such driver. What happened to stopping at the stop sign?
This is just a partial list but to me these are the worst offenders on the road.
Companies don't buy Vista. They got vista pre-installed on their new desktops when they underwent their three (or whatever number) year hardware upgrade cycle. Businesses don't spring for a new OS unless it makes financial sense. Usually IT stays away from new shiny stuff until it has been proven and tested thoroughly. Hell my old school still had windows 98 desktops when XP was released. They only went to XP and later Vista after they underwent an upgrade cycle.
I don't think the programmer(s) were at all ignorant of what they were doing. They could have been given too little time to deliver the solution or they knew management was ignorant of security and delivered any old pile of crap to get paid.
Did you bother to read the actual Jindalee Radar System article? Or was the poorly written brief description on the Australian Invention article enough for you? Whoever wrote that nonsense was clearly trying to bash the American military or perhaps America itself. From the actual article:
It is also reportedly able to detect stealth aircraft; aside from the fact that most stealthy aircraft are optimized for defeating much higher-frequency radar from front-on rather than low-frequency radars from above, JORN is reputedly able to detect aircraft wake turbulence.
Nothing mentioned about the 11 billion spent or the actual ability to detect stealth aircraft.
People keep forgetting about big industrial plants that need megawatts of power in order to run 24/7. The whole world isn't on a 9-5 schedule.
Excellent. Now we can go into the future and kick Higgs Boson's ass for going back in time and sabotaging the LHC.
No, no, he means SyFy.
After dealing with the flimsy crash prone ISP provided DSL modem/router I trashed it three years ago and setup a m0n0wall router in about 10 minutes using old spare PC parts. I have never looked back and highly recommend it. Sure if you use a standard PC your going to use quite a bit more power but I switched mine to a cheap $150 Atom setup with a dual LAN card in the PCI slot. Works like a charm. I even have my old Linksys WAP connected to the third port and isolated from my LAN, except for SSH.
When Apple came up with the App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch the press was excited and rejoicing over the new age of digital distribution. Now it's Sony's turn and suddenly it's a bad thing.
Apple did not have a physical distribution system before the app store. Sony had an acceptable, physical method for distributing games. Sure some people didn't like it because it was more propriety Sony BS, but it was there and it worked. There is a difference between introducing a platform with digital only distribution and releasing a platform with physical distribution and then taking it away.
I used to own a PSP but sold it after only a month. I used it as a music & Video player but the game titles released at the time didn't interest me. Bottom line is if you don't like the new PSP and don't want to be locked into another Sony system then don't buy it. I know I would not touch it with a 10 foot pole. Same goes for the iphone and ipod touch. If I cant directly control what I put on my hardware then I don't buy it. You arent going to die without without one.
Java is not the best of any world.
If he was a Sun admin, I would wager it wasn't the cigarettes.
A friend of mine is customs and border patrol agent at a major international airport. During the course of the day a female co-worker out of the blue points out a person that she feels is suspect of something. What she didn't know but she made sure she handled his entry. So he gets to her line and she begins to search his personal belongings and finds a large CD book. Flipping through she finds a bunch of boot leg DVD movies. He claimed the book was his and that he had nothing "bad in there. But still she checked the label on each and every DVD. Boot leg DVD's aren't illegal to bring in as long as you posses only one of each as that counts as personal use. So toward the back of the CD book she finds a bunch of porn DVD's. No big deal except she notices two of the DVD's have pictures of kids on them. She questions the man as to why the movies were separated from the porn but those two weren't. He claimed he didn't know and she said to him "I hope this isn't what I think it is". She calls her supervisor who takes the suspect DVD's to a room where they can be examined and he comes back 10 minutes later and confirmed that both DVD's did in fact contain child porn. He was immediately placed under arrest for possession of child porn. Best part was he changed his mind and claimed he was bringing the CD book back for a friend which earlier he claimed was his. He is a US citizen so of course he will be charged and have his life ruined by megans law.
Shows you how stupid some people really are. Had he altered the DVD labels or grouped it with the movies she would have never thought to check them. So yes there are plenty of idiots that get caught by customs trying to bring in contraband.
You forget service and support! Sun will make sure that for the serviceable life of your machine they will have replacement parts on hand and technical support for your machine. Imagine a commodity system looses a motherboard, will you be able to get the exact one three years down the line? And with pretty much every board maker located in Taiwan will they give you proper tech support in a timely manor? Will they ensure you get matching memory and CPU's? That's the other strong point of server class hard ware that is thoroughly supported by the vendor.
"The trucks do all the damage to the roads, and crowd the highways, but don't pay their fair share for it."
I am not trying to be an ass but where did you get that information?
If I fill up in New York and deliver to Ohio and come home on the same tank of NY gas, I drove through two states without paying them road taxes. But here is the catch, you need to have apportioned plates or another type of interstate registration to legally cross state lines. If I didn't have those plates on my truck I could be pulled over and heavily fined in PA and OH. So to ensure I pay my fair share for using the PA and OH roads I get an IFTA license (sticker) and keep track of mileage in those states. The money I pay to the IFTA tax is used to pay PA And OH. So even though I never bought gas in those states, I still wind up paying for the use of those roads. Of course if you drive on toll roads you are exempt from paying because you paid the toll. And Trucks pay allot of money when they travel on toll roads. The charge isn't proportional to the weight but if it was the costs would be astronomical. Imagine if a 3000 pound prius is charged 5 dollars to use the toll road. An 80,000 pound tractor trailer would be charged about 132 dollars if you want to go by weight.
As for deregulation, it was a bad move. Since then it has been a race to the bottom. Companies and drivers are trying to undercut each other to the point where they sacrifice maintenance and safety for profit. Too many drivers pushing the limits if their rigs and themselves. That's when something gives and you have truck accidents which have come to demonize the industry.
And as for the "more rail" comment: They couldn't deliver goods in a timely manner before deregulation, and they sure arent going to do it now. Besides you fail to realize the scope of the trucking industry and how incredibly diverse it is. There are many, many areas of trucking trains simply cannot touch. I am not against the rail roads, they are the most efficient at moving BULK freight. LTL, expiditer, construction, and other vocational trucking cannot simply be carried out with trains. A train cant carry a load of dirt to a construction site, they cant bring your food to the supermarket and they certainly cant bring you that time critical piece in a matter of a few days or less. Again apples to oranges. Trucks can go anywhere, trains need tracks that run through government provided right of ways.
Funny how Volvo sold the car business but the both companies still pull the same shit. Volvo Trucks now owns Mack and the new Mack's come with Volvo engines re branded as Mack engines. Any service needed on them cost thousands and phone calls to Volvo for tech support can cost hundreds. I believe the Volvo diagnostic system is called VCADS. Volvo gouges their own dealer network for diagnostic and tech support. They would rather rip their dealers and customers off than build a solid reputation with them.
First off, don't you dare compare Commercial Trucks to oversize vehicles like SUV's. Commercial vehicles are a vital part of the nations infrastructure. They deliver ALL of the nations goods to local stores and other points of sale. The hummer is a gas wasting passenger vehicle that is just for looks. A tractor trailer has one purpose: move goods. Sure you can try to group them together but don't bitch when the price of goods rises due to an increase in fuel tax surcharges.
Besides, trucks already pay a shared highway fuel tax known as the IFTA. I don't know the details but you essentially pay money into a tax pool that states you drove in get a share of. You might fuel up in California and not have to refuel until you hit the Mississippi. You drove through allot of states without buying fuel in them to pay for their roads. You tally up you mileage for the year in each of the states you traveled in send it in and you get taxed for it. If you operate in state only you will have a registration that says so and you will pay a tax at the time of registration depending on the weight class and then you just pay road tax through the diesel tax.
Hybrid cars SUV and Trucks are not the same.
Have you watched the History Channel special: The crumbling of America? Well if you did the "terrorists" have nothing to worry about, they just have to sit by and watch us fall apart.
The roads are shot along with bridges. Sewer systems overloaded, water supplies in jeopardy, levies and dams in a state of serious disrepair. And an electrical grid that teeters on the edge of blacking out every day.
Its wasn't all doom and gloom as its not too late. Th1ere are many technological advances to replace and update our infrastructure with better and longer lasting replacements. Problem is money, there is simply not enough to go around and in some cases there is no money at all.
My friends Volkswagen gets similar numbers. It has the 280HP V6. Depends on the car, engine, transmission and year.
Amazing! That's the same date when nuclear fusion powered our homes. 40 years from .... NOW
Even a ROM system could be hacked if there were vulnerabilities. Consider an embedded Linux system that uses a flash disk that is hardware write protected. You aren't going to write to that flash disk no matter how hard you try but the kernel does need scratch space and that's going to be a ram disk. So you could temporarily infect the ram disk but as soon as the reset button is pressed your back to running normal again. But plenty of hardware devices today need some type of writable space to hold settings and other types of data that needs to be manipulated. And that is vulnerable.
You should care if you want to develop for the cell processor or want to build a cheap and powerful cluster. Currently there is no other stand alone Cell powered computer available besides the PS3. IBM only offers two different Cell processor blade servers which would cost well over ten thousand dollars. The PS3 is the only "personal computer" that is cell powered. Even if some company came along and started to offer a Cell powered PC the price will be many times that of the PS3.
So for anyone who is interested in Linux Cell computing this is a major blow. Sonylooses money on the hardware (consoles) and makes money on the software. People or organizations who buy PS3's for Linux/Cell development or clustering are costing Sony money. Its a logical business move but sucks for hobbyist developers or researchers. I was hoping myself to snag a new PS3 for me and my brother to tinker with Cell programming under Linux and regular Gaming. Looks like I am going to have to buy a PS3 now before I cant get a new Linux friendly model anymore.
"Why not make a gigantic net and scoop up all that garbage?"
Simple. There is no money to be made in garbage fishing.
I do that every day and I don't need no stinking computers. Sigh.
Cooperation like this is a great gesture. MS releasing code to help Linux run better in their VM's is a good thing and I am glad Red Hat returned the favor. With shops today running a mixed environment this helps them with transitioning or running apps side by side. Great for Linux development/testing on Windows and now better Windows development/testing on Linux systems. Now if only Apple would allow OSX to run in a VM. Developers could have one system running the OS of their choice and do all their cross platform development and testing on one system. Great for small developers who might code on a laptop or prefer to have a single system for development.
It might be that they county/state does not allow the aquifer table to be used for such a purpose. You don't want water from a data center contaminating the ground water supply that is also used for drinking. Even a heat exchanger could leak causing contamination. The law might also state that the aquifer table cannot be used for industrial/commercial processes or require costly annual permits.
If the data center is located near other buildings, a system of pipes could be used to bring heated water to nearby buildings for heating. Or if the data center is housed in a larger building with other occupants the waste heat could be used to heat the the entire building, the tenants could be billed by the data center to recoup energy costs. Plenty of ways to use the heat but often the initial installation costs make it cheaper to just dissipate the heat into the atmosphere.