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  1. BlueGriffon on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? · · Score: 4, Informative

    BlueGriffon is another editor that does HTML5, CSS3, SVG, and MathML. It is also extendable. Not exactly what you are looking for but what you want may not exist. Anyway you might want to check out BlueGriffon too.

  2. 92 Hinda Civic VX on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    Agreed! These old cars are lighter and get great gas mileage. I have a 1992 Honda Civic VX. I paid an extra $1000 for a better gas sipping engine and that extra $1000 paid for itself many times over in great gas mileage. Great ROI! Today I get in the low 50s mpg during the summer and in the mid to upper 40s mpg during the winter.

  3. Not GPL on Windows 8 Store Will Allow Open Source Apps · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has language in its agreement that excludes GPL.

  4. T-Shirts on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    What brought me to Chips and Dips (early name of Slashdot) was the great Linux "Don't Fear the Penguins" T-Shirt that you made. I still have mine. There is now a lot of history connected with that T-Shirt. I wore it on my first date with my future wife. Thanks for making Slashdot and making it great.

  5. Make Cars Lighter and Areodynamic on US Pumps $175M Into Advanced Auto Fuel Research · · Score: 1
    You need to look no farther than the winner of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize (mainstream class). They decided that light weight and aerodynamics was key. It had meet some tough standards.

    The goal: a car with mileage greater than 100 MPGe. The requirements: 4 passengers, 4 wheels, range exceeding 200 miles, 0-60 in less than 15 seconds, meeting Consumers Union dynamic safety standards and Tier 2 Bin 8 emissions.

  6. Re:Significance on Building Blocks of DNA Confirmed In Meteorites · · Score: 1

    Good questions! It seems to me that the ideas of exogenesis and panspermia which have been discounted (in my reading) may be more of a possibility with the new evidence than previously thought. The standard theories of the origin of life may need some revision. I can understand why scientists want to keep all of the theory on earth as opposed to pushing it off earth. It is easier find evidence and prevents concept of the something unknown happened out there. But right now there is a whole lot of unknowns and it may not be a tractable problem in the scientific framework.

  7. Opportunity Knocks on Firefox Is For "Regular" Users, Not Businesses · · Score: 2

    There is an opportunity for a business to step up and provide long term enterprise support for FireFox 4.0. Backporting the security updates is possible.

  8. Forget the Version Numbers on No Additional Firefox 4 Security Updates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Version numbers don't matter any more. This is really not a major release. It is an incremental upgrade, just like Chrome and just like the Linux kernel. It is a new way of developing software that has been happening for a while now.

  9. Linux with Firefox Kiosk on Where Is Firefox OS? · · Score: 2

    Does a Linux kiosk OS count? How about Webconverger? It is a Debian derivative kiosk that uses Firefox.

  10. Drop Firefox 4 by the end of the year? on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 1

    If they keep only the two latest versions and drop the third, does that mean support for Firefox 4 will be dropped when Firefox 6 comes out? Firefox 6 is planned to come out in the Fall. There is a downside to the rapid schedule.

  11. The last mile on Two-Thirds of US Internet Users Lack Fast Broadband · · Score: 1

    The problem is at the last mile. Lots of fiber was laid, but none of that dark fiber can connect to the homes and businesses that need it.

  12. Not a Lock-In on Chrome OS Doesn't Trust Apps Or Users · · Score: 2

    Jolicloud, a competitor to Google OS, has an app at the Chrome Web Store. Jollicloud decided to integrate its platform inside the Chrome browser. You can use Jolicloud services instead for Google's. Though definitely restrictive, Google is not locking you into its services.

  13. Re:Could have included more updated packages... on Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 · · Score: 1

    Red Hat is very conservative with its packages. Minor updates come roughly every 6 months and it is then that they update packages if they decide to do so. However third party repositories will have newer versions of programs/packages and other programs that are not included in RHEL 6 by Red Hat. Naturally those packages will not be supported by Red Hat.

  14. Feature Comparison on Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS? · · Score: 1

    If you compare features, Plone easily wins.

  15. So Many Different Projects on Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have always wondered why we needed Diaspora when there are already so many projects. Why not work on one of the existing ones.

  16. AT&T Compaint against Google on Google Officially Brings Voice To Gmail · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Earlier today in "Google testing voice calling in Gmail", u235meltdown brought up a very good point about how this creates a problem for Google defending itself against AT&T who says Google Voice should have Common Carrier status. This destroys Google's arguments.

  17. Fork Now or Still Spork? on The Future of OpenSolaris Revealed · · Score: 1

    So what does that mean for the OpenSolaris connumity? Will Illumos wait for the delayed source code updates and try to stay a "spork"? Or will they decide to go it on their own (fork) and try keep as much compatibility as they can? It is definitely not a good situation for the OpenSolaris community.

  18. Fast Disks? on Intel's 50Gbps Light Peak Successor · · Score: 1

    Is there a storage device today that can deliever 50Gbps speeds? Right now I don't know of any, but that does not mean there will not be some in the future. It seems this technology is getting way ahead of everything else.

  19. Amazingly Complex on How a Key Enzyme Repairs Sun-Damaged DNA · · Score: 1

    I am always blown away at how complex a cell can be and the amazing things that it can do. This is just one more article pointing out the amazing complex machinery at the cell level.

  20. Hard to find linux laptops on Windows vs. Ubuntu — Dell's Verdict · · Score: 1

    Ever typed in "linux laptop" or "ubuntu laptop" in the Dell search box. What comes up for me (on the USA Dell Site) are Windows laptop results. There are no Linux laptops in the results and not even an option for the Linux OS if you take a look at the laptops. You need to use Google to find the Linux laptops on the Dell site.

  21. Where is 3.6.5? on Mozilla Updates Firefox To Appease FarmVille Users · · Score: 1

    What happened to Firefox 3.6.5? They skipped a number and went to 3.6.6.

  22. Re:"Weird"? on Weird Exoplanet Orbits Could Screw Up Alien Life · · Score: 4, Informative

    This fits the Rare Earth hypothesis which argues that complex life is rare in the universe. So earth's situation is "weird" and unusual if the hypothesis is correct.

  23. Yes, but ... on A Contrarian Stance On Facebook and Privacy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The issue with their experimentation, is that they change the privacy settings of a person to be more open. Any changes should be an opt-in and not an after-the-fact opt-out. Finding those settings is to change them back is also difficult. It should be easy to set one's privacy settings and to know what is open and what is not. I am all for responsible experimentation that allows me to make informed choices about my privacy.

  24. Life from Earth on New Evidence Presented For Ancient Fossils In Mars Rocks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is my understanding that bacteria could survive a trip through space from Earth to Mars (or vice versa). I wonder if a chunk of earth made it to Mars and seeded Mars with bacterial life. That could mean that the bacterial life on Mars could have the same characteristics as bacterial life on Earth because they originated from Earth. It makes the contamination issue a little more complex.

  25. Define "No" on SCO Asks Judge To Give Them the Unix Copyright · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the Article:

    The jury was asked, "Did the amended Asset Purchase Agreement transfer the Unix and UnixWare copyrights from Novell to SCO?" It answered, "No," ... SCO contends the jury could have meant various things by its verdict that do not preclude Stewart from ordering the transfer.

    What part of "No" do you not understand?