User: codeusirae

Golden Rice has nothing to do with Monsanto?

On: Interview With Professor Potrykus, Inventor of Golden Rice

'Maybe because Golden Rice has nothing to do with Monsanto?`

"Monsanto have now agreed to provide royalty-free licenses for its technologies to help fast-track the further development and distribution of the rice." ref

And these farmers can never go into the seed selling business - into perpetuity ...

Unlicensed seeds?

On: Interview With Professor Potrykus, Inventor of Golden Rice

What about all those poor farmers who can't save their own seeds unless they go back to Monsanto for a license?

Securing ICS/SCADA systems ..

On: Stuxnet Expert Dismisses NIST Cyber Security Framework, Proposes Alternative

Connect them through encrypted VPNs on embedded hardware ..

Search and replace Manual Break

On: SUSE's LibreOffice Core Team Moves To Collabora

"Libre Writer .. can't even do a search and replace on a manual page feed"

Install the AltSearch extension and search for \p ...

Wants to see LibreOffice do better?

On: SUSE's LibreOffice Core Team Moves To Collabora

"not having to even worry about file formats so long as you have an up-to-date version"

It's understandable why you would want to remain anonymous ..
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Microsoft innovating in PowerPoint space?

On: SUSE's LibreOffice Core Team Moves To Collabora

"Microsoft .. actually managed to continue to innovate in this space, and the PowerPoint presentations I see .. beat anything I've seen from the LibreOffice geeks"

Googling on 'graphics example filetype:odp` brings up some very interesting results, see these examples ..

Stereoscopic vision workshop

Open Source Productivity Tools

Overwriting auto backups?

On: SUSE's LibreOffice Core Team Moves To Collabora

"Open office .. it'll overwrite you're auto backups"

From what I've experienced OO prompts the user and asks if they want to recover any lost documents.

Resistance is futile ..

On: Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business

This is a classical Microsoft move, a Microsoftie join a company ruins it and then rejoins the mothership, resistance *is* futile ..

BBC failed Digital Project Cancelled

Project Kangaroo Cancelled

Highfield joins Microsoft after just four months at Project Kangaroo

BBC appoints Microsoft man to control future media

The K-12 education market ..

On: Murdoch's AP Computer Science MOOC Goes Live

'Asserting that the K-12 education market is “ripe for disruption" Joel Klein, former New York City schools chancellor, now executive v-p at News Corp. and director of Amplify, its education unit, offered a presentation of Amplify’s business model and plans to release hardware and software solutions`

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