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  1. About LibreOffice mentions oracle on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 0

    Did anyone download and install LibreOffice 3 ? If you click "About LibreOffice" under Help, you get :

    LibreOffice 3.3.0
    OOO330m7 (Build:9526)
    ooo-build 2010-09-24

    Copyright © 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This product was created by The Document Foundation, based on OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org acknowledges all community members, especially those mentioned at http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html.

    why does it still mention Oracle ? Is it a license issue ?

  2. Salon's Glenn Greenwald on Project Vigilant on 'Project Vigilant' Recruits At Defcon To Track You · · Score: 1, Informative
    He had a detailed post of 'Project Vigilant'.

    Uber told Computer World that he decided to divulge his group's role in directing Lamo to turn into an informant because he thought that Lamo's patriotic act was being unfairly disparaged.

  3. Re:Not surprising on $200B Lost To Counterfeiting? Back It Up · · Score: 0

    Oft quoted as the "paper of record", the Times has a history of faking it.

    Jayson Blair ? how about making stuff up for the Iraq war ?

  4. gs + tesseract on Open Source OCR That Makes Searchable PDFs · · Score: 0

    Another opensource option: The pdfs can be converted to tiffs using ghostscript and ocr-ed using tesseract. The current version of tesseract does not have document layout analysis and page segmentation support.

  5. Re:An appropriate quote seems to be... on Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers · · Score: 0

    First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

    -- Ghandi.

    You realize it is Gandhi?

  6. Re:Comedy goldmine on C-Span Posts Full Archives Online · · Score: 0

    Stephen colbert in C-span : 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner

  7. Re:This is a job for WikiLeaks! on Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites · · Score: 0

    Google has some help, but needs more digging. Relevant results

  8. Reviews of Apex Technology Group Inc., on Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites · · Score: 0
  9. preorder on Sony Announces PS3 Slim, Price Cut, Improvements To Home · · Score: 0
  10. Re:Solution? on US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal · · Score: 0

    For example, one question is "Does the student need a work permit to be hired" and the answer is no. The student cannot get a work permit until they have a written job offer, so any employer waiting for proof of a work permit before giving an interview is asking for the impossible.

    I think Cmdrtaco should read TFA.

    May be, you should read TFA first. From TFA:

    Don't international students need work authorization before I can hire them?

    No. International students must have the work authorization before they begin actual employment, but not before they are offered employment. In fact, J-1 students must have a written job offer in order to apply for the work authorization. Many F-1 students will be in the process of obtaining work authorization while they are interviewing for employment. Students can give employers a reasonable estimate of when they expect to receive work authorization.

  11. Re:Media has it Wrong on Google Buys Finnish Paper Mill · · Score: 0

    You do realize that Google paper is April fool joke ?

  12. Secret Maryo Chronicles on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 0
  13. Energy costs on "Nightlife" Harnesses Idle Fedora Nodes For Research · · Score: 0

    Here is the heat and energy considerations for running boinc. Boinc is a middleware for projects like seti@home and folding@home. According to that study the difference is roughly $3/month between idle and active computer usage.

  14. 100% offtopic on Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live ID · · Score: 0

    According to wikinews, Richard Stallman is missing after the earthquake in Peru, anyone know anything ?

  15. gmail.de on Google Loses Gmail Trademark Case · · Score: 0
    Google translate of gmail.de

    G-mail... ... the optimal fusion of electronic data networks with the conventional, thus physical kind the delivery of letters and realigning. This hybrid system is made possible for an electronic distributor platform (G-mail) with material, locally acting letter delivery services (P1 private) by interaction.
    Anyone have a gmail.de account ?
  16. obligatory one on Don't Google "How To Commit Murder" Before Killing · · Score: -1

    Google does not kill people, people kill people !

  17. Re:Things That Bit Butts on Google Aids Indian Goverment Censorship · · Score: 0

    how about 'Support the troops' ?

  18. some videos still work on YouTube Removes Comedy Central Clips Due to DMCA · · Score: 0

    A search (Colbert on Youtube) brings up many clips, but only clips less than 4 mins are playable. May be they are still removing it.

  19. Re:Not Google's only screwup on GMail and Sourceforge E-mail Bouncing Saga · · Score: 0

    are u talking about this page : http://www.google.com/services/ ? it works for me. have u disabled javascript ?

  20. Re:Can you read? on US Government Restricting Research Libraries · · Score: 1

    From ur article : "We're wondering why a $7 billion agency is fighting so hard for this $2 million cut." And why not make sure all the documents are available online or through loan before stopping access to the documents. the artice also says 'eventual digitizing' , when exactly ?

  21. Re:Jesus Christ, this post is all Linux porn innue on Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry · · Score: 1

    that was good ! made me laugh :)

  22. Re:US needs to be more like Europe on How Great Cheap Phones Never Get to the U.S. · · Score: 1

    I am a T-mobile customer, they unlocked my phone when I visted India in January , so I was able to use my Razr in India. Also T-mobile has 1 year contract.

  23. Re:It makes me more angry... on Cash Pours in for Student with $1 Million Web Idea · · Score: 1

    as I had my credit cards accessible and I ended up buying www.milliondollarzhome.com ! $15 gone in 1 minute of weakness.
    should never read slashdot or shop after 12:00am.

  24. Re:How does it perform on Linux? on Skype 2.0 Adds Video · · Score: 1

    Skype does work using ALSA driver, check this: http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?p=148980

  25. Re:It happened to me too on Nigerian Scammers Brought to Justice · · Score: 1

    can't believe bank and cops gave u such bad advice.
    check this story , where the seller teaches a lesson to the scammer.

    http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/