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Submission + - Schools in Portugal Moving to OSS (publico.pt)

thyristor pt writes: In light of massive national budget cuts, the Portuguese government will force public schools to move to free/open source software . Schools with some 50.000 outdated computers won't see their software licenses renewed, the main reason being the cost of hardware upgrade inherent to mostly Microsoft software updates.
Will the Euro debt crisis be a driving force to the spreading of open source software?

Comment I was OK with the URL on the location bar (Score 1) 181

The URL of the hovered link made sense up there, and the implementation was even better because we could see the end of the URL. Now in beta 12 I can't see if I'm clicking a link to a .exe file or to an html page.... when the link url is long enough. I wish I could have an option to display it back to the location bar. Besides, the new method doesn't show the url in the status bar. Even if I turn it on it still displays in a little popup in the lower screen.

Comment Re:Banned in the UK already (Score 1) 1049

CFL's can be nasty, but try buying a good decent Phillips CFL. It's costs 10 euros or more.... but it will give you quality light for years. I have a couple of those and they turn on instantly without any flickering or humming. Don't trust your eyes to a 10p bulb. Alternatively you can buy LED's, more expensive but also with a more natural light.
Firefox

Submission + - Newspaper declares Firefox top browser in Europe (elpais.com)

thyristor pt writes: The leading Spanish newspaper, El Pais, has declared Firefox to be the most used browser in Europe based on results provided by Statcounter for the month of December 2010. With a 38% share vs 37% for IE, the major help came from Chrome skyrocketing to 14%. (translating the link to english will reverse the article's title)

Submission + - FBI uses man's photo to create Bin Laden (canoe.ca)

innocent_white_lamb writes: The FBI has acknowledged using a photo of a Spanish politician to create an image of Osama Bin Laden that they have posed on their "Wanted -Reward Offered" website. They downloaded a photo of the man from the Internet. He is now afraid to travel to the USA because so many airports use biometrics to identify "terrorists" and he is now Bin Laden!
Social Networks

Of Catty Rants and Copyrights 339

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A newspaper copies a rant from a girl's MySpace page and reprints it as a 'Letter to the Editor' without her permission. Could the girl sue for copyright violation? This question provoked much more disagreement among legal experts than I expected." Read on for the details.

Comment Well.. (Score 1) 627

If we have one space ship moving at 70% the speed of light and another one from the opposite direction moving towards the first ship also at 70% the speed of light... then they're both moving above light speed relative to each other. So it looks possible.

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