Openoffice needed a home away from Oracle, and the Apache Software Foundation is big enough to host it. Being removed from Oracle, OpenOffice was able to become a combination of Sun StarOffice and IBM Lotus Symphony. At this point in time, LibreOffice and AOO have different licenses - LO is GPL, and AOO is AL.

Pay rates are either negotiated per employee or codified indifferent to sex. Benefits being discussed here are codified, are non-medical (this isn't leave due to pregnancy complications), and ignore the fact that the mother (who may not work for Yahoo) may need to get back to work. The argument isn't that men and women are equal, but rather should they have equal opportunity to get things back in order.

I was hoping to see why it isn't money in the article. He doesn't say. He also didn't read about bitcoin, because he concludes the article with,

I remember when journalists actually learned about what they wrote about.

The biggest problem I can see with bitcoin is its value is directly related to its popularity. Where dividend yielding stocks will give you a return in a currency the government will always use, bitcoin's value is always tied into what you can get cashing it out. If it wasn't for bitcoin's strengths (as difficult to exploit, steal, and sieze) and the resilience of the Internet, it wouldn't be as successful as government backed currency.

A mildly amusing conclusion I inferred about bitcoin's design: the same conditions required to break the network (having over 50% of the mining performance) are the same conditions required to devalue the currency (excessive mining and dumping).

Unlike the AP, the IRS has a sense of humor!

I used to do X forwarding, but these days you can remote mount the filesystem in userspace and execute the remote apps locally. The server doesn't have to keep X11 hogging server memory and I get local graphical acceleration. Xorg has features that aren't available in Wayland, and Wayland has a performance advantage because it sheds those features. If it's an old application, X11 is still available. If it's a Wayland-only application, it will have features and performance beyond the limits of X11.

Network transparency of audio was done through PulseAudio (lots of /. complaints in those threads) with ALSA being the lower level component. Wayland (and/or Mir) are heading towards being the lower level component, and network transparency (lets call it PulseVideo) could come later.

It's worse than that. This is a Slashdot discussion about a Reddit thread, with a third site intermediary.

It's already illegal to shoot guns at people.

And here's to hoping coreboot renders UEFI obsolete someday!

a lot of OK suggestions, but urandom is slow and not designed for essentially writing junk to disk.

mkpasswd -n 512 | cryptsetup create 0 /dev/sda && badblocks -wst random /dev/mapper/0

1. writes a random, but repeating string to the drive really fast
2. verifies random string which tests disk readability & reliability, but encrypted so the random string doesn't repeat if the drive is read raw.
3. can be done from the livecd, but you have to install expect to get mkpasswd.
4. you can crank up the mkpasswd length, but cryptsetup included in the F18 beta is limited to 512 character passwords.
5. easy enough to remember (mkpasswd, cryptsetup, and badblocks) that you just need to open up another terminal to do the other drives in the system.

i normally start with hdparm's --security-erase-enhanced && --security-disable so I know that the drive started blank, is written to the maximum, and I won't get a disk I'll have to unlock on the next reboot.

They would be deindexing at the request of the French legal system, not at the request of management.

The monopolistic position you're referring to is search, which is equivalent to Bing's search (which Bing has the data to show). Continuing with the Bing-Google equivalency hypothesis, adds will be removed from the French news page, creating no ad revenue.

This is my experience with dash in 12.10 as well. By default it crams as much useless information in as possible. It posts magazines from the Ubuntu software center before it posts the programs those magazines reference.

I don't mind it searching Amazon, however posting Amazon searches in full view unless entirely disabled is moronic.