This makes me wonder, why isn't there a law related to OSS and companies trying to patent or benefit from open code or software without complying with the related license (GNU for most part)?

And if the such a law is not possible, there should be an OSS organization that itself patents some code or ideas, profit from it, and eventually drive development of open code.

But I would rather die healthy at 60, than live in an old home while being overweight at 80.

Outliving your peers is not a good thing for everyone

Why is it that UK ministers and policy makers keep saying and passing out stupid and lame laws, but EU guys seem to be intelligent and sane when it comes to technology. UK and USA should borrow some people like these from EU.

I hope it will force ISPs to uncap their packages. No point in having a Netstream account and try to steam when you have a pathetic 20GB (or so) limit.

When you name something "Zeus", you gotta be able to plan and code above than normal.

Considering the developing model and community orientation (even in corporations) of Linux and variants, a Linux monopoly won't be even close to as terrible as Windows'. As a matter of fact, I would rather expect the OSS developers to work even harder in making their code more secure and stable when more users are migrating.

I don't care who joins the Linux foundation and who doesn't, as long as more corporations are supported OSS in some way. The Windows monopoly needs to end, even if Google develops a Linux based distro and starts selling it for money (Though I don't wish for this to happen)

All the excuses of hardware-compatibility and user-friendliness has been long gone. For example in my very own experience where I had to run a PCMCIA card via a PCI-PCMCIA adapter on my desktop, it took me 3 days to find a solution in Windows, while both the adapter and PCMCIA card worked out of the box on Ubuntu without any further settings.

Scripted conversations are better compared to normal human conversations in helping young children develop language skills? What a joke.

So I finally got confirmation that I am a M$ basher/hater. As soon as I read the title of the article, I said to myself What a load of crap without reading anything further.

The easiest and most practical organ that can "grown" this way, without stem cells, is liver. It has extreme regenerative properties, higher than most other tissues. From their results it seems they might be able to grow large enough samples that once implanted, they should grow more and start functioning enough to keep the patient alive with some care.

Isn't it a bit over confidence when assuming and hoping that a neutrino that only interacts via gravity can explain, or was responsible for Baryonic Asymmetry?. None of the *possible* explanations (CP-violation, more matter somewhere than antimatter, antimatter pushed somewhere else etc) I have read anywhere hinted that a hypothetical neutrino, and especially a sterile one, could explain asymmetry. So I am going to take that as a one scientist opinion and hope.

Well that depends on how much popular Slashdot is among Chinese officials, but not very long I suppose. Maybe a new saying will get popularized there: They were slashdotted before they could enjoy their freedom

I am sure for a lot people, having an annual $500+ billion Defence budget is overkill, while others whine about spending fraction of that on science and education. It depends on which context and purpose you take it in, and if it is benefiting some people in power in some disguised way.

I hope they didn't break something when adding the ACPI features. From my experience, it is one devil of a specification. Just half an hour ago, I couldn't browse anything on my Ubuntu Lucid because I had changed one ACPI related setting in Bios, and XP failed to boot at all. I wonder how far-reaching and bizarre effects it has on other OSs, and in other scenarios.

This is probably the only lawsuit I read about on Slashdot that I am going to support. Well done Google. And DOI must be lacking some sense these days to call it RFQ when they specified they will only consider bids from one company.