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Submission + - Don't Be Evil: How Google Screwed Our Startup (hatchlings.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05, 2012 @03:48PM

An anonymous reader writes: After nearly a year of trying to fix things diplomatically behind the scenes it's time to go public with the story of how Google screwed our startup out of $40,000 in earned ad revenue and then systematically ignored us for almost a year.

Submission + - Africa's Great Green Wall (loe.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05, 2012 @03:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: Africa is turning to desert. Studies show that as much as two thirds of the continent’s arable land could become desert by 2025 if current trends continue. But a bold initiative to plant a wall of trees 4,300 miles long across the African continent could keep back the sands of the Sahara, improve degraded lands, and help alleviate poverty. Living on Earth’s Bobby Bascomb reports from Senegal.

Comment Re:No problem (Score 1) 761

by Spock the Vulcan on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @05:22PM (#37990762) Attached to: Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV

Politicians are nothing compared to the Humphrey Applebys that actually are out there.

As someone who used to believe that, I wonder if it's really true, or if it just comes from reading/watching Yes Minister at an impressionable age :-)

Comment Re:Operating System Feature (Score 1) 225

by Spock the Vulcan on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @06:50PM (#32971912) Attached to: Adobe Putting PDF Reader In a Sandbox

RTFM. SUDO(8)

...sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file...

Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat" 243

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @01:01PM from the waste-of-words dept.

Shlomi Fish writes "O'Reilly is publishing a new book titled 'Mastering cat,' about the UNIX 'cat' command. Here is an interview O'Reilly-Net conducted with the author about it. Read it to see if this book should be part of your bookshelf of technical books."

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