That's right, only America has the best internet practices and it is the standard we all must unquestioningly follow. USA! USA! USA!

If you are made to sign a document against your will? Years ago, I applied to temp agencies for work. I was made to sign a document wherein I could not negotiate employment with a client company directly. A lawyer told me that document does not hold up in court because no one can stop you from looking for work. While references are something you do need and you are at a company's mercy for, a lot of stuff they make you sign is questionable and may not hold up in court. Especially if you are made to feel you have no choice and are made to do it to ensure survival. As a temp worker, I just wanted to pay bills and would have signed pretty much anything if I had to. The lawyer told me that was another factor consider as well, which further weakens such documents under scrutiny of the courts. While the argument can be made, 'just find work elsewhere', in a bad economy our choices are increasingly limited.

Because paper and ink is much easier and that was also the defacto standard not too long ago. I am sure there is mothballed stoarge for this equipment as well...

When I first started out my business I had a shoestring budget, if that. I could not afford conventional Microsoft software like the OS and office suite, anti virus, graphics design software, accounting software and so on. GNU/Linux seemed the best route to go. However, I knew very little about GNU/Linux either. For a small fee, I paid for GNU/Linux support and had someone there to hand hold me through crucial moments when I did not have time to research problems on my own or when I got stumped by a bug. It was great to know someone was there, on retainer, whom I could call when things got rough. Now I do not need paid support, at this time, because I can sort out these issues on my own. However, if my business was to grow, I know not all employees can handle the GNU/Linux OS, so paid support is a good idea if I am too busy to explain everything. Paid GNU/Linux suport is one of the best things I ever invested in. Sure, there are some weird support staff at there, but that made for fun conversations and a lot of learning.

"In the land of many laws, many laws are broken."

Maybe such a prime target like Sony ought to lay off the whole 'cloud storage' thing and go a bit luddite. Use paper instead of e-mails, tape instead of digital--older mediums of information. Heck, use typewriters again. Sure, their offices may wind up looking like something out of Brazil, but a lot harder to hack. It certainly is awful what Sony did with their DRM spyware on consumers and some may call it karma. Perhaps this can be a learning experience and a way for Sony to take a new approach. Then again, maybe Sony will watch the end of Brazil and want to go that route with consumers instead.

I thoroughly agree. What made Star Wars originally was the special effects and design concepts. This looks like a rehash of old ideas, right down to the cliche intro. They could have done a better job. They also could have brought in some really good concept designers instead of reserve stale ideas. This is sort of the McDonald's of sci-fi. Take a look at what was done to the Star Trek franchise, they turned it into children's movies. Little better than cartoon series whereas the original idea was to boldly go where noone has gone before. Instead we have the binarisms of villains and good guys instead of exploration of the new.

http://trisquel.info/en/taxono...

Abrowser comes pre-installed with Trisquel GNU/Linux 6.0 Toutatis.

Slashdot users are predominantly African American. There are a lot of insightful comments that address the grievances of African Americans and why they might have experienced displeasure with the US justice system. We learn the extent some might wish to express displeasure though various means, correct or not, with the ruling. Slashdot taught me to understand the dissent, though I may or may not agree with it. Finally, Slashdot offers hope to attain a means of peaceful conflict resolution.

In other news, Libre browesers like icecat, Iceweasel, and Abrowser offer search engines.like DuckDuckGo and Blekko. Wolfram Alpha comes in handy on ocassion. You don't have to live in a Google/Yahoo!/Bing! world. May myriads of search engines bloom in a more diverse interweb.

Wasn't the year of the GNU/Linux tablet supposed to be a few years ago? I think there was something called a 'Spark' tablet that runs KDE, but that dissapeared in the ether. It would be nice to see GNU/Linux available on mobile devices. This tablet does not look much better than other crap out there. I really hope it meets your expectations as Jolla seems like a cooler company with seemingly nice products. I have not been able to get my hands on one to see for myself.

As I understand it, there are two seperate objectives between the conflicting parties. Groupon is a proprietary software firm that facilitates financial transactions, the other is a not-for-profit user interface designed for all. It is tremendously uncool for a corporate entity to go after a non-for-profit. Rather than taking them to court, we could just shame Groupon. What kind of monstrous people would go after a non-threatening free software project? Heck, Microsoft could have gone after KDE for the way they laid-out the GUI, but didn't. (start button at the bottom left...of course, that would also open up a can of worms for Microsoft...). Are not-for-profits not protected somehow in the US? It is disgusting that this is even a litigation issue. It is like Sony going after PBS in court because their new product hapens to be called "PBS". This is not just an American issue, countless non-Americans use gnome. So how does a US corporation suddenly decide that a free, global application must be threatened? How many poor developing nations actually need FLOSS software? (A LOT). This is low and disgusting. I am apalled. Yes, I know there are detractors for Gnome, but I am sure we can all agree that this GUI is ours and must be defended, even if it is a little deformed...Rather than the courts, why not make a big publicity/PR stink?

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/g... Wireless enabled now. : - )

Instead of saying "free" software, because it is misleading, some prefer to use the word "libre", which is a bit closer to the ideal trying to be expressed.