I believe when a judgement is rendered "without prejudice" the door is open for appeal. If a judgement is rendered "with prejudice" then it cannot be appealed.

Oops wrong link should have been: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act

I guess we'll get to see if the whistleblower protection program actually works.

http://www.whistleblowers.gov/

Just me or is this a circular link?

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/06/18/chrysler-agrees-to-recall-jeeps-at-risk-fire/

Want a stable, proven desktop that isn't being upgraded with useless flash and features? This works nicely on Ubuntu(s)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/

"In the example of FIG. 1B, a user 16 has gestured by placing his fingertips on the display surface and moving them in an outwardly separating manner. As discussed in greater detail below, this particular gesture 17 is associated with a zoom-in command. When the computer 126 performs a zoom-in command, it directs the projector to provide 128 a closer, more detailed view of the displayed imagery. "


From the linked patent application http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,724,242.PN.&OS=PN/7,724,242&RS=PN/7,724,242

With documentation you usually just get an API reference, and maybe a simple example. With community sites like Stack Overflow you get vetted examples and best practices from real world users. It's almost always more helpful than just a static reference.

Ask for a raise at work, and continue your open source contributions on the weekend?

Get a junior / intern position doing the work you want while you finish school. That way you get some money (hopefully), keep your skills fresh and gain work experience. Then when you graduate in a few years you have a degree and some experience, you can go for more mid-level positions.

So, the layout is broken on IE7, and upon clicking on any story, it locks up the browser while loading in comments. Here's a screenshot showing the layout issue.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_j2FyTmuJ5vg/TUA6bF56vSI/AAAAAAAAC_E/eTFM14ZSws4/s800/slashdot_new_ie7.JPG

Unfortunately we're stuck using IE7 corporate wide. Looks like productivity is about to go up around here :)

Unfortunately we're forced to use IE7 at work. The only way to make the new site readable is to add the site to 'Restricted Sites', so that the JS etc does not work. Then it's even uglier, but readable :) Otherwise, the content is squished to about the right 10% of the screen, and overlayed with some side bar... I hate IE7, so feel free to not fix this, I'll just continue to use it this way until we get upgraded at work.

What I've found the least hassle is to buy Dell hardware (I usually go for in-warranty used equipment from reputable eBays resellers), and run the latest LTS version of Ubuntu (currently 10.04). For instances when they need to run something that is windows only I first try the 'wine' emulator, and if that fails I resort to a licensed windows install on virtualbox running on an ubuntu server (this is usually to support some windows only hardware, like shared printers, etc.). Been working great so far with several small businesses now running on this setup.

Doesn't IBM already maintain their own fork? Maybe we'll start seeing some of the business oriented distro's such as RedHat and Novell bundling Lotus Symphony.

That's true. A lot of corporate IT projects spend a ton of money using Oracle to power applications for a few hundred or thousand users. MySQL costs nothing and is more appropriate for larger projects Facebook hosting hundreds of millions of users.