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Comment: Re:About Slashcode, not Slashdot per se (Score 1) 763

by Chealer (#37636298) Attached to: Help Shape the Future of Slashdot
I'm not sure what you mean by "ask". I can blame Slashdot for this survey, but I don't blame it for having an issue tracker (or one for Slashcode). Having an issue tracker should not even necessarily be considered as asking for input. An issue tracker may be useful for the sole purpose of documenting issues and workarounds. Putting up a survey *is* on the other hand definitely asking for input, which appears to be terribly inefficient if Slashdot doesn't already have an issue tracker, doesn't let it be found, or indeed doesn't minimally respond to issues reported there. Asking for feedback to black boxes like Contact Us forms and email addresses when you don't have a prominent issue tracker seems like a marketing campaign to me. That will be my feedback :-|

Comment: Really misguided (Score 1) 345

by Chealer (#35174912) Attached to: Why Debian Matters More Than Ever

If you're using Ubuntu (or Linux Mint, or Mepis...), you're really using Debian with some enhancements.

Oh, please. I hurt when I hear people saying Mepis, Knoppix, Xandros or whatever is Debian [except foo]. A non-insignicant portion of questions on Debian forums is about derivatives, please don't encourage. If your Debian-based distribution has some issue, Debian people most likely can't even help you. If the distribution you use is not Debian, then you're really *not* using Debian. Most people forking take Debian, remove half of it, add themes, a few "user-friendly" interfaces, a couple of bugs along the way, then proceed to shipping something twice more outdated that they won't maintain. If your problem is with an outdated piece of software, Debian people cannot help you. There are, however, some "distributions" that *are* Debian. These are called Debian Pure Blends, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Pure_Blend

Power

Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle 255

Posted by Soulskill
from the ubiquitous-radioactive-polar-bears dept.
Vincent West writes with news of a Russian project currently underway to populate the Arctic Circle with 70-megawatt, floating nuclear power plants. Russia has been planning these nuclear plants for quite some time, with construction beginning on the prototype in 2007. It's due to be finished next year, and an agreement was reached in February to build four more. According to the Guardian: "The 70-megawatt plants, each of which would consist of two reactors on board giant steel platforms, would provide power to Gazprom, the oil firm which is also Russia's biggest company. It would allow Gazprom to power drills needed to exploit some of the remotest oil and gas fields in the world in the Barents and Kara seas. The self-propelled vessels would store their own waste and fuel and would need to be serviced only once every 12 to 14 years."
The Courts

Italy May Hold Its Own Pirate Bay Trial 120

Posted by timothy
from the keeping-up-with-the-johannsens dept.
hyanakin writes with an excerpt from TorrentFreak: "Following the Swedish verdict, Italy is now considering starting its own trial against the people involved with The Pirate Bay. This would be the first criminal prosecution against the Pirate Bay 'founders' outside their home country." Funny thing: almost 20 years ago, CD stores in Germany all seemed to be full of bootleg concert CDs pressed in Italy.
Software

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Released, Supports ODF Out of the Box 274

Posted by timothy
from the file-formats-rule-the-world dept.
shutdown -p now writes "On April 28, Microsoft released service pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007. Among other changes, it includes the earlier-promised support for ODF text documents and spreadsheets, featured prominently on the 'Save As' menu alongside Office Open XML and the legacy Office 97-2007 formats. It is also possible to configure Office applications to use ODF as the default format for new documents. In addition, the service pack also includes 'Save as PDF' out of the box, and better Firefox support by SharePoint."

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