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Comment: yes it does make sens to pay for others' education (Score 1, Troll) 292

by LosManos (#30705660) Attached to: China Luring Scientists Back Home
Yes it does make sense to pay for others' education. I would go so far as to say it is our duty, where "our" is us in the rich countries, to help the world.

- or if you are cheaper think of it like this -

Say someone gets educated in a country and learns a bit about the language and culture and gets some friends. Then this said person returns to country of birth and starts a business with some international connections. It is then plausible that the place of known culture and language and where friends reside is a more likely country to trade and work with.

Which is the laptop with the least bloatware

Submitted by LosManos
LosManos writes "I once again am looking for a laptop running Windows(7). Everything I have been looking at seems to be bogged down with bloatware from the laptop manufacturers. I usually reinstall my machines to get rid of as much as I can; but to get power management, multi display, sound, cradle, wlan etc. up and running I have to download and install a number of unidentified drivers and apps from the manufacturer anyway. It is then impossible to figure out which is just a driver for the wlan card and which is the superduper network gizmo with at least three icons on the desktop and at least as many services autostarting.
Is there a laptop manufacturer that has less bloatware than the others?"

Pirates get competition->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Pirates get competition from Peerstop, a company whos aim is to give media producers a peer to peer presence.
By searching google most people would find it difficult to find pirated material. This is because of the sheer magnitude of legitimate material on the web.
With Peer-to-Peer networks its the other way around. It would be difficult to find legitimate material, because of the amount of pirated material available.

By establishing a presence on peer to peer networks media producers can provide legitimate alternatives to the pirated content available on peer to peer networks. One such example would be providing media files that can be unlocked for a fee.

Companies of various sizes can also use it to promote their products, e.g. with Demo software, Movie trailers etc...

Having a peer to peer presence is the logical next step, not having one is like not having a web presence, your competitors (however legitimate they may be) will get there first."
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Best programming mouse 1

Submitted by LosManos
LosManos writes "hejdig.
Which is the best programming mouse?
Mandatory musts are wireless and that it doesn't clog up like old mechanic mouses.
Present personal preferenses are lots-of-buttons since if I have moved my hand away from the keyboard I can at least do something more than move the pointer. Sturdy feeling. Not too light so it doesn't move around by me accidentily looking at it.
(I don't care about keyboard since it still works.) /OF"
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Of Catty Rants and Copyrights 339

Posted by kdawson
from the you-are-not-a-lawyer dept.
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A newspaper copies a rant from a girl's MySpace page and reprints it as a 'Letter to the Editor' without her permission. Could the girl sue for copyright violation? This question provoked much more disagreement among legal experts than I expected." Read on for the details.

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