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Comment: Code Editor (Score 2, Informative) 318

by allscan on Friday March 06 2009, @07:08PM (#27100129) Attached to: Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal!

Lets not forget that Dreamweaver does more than WYSIWYG sites, it has a pretty decent code editor in it with built in libraries for JS, .NET, ColdFusion, HTML, JSP, PHP, ActionScript, Java, and others. I've actually used it quite extensively for straight code as it does a decent job of highlighting tags and the project organization is pretty nice too.

Comment: Re:Webmail (Score 1) 436

by allscan on Tuesday May 27 2008, @09:25AM (#23555837) Attached to: Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail

You can use Google for you domain for free, you just don't get unlimited users.

Citizens Given Video Cameras to Monitor Police-> 0

Submitted by atommota on Thursday June 21 2007, @10:14AM

atommota writes "After years of complaints of police misconduct, some residents of high-crime neighborhoods in St. Louis are being given free video cameras to help them monitor officers. The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri launched the project Wednesday after television crews last year broadcast video of officers punching and kicking a suspect who led police on a car chase. "The idea here is to level the playing field, so it's not just your word against the police's word," said Brenda Jones, executive director of the ACLU chapter.
This is in stark contrast to a report out of PA (and seen on Slashdot), where someone was arrested for felony wiretapping for doing the same thing."
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AT&T blamed for more road delays-> 0

Submitted by

kurtis25

on Thursday June 21 2007, @08:57AM

kurtis25 writes "According to an article in the Indianapolis Star AT&T, a recent Slashdot favorite is in causing delays in road construction because they are not moving their utility lines and poles in a timely manner. According to the article "The city [Indianapolis] filed a lawsuit earlier this month accusing AT&T of causing $660,000 in overtime payments to contractors on the project that snarled traffic for four years." In another incident "Neighbors in the 1500 block of Reeves said a green AT&T junction box containing many wires used to be by the side of the old roadway. But the light green box now is now stranded in the gravel road bed where paving crews intend to lay a new lane, if the phone company's lines and box are moved. 'AT&T crews came out and they fixed the box and left it in the middle of the road rather than move it out of the way,' a frustrated resident said." AT&T denies hearing about several of the construction projects."
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Loch Ness Monster Captured on New Amature Video

Submitted by CryptoKnight on Friday June 01 2007, @10:41AM

CryptoKnight writes "An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the waters of Scotland's most mysterious lake.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/31/britain .lochness.ap/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_c2RwpbXU

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18970301/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnist s/guest_contributors/article1870559.ece"

Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!

Submitted by

Underholdning

on Tuesday May 15 2007, @07:03AM

Underholdning writes "As part of an experiment security researcher Didier Stevens bought a Google ad six months ago that said, "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!" 409 people clicked on the ad. Didier writes that during those six months, the ad was displayed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times. 98% of the machines ran Windows. Now that's a pretty cheap way of acquiring zombies."

China bans horror books to protect children

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2007, @05:46AM

An anonymous reader writes "China's capital is seizing ghost and horror books from shops to protect the "physical and mental health" of its youngsters, local media said on Tuesday. The tales are usually printed by small illegal publishers or circulated on the Internet, often borrowing from a rich pool of classic Chinese ghost stories, giving them up-to-date settings such as elevators or night buses. "The illegal publications are quite popular among students and are apt to harm the physical and mental health of young people," the newspaper quoted a government circular as saying. Collections of scary tales have found a frantic readership in China in recent years, especially among students and white-collar workers who find them a ready outlet from stressful lives. Among the blacklisted stories are adaptations of "Death Note", a Japanese manga comic series about a high school student who has a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it, the Beijing News said."

Congress may outlaw "attempted" piracy

Submitted by

cnet-declan

on Tuesday May 15 2007, @04:39AM

cnet-declan writes "The Bush administration is asking Congress to make "attempted" copyright infringement a federal crime. It's no joke. Here's our News.com article on the topic, along with the text of the legislation and a press-release -type summary. Rep. Lamar Smith, a key House Republican, said he "applauds" the idea, and his Democratic counterpart is probably on board too. In addition, the so-called Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007 would create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software in some circumstances, expand the DMCA with civil asset forfeiture, and authorize wiretaps in investigations of Americans who are "attempting" to infringe copyrights. Does this go too far?"

Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2007, @10:20AM

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, while its user interface and other design elements infringe on a further 65. OpenOffice.org is accused of infringing 45, along with 83 more in other free and open-source programs."

US Defense Dept blocking YouTube, MySpace, and 11

Submitted by

mcgrew

on Monday May 14 2007, @07:48AM

mcgrew writes "On the heels of yesterday's Slashdot storyabout The US military launching its own channel on YouTube, today the Chicago Tribune reports that the Defense Department is blocking YouTube, as well as MySpace and '11 other sites world wide'. From TFA:

The armed services have long barred members of the military from sharing information that could jeopardize their missions or safety, whether electronically or by other means.

The new policy is different because it creates a blanket ban on several sites used by military personnel to exchange messages, pictures, video and audio with family and friends.

Members of the military can still access the sites on their own computers and networks, but Defense Department computers and networks are the only ones available to many soldiers and sailors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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