When you name something "Zeus", you gotta be able to plan and code above than normal.

Considering the developing model and community orientation (even in corporations) of Linux and variants, a Linux monopoly won't be even close to as terrible as Windows'. As a matter of fact, I would rather expect the OSS developers to work even harder in making their code more secure and stable when more users are migrating.

I don't care who joins the Linux foundation and who doesn't, as long as more corporations are supported OSS in some way. The Windows monopoly needs to end, even if Google develops a Linux based distro and starts selling it for money (Though I don't wish for this to happen)

All the excuses of hardware-compatibility and user-friendliness has been long gone. For example in my very own experience where I had to run a PCMCIA card via a PCI-PCMCIA adapter on my desktop, it took me 3 days to find a solution in Windows, while both the adapter and PCMCIA card worked out of the box on Ubuntu without any further settings.

Scripted conversations are better compared to normal human conversations in helping young children develop language skills? What a joke.

So I finally got confirmation that I am a M$ basher/hater. As soon as I read the title of the article, I said to myself What a load of crap without reading anything further.

The easiest and most practical organ that can "grown" this way, without stem cells, is liver. It has extreme regenerative properties, higher than most other tissues. From their results it seems they might be able to grow large enough samples that once implanted, they should grow more and start functioning enough to keep the patient alive with some care.

Isn't it a bit over confidence when assuming and hoping that a neutrino that only interacts via gravity can explain, or was responsible for Baryonic Asymmetry?. None of the *possible* explanations (CP-violation, more matter somewhere than antimatter, antimatter pushed somewhere else etc) I have read anywhere hinted that a hypothetical neutrino, and especially a sterile one, could explain asymmetry. So I am going to take that as a one scientist opinion and hope.

Well that depends on how much popular Slashdot is among Chinese officials, but not very long I suppose. Maybe a new saying will get popularized there: They were slashdotted before they could enjoy their freedom

I am sure for a lot people, having an annual $500+ billion Defence budget is overkill, while others whine about spending fraction of that on science and education. It depends on which context and purpose you take it in, and if it is benefiting some people in power in some disguised way.

I hope they didn't break something when adding the ACPI features. From my experience, it is one devil of a specification. Just half an hour ago, I couldn't browse anything on my Ubuntu Lucid because I had changed one ACPI related setting in Bios, and XP failed to boot at all. I wonder how far-reaching and bizarre effects it has on other OSs, and in other scenarios.

This is probably the only lawsuit I read about on Slashdot that I am going to support. Well done Google. And DOI must be lacking some sense these days to call it RFQ when they specified they will only consider bids from one company.

"Supporting" the Kernel development doesn't necessarily mean releasing their own Kernel-related code to GNU. For starters, they can officially encourage or ask their developers to contribute code, or better yet, employ some Kernel developers.

Not necessarily. Considering that Google Docs is a web-based solution, if they do support an OSS office suite, they can integrate some Google Docs features with it to gain some users. They jumped in the Browser market but still support Firefox (which in turn brings visitors to their search engine)

Google Docs is a web-based service. OpenOffice/LibreOffice is a MS Office competitor with increasing market share, especially in Europe.

This seems like a good opportunity for Google to step in and sponsor some open source software. I was really surprised when I got to know that it wasn't even in the top 10 companies supporting Linux Kernel development (Oracle was at 7th), considering that it uses the Kernel extensively in their systems. It is about time the companies that use and make money out of OSS start supporting some projects as well.