Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Too much credit to cows ... (Score 1) 105

well, you haven't spent much time around horses, then.

cows can be relied upon to figure their way out of a pasture sooner or later, don't often injure themselves, and are generally fat, dumb and happy.

horses, on the other hand do none of these things. they get scared and break legs (and that's the end for the horse), they seldom manage to get out. cows are downright einsteins in comparison.

Cow's get out because the herd is effectively the animal equivalent of a superfluid; A superfluid will also escape from an unsealed container and it's not remotely intelligent...(except in the case of fiction)

Comment Re:The following parts don't make sense... (Score 2) 118

Is Koha a generic Mori (Maori) term? What is a library catalog? Like a public library catalog of the books in the library? Who is PTFS?

As far as the TM goes, If I make up a word called Azkio but it turns out to be a generic term in a language that less than .0002% of the people in the world would recognize does that mean a TM is invalidated?

Koha is the Maori word for "gift" - It's about as generic as the english word "gift". An example in the New Zealand context would be Te Papa Tongarewa (translates as "container of treasures" - the National Museum of New Zealand) having a box by the door labelled "Koha" in the hope you'll put some money in it to help support the museum and to show your appreciation for the place.

If you ask almost any New Zealander what Koha is (that's approximately 4 million people) they'd nearly all say it means gift or donation.

Comment Re:FFS (Score 2) 118

I for one note the correct spelling of the word 'Maori' and find this site grinding at my roots up to my boots in incompetence!!

I don't think he misspelled Maori deliberately - I've submitted one of the dupes to this story - the Slashdot editing/preview ate the a-macron in Maori and displays it as Mori instead; so I expect abesottedphoenix did the same thing.

Submission + - OS Library software under assault (stuff.co.nz)

abesottedphoenix writes: "The rural Library responsible for the first Open Source Library catalogue is under attack from defence contractor PTFS. More than a decade after rolling out Koha (featured elsewhere in /. in NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate) they now find themselves in a battle to keep a generic Mori term within the public domain. The story is also covered at Radio NZ. http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20111123-0725-horowhenua_library_astonished_us_firm_can_trademark_koha-048.mp3"
Censorship

Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self 158

An anonymous reader writes "Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the minister attempting to ram the great firewall of Oz down everyone's throat, has been removing all traces of the unpopular legislation from his main website with a JavaScript filter. From the article: 'It was revealed today a script within the minister's homepage deliberately removes references to internet filtering from the list. In the function that creates the list, or "tag cloud," there is a condition that if the words "ISP filtering" appear they should be skipped and not displayed.' Bear in mind, this is the same minister that tried to get the ISP of tech forum Whirlpool to pull the site after users there posted a response email from the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority)."

Slashdot Top Deals

"When anyone says `theoretically,' they really mean `not really.'" -- David Parnas

Working...