Comment Google Phones (Score 1) 233
Because the Ion and DevOne weren'nt "Google Phones"?
Comment osalt.com (Score 1) 348
http://www.osalt.com/ is a good resource to look up the proprietary program, and find an OSS replacement for it.
Also, here's a good list of 50 replacements for various programs http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/
Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable 419
johkir writes "As early as 1965, when Al Gore was a freshman in college, a panel of distinguished environmental scientists warned President Lyndon B. Johnson that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels might cause 'marked changes in climate' that 'could be deleterious.' Yet the scientists did not so much as mention the possibility of reducing emissions. Instead they considered one idea: 'spreading very small reflective particles' over about five million square miles of ocean, so as to bounce about 1 percent more sunlight back to space — 'a wacky geoengineering solution.' In the decades since, geoengineering ideas never died, but they did get pushed to the fringe — they were widely perceived by scientists and environmentalists alike as silly and even immoral attempts to avoid addressing the root of the problem of global warming. Three recent developments have brought them back into the mainstream." We've discussed some
pretty
strange
ideas
in the geoengineering line over the last few years.
Comment Google corporate appliance (Score 1) 485
I hope this is just another step toward the Google Office Appliance, which whill consist of a *nix backend, Gmail for domains, Search, GTalk and all of these new office-like applications that can be run on a private network. Nothing would please me more than ceasing to run an MS shop.
