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Comment Re:You can't ignore them (Score 0) 545

by blakmac (#18741997) Attached to: MS Requiring More Expensive Vista if Running Mac

A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time. "

Because it's hard as crap to use the same cd in the two computers at once. And don't even THINK of simultaneously using two networked lappys! *i know it doesn't say that, this is funny. mod likewise.
Biotech

Avoiding the Word "Evolution" 895

Posted by kdawson from the can't-say-that-wait-two-years dept.
jakosc tips us to a disturbing article in PloS Biology on the avoidance of the word "Evolution" in scientific papers and grants. From the paper: "In spite of the importance of antimicrobial resistance, we show that the actual word 'evolution' is rarely used in the papers describing this research. Instead, antimicrobial resistance is said to 'emerge,' 'arise,' or 'spread' rather than 'evolve.' Moreover, we show that the failure to use the word 'evolution' by the scientific community may have a direct impact on the public perception of the importance of evolutionary biology in our everyday lives... It has been repeatedly rumored (and reiterated by one of the reviewers of this article) that both the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation have in the past actively discouraged the use of the word 'evolution' in titles or abstracts of proposals so as to avoid controversy."
Patents

Submission + - British Government against 'pure' software patents

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uglyduckling
uglyduckling writes: "The British Government has issued a response to a recent petition calling for 'the Prime Minister to make software patents clearly unenforcible'. The answer is reassuring but perhaps doesn't go far enough, and gives no specific promises to bring into line a patent office that grants software patents (according to the petition) 'against the letter and the spirit of the law'. The Gowers Review that it references gives detailed insight into the current British position on this debate, most interestingly recommending a policy of 'not extending patent rights beyond their present limits within the areas of software, business methods and genes.'"
Linux Business

Journal Journal: First entry from FF under Kubuntu

Journal by mysticgoat
20070226:

This is my first session on slashdot using Firefox under Kubuntu. It is also my first session on slashdot with Kubuntu at all. In fact, at this point my total experience with Kubuntu is less than 4 hours— and half of that was just reading the noobie toots. Most of the rest has been in just looking around to see what came in the package.

Enlightenment

Journal Journal: Prototype Prose

Journal by Deltronica
Every day I make political speeches muffled by shower curtains. I pound invisible podiums as I shout for imaginary people to stand up for their beliefs and live their dreams. The water is moved by the tears in my eyes while my soul spills out from my trembling mouth. "We can make a difference!" I cry to the tiles. I want them to understand that i'm following my dream when I beg them to stand up and spread their wings flap with the force of all they've ever yearned for and carry humanity into th

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