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Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone 643

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 08, 2010 @07:09PM from the no-nuts dept.

JamJam writes "Air Canada has been told to create a special 'buffer zone' on flights for people who are allergic to nuts. The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled that passengers who have nut allergies should be considered disabled and accommodated by the airline. Air Canada has a month to come up with an appropriate section of seats where passengers with nut allergies would be seated. The ruling involved a complaint from Sophia Huyer, who has a severe nut allergy and travels frequently. Ms. Huyer once spent 40 minutes in the washroom during a flight while snacks were being served."

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @06:48PM from the hot-bits dept.

supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3. Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."

FCC Mulling More Control For Electronic Media 176

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 30, 2009 @08:03AM from the yeah-that-sounds-fantastic dept.

A recent Notice of Inquiry from the FCC is looking for opinions on how the "evolving electronic media landscape" affects kids, and whether the FCC itself should have more regulatory control over such media. The full NOI (PDF) is available online. "FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski included a statement with the NOI in which he noted that 'twenty years ago, parents worried about one or two TV sets in the house,' while today, media choices are far more widespread for children, including videogames, which 'have become a prevalent entertainment source in millions of homes and a daily reality for millions of kids.'"

Avatars To Have Business Dress Codes By 2013 221

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 08, 2009 @01:25AM from the no-flaming-hair-at-pretend-work dept.

nk497 writes "With businesses increasingly using digital tech like virtual worlds and Twitter, their staff will have to be given guidelines on how they 'dress' their avatars, according to analysts. 'As the use of virtual environments for business purposes grows, enterprises need to understand how employees are using avatars in ways that might affect the enterprise or the enterprise's reputation,' said James Lundy, managing vice president at Gartner, in a statement. 'We advise establishing codes of behavior that apply in any circumstance when an employee is acting as a company representative, whether in a real or virtual environment.'"

Comment Second place works better than the winner (Score 1) 882

by gitana on Tuesday May 30, 2006 @07:50PM (#15432025) Attached to: Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced

The new winning design does not work for me for a number of serious reasons.

1. The font is illegibly small in comparison with my preferred browser settings - why ignore user preferences?
2. The upper-left title graphic does not show up - what web site am I browsing again?
3. The collapsible sections are jerky and annoyingly slow - this is not slick.
4. Too cramped and not enough hierarchy in font sizes.

The second place design suffers from none of these flaws.

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