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Apple E-book Price-Fixing Trial Begins 213

An anonymous reader writes "Technology giant Apple is to begin its defence against charges by the US government that it tried to fix the prices of e-books. The iPad-maker is accused of working with publishers in 2009 to set prices in an effort to compete in the e-book market dominated by Amazon. Quotes from Steve Jobs' official biography have been cited as evidence in the case."
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Video Building a Small IT Consulting Business Based on Linux (Video) 138

When you call your business Penguin Computer & Telephone Solutions, it's obvious that Linux is your favorite operating system. Company owner Frank Sflanga, Jr. happily works on Windows, Mac and whatever else you want or have around, but he is a Linux person at heart; in fact, he's a founder and leading member of The Southwest Florida GNU/Linux Users Group. But the point of this interview, which some will want to label an ad (although it's not), is to show how Frank started his one-man consulting business and made it successful so that other Slashdot readers can follow in his footsteps and become self-employed -- if they are so inclined. You might want to note that most of Frank's clients were not familiar with Linux when he first started working with them, and most are not particularly interested in software licensing matters as long as Frank keeps their stuff working. You might also want to note that Ft. Myers, FL, where Frank is located, is not exactly famous as a hotbed of leading-edge technology, which means that even if you live someplace similar, where business owners ask "What's a Linux?" you might be able to make a decent living running a Linux-based IT consulting business.

Comment Re:Lithuanian President's Website (Score 1) 316

Poland had Western Belarus and Western Ukraine territories, that USSR taken over at that time. They are still parts of Belarus and Ukraine, and even modern Poland doesn't dare to claim that they were "occupied" or ever were supposed to belong to Poland in the first place.

Well, the land that is now Western Belarus and Ukraine were in 1939 part of Poland and were annexed by a military intervention coordinated with Nazi Germany by Red Army. Today, no one in Poland (except few loonies) is questioning post-WWII borders, as no one sees any real benefit in changing them (I presume most Germans think more or less the same about current western parts of Poland, which were German far longer, than they were Polish).

That doesn't mean, the parts annexed by USSR were not Polish at the time Red Army marched in. There was relatively little resistance, because Polish General Command ordered Polish troops to avoid engaging soviet units. But halting quite large forces on the eastern borders of Poland which supposed to defend the land against Soviets eventually, diluted already weak defenses against Germany and spelled doom for Second Republic.

Killing prisoners of that war was a stupid and uncivilized act, however in no way it was supposed to either help or hurt Germany -- Poland would be taken over by Germany either way, and the last thing USSR wanted is Nazi in Lvov and Grodno.

Taking over Poland by Germany was not that certain at the moment the Russians came in. I remember reading memoirs of one of the German generals leading the invasion, in which he stated, the Germans were not anticipating so long campaign and were running short of supplies. If the second front would not be open, German offensive would probably stalled on on the second line of Polish defense, which was planned on Vistula river. That means, Poland probably would lost large part of its western territory, but wouldn't be erased from the map for almost six years (of course if the French or English moved their asses at that time and fulfilled their obligations, the Germans wouldn't advance even that far, and the whole WWII madness could be stopped in September 1939).

Yet now Polish politicians seem to love Germany and hate Russia.

Sadly this is true. Lots of right wing politicians view Russians as the ultimate enemy.

Personally, I admire Russian culture, like the Russians I know personally and I'm planning to start learning Russian in September. I like their design philosophy, their space program. As most of the Polish people I'm deeply grateful for the sacrifice of many Russian soldiers, who helped Poland to get rid of the Nazis and died on the road to Berlin (just look on the soviet military cemeteries in Poland, for example in Wroclaw). But in their name, and millons others who died, I can not sit doing nothing, when someone is trying to rewrite history for the purpose of feeling better (be it Russians, Germans Or Poles). All countries have some parts of their history they are not very proud of (for example Jedwabne was not easy to accept by Polish society, as I think it is difficult to acknowledge Katyn by Russians). But when we are not learning from our mistakes, we are destined to repeat them.

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