Ticket #4953 defect reopened: validates_presence_of :link in a
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Firefox To Be Renamed In Debian
Viraptor writes, "Debian is ready to change the name of Firefox in its distributions, beginning with Etch. They say it can be done within a week. The reasons stem from Mozilla's recent insistence on trademark fidelity and its
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Demo Virus For Mac OS X Released
Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Heise Security has a report about new Proof of Concept virus for Mac entitled as OSX.Macarena by AV vendor Symantec. Symantec suffered from a slight lapse when it recommended in the first version of the virus
How to get linked from Slashdot
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Electronic voting irregularities reported -- but how much?
Link. Josh Smith says,. In the Maryland area one of the voting area received their voting machines minus the Snip from NYT article "At Polls, Scattered Reports of Technical Bugs," Link: See also this related Slashdot thread: Link
E-voting State By State
Computerworld.com provides an overview of e-voting in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia — equipment, systems for voter registration, polling, significant legal challenges to the systems, previous media coverage, links
A Truly Open Linux Phone
The device is set to debut to developers this month for $350, according to the article, but there is no detail on how to get your hands on one, and no link to the manufacturer (FIC). From the article: "This is the first phone in a long
Why Not Use Full Disk Encryption on Laptops?
Saqib Ali asks: "According to the 2006 Security Breaches Matrix, a large number of the data leaks were caused due to stolen/missing laptops. Mobile devices will be stolen or lost, but one way to easily mitigate the harm is to use Full
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Slashdot | Apple releases iPod
An anonymous reader wrote in with a link to research on unhealthy iPod listening levels (http://slashdot.org/). I submitted this as an article as well,
Quit Slashdot.org Today!
In fact, if you think about it, the links on Slashdot are easily an order of magnitude I hate Slashdot because I hate inanity. Adequacy.org manages the
Slashdot | Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins
Also, is everyone going to add the obligatory 'parent' link on their posts today? [ Parent [slashdot.org] ] - [ Reply to this [slashdot.org] ]
Slashdot | Here Come The Weblogs
These days I get most of my web reading from links on weblogs of one kind or Also, your cookie information will get lost between www.slashdot.org and
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Slashdot | Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins
Also, is everyone going to add the obligatory 'parent' link on their posts today? [ Parent [slashdot.org] ] - [ Reply to this [slashdot.org] ]
Slashdot | Here Come The Weblogs
These days I get most of my web reading from links on weblogs of one kind or Also, your cookie information will get lost between www.slashdot.org and
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Slashdot | Microsoft to Announce Linux Partnership
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Slashdot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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BSDCertification.org
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Slashdot | Giving the Gift of Ubuntu Linux for Christmas?
article related to Ask Slashdot and Linux. they provide backports for up to date KDE packages on kubuntu.org including KDE, KOffice, and Amarok).