Otter Escaping North - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I'm sure it's just me (Score 1) 369

by Otter Escaping North on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @10:41AM (#22796104) Attached to: An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0

For me the X11 requirement on OS X is a real nuisance.

Agreed, but as I mainly use Linux, it didn't have the opportunity to grate on me too badly. Grandpa Otter installed NeoOffice (OpenOffice ported to run natively on the Mac). You might consider checking it out for the next 160 days or so.

University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally 1819

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday September 18, 2007 @08:27AM from the slow-to-revise-taser-policy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "During a political rally at the University of Florida, an annoying student was tasered while attempting to ask Senator Kerry (D-MA) some questions regarding the 2004 election. Police are looking into whether excessive force was used to prevent the student from going over his alloted question period." There are also several YouTube videos available of the incident.

Submission + - IBM beats Microsoft over the head with own code (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

bednarz

on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @07:36AM

bednarz writes: "IBM added a delicious twist on its new commitment to help OpenOffice.org battle Microsoft Office by donating code that was originally derived in part from a Microsoft-developed technology. IBM's iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired interact with Open Document Format (ODF)-compliant applications and was developed in part using Microsoft Active Accessibility (MAA)."

Canadian Domain Registry Pulls Plug on Free Speech 210

Posted by Zonk on Saturday June 03, 2006 @12:00AM from the surprised-we-haven't-seen-that-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The staff of a Canadian political candidate bragged today that he had managed to shut down a website critical of his involvement in a fundraising scandal, by having the country's registrar of domains pull the DNS records for the site. Criticism from bloggers and free speech advocates has been negative, and is coming from across the political spectrum."

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