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Jan_jw

Re:Even my mother can run Linux on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:15AM (#13380923)
I don't know if it's just me or is everyone these days talking about dumping their iMac and switching to Linux?
It's "interesting" to see the same methods that the tabacco lobby used are used again. We as a society haven't spent the past time in defending ourselves or our institutions any better then back in those days. Sad Indeed...
The report cites Clinical Professor James Isbister from the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. “Professor Isbister said Jehovah’s Witnesses were given better treatment by doctors trying to preserve their [the Witness patients’] blood. As a result they had better survival rates, and shorter hospital and intensive care stays than people who received blood transfusions during surgery,” reports the paper.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/surgeons-urged-to-avoi...

Re:The simple things I want in a text editor on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @06:33AM (#11901001)
So Notepad++ isn't good enough for you?
This text is in Dutch. It explains that new grants from 1 December 2015 onwards will only be given to researchers you promise to publish in Open Access journals. If they're found not to follow these new rules they'll have to pay back the research grant.