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| The latest top breaking news, U.S., world, business, politics, entertainment, celebrities, sports, technology, and more. |
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| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:49:32 PDT Sites that help you lodge complaints | ||
| If you've been wronged or you're just not happy with the way you were treated, there are some sites on the Web that will help you get your voice heard. |
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| Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:26:01 -0400 FAA Gets Its New Virtualized Flight-Plan System Off the Ground | ||
| EXCLUSIVE: The FAA, which has suffered a series of embarrassing flight-plan system crashes during the last several years, has upgraded its legacy flight-plan filing system to a new open-systems server and storage infrastructure supplied by Stratus Technologies. This architecture is now replacing critical systems that directly affect all air travelers in the United States. - The people whose job it is to schedule aircraft for takeoff, help guide passengers to their destinations and get them safely back down on the ground finally have some powerful new open-standards computer systems up and running to help them do their work more reliably. The Federal Aviation Admini...
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| HP Pavilion dv4-1430us (Staples) | ||
| The HP dv4-1430us packs big-ticket features into a bargain notebook.
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| 2009-07-03T02:39:00+00:00 HTML Tags For Academic Printing? | ||
| meketrefi writes "It's been quite a while since I got interested in the idea of using html (instead of .doc. or .odf) as a standard for saving documents — including the more official ones like academic papers. The problem is using HTML to create pages with a stable size that would deal with bibliographical references, page breaks, different printers, etc. Does anyone think it is possible to develop a decent tag like 'div,' but called 'page,' specially for this? Something that would make no use of CSS? Maybe something with attributes as follows: {page size="A4" borders="2.5cm,2.5cm,2cm,2cm" page_numbering="bottomleft,startfrom0"} — You get the idea... { /page} I guess you would not be able to tell when the page would be full, so the browser would have to be in charge of breaking the content into multiple pages when needed. Bibliographical references would probably need a special tag as well, positioned inside the tag ..." Is this such a crazy idea? What would you advise? Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:08:55 GMT Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules (AP) | ||
| AP - In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence. |
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