SOPA has followed PIPA and has bit the dust, dead in the water, dead as a door nail. SOPA fiend Lamar Smith made the announcement shortly after Senator Reid postponed next Tuesday's vote on PIPA.

PIPA is crumbling, Senator Harry Reid has announced that next Tuesday's vote on the Protect-IP Act has been canceled. He is now talking compromise, saying, "There is no reason that the legitimate issues raised by many about this bill cannot be resolved." And, "We made good progress through the discussions we’ve held in recent days, and I am optimistic that we can reach a compromise in the coming weeks."

I have been using Unity since they day it came out with alpha of Ubuntu 11.04. One thing I never understood was the purpose of those 8 giant shortcuts in the Dash. I wrote about it in my first review. I still don't know and have never used any of those 8 shortcuts. I wanted to get rid of them and put something more useful. It seems Ubuntu 12.04 will fix that too. As we reported earlier that with 12.04 we may get some more customization of Unity, the chances are that we may also get rid of those 8 icons and be replaced with something more useful.

The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand and explore the agency's open source software development. Open source development is all about giving the public access to view and improve software source code. NASA uses open source code for it's projects and missions.