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Submission + - Law professors offer patent license for FOSS (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Julie188
Julie188 writes: Two law professors from UC Berkeley have come up with a novel idea to protect open source developers from patent bullies. They call it the Defensive Patent License. They hope the DPL can address the objections FOSS developers have with patents the way the GPL addressed them for copyright.

Submission + - Scribd switches to HTML5 (osnews.com)

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drfreak
drfreak writes: "This story from OSNews describes Scribd, a site for uploading and reading documents, switching from Flash to HTML5. The major reason for their decision was that HTML5 now supports all the major points of their previous functionality and so they saw no point in using Flash any more. The big improvement in the rollout is that documents are now first-class citizens of HTML and no longer need to sit in a Flash "Window". Check out this demo to see it in action."
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Submission + - Prehistoric Humans Interbred with Neanderthals

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Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "BBC reports that an analysis of the Neanderthal genome — the "instruction manual" describing how these ancient humans were put together — shows that genomes of 1% to 4% of people in Eurasia come from Neanderthals and the most likely explanation, say the researchers, is that there was limited mating, or "gene flow", between Neanderthals and the ancestors of present-day Eurasians. "In some ways [the study] confirms what we already knew, in that the Neanderthals look like a separate line," says Professor Chris Stringer, research leader in human origins at London's Natural History Museum. "But, of course, the really surprising thing for many of us is the implication that there has been some interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans in the past." The study also confirms that living humans overwhelmingly trace their ancestry to a relatively small group of people that left Africa to populate the rest of the world between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago. Interbreeding with Neanderthals must have taken place just as people were leaving Africa, while they were still part of one pioneering population and the mixing could have taken place either in North Africa, the Levant or the Arabian Peninsula, say the researchers. "They are not totally extinct. In some of us they live on, a little bit," says Professor Svante Paabo."

Comment In the immortal words of Lou Reed ... (Score 1) 78

by SickLittleMonkey (#28983367) Attached to: A History of <em>Robotron</em>
"It's very dangerous
Putting money down on Robotron"

Quite possibly the most intense shoot-em-up of all time.
How many hours of play will it take you to clock the level counter?
(It wraps to zero three times before reaching level 1 again.)

Of course you can always take a break on a Brain wave:
Leave one Brain, go to the edge of the screen and wait till it does too, then get your GF^H^HMom to fire up & down while you go take a leak.

SLM

Comment Re:My ending is better (Score 1) 852

by SickLittleMonkey (#27295405) Attached to: Battlestar Galactica Comes To an End

Agreed, Baltar has to be a cylon, even just to explain the shared visions.
But which cyclon?

My choice was the the boxed Daniel line.
Also a good choice for Kara's father, as that subplot deserved resolution.

Then Kara would be at least a hybrid, and then resurrection could resolve her 2nd incarnation.

SLM

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