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Music Video With Guido Van Rossum And Others-> 0

Submitted by Chillers on Wednesday November 16 2011, @06:51PM

Chillers writes "Gender bending band Mechanical Black have released a music video that has quantum math, a bunch of 8 bit machines, 6502 assembly language, cameos from many industry biggies like James Gosling, Guido Van Rossum and Eric Allman, and it even stars an Altair 8800! There's more to it than that but I won't ruin the surprise."
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Rock meets geek-> 0

Submitted by Dedokta on Tuesday November 15 2011, @08:06PM

Dedokta writes "Cross dressing heavy metal band Mechanical Black have released a cover of the 80's pop hit Electric Dreams featuring elements of extreme geekiness that should excite a few Slashdot readers.

Not only is the video clip peppered with an impressive collection of retro computers and gaming consoles, but also feature cameos in the form of video chat windows from:

David Warhol, Earl Vickers, Elonka Dunin, Eric Allman, G Mark Hardy, George Sanger (and Cindy Moorhouse), Guido Van Rossum, James Gosling, Jeff Minter, Jennifer Reitz, John Draper, Marcus Ranum, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Nathaniel Borenstein, Richard Bartle, Bruce Schneier, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jackson, Ian Livingstone and John Resig"
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Canada CRTC Rules Against Usage Based Billing-> 0

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iONiUM

on Tuesday November 15 2011, @05:19PM

iONiUM writes "In a somewhat surprising end to the ongoing fight between large ISPs (a duopoly in Canada), and independent ISPs, the CRTC has ruled in favour of the small ISPs. This means that independent ISPs can continue to have unlimited plans offered to customers. Score one for the citizens."
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Nerdiest Music Video Ever Made?-> 0

Submitted by Chillers on Tuesday November 08 2011, @01:39AM

Chillers writes "This music video has quantum math, a bunch of 8 bit machines, 6502 assembly language, cameos from many industry biggies like James Gosling, Guido Van Rossum and Eric Allman, and it even stars an Altair 8800! There's more to it than that but I won't ruin the surprise."
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juliyaeva

on Tuesday November 08 2011, @12:59AM

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Comment: Re:BSD (Score 1) 456

by zzlevo on Sunday September 02 2007, @07:42AM (#20439725) Attached to: GPL Hindering Two-Way Code Sharing?

If you wanted to ensure that code be shared back into your projects, you'd use a copyleft-style license instead of a BSD/MIT-style license, wouldn't you?

So if I write some code and want it and future versions to be available under the BSD license I should GPL it? That does not make sense.

Say that I am for free speech, and you are for free speech with the one exception that it should not be allowed to argue against free speech. Would you say that I am wrong to want unlimited free speech, and if I want to ensure that you don't argue against it then I must be against free speech? No, I can still be of the opinion that you have the right to your opinions even if I don't share them.

There were two issues here. First there was a patch that removed the BSD license. This is of course not allowed, only the copyright holder can do that. That patch was rejected.

The other issue is that new additions are GPL licensed. This is legal. However, it is hypocritical since the point of GPL is to use legal means for the moral goals that derivative works should be available under the conditions the original author wants. In this case however the GPL is used to force derivative works not to be available according to the original autors wishes.

Comment: Re:Let the typo hunt begin: (Score 1) 60

by Chillers on Wednesday January 26 2005, @08:12AM (#11478782) Attached to: Quantum Computing for Dummies

Thanks for your comments. Thanks also for finding that error.

Yeah - it's hard to know where to 'stop' (or start for that matter) when explaining QC algs. Shor's and Grover's in particular could do with a bit of work. Anyway, thanks again.