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Submission + - Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia (theregister.com) 1

Submitted by jms00
jms00 writes: The open-source community is finally realizing that Neo4j v. PureThink could set a dangerous legal precedent, allowing companies to impose new restrictions on open-source licenses. If the Ninth Circuit upholds the lower courtâ(TM)s ruling, it wonâ(TM)t just threaten the GPL, it could undermine all open-source licenses, undoing years of work to protect software freedom.

With one developer fighting this battle pro se, the stakes couldnâ(TM)t be higher!
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Submission + - BYU Professors Discover Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Waste or Risk of Meltdown

Submitted by thedarklaser
thedarklaser writes: Utah BYU Professors having created a nuclear reactor design that could produce enough energy for 1000 homes in the space of 4ft by 7ft. And bonus ... potentially no nuclear waste or risk of melt down.

They use molten salt that bonds with the dissolved fuel. Then, very valuable Molybdenum-99 (as in $30 million per gram) can be extracted from that salt and sold for use in medical imaging.

Additionally this system is very inexpensive, at a cost of around 3 cents per kilowatt hour.

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You mean you didn't *know* she was off making lots of little phone companies?

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