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New 'No Military Use' GPL For GPU 1109

Posted by Zonk on Monday August 14, 2006 @04:42PM from the damn-the-man dept.

Tina Gasperson writes "GPU is a Gnutella client that creates ad-hoc supercomputers by allowing individual PCs on the network to share CPU resources with each other. That's intriguing enough, but the really interesting thing about GPU is the license its developers have given it. They call it a 'no military use' modified version of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The developers told Newsforge why they did it, with commentary from OSI and FSF." Newsforge is also owned by OSTG, Slashdot's parent company.

Liquid Armor the New Bulletproof Vest 629

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday August 01, 2006 @05:25AM from the coming-to-a-prison-near-you dept.

kjh1 writes "Armor Holdings Inc. plans to start selling their 'liquid armor' next year. The new armor, originally envisioned to be spread on like peanut butter, is instead sprayed onto Kevlar in ultrathin coats. From the article: 'it's a mix of polyethylene glycol, a polymer found in laxatives and other consumer products, and nanobits of silica, or purified sand. Together they produce a "sheer-thickening liquid" that stiffens instantly into a shield when hit hard by an object. It reverts to its liquid state just as fast when the energy from the projectile dissipates.'"

RFID-enabled Vehicles: Pinch My Ride 429

Posted by Hemos on Monday July 31, 2006 @12:36PM from the dude-where's-my-car dept.

Billosaur writes "Wired has an excellent article on the problems with the theft of RFID-enabled vehicles and how insurance companies are so over-confident in the technology, they are denying claims when such vehicles are stolen. Example: "Emad Wassef walked out of a Target store in Orange County, California, to find a big space where his 2003 Lincoln Navigator had been. The 38-year-old truck driver and former reserve Los Angeles police officer did what anyone would do: He reported the theft to the cops and called his insurance company. Two weeks later, the black SUV turned up near the Mexico border, minus its stereo, airbags, DVD player, and door panels. Wassef assumed he had a straightforward claim for around $25,000. His insurer, Chicago-based Unitrin Direct, disagreed." Their forensic examiner concluded that since all the keys were accounted for, there was no way the engine could have been started, despite the evidence that the ignition lock had been forced and the steering wheel locking lug had been damaged."

Comment Re:Wrong... (Score 1) 378

by cengique on Saturday June 17, 2006 @12:20PM (#15555044) Attached to: How Much Should Broadband Cost?

At&T $12/month deal doesn't apply to me for example. The AT&T standard 1.5Mbps download service still costs $30/month. They don't even specify the upload rate.

Not only that, to sign up for DSL you also need to have a land line. In these days, paying for cell phone *and* a land line is not reasonable, especially for the one-person home. Therefore, you need to add the land-line price on top of the DSL to get a fair comparison with the cable company prices. I'm happy with my comcast cable internet of 4Mbps download and 384Kbps upload line for $40/month. It's more than I'd like to pay, but the competitor DSL is slower and more expensive.

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