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Comment Re:What if it were Microsoft code (Score 1) 191

by flambard (#47658239) Attached to: Larry Rosen: A Case Study In Understanding (and Enforcing) the GPL
This keeps cropping up. GPL isnt free as in free beer. It has a cost. You can use the fruit of someone's labour in return for yours. Labour can and is very frequently expressed in monetarian value (read wages), so damages can be asked and given for breaking copyright. Think about a writer writing a piece but never getting any money for it. Then someone else takes his essay/book/whatever and uses it in his own work and makes big bucks from it. You bet the court is going to award damages!
Hardware Hacking

Home-Built Turing Machine 123

Posted by Soulskill from the i'll-order-a-dozen dept.
stronghawk writes "The creator of the Nickel-O-Matic is back at it and has now built a Turing Machine from a Parallax Propeller chip-based controller, motors, a dry-erase marker and a non-infinite supply of shiny 35mm leader film. From his FAQ: 'While thinking about Turing machines I found that no one had ever actually built one, at least not one that looked like Turing's original concept (if someone does know of one, please let me know). There have been a few other physical Turing machines like the Logo of Doom, but none were immediately recognizable as Turing machines. As I am always looking for a new challenge, I set out to build what you see here.'"
Space

Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242

Posted by Soulskill from the i-for-one dept.
likuidkewl writes "Two super-earths, 5 and 7.5 times the size of our home, were found to be orbiting 61 Virginis a mere 28 light years away. 'These detections indicate that low-mass planets are quite common around nearby stars. The discovery of potentially habitable nearby worlds may be just a few years away,' said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly similar to the Sun in terms of age, mass, and other essential properties."
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The Bus Stop of No Return 3

Posted by samzenpus from the long-wait dept.
He's been sitting there for 20 years and he'll be sitting there in another 20.
Power

Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors 250

Posted by kdawson from the high-credit-limit dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have achieved a breakthrough in the use of a one-atom thick graphene for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitors. They believe their development shows promise that graphene could eventually double the capacity of existing ultracapacitors. 'Through such a device, electrical charge can be rapidly stored on the graphene sheets, and released from them as well for the delivery of electrical current and, thus, electrical power,' says one of the researchers. Two main methods exist to store electrical energy: in rechargeable batteries and in ultracapacitors, which are becoming increasingly commercialized but are not yet well known to the public. Some advantages of ultracapacitors over traditional energy storage devices such as batteries include: higher power capability, longer life, a wider thermal operating range, lighter, more flexible packaging and lower maintenance. Graphene has a surface area of 2,630 square meters, almost the area of a football field, per gram of material."
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Journal Journal: waiting...

Journal by flambard
First entry while waiting for the train. Hope it will be on time. It rains. I wish I came by motorbike today. :(

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