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Comment Re:Oh yawn... (Score 3) 238

by myrrdyn (#52784901) Attached to: Linus Loves GPL, But Hates GPL Lawsuits
He's not telling you what to do with your code. From the same interview:

"Some people love the BSD license. Some people love the proprietary licenses. I understand that. If you want to make a program and you want to feed your kids, it makes a lot of sense to have a proprietary license and sell binaries. I think it makes less sense today, but I really understand the argument. I don't want to judge. I'm just giving my view on licensing."

Comment Re:First request for Slashdot video...EVAR (Score 1) 63

by myrrdyn (#49480597) Attached to: Magician Turned Professor Talks About the Math Behind Shuffling Cards

This topic might have warranted a video, considering it's a demo. It would sure beat all the "some dude talks about something for flipping forever" videos Slashdice keeps trying to dump on us instead.

As I already pointed out in a different post, there are some video interviews on Numberphile:
https://www.youtube.com/playli...

Ok, it's not a Slashdot video but hey :-)
Education

Submission + - How much tech can kids take? (pcpro.co.uk)

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Barence
Barence writes: "Are today's children facing technology overload, or simply gearing themselves up for life in a digital world? PC Pro has examined the effects of exposing children to technology at a young age. Researchers warn of the potential dangers of too much “screen time”, pointing to alarming (some say scaremongering) research that suggests over-exposure leads to an increased risk of developing autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Educators, meanwhile, highlight how technology can improve interaction between child and parent, and provide essential life skills, such as enhanced communication and multitasking. Parents are left with conflicting messages — but how much technology is too much technology for children?"

Submission + - The tunnel between CERN and Central Italy (google.com)

Submitted by fph il quozientatore
fph il quozientatore writes: The Italian ministry for university and research complimented the researchers for the recent (supposed) discovery of faster-than-light neutrinos. Her press release (Google machine translation) mentions that Italy funded the construction of a "tunnel between the CERN [in Geneva] and Gran Sasso [the labs in Central Italy]". Google maps reports the distance between the two labs as over 900km — but of course once the tunnel is open to traffic the trip will be much faster.
Science

Submission + - Hypersonic Radio Black-Out Problem Solved (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by KentuckyFC
KentuckyFC writes: Russian physicists have come up with a new way to communicate with hypersonic vehicles surrounded by a sheath of plasma. Ordinarily, this plasma absorbs and reflects radio waves at communications frequencies leading to a few tense minutes during the re-entry of manned vehicles such as the shuttle. However, the problem is even more acute for military vehicles such as ballistic missiles and hypersonic planes. Radio black out prevents these vehicles from accessing GPS signals for navigation and does not allow them to be re-targeted or disarmed at the last minute. But a group of Russian physicists say they can get around this problem by turning the entire plasma sheath into a radio antenna. They point out that any incoming signal is both reflected and absorbed by the plasma. The reflected signal is lost but the absorbed energy sets up a resonating electric field at a certain depth within the plasma. In effect, this layer within the plasma acts like a radio antenna, receiving the signal. However, the signal cannot travel further through the plasma to the spacecraft. Their new idea is to zap this layer with radio waves generated from within the spacecraft. These waves will be both absorbed by the plasma and reflected back inside the spacecraft. However, the key point is that the reflected waves ought to be modulated by any changes in the electric field within the plasma. In other words, the reflected waves should carry a kind of imprint of the original external radio signal. That would allow the craft to receive external signals from GPs satellites or ground control. And the same process in reverse allows the spacecraft to broadcast signals too.
Youtube

Submission + - YouTube hit by HTML injection vulnerability (google.com) 1

Submitted by Virak
Virak writes: Several hours ago, someone found an HTML injection vulnerability in YouTube's comment system, and since then sites such as 4chan have been having a field day with popular videos. The bug is triggered by placing a <script> tag at the beginning of a post. The tag itself is escaped, but everything following it is cheerfully placed in the page as is. Blacked out pages with giant red text scrolling across them, shock site redirects, and all sorts of other fun things have been spotted. YouTube has currently blocked such comments from being posted and set the comments section to be hidden by default, and appears to be in the process of removing some of these comments, but the underlying bug does not seem to have been fixed yet.

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