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How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? 276

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 16, 2009 @01:22PM from the he-should-start-an-organization-or-six dept.

jammag writes "Bruce Perens, who wrote the original licensing rules for Open Source software in 1997, notes that there are a sprawling 73 open source licenses currently in existence. But he identifies an essential four — well, actually just two — that developers, companies, and individuals need. In essence, he cuts through the morass and shows developers, in particular, how to protect their work. (And yes, he favors GPL3 over GPL2.) For his own coding work, he's fond of the 'sharing with rules' license, which stays true to the Open Source ethos of shared code yet also enables him to get paid by companies who use it in their commercial products."

Comment wdired-mode (Score 1) 412

by rodo on Saturday November 08, 2008 @12:42PM (#25687993) Attached to: (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks?

From a dired buffer:

M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode

The dired buffer then becomes completely editable like a normal text buffer, so you can bulk change filenames, permissions etc., and on save it applies all the changes.

A Robot To Destroy Breast Cancer Cells 81

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 12, 2008 @02:03AM from the tunnelling-tumor-terminating-terrapin dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. 'If the biopsy displays cancerous cells, the robot will then insert a probe into the breast until it reaches the tumor. The probe will then burn the cancer cells until they are destroyed.' This looks great, but the researchers have only built a prototype. After they refine this robot, they'll need to go through clinical trials and obtain FDA approval. So this is not a robot that will appear on the medical market before several years."

What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There? 524

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 08, 2008 @06:58PM from the good-place-for-wedding-chapels dept.

MarkWhittington writes "For the first time in over thirty five years, the Moon has become the next frontier. The United States has committed to returning human astronauts to the Moon by the end of the next decade. China has hinted that it intends to do this also. A variety of countries, including the United States and China, but also India, Europe, and Japan, have either sent robotic probes into lunar orbit or are on the verge of doing so." Contribute your favorite moon ideas below; I'd like to see it used as the set to film The Moon is a Harsh Mistress .

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