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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 01:38 PM EDT |
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. They can gnaw through
stucco, plaster, and
even concrete.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 03:21 PM EDT |
| Allowing companies like Myriad to patent human genes or parts of human genes
will slow down or cripple lifesaving medical research like in the battle against
breast cancer...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 03:50 PM EDT |
| A New York academic researcher, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and
others, challenged the notion that Myriad invented anything. DNA, the
challengers claim, is a substance found in nature.
Merely isolating bits of
that DNA does not change their essential attributes. All Myriad is doing is
examining — however rigorously — what nature created. Worse, the critics claim,
Myriad’s patents are so broad that they potentially give the company rights over
all sorts of human genetic code after it has been isolated. All that, they say,
puts unreasonable restrictions on therapy and research.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 06:29 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 01:52 AM EDT |
Notes: NWFPE == NetWinder Floating Point Emulator
Russell King on removing the code from
kernel (2013-04-10)
I have just committed a patch to remove
the arch/arm/nwfpe code from
the kernel, and the VFP code emulating the FP
operations.
This I have done after it has been brought to my attention by
the OSADL's
GPL-violations project that the license for the softfloat library
is
incompatible with GPLv2. This is because the FSF have ruled
that
indemnification clauses consitute an "additional restriction" which
is
incompatible with the GPLv2 section 6. NWFPE contains the softfloat
library,
and VFP's emulation code is a derivative of softfloat.
This will be very
disruptive for ARMv4 and ARMv5 CPUs, which will no
longer be able to run
userspace with NWFPE support removed.
...
There is some discussion that
needs to happen to investigate possible
solutions to this, which
are:
1. Whether we can persuade John to relicense his code.
From what I
understand from the discussions which have already happened,
John
is against that because he requires the indemnification
clause.
...
Here, the license of the
software is documented.
Note: I can not pin down a date for this, and it
does
not exist in the kernel source tree anymore (the code
goes back to
1999).
Link
This directory contains the version 0.92 test release
of the NetWinder
Floating Point Emulator
The majority of the code was
written by me, Scott Bambrough It is
written in C, with a small number of
routines in inline assembler
where required. It was written quickly, with a
goal of implementing a
working version of all the floating point instructions
the compiler
emits as the first target. I have attempted to be as optimal
as
possible, but there remains much room for improvement.
I have attempted
to make the emulator as portable as possible. One of
the problems is with
leading underscores on kernel symbols. Elf
kernels have no leading
underscores, a.out compiled kernels do. I
have attempted to use the
C_SYMBOL_NAME macro wherever this may be
important.
Another choice I made
was in the file structure. I have attempted to
contain all operating system
specific code in one module (fpmodule.*).
All the other files contain emulator
specific code. This should allow
others to port the emulator to NetBSD for
instance relatively easily.
The floating point operations are based on
SoftFloat Release 2, by
John Hauser. SoftFloat is a software implementation of
floating-point that conforms to the IEC/IEEE Standard for Binary
Floating-point
Arithmetic. As many as four formats are supported: single
precision,
double precision, extended double precision, and quadruple
precision.
All operations required by the standard are implemented, except
for
conversions to and from decimal. We use only the single precision,
double
precision and extended double precision formats. The port of
SoftFloat to the
ARM was done by Phil Blundell, based on an earlier
port of SoftFloat version 1
by Neil Carson for NetBSD/arm32.
The file README.FPE contains a
description of what has been implemented
so far in the emulator. The file TODO
contains a information on what
remains to be done, and other ideas for the
emulator.
Bug reports, comments, suggestions should be directed to me at
.
General reports of "this program doesn't
work correctly when your emulator is
installed" are useful for
determining that bugs still exist; but are virtually
useless when
attempting to isolate the problem. Please report them, but
don't
expect quick action. Bugs still exist. The problem remains in
isolating
which instruction contains the bug. Small programs illustrating a
specific
problem are a godsend.
Legal
Notices
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The NetWinder Floating Point Emulator is free
software. Everything Rebel.com
has written is provided under the GNU GPL. See
the file COPYING for copying
conditions. Excluded from the above is the
SoftFloat code. John Hauser's
legal notice for SoftFloat is included
below.
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SoftFloat Legal
Notice
SoftFloat was written by John R. Hauser. This work was made
possible in
part by the International Computer Science Institute, located at
Suite 600,
1947 Center Street, Berkeley, California 94704. Funding was
partially
provided by the National Science Foundation under grant MIP-9311980.
The
original version of this code was written as part of a project to build
a
fixed-point vector processor in collaboration with the University of
California
at Berkeley, overseen by Profs. Nelson Morgan and John Wawrzynek.
THIS
SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED AS IS, FOR FREE. Although reasonable effort
has been
made to avoid it, THIS SOFTWARE MAY CONTAIN FAULTS THAT WILL AT
TIMES RESULT IN
INCORRECT BEHAVIOR. USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS RESTRICTED TO
PERSONS AND
ORGANIZATIONS WHO CAN AND WILL TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY
AND ALL LOSSES,
COSTS, OR OTHER PROBLEMS ARISING FROM ITS USE.
Looks
like John set himself up (and others for this mess).
It will probably be a
good thing to get this stuff out of
the kernel anyway, but I thought I would
post this to show
that no matter how well a license is thought out, attacks
can
still happen, years later.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 06:26 AM EDT |
Can defacing a web page be equivalent to such acts as the
recent bombing attack
in Boston.
"Cyber terrorists Anonymous target F1 ahead of Bahrain
Grand Prix .. ‘Hacktivists’ threaten to close down the Grand
Prix internet
service and those of associated sites" link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 09:08 AM EDT |
First 3D Printed Car To
Hit The Roads In Two
Year...
While standard cars have hundreds or even
thousands of small
parts, the URBEE 2 will be built using only 40 extremely
complex interlocking pieces, made possible by 3D printing.
The
material used to build the car will be a strong but
lightweight plastic and the
two-passenger vehicle will be
able to travel at speeds of up to 70mph (112kmh).
According
to Bartel, the car will also be highly fuel efficient. To
prove it,
Bartel explains, his team will try to set a world
record by traveling in the
car from San Francisco to New
York City on only 10 gallons of fuel (37.8
liters).
URBEE 2 was preceded by URBEE 1, a prototype built entirely
using 3D printing in 2011.
(Included is a cool video of this car cruising
a highway in,
of all places, the Province of Manitoba,
Canada.)
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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 10:36 AM EDT |
| You can think
Windows 8 will evolve into something better, but the numbers show that Windows
is coming to a dead end ---
The following program contains immature
subject matter.
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