Slashback: Futurama, Shattering, Footage

Slashback items tonight include a hopeful picture of the Futurama future, good news for Ziff-Davis fans worried about bankruptcy, video-release updates for two films reviewed on Slashdot, and more -- read on for the details.

This would be reason enough to have cable. MrChubble writes: "Seems that futurama isn't as dead as previously believed. Here is a quote from a someone's experience at ComicCon: "Julie Schwartz Slide Oddball Comics Show (Hilarious as usual), and at the FUTURAMA panel they showed a preview of a forthcoming episode in which Fry, Leela and Bender become super-heroes. One thing they didn't mention at the panel, was the news that FUTURAMA would be joining Cartoon Network's ADULT SWIM in the near future." Is this too good to be true?"

We have semi-successfully identified a potential security problem ... Jim Driggers writes: "You guys recently had an article on how to escalate one's security status on a Win32 machine. The article included a link to a download called shatter.exe. My Norton antivirus says it contains the beavuh virus. I don't have IIS 5, so it is not a worry for me, but I thought you guys should know."

Actually, it shouldn't be a worry for anyone: apparently, the shatter.exe file triggers some anti-virus software, but according to several readers this is a false alarm.

How to win friends and influence people. In response to this posting ("Congress to Ashcroft: Go After Song Swappers"), Declan McCullagh writes: "FYI I've placed the congressional letter to Attorney General Ashcroft here: Also see this analysis from last summer on why P2P piracy violates the federal No Electronic Theft act: 'Duncan Frissell on why Napster users are federal felons'."

Up against the wall (of videos). An anonymous reader writes "Looks like the film Revolution OS finally makes it to a small screen near you. First copies available at HP booth at LinuxWorld, San Francisco.

It includes footage from LinuxWorld '99 in San Jose where Stallman accepts the "Linus Torvalds Award" from the hand of Linus and proceeds to talk about why Linux should be called GNU/Linux". This is a treasure."

In addition, for the skateboard-inclined, note that Dogtown and Z-Boys is finally out on DVD, too.

Slimmer and trimmer like I ought to be. prostoalex writes "The rumors of Ziff Davis filing for Chapter 11 can just stay rumors, as company claimed it achieved a compromise with bondholders on financial restructuring. Recently ZD has been shutting down a sleuth of print publications including Yahoo! Internet Life, Family PC, Expedia Travels, Interactive Week, eShopper and Smart Business. It is still a publisher of eWeek, PC Magazine, CIO Insight, ExtremeTech and other computer and gaming magazines."

Comments

Re:Someone please explain to me

[unicron]

Actually, it was a joke, llama. And you must have this site confused with your favorite Nascar site, because a gearhead typically refers to car enthusiast.

I'm going to give you a C- for that reply. You had heart kid, but your misuse of gearheads cost you big time. In the future, I suggest you check the URL bar in your browser to make sure where you are.

And maybe if you had used a sock instead, you would still have some kleenex.

Re:Someone please explain to me

[unicron]

Take what you can get man, you might not see another passing grade for quite awhile. Remember, losers can't be beggars.

Re:ACK! Glad I don't do napster (et al)...

[killthiskid]

True, $1000 is exactly changing hands, but if you read the page I linked to:

Duncan Frissell (who is a lawyer and longtime Politechnical) offers one analysis of the No Electronic Theft Act. Let me add another: Financial gain is defined in the NET Act as "receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works."

So even though there is no 'charging' going on, the value of the product still changes hands. I'm not advocating this, I'm just quoting their analysis of the situation.

Re:Someone please explain to me

[unicron]

...said the anonymous coward.

This makes Linux World all worth it.

[Invictus2.0]

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like the film Revolution OS finally makes it to a small screen near you. First copies available at HP booth at LinuxWorld, San Francisco. Hey, just when I thought that my first Linux World would be the first one not worth going to, I hear this. Great news. I'm still physched as hell to be going (great keynotes, potentially), but no BSI booth makes me sad panda.

Re:totally off topic...

[kyras]

I've decided to switch to linux, as soon as they port vim to it.

What are you talking about? vim works just fine on linux. Either grab the src and compile it yourself or if you use redhat/debian get the .rpm/.deb. Read the download page under "Unix" on vim.org.