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Slashback: Futurama, Shattering, Footage
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."
What the appeal is of 'Futurama'? Besides Bender, this show is tough to watch. How does this show survive but Greg The Bunny and Undecided get cut? I know Fox owes a lot to Groening but 'Futurama' IMHO just isn't that good. I don't know if I'm alone on this I'll shut up.
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Two rights don't make a wrong, but three rights make a left. -Me
Whee! I can't wait until the extreme-sports assholes unionize and go on strike like baseball!
If corporatization is starting, surely stuff like that can't be far behind. Can't wait to see how long it takes the "we just love to skate" crowd to go all hypocritical and start doing it purely for the Benjamins.
I'm puzzled by all the homosexual references in the posts at Slashdot such as male on male anal sex, the goatse guy, the giver. Why is there such an obsession with homosexual sex here on Slashdot? I dare you to find *one* story that doesn't have several comment posts mentioning something about male on male anal sex. Maybe it's time for Slashdot to create a subdomain where these homosexual topics can be discussed. I'm serious. I think it would cut down on the noise level under the main stories.