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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."
The Washington Post Sunday Magazine has an article on the corporatization of boarding.
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I mean, having a computer in the bathroom, just ISN'T sanitary.
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Futurama on Cartoon Network? My cable provider doesn't have cartoon network. They do for EVERY other district except this one.
*sigh* I guess I'll be stuck with The Simpsons forever...
So it's confirmed to be dead on Fox? Why? Why did that happen?
Danish != nationality
If we can't trust wild, unconfirmed rumors, what can we trust?
The cake is a pie
/. seems to have completely overlooked this, but Futurama showed up on Fox's Fall schedule a couple of months ago.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
No, you're quite alone on this one, Chester. In fact, you may have just sealed your fate.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Greg the bunny? I sure hope you're being sarcastic.
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I don't usually usually go around invoking any powers-that-bes' names (well, unless I'm debugging, but that's a different story ;-)), but yet again, CN has won my devotion --- I mean, Dexter, PPG, Samurai Jack, and now Futurama *bliss* The only thing that could make this any better is if I could figure out how to get the sattelite feed into my WinTV card so I can watch while I'm "working". Hrm... sounds like an Ask /. question....
Apparently Cartoon Network said that there are negotiations going on between Fox and Cartoon Network for the reruns of Futurama, not new episodes. We can hope that if the reruns do well, that they might produce new episodes, but that is not what they are currently talking about.
Learn to spell. Undeclared. Outside of that, you seriously need to recheck your sence of humor. You enjoyed Greg the Bunny, and not Futurama. -Lou
"Once upon a time men were lions and machines were mice, but since it was so long ago, now its twice upon a time."
Rumors are usually just that, rumors... remember that Invader Zim/Hot Topic thing a while back? More bullshit. Why does
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I hate to promote this, but I live in Upstate New York (like in the state, not the city.) Revolution OS will be coming to my city...errr...well...probably never.
So, how 'bout someone posting a link to a Divx version of it?
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
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.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
I think that Dr. Zoidberg said it best when he emoted:
"As the candy hearts poured into the fiery quasar, a wonderous thing happened, why not? They vaporized into a mystical love radiation that spread across the universe, destroying many, many planets - including two gangster planets and a cowboy world. But one planet was exactly the right distance to see the romantic rays, but not be destroyed by them - Earth. So all over the world, couples stood together in joy. And me, Zoidberg! And no one could've been happier, unless it would've also been Valentine's Day. What? It was? Hooray!"
Taken from http://www.politechbot.com/p-02305.html, posted there by Duncan Frissell.
Time for a new slashdot poll: How many slashdotters are fedral felons due to their file sharing activities? The person closest to guessing the correct quantity without going over wins a get out of jail free card, curtousy of John Ashcroft! Yeah!
Gearheads wasn't misused. It's an old-school term for techies, usually applied to COBOL'ers but also to assembly-language guys. At any rate take yer C- and shove it up yer ass.
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Two rights don't make a wrong, but three rights make a left. -Me
I am pretty scared that anyone would call themself a fan of Ziff-Davis. Futurama, maybe.
I don't think that it's quite the same. Since the user isn't charging anything for the songs, he'll never actually sell $1,000 worth of songs.
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The only thing that could make this any better is if I could figure out how to get the sattelite feed into my WinTV card so I can watch while I'm "working"
You can buy one of those cablebox/satellite remote-control adapters for your system, like the ones that snapstream (www.snapstream.com) offers to go with their scheduled recording software.
Also, it would be TONS better if TOON would pick up Invader Zim and made new episodes. Except I don't want to see little retarded "guest appearances" on Space Ghost or whatever. I hate it when they do that.
Get off my launchpad!
Oh please. This is been non-news for anyone who bothered to check out FOX's lineup for the coming Fall season:
http://www.fox.com/schedule/schedule_2002.htm
BUT! You'll notice Family Guy is conspicuously absent from that lineup. And they didn't even bother to leave us with a finale! Just sort of vanished halfway through last spring.
Time to fire up the ol' useless web petition.
- JoeShmoe
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-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
The letter to Ashcroft states that '[t]he copyright industries account for 5% of our gross domestic product.' Anyone have any thoughts on where this figure might have come from? My BS detecter is beeping.
tato (and tato only)
This post is strictly opinion, including the spelling.
Take what you can get man, you might not see another passing grade for quite awhile. Remember, losers can't be beggars.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
The OS Revolution will not be televised.
Um, have you watched Fox on Sunday nights the past two weeks? They moved King of the Hill to the slot after the Simpsons, and put Greg the Bunny in the old King of the Hill slot.
Futurama, of course, is still on at 6 central. Guess they want to squeeze the dying King of the Hill for all it's worth. Morons.
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True, $1000 is exactly changing hands, but if you read the page I linked to:
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.
but according to several readers this is a false alarm.
Well, I'll just start running this right now then.
Oh, you're not alone. I think Futurama sucks. But then again, I think the Simpsons has been in STEEP decline for years and the current crop of "writers" should all be fired and then soundly beaten for disgracing the show. But as they've made clear in several episodes, they don't care what anyone who doesn't like their simple-minded drivel thinks. I'll be happy to see it (Futurama) go to cable, so I won't see it anymore. Now if they'd just bring back ST:TOS to broadcast.
...said the anonymous coward.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
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Of course if you'd read the article (specifically the only bit in red, I know it's hard to miss) you'd know this.
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Does anyone know what's going on with Invader Zim?
If anything, I wish Cartoon Network would take a look at acquiring it from Nickelodeon.
Might want to run a spell checker yourself.
I thought the same thing first time I saw Futurama. It was nothing special, sometimes just boring, and Simpsons seemed so much better. I never watched Futurama after the first few episodes. Then, a few years later I saw it and watched it, and for some reason I found it very funny and have watched it whenever I had the chance. I have no idea why I changed my mind about Futurama, maybe it has something to do with Simpsons being on so-bloody-much now - we get episodes repeated within a week of each other sometimes!
Don't worry. One day, Cartoon Network, too, shall suck. Such is the fate of all cable networks.
A rolling stone is worth two in the bush!
Don't you mean slew
> I thought the same thing first time I saw Futurama. It was nothing special, sometimes just boring, and Simpsons seemed so much better. I never watched Futurama after the first few episodes. Then, a few years later I saw it and watched it, and for some reason I found it very funny and have watched it whenever I had the chance.
I guess I'm a sort of half convert. My initial reaction was the same as yours. I do watch it now and then now, but I would only rate it as "amusing" for most episodes, and I still find a few of them dull enough to turn off in the middle.
It's not bad considering the other crap that establishes par these days, but I can't see being a fan over it. The Jackie Chan Adventures cartoon series beats it hands down for humor, IMO.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
"Julie Schwartz Slide Oddball Comics Show..."
Proper noun, proper noun, verb, adjective, noun, noun...
What the FUCK would this be in English?
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Satanists get good grades too...suspiciously good grades
You can probably find it on the giFT internet File Transfer (OpenFT) network.
h Linux documentary The Code (for which I tried to submit a review to Slashdot, only to have it rejected) floating around on it. (Ironically, at least a couple of dozen people on giFT have The Code--but absolutely nobody has it on KaZaa itself!)
You can also find the made-for-Finnish-TV-yet-almost-entirely-in-Englis
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I'm really surprised at this kind of behavior, I really am.
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I'm not sure how American's perceive King now, but IMHO it's the most painful, unfunny cartoon to watch, ever. I'd rather be forced to watch 5 hours of that grindingly tedious Dr Katts than 30 minutes of KotH.
Mind you, I never found Beavis and Butthead funny either, so it could be Mike Judge failing at comedy through animation, yet again.
Futurama is fantastic, on-par with the Simpsons in many places. Family Guy is also extremely cool.
Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
If you had ANY idea how hard it is to get a show put together, not to mention how competititive the television business is, you would not accuse FOX of deliberately sabotaging a show any more than you would Linux of deliberately torpedoing his kernel.
I know. I've pitched shows at Fox as well as the other networks.
Of the dozens of scripts that are written and pitched to a network, a tiny sliver of them are actually produced as pilots. Of those, only a few ever make it on the air-- of those few, very few find an audience.
With the tremendous amount of energy a network puts into cultivating a show and trying to help it find an audience, to think they'd be intentionally trying to make one of their own shows fail is utter insanity.
When a network has to kill a show, it's because they've tried their hardest to get the show to gain traction with an audience. If they've moved around your beloved Futurama (or Star Trek or My So Called Life or Freaks and Geeks or whatever) it's because they think it'll do better somewhere else or because another show might be able to attract a larger audience in that time slot.
You can blame Fox for their lack of skill in marketing or programming "Futurama" but to say they are trying to kill their own show makes no sense. They want as many hits as they can get.
Saying Fox sucks, incidentally, is smearing the network that gave you the Simpsons. That alone is heresy in my book.
So even though there is no 'charging' going on,
the value of the product still changes hands.
While someone who distributes unauthorized copies of copyrighted works over a P2P network _might_ download copyrighted works of similar value, it is perfectly ok to take and never give, or to give and never take. There is no contract or bargain, which is what the law is clearly aimed at. Only on a P2P network with some sort of BBS-style "upload quotas" would the NET law apply.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
I think they'll have to deal with two points though, as this isn't like stealing a car. Who's copying the files, the man with them or the man downloading them? If you say the man sharing them, then you have to prove that he intended for people to download them that didn't own the CD. What if you don't get all the file from one person? Point 2 is the backup factor. You are entitled one backup copy, and they will have to PROVE that you don't own them before they can get a warrent. There is no method of proving that you do or don't if you claim you are using your backup copy because you lost the original in a fire.
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is that it is subtle, very subtle. I'm surprised at the number of post that don't find it funny.
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It is completly nerdsville, and I love.
they make programming reference, engineering references, sci-fi references, and modern culture references.
How many people would have the guts to put this on the air:
"that happened in 2506...just after the second coming of christ"?
I paraphrased the year.
in the last episod I saw it had:
A marriage between Iron chef and Soylent green.
A styx reference(group not river)
Homophobic reference from a robot.
Wraith of Kahn joke.
poisoning
revenge
a frame up
destruction of a ship(in a bottle)
secret code(granted, they're in every episode)
Its one of the few shows that I don't understand why it is NOT 'embraced' by slashdot, yet Buffy is.
I suspect its because the first generation gamers/video game players/star wars people are getting old, and this generation is trying to glom onto anything they can call a product of there generation.
I guess I'll have to start all my conversations with "Back in my day..."
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Matt Groening spoke in Montreal a few weeks ago, and he specifically stated that Futurama has "at least one more season" he was hoping for more, and that he also "has a few projects up [his] sleeve"
I'm looking forward to said sleeve-projects.
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My question: will it be encrypted with CSS? Will it also have region coding or will it be a region-free DVD?
Time to walk the talk. Make Revolution OS a truly OPEN DVD. Do the right thing.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
High-velocity pizza delivery... Is Snow Crash really ten years old? While we really need to have Uncle Enzo arrange to have somebody take care of Ashcroft, if you count software, movies, music, Muzak, videos, books, web pages, and anything else that involves people writing or performing text or songs or other things with original thought, or anybody taking those things and packaging and marketing them, it sounds like it could easily be 5% of the GNP. Ignore whether copyright is actually relevant to the business models (Ashcroft probably does) - since the US joined the Berne Convention, just about anything is born copyrighted.
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Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
Wouldn't the value of the product continue to be diminished, though? As you can freely duplicate the product (a file) with little effort, it would only be a matter of time before it's perceived "value" would diminish, simply by sheer volume.
Pardon the possible ignorance, it just seems like supply and demand to me... the reason Gold is so expensive is because there's relatively little of it to go around (compared to, say, copper).
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hookers and grits.
To me, "Futurama" is "The Simpsons" freed from its format and need for consistency with 13+ years of history.
:)
If anything, the Simpsons is pretty far from consistent. Watch the earlier seasons and compare them to now - characters completely changed, gone, etc. Never mind the fact that the characters haven't aged one day in 13 years on the air - I don't think continuity issues are terribly important (hell, just last week Homer pointed out that he's had something like 75 different jobs
I don't catch as much Futurama as I'd like, but have they ever done anything remotely CLOSE to the 'Treehouse of Horror' episodes?
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Why is it that the name "Homeland Security" gives me images of Nazis? That name really bothers me.
I think Futurama sucks. ;- )
When people don't get the "in" jokes, they blame the show, not their ignorance
I'll be happy to see it (Futurama) go to cable, so I won't see it anymore.
What? And you're seeing it NOW? How do you do that? I try to watch futurama and I can't! It seems to be on a random time slot...once in a while I get it on sunday at 19:00, but never more than twice in a row.
I guess its like cats: They are naturally drawn to people who are allergic to cats...maybe if I pretend to hate futurama, it'll show up on tv...
You can't take the sky from me...
...I believe is called "30% Iron Chef", and to further your point, also contains a reference to old depression-era cartoons and the "Hobo-Lifting Aroma".
One has to have an appreciation of culture and history and science to appreciate these sorts of things, and unfortunately many TV viewers these days don't. So network execs drop such things in favor of more lowest-common-denominator appeal. The Simpsons is lucky - it has many of these references, too, but fortunately there's enough Homer-Beer humor for stupid people to watch it too.
To sloppily paraphrase Fry in "When Aliens Attack": "You can't do anything original or unexpected on TV, because this confuses and frightens people."
The writers knew their own show's situation, to put that line in.
One of the smartest, most original shows on TV, IMO.
ZD are definitely doing this the right way. Other companies could learn from their actions if they near bankruptcy.
If McDonald's starts to go under.. it can close all of its outlets and stop buying supplies! No more costs, the business can get back on its feet.
If Walmart starts to go under.. it can just close all of its stores. No more stock to buy, no staff to employ, costs will be through the floor, with profits sure to rebound.
Really, I'm thinking the best way for a multi-billion dollar company to make money these days is to shut down its main operation, accumulate the billions in a high interest bank account, and then dabble in risky investments.
mogorific carpentry experiments
Yeah, this is like this anti-klez someone was kind enough to send me by email. As it said in the email, it triggered the anti-virus, but that's OK, I could safely ignore it cause the email told me to.
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A norwegian channel started sending Futurama. It lasted for about 1.5 seasons. Time slot? Five minutes to midnight (plus minus 45 minutes).
I struggled like a drowning cat to catch them all, but to little avail. It was taken off due to low ratings.
feed into my WinTV card
I use a Philips VL1200 (UK, PAL, dunno about rest of world outside EU) to connect downstairs video to upstairs PC WinTV card via its 2.4 GHz wireless link. The signal survives despite the EM noise from the ~1.3 GHz PC, VL1200 only gets huffy if we turn on the 19 year old microwave oven in the kitchen (gulp), or (and this is speculation) when the sodium vapour street lights turn on.
for every copy, it's not that the value diminishes ... nono, the total value increases! (perpetual motion)
... the B and D would have different values. but we can't have that, since it's a copyrighted work -- all copies should be treated the same (which, by the way, reminds me ... if you copyright a painting, ... the copies, vs. the original ... have different values. what's the original worth with music, etc.? books?)
... what do they do with the data? can they resell it? do they burn it like they do drugs (well, we think they do) or do they return each and every copy to the original copyright holder? if they can freely destroy the data, without worrying about it ... isn't that destruction of valuables? if not, how can they claim worth?
... whatever they intended to sell it for. market price, you say? well, if you consider napster ... the things are worthless. isn't that how insurance companies calculate worth? cost of replacement? value if sold? but the value of an item that can be reproduced for pratically no cost at all ...
... copyright the car?
see, if you divided, then you'd be attributing to each copy its own local value. that's bad. if you had A, and made two copies of it, B and C, then copied C into D and E
so, if the government seizes computers with copies of copyrighted works on them
the reason these items are worth anything is that the copyright holder has the government-given right to charge for copies, made at the publisher's discretion, of the copyrighted works. the worth is
i'm just waiting for us to explore the world of star-trek inspired physics: reproducing random items (physical) at will, for the cost of electricity (lots of it, admittedly, by einstein's e=mcc)
However if they "planned for it" like you said, and football ended "early", then they would have to fill that dead air with a post-game show or some crap that no one would watch.
"Planning for it" means scheduling a "Simpsons" rerun after the game rather than a new episode of Futurama, and giving Futurama a timeslot that isn't trampled. Like, for example, that same timeslot outside of football season.
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Do ya feel happy-go-lucky, punk?
Seriously, I love(d) the show, but finding and watching it became a game of "Where's Waldo?"
It would be if only FUTURAMA was remotely funny. Maybe I'm just getting to damned old but the quality of humor that exists today just seems to be so, well, not funny.
Oh well...
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If I actually could spell I'd have spelled it right in the first place.
Well I guess it makes sense for them to stop publishing a magazine called "Smart Business".
I am alone, yet I also surf the universal backwash of undifferentiated Being, which is LOVE.
You can probably find it on the giFT internet File Transfer (OpenFT) network.
Most users behind a Windows operating system are not able to follow installation steps that start with the following: "Because giFT/OpenFT has not yet been released, you must retrieve the sources via CVS to use the program."
Will I retire or break 10K?
Don't forget He-Man.
What Invader Zim\Hot Topic rumor are you talking about? All I ever heard was that they were going to start carrying Zim merchandise (t-shirts, etc.) which they, in fact, now do. Either that or I keep hallucinating my friend's "Ride the Pig" t-shirt.
It's been a while since I've looked up the stats, but the dollar value for felony copyright violations of software is something insanely low. And of course they use the full retail price for determining value (kind of like how game shows do it), so simply pirating some high-cost software like Photoshop or Office can get you near if not over the dollar limit all by themselves. I know that technically I was a felon back in the late 1980s thanks to all those PC games I copied using CopyIIPC-- but then again so was everyone I knew, and computer stuff was way under the national radar back then.
At least mafia-owned pizzarias make excellent pizza. Compare to Bill Gates.
if you copyright a painting, ... the copies, vs. the original ... have different values. what's the original worth with music, etc.? books?
If a work can be reduced to a sequence of discrete symbols such as bits, it can be copied. Music is a sequence of notes, which can be reduced to bits in the MIDI standard. A recording is generally distributed to end users as a sequence of bits that represent audio waveform samples. The text of books is a sequence of characters, which can be reduced to bits in the Unicode standard. However, current technology cannot reduce the texture of an original painting to bits; thus, it has a greater value than any copy.
copyright the car
This is why we need shorter copyright terms on creative works. Copyrights on such works last effectively forever because the EU Parliament, the US Congress, and The Walt Disney Company have an unwritten agreement to enact copyright extensions. On the other hand, "copyrights" on inventions such as parts of cars, and on original designs such as their bodies, fall under patent law and last for only 20 years after the invention is filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Will I retire or break 10K?
once in a while I get it on sunday at 19:00, but never more than twice in a row
Wait 'til football season starts. If I were Matt Groening, I'd be seriously pissed about being shoehorned into a time slot that invariably gets stepped on by the 4:00 game.
Now what will I sneer at?
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