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Comment No more Torchwood Miracle Day on Starz Live? (Score 1) 314

by Frogking (#37287304) Attached to: Starz To Pull Content From Netflix

I ALMOST cancelled my Netflix account when the price for disc & streaming went up. Then I found Starz had a live stream of their network channel on Netflix. I really started to get into Torchwood Miracle Day and decided not to cancel Netflix. Now I'm pretty sure I will be closing my account, and go to a "friend" to get the show for me online for free.

Comment Re:NMI button (Score 1) 204

by Frogking (#36965796) Attached to: Escaping Infinite Loops

I also remember a program called GOMF (Get Out'a My Face) that let an Amiga user abort a program after the dreaded Guru Meditation Error threatened to crash the entire system. Ah, good times!
Idle

Submission + - Firm can't fire man for 1.8 cent theft (yahoo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: BERLIN (Reuters) A German company that fired a man for the theft of 1.8 euro cents (two U.S. cents) worth of electricity had no grounds for sacking him, a court ruled, dismissing the firm's appeal against his reinstatement.

Network administrator Oliver Beel lost his job after charging his Segway, a two-wheeled electric vehicle, at work in May 2009. After he connected the vehicle to the firm's power source for 1-1/2 hours, his boss asked him to remove it.

Twelve days later Beel found himself without a job.
Idle

Submission + - Internet Petitions Stephen Colbert To Hold 'Restor (huffingtonpost.com)

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jamie
jamie writes: "A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Beck's recent "Restoring Honor" event. The would-be rally has been dubbed "Restoring Truthiness" and was inspired by a recent post on Reddit, where a young woman wondered if the only way to point out the absurdity of the Tea Party's rally would be if Colbert mirrored it with his own "Colbert Nation.""
Idle

Submission + - Student Shocks Own Nipples, Sues Teacher (wbztv.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Associated Press reports that a New Hampshire high school student who connected electrodes to his nipples that were plugged into the wall, severely shocking him, is suing the teacher, the school district, and the city because the teacher failed to warn him not to do so. Student Kyle Dubois attached a wire to his nipples, cooperated with another student to attach a second wire to the other nipple, and a third student plugged them in. A classmate captured the event on cell phone video (http://wbztv.com/video/?id=88175@wbz.dayport.com). Kyle and his parents claim that he didn't know it was dangerous and the teacher's failure to warn him resulted in permanent brain damage. If I was the teacher's attorney, I would be tempted to argue that there is strong evidence the brain damage was present before the incident took place.
Earth

Powerful Sonar Causes Deafness In Dolphins 323

Posted by Soulskill from the sorry-flipper dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Mass strandings of dolphins and whales could be caused because the animals are rendered temporarily deaf by military sonar, experiments have shown. Tests on a captive dolphin have demonstrated that hearing can be lost for up to 40 minutes on exposure to sonar and may explain several strandings of dolphins and whales in the past decade. Most strandings are still thought to be natural events, but the tests strengthen fears that exercises by naval vessels equipped with sonar are responsible for at least some of them. For example, in the Bahamas in March, 2000, 16 Cuvier's beaked whales and Blainville's beaked whales and a spotted dolphin beached during a US navy exercise in which sonar was used intensively for 16 hours (PDF). 'The big question is what causes them to strand,' says Dr. Aran Mooney, of the University of Hawaii. 'What we are looking at are animals whose primary sense is hearing, like ours is seeing. Their ears are the most sensitive organ they have.' In the experiment, scientists fitted a harmless suction cup to the dolphin's head, with a sensor attached that monitored the animal's brainwaves, and when the pings reached 203 decibels and were repeated, the neurological data showed the mammal had become deaf, for its brain no longer responded to sound. 'We definitely showed that there are physiological and some behavioral effects [from repeated, loud sonar], but to extrapolate that into the wild, we don't really know,' said Mooney."
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Submission + - Children of Men and game storytelling (surrealgamedesign.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: The storytelling in the movie Children of Men is simple, but effective. Perhaps the techniques used in this movie can give us hope for meaningful stories in games, too... Read more here.

In the case of Children of Men, a story was delivered where:
  • The viewer didn't need to track more than the very next objective at any one time.
  • The backstory was explained in snippets over the course of the main story.
  • The characters' motivations were never more than 1-2 layers deep.
  • The characters' progression was primarily driven by geographic advancement (e.g. "we must go here").
  • Very moving story moments were created simply by placing the characters in an interesting place and letting the viewer's imagination do the rest.
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Submission + - Nebraska Senator Sues God (wired.com)

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ThelpDealio
ThelpDealio writes: "A Nebraska Senator, Ernie Chambers, has filed suit against god in Chambers v. God in order to stop terror threats.
In the suit, (PDF) he states that god "has made and continues to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons." including "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, and the like.""
Google

Submission + - The downside of Monopolies

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Bucc5062
Bucc5062 writes: "About two months ago I was discovering an new old band called October Project which had success in the mid 90's. Great sound, amazing vocalist. That got me to looking for any video on the band. I found two MTV style videos from their hit songs on YouTube (now google video). I then found two live videos from a show called FX. (Live on FX 11/29/95). I watched the videos and reveled in seeing this band live, even in the TV studio.

A couple of weeks go by and I would like to see the live videos again. Shocked I am as the Live FX shows have been suspended. What? I try a general search and almost every link leads back to YouTube and no ability to see the videos. Why? No reports as to why. No statements, just that these two videos are not unavailable for viewing.

So I discover a problem with centralized data. Once any large entity takes over a pool of data, removing it from the public control is subject to the whims of the very small minority. Every link I could find save two was linked to YouTube. Social networking is good, but when it is co-opted like YouTube then it is not good, because a few can now censor the many.

In the case of October Project and (Live on FX 11/29/95), I cannot see how blocking these videos would be good for any one. Google suspended the account that held the videos, but what is even worse, everyone linked to YouTube thus in one chop, Google cut access to some great video of a great band. I ask the Slashdot community, is there an alternative to YouTube Is the a way to stop censorship of data by the few, and is there way to get those two videos back into the public eye?"
Security

Submission + - Skype reads /etc/passwd 1

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An anonymous reader writes: According to this post in the Skype Linux Forums Skype tries to read out the /etc/passwd as well as some other files and directories. At this time, there is no official statement from Skype concerning this matter.
Media

Where To Find Opus On Sunday 495

Posted by kdawson from the what-has-our-boy-gone-and-done-now dept.
Berkeley Breathed has a note up on his site: "Note to Opus readers: The Opus strips for August 26 and September 2 have been withheld from publication by a large number of client newspapers across the country, including Opus' host paper The Washington Post. The strips may be viewed in a large format on their respective dates at Salon.com.."

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