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Sci-Fi

Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel 585

Posted by CmdrTaco from the don't-ruin-perfect dept.
bowman9991 submitted a story that ought to make even the most stone-hearted amongst you cry. He says "Travis Wright, one of the writers behind Eagle Eye, has been working on a sequel to Ridley Scott's Sci-Fi classic Blade Runner. Script proposals have explored the nature of the off-world colonies, what happens to the Tyrell Corporation in the wake of its founder's death, and what would become of Rachel. Travis said he intends to write a script 'with or without anyone's blessings.' Director Ridley Scott appears interested in a sequel too. At Comic-Con in 2007 Ridley said, 'If you have any scripts, you know where to send them.' It's doubtful he'll have time anytime soon though. He's already stated his next two science fiction films will be an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New Word with Leonardo DiCaprio and an adaptation of Joe Haldeman's The Forever War."
Handhelds

Here Comes iPhone Nano, But Not In the US 177

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the rampant-speculation dept.
jehovajerieh writes to us in the time-honored tradition of rampant Apple speculation, pointing to an article over on IBTimes suggesting that while the iPhone Nano may be on the way, the US might not be the first to experience this gadget bliss. "Despite limited information in the supplier channels and typical secrecy with new Apple products, insiders have confirmed that the iPhone nano is not yet in the testing labs at AT&T, Marshal says, leading him to believe that the launch will most likely be with a non-US carrier. 'Obviously, the best-case scenario here would be a China launch (~600mil+ wireless subscribers total in the country), but we have no definitive knowledge of this and are working on identifying the [locale] of launch and other pertinent details,' he said."
Mars

Mars Phoenix Lander's Ovens Were Destined To Fail 77

Posted by Soulskill from the double-checking-is-for-wimps dept.
RobertB-DC writes "The Phoenix mission to Mars' frigid polar regions was going to be tricky from the start, with only a few weeks to perform as much science as possible. Success depended on everything working right. But one of the mission's most frustrating glitches — the stuck doors on the TEGA ovens — could have been prevented with basic quality control on Earth. Nature is reporting that bad brackets were replaced by the manufacturer ... with identically bad brackets. The Planetary Society blog sums it up succinctly: 'Ouch. Ouch ouch ouch.'"
Linux Business

Red Hat CEO Says Economic Crisis Favors Open Source 191

Posted by kdawson from the falling-tide-lifts-some-boats dept.
arashtamere writes "Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst predicts the enterprise open source software business will emerge from the economic crisis stronger than the proprietary market. 'I've had a couple of conversations with CIOs who said, "We're a Microsoft shop and we don't use any open source whatsoever, but we're already getting pressure to reduce our operating costs and we need you to help put together a plan for us to... use open source to reduce our costs." And we've had other customers literally looking at ripping and replacing WebLogic or WebSphere for JBoss ... I think we'll know in about six to nine months but there is no question that open source will come out of this in relatively better shape than our proprietary competitors,' he told Computerworld."
Portables (Apple)

Top Apple Rumors, Bricks, Low Price, NVIDIA 283

Posted by CmdrTaco from the my-macbook-is-broken dept.
Vigile writes "With the news that Apple will be releasing new MacBook products on October 14th, speculation has begun on what exactly those new products will be. Tips of a manufacturing process involving lasers and a single 'brick' of aluminum are catching on, as is the idea of a sub-$1000 netbook-type device. More interesting might be the persistent rumors of an NVIDIA chipset adoption that would drastically increase gaming ability, allow MacBooks to improve their support for OpenCL and take advantage of the new Adobe CS4 software with GPU acceleration. Will NVIDIA's ailing chipset business get a shot in the arm next week?"
Portables (Apple)

Steve Wozniak Predicts Death of the IPod 573

Posted by samzenpus from the for-whom-the-bell-tolls dept.
Slatterz writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, better known in the industry as 'Woz,' believes that the iPod is on its way out and has revealed his discomfort with some aspects of the iPhone. Wozniak said that the iPod has had a long time as the world's most popular media player, and that it will fall from grace due to oversupply. Wozniak also commented on the iPhone's proprietary nature and locked service provider, and compared it to Google's open Android platform. 'Consumers are not getting all they want when companies are very proprietary and lock their products down,' he said. 'I would like to write some more powerful apps than what you're allowed.'"
Technology (Apple)

Toxic Fumes From Mac Pros? 267

Posted by CmdrTaco from the that-might-explain-john-hodgmen dept.
Fanboi Killa writes "Apple is investigating damning claims, published in a leading French newspaper, that its computers emit a toxic odor containing chemicals including the cancer-causing benzene. Apple has not denied the accusations. Its spokesman, Bill Evans, told Macworld the company had not found any evidence to support the claim but Apple would continue to investigate. Posts on Apple's own discussion boards suggest the Mac maker knew about potentially toxic odors being linked to its computers as early as December last year."
The Internet

Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out 102

Posted by timothy from the don't-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out dept.
alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The lifeline linking notorious service provider Intercage to the rest of the Internet has been severed. Intercage, which has also done business under the name Atrivo, was knocked offline late Saturday night when the last upstream provider connecting it to the Internet's backbone, Pacific Internet Exchange, terminated Intercage's service. Intercage president Emil Kacperski said Pacific did not tell him why his company had been knocked offline, but he believes it was in response to pressure from Spamhaus, a volunteer-run antispam group, which has been highly critical of Intercage's business practices."
Databases

Submission + - IBM may open source DB2 (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 database-management software under an open-source licence.
Encryption

Submission + - Bruce Schneier Bletchley Park Fund

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Bruce Schneier has kindly offered (here) to be a "focal point for donations" if anyone's interested in donating some money to save a museum in financial ruin, which was host to one of the most important war efforts. Slashdot covered this story a few weeks ago, with mixed reactions (here ).
Spam

Submission + - Barack Obama website hosting trojans (tinyweb.net)

Submitted by 68kmac
68kmac writes: I guess if you had a political agenda, you could make a much more interesting story out of an URL like

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/kiddieporn

Yes, that's the official homepage of a certain Barrack Obama. No, it's not porn you'll find there, it's an attempt to trick you into downloading a trojan.

This URL (and others, on the same site) was used in spam posts that someone tried to leave on one of my websites. So what does a good web citizen do? Alert the webmaster, of course. Not for the first time, though, this has turned out to be more difficult than it should be. The only response I've got so far was — political spam, i.e. trying to get me to support Mr. Obama. Do these people even read the emails they get?

What do the Slashdot readers suggest to try to get through to someone in charge of a high-profile website?
Sci-Fi

Hitchhiker's Guide Turns 30 193

Posted by CmdrTaco from the hah-i'm-still-older dept.
XaN-ASMoDi writes "Yesterday saw the 30th anniversary of the very first broadcast of Douglas Adam's seminal work, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", to mark this, Mark Vernon has written an article for the BBC News Magazine on the answer to The Question. 'It's 30 years since Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy made its debut on BBC radio, but its most famous mystery is still waiting to be resolved...'"

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