Submission + - The Making of "300"
JR writes: "A step-by-step look at how the makers of the film "300" brought the Frank Miller graphic novel to life
http://www.fhmonline.com/articles-3866.asp?cnl_id= 3&stn_id=12&idx_id=3866"
Submission + - Microsoft to Pay $1.52 Bln in Patent Suit Damages
An anonymous reader writes: A U.S. federal jury found that Microsoft Corp. infringed audio patents held by Alcatel-Lucent and should pay $1.52 billion in damages, Microsoft said Thursday. The news comes after reports that U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed doubts about whether Microsoft Corp. should be liable for infringing AT&T Inc. patents in Windows software sold overseas. Despite the news, shares of Microsoft closed 4 cents higher, at $29.39, on Thursday.
Submission + - Seclists.Org shut down by GoDaddy and MySpace
DrowLedrow writes: Seclists Mailing list just popped out that their Domain Registrar (GoDaddy) stopped redirecting traffic to their site due to complaints by MySpace. Apparently the Full-Disclosure list mirrored a posting of the list of 56,000 MySpace Passwords that has been floating around for the past week. So MySpace asked GoDaddy to stop directing traffic, without a single cease-and-desist letter. Looks like it's time for a new registrar.
Submission + - Keeping Track of Television Shows
Wil writes: In this day and age where television takes up a fairly large chunk of peoples time, especially during prime-time, it can get to be fairly hard to keep track of when new episodes are airing and when seasons begin and end. My question for the /.ers is does anyone know of a website or program where you can select the programs you are attempting to keep track of and, when new shows are airing, the website will email you or the program will alert you?
Submission + - Red Swoosh P2P Service Challenges BitTorrent
ReadWriteWeb writes: "Red Swoosh is a P2P desktop client which competes against the BitTorrent client. It works like this: you signup to the service, then when you have a large file that you want to publish on your website, you "swoosh" the link by adding http://edn.redswoosh.net/ to the front of the URL; then when a user clicks on a swooshed link, they are prompted to install the Red Swoosh client if they have not previously done so. Red Swoosh uses http and not a specific p2p protocol like bittorrent. Mark Cuban is an investor in Red Swoosh and he recently wrote a long post about why BitTorrent is doomed (he neglects to disclose his affiliation with Red Swoosh). Cuban says that the bittorrent protocol is actually no more efficient in terms of bandwidth than the client-server setup."
