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Terminator Franchise To Be Auctioned Off 256

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the i'll-be-back-in-syndication dept.
"For sale: One slightly-used Terminator. Still works, minor attitude problems, get it cheap now!' Several sources are reporting that the Terminator franchise is set to be auctioned off just three weeks after another well known franchise, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was sold for $60 million. The present owner, Halcyon, has filed for chapter 11 after a dispute with a hedge fund that lent Halcyon the money to buy the rights to begin with. The auction will include rights to everything but the first two films.

Comment Re:10+ the max? Come on... (Score 1) 958

by Hittite Creosote (#29667715) Attached to: How many countries have you visited?

Try to aim for the Channel Tunnel. If you make it to France and keep your course straight, you could make it all the way through the alps into Slovenia.

Good luck!

I'd imagine the express train trying to use the same rail-only tunnel could cause some discomfort.

(yes, I know a lot of the trains are car-carrying ones, but you're not driving if you're parked on a train)
The Internet

Submission + - rubyonrails.org - Poached!

Submitted by Trailer Trash
Trailer Trash writes: The domain name "rubyonrails.org" has been snapped up by a domain farmer. Navigating to the site — any of the sites on the domain — brings up a smiling young lady and a list of "links" related to Ruby on Rails. I'm not adding an actual link; the new owner is probably getting plenty of traffic as it is.
Space

Submission + - Is "Space Junk" always?

Submitted by Hqrsie
Hqrsie writes: After reading the article on Brazilian pirates using US military satellites for communication, I've wondered what's done with decommissioned satellites. I always thought they would be viewed as a precious commodity due to their complexity, expense, and status. However, with many critical systems reliant on them, it seems likely that replacements are sent prudently before critical failure. What I wonder is if there are functional satellites that are simply not in use. Or is anything in orbit that continues to work already re-purposed until it is of no further use at all? Is "space junk" always truly that?
The Media

Print News Fading, Still Source of Much News 140

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the fact-checking-the-next-media-casualty dept.
CNet's Dan Farber took a look, not only at the popular news of how print media is dying a slow death, but also what contribution to the news print journalists are still making. According to research quoted, while the physical publications are quickly becoming a thing of the past much of the news that makes its way into circulation via blogs and other means still originates from the hard work of those print journalists. (We discussed a similar perspective on the news a week back.) "While the Internet is growing as the place where people go for news, the revenue simply isn't catching up fast enough. The less obvious part of the Internet overtaking newspapers as the main source for national and international news is that much of the seed content--the original reporting that breaks national and international news and is subsequently refactored by legions of bloggers--comes from the reporters and editors working at the financially strapped newspapers and national and local television outlets. [...] As the financial pressures mount--the outlook for 2009 is dismal--and the cost cutting continues, we can only hope that the original news reporting by top-flight journalists is not a major casualty."

Comment Re:One Australian Film? (Score 1) 131

by Hittite Creosote (#25871337) Attached to: Australia's Largest Private Computer Collection In Pictures
Well, I'm British and know the film (and have it on DVD - the version I've got came with a lot of extras, including the original moon landing footage). I personally think it's a great film, and although I'm perhaps more likely to remember it because my tastes match with the subject matter, I would have thought those tastes - humour, technology, scientists/engineers as the heroes, the moon landings - would have appealed to a fair few Slashdot readers as well.

As to the person who complained that someone shouldn't be expected to know an obscure foreign film - it isn't a foreign film. Or, at least, if you're writing from Australia, as the .com.au on the address of the article (and the Aussie sounding name of the author of the article) would suggest, it's not.
Image

"Stayin Alive" Helps You Stay Alive 31

Posted by samzenpus from the truthful-advertising dept.
In a small study conducted at the University of Illinois medical school, doctors and students maintained close to the ideal number of chest compressions doing CPR while listening to the Bee Gees hit, "Stayin' Alive." At 103 beats per minute, the old disco song has almost the perfect rhythm to help keep accurate time while doing chest compressions. The study showed the song helped people who already know how to do CPR, and the results were promising enough to warrant larger, more definitive studies with real patients or untrained people. I wonder what intrinsic power is contained in "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?"
Image

The Smell of Space 70

Posted by samzenpus from the excuse-me-while-I-smell-the-sky dept.
According to NASA scientists, space smells a lot like my uncle's workshop. One can detect hints of fried steak, hot metal, and the welding of a motorbike. They have hired Steven Pearce, a chemist and managing director of fragrance manufacturing company Omega Ingredients, to recreate the smell in a laboratory. NASA will use his research to help train potential astronauts. Steven said, "I did some work for an art exhibition in July, which was based entirely on smell, and one of the things I created was the smell of the inside of the Mir space station. NASA heard about it and contacted me to see if I could help them recreate the smell of space to help their astronauts."

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