Magickcat - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Let the SCi FI Channel Make it (Score 1) 304

by Magickcat on Thursday May 31 2007, @08:53PM (#19346295) Attached to: Doctor Who To Be Axed, Again

What little charm remains to Doctor Who is entirely lost to the American monster that is the American television industry - just look at that awful test pilot and you'll see what you Americans deserve when it comes Doctor Who. Anyone who suggest that the Sci-Fi channel can make it deserves another twenty years of Star Trek with continual Nazi episdodes and/or trapped in the Holodesk stories. If it wasn't for the last film, I'd say that you didn't deserve Batman after what you've done to him!

It would end up as a cross between McGuiver and Start Trek. There'd be a alien love affair in every episode, compulsory self congratualtory moral superiority and all problems would be solved by reversing the polarity on the sonic screwdriver. Bad guys would have the doctor pontify against them in each episode before sending them to space jail and the Tradis would become a flying sports car.

EMI, YouTube Strike Music Video Deal->

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eldavojohn

on Thursday May 31 2007, @07:36PM

eldavojohn writes "Despite initial complaints of copyright infringement, EMI is now striking a deal with YouTube. Perhaps they've noticed that Warner's deal has boded well or they've finally come around to free marketing? From the article, "EMI and YouTube have agreed to work together to develop ways in which EMI-owned recordings can be incorporated into user generated content by YouTube users. News of the deal comes just 10 days after EMI agreed to be taken over by private equity group Terra Firma for £2.4bn." YouTube is slowing building a cadre of friends on the playground while Viacom continues to bully the new kid."
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One of World's Top Ten Spammers Arrested->

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Tyler

on Thursday May 31 2007, @07:34PM

Tyler writes "From MSNBC

"A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail. Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised "zombie" computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails. "He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world," said Tim Cranton, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. "He's a huge problem for our customers. This is a very good day.""
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NFS Pro Street Announced->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2007, @07:34PM

An anonymous reader writes "EA just announced their latest Need For Speed game, NFS Pro Street. With a new emphasis on physics and damage, EA has taken the street racing scene to the next level, legalized street racing events around the world. EA invited several NFS community sites to preview a pre-alpha version of the game and interview many of the producers. Here are some of the write ups from around the web.

Racerplanet
NFS Cars
NFS Garage
NFS Unlimited"
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City Almost Loses 450K to Keylogger 158

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday May 31 2007, @07:31PM
from the never-too-safe dept.

SierraPete writes "The city of Carson, California (a suburb of Los Angeles) was the target of a 6-digit theft of cash. The LA Times reports that information taken from a keylogger was used to attempt to steal $450K from the city's treasury. Quick work by the city froze most of the funds, but it drives home the importance of keeping good anti-spyware and anti-virus software updated on both corporate systems as well as systems being used from home."

Google is on a buying spree->

Submitted by

jbrodkin

on Thursday May 31 2007, @06:58PM

jbrodkin writes "Google bought two companies this week, may soon buy a third, and that's not even including the pending DoubleClick acquisition. It's a continuation of a busy 12 months in which Google has agreed to 11 acquisitions of companies and technologies, several of which have bolstered the search engine leader in its competition with Microsoft. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/053107-googl e.html"
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The Ignorance of Crowds->

Submitted by sounil on Thursday May 31 2007, @06:55PM

sounil writes "From the abstract: "The open source model, which relies on contributions from many individuals, can be an important factor in innovation, but it comes with limitations. Although this approach can be effective at refining programs or ideas that already exist, it is less successful when used to generate new ideas or to complete a project." The article provides some very interesting insights into why certain open source projects succeed and why others falter and how one can take advantage of these insights for future projects."
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10 Anti-Phishing Firefox Extensions

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2007, @06:49PM

An anonymous reader writes "10 anti-phishing Firefox extensions list was published at Security-Hacks: "For most Internet users, defending against phishing attacks is a top priority. One popular way to combat phishing attacks is to maintain a list of known phishing sites and to check web sites against the list. This hack highlights 10 anti-phishing Firefox extensions that can be used to mitigate the risk of being a victim of a phishing attack.""

Dotster Hijacks Their Customers' Subdomains

Submitted by mo on Thursday May 31 2007, @06:34PM

mo writes "Recently, Dotster's DNS service has made a massive, potentially illegal change that has gone largely unnoticed. They now redirect DNS queries for any of their customer's unused subdomains to a spam page that serves up ads. For example, www.asterisk.org is a popular open source PBX project who gets it's DNS from Dotster, but bogus.asterisk.org redirects to Dotster's page of ads. This policy has been imposed on all of their customers without informing them. Any domain who has ns1.nameresolve.com as their primary nameserver is being subjected to it."

AMD Releases Detailed Phenom Die Photo->

Submitted by MojoKid on Thursday May 31 2007, @05:56PM

MojoKid writes "A few weeks ago, AMD released information on new branding for their desktop derivatives of the Barcelona core, now dubbed the Phenom FX, X4 and X2. If you're unfamiliar with Phenom, the processors will be based on AMD's K10 architecture and will feature a faster on-die memory controller, support 64-bit and 128-bit SSE operations, and they'll be outfitted with 2MB of on-chip L2 cache (512KB dedicated per core) in addition to 2MB of shared L3 cache. Today,instead of revealing some more of the juicy details regarding those enhancements, AMD just sent over a tasty photo of a Phenom die. Click the image for a high-res version."
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