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Dave Gibbons On the Forthcoming Watchmen Movie 181

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 29, 2008 @01:47PM from the alternate-title-the-winders dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Den Of Geek has been talking to comics legend Dave Gibbons about the upcoming transition of the Watchmen from the comic book to the silver screen. 'There are hardcore fans out there who'll be satisfied with nothing less than a word-for-word, line-for-line, scene-for-scene recreation of the comic book. I didn't believe that was ever going to happen.'" It's a rather short interview, but Gibbons addresses some interesting elements of both the movie and comic-book worlds.

P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments 306

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @05:09PM from the do-not-fiddle-my-bits dept.

Not Comcastic writes "Two weeks after officially opening proceedings on Comcast's BitTorrent throttling, angry users are bombarding the FCC with comments critical of the cable provider's practices. 'On numerous occasions, my access to legal BitTorrent files was cut off by Comcast,' a systems administrator based in Indianapolis wrote to the FCC shortly after the proceeding began. 'During this period, I managed to troubleshoot all other possible causes of this issue, and it was my conclusion (speaking as a competent IT administrator) that this could only be occurring due to direct action at the ISP (Comcast) level.' Another commenter writes 'I have experienced this throttling of bandwidth in sharing open-source software, e.g. Knoppix and Open Office. Also I see considerable differences in speed ftp sessions vs. html. They are obviously limiting speed in ftp as well.'"

Comment Re:Nothing is perfect (Score 1) 75

by nakke on Friday November 03, 2006 @05:45PM (#16709329) Attached to: What Ways Can Sites Handle Spambot Attacks?

Something like this has helped on some of my sites as well, you can use something on-topic to the site, for example a site about bananas might have:

What is this site about? B _ _ _ _ _ _ (fill in the missing letters)

The spam bots have already beaten phpbb captchas, plus they sometimes even use a real email-address so email validation is no use either!

Submission + - Gadgets from the future

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Friday November 03, 2006 @03:01PM

prostoalex writes: "Fortune magazine editor traveled to Japan to discover the next year's technology. The "gadgets from the future" include ultra-portable Sony VAIO UX90P, ZPN/Kenwood MIURO iPod dock, Mikimoto Beans iTheatre personal iPod theater, Sharp Vodafone 905SH mobile phone with 2.6" screen for watching videos, Nintendo Wii controller and Hitachi WOOO Blu-ray digital camcorder."

Microsoft in Talks To Acquire Ebay 235

Posted by Zonk on Saturday May 27, 2006 @08:38AM from the jigga-whaaaa dept.

thatedeguy writes "The NY Post is reporting that Microsoft and Ebay are in talks for the online auction house to join the Microsoft family." That said, the talks aren't going that well at the moment. From the article: " Sources indicate that the talks, while still active, have cooled somewhat in the last two weeks as executives considered antitrust issues. It is unclear what the full impact of yesterday's advertising and search alliance between Yahoo! and eBay will be for talks between MSN and eBay. One source close to the matter suggested the Yahoo-eBay tie-up would not stop Microsoft from pursuing the online auctioneer."

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