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Harlan Ellison Sues For "Star Trek" Episode 483

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @07:31PM from the dangerous-visions dept.

Miracle Jones writes "The ever-quotable speculative fiction writer Harlan Ellison has launched a lawsuit against Paramount and the Writer's Guild West for rights to residuals surrounding his famous and award winning 'City on the Edge of Forever' episode for the original Star Trek series. Ellison, recently featured in the documentary 'Dreams with Sharp Teeth,' said that 'The Trek fans who know my City screenplay understand just exactly why I'm bare-fangs-of-Adamantium about this.' Regarding his lawsuit, he had this to say: 'The arrogance, the pompous dismissive imperial manner of those who "have more important things to worry about," who'll have their assistant get back to you, who don't actually read or create, who merely "take" meetings, and shuffle papers — much of which is paper money denied to those who actually did the manual labor of creating those dreams — they refuse even to notice... until you jam a Federal lawsuit in their eye. To hell with all that obfuscation and phony flag-waving: they got my money. Pay me and pay off all the other writers from whom you've made hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars... from OUR labors... just so you can float your fat asses in warm Bahamian waters.'"

Comment Re:What About Choice? (Score 2, Insightful) 150

by Scratched on Saturday November 29, 2008 @11:50PM (#25930081) Attached to: Google's Gatekeepers

I don't think the problem is so much a lack of choice on the users' part.

With such a large market share, if Google starts censoring results then a site essentially doesn't exist any more.. If google were censoring specific results, how would you know? Sure, if it's your data being censored, you'll probably find out, but if it isn't something you really know well, then how do you know that you're getting totally accurate results in every search?

I'm not saying that Google is consciously censoring results (except in China), but with that kind of power, how can you be sure it won't be misused?

3G iPhone Going Into Production In May 269

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 31, 2008 @08:52AM from the i-just-want-double-the-space dept.

A few folks noted the rumor mill churning over 3G iPhones coming soon. Apparently they might be going into production as early as May, and announced somewhere in the 2nd quarter. Hopefully they manage to stick a GPS and another 16 gigs of memory in this one.

Submission + - Mass Market DS Homebrew Cart Released

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Sunday March 04, 2007 @06:31AM

Croakyvoice writes: Datel has finally released the Games n Music Homebrew cart for the Nintendo DS, this mass market entry level cart features a 128mb Micro SD card and comes with a 25 game CD of the best of DS homebrew games." Games 'n' Music contains everything you need straight out of the box. It even comes bundled with a 25-game CD, offering some of the best games the DS home brew scene has to offer, as well as a video conversion program for your PC (Windows XP or later required) to convert your movies and video clips to a format you can play back with Games 'n' Music. It's the ultimate in digital entertainment! "

Make an RFID-proof wallet 238

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 16, 2006 @12:34PM from the build-your-own dept.

99luftballon writes "If, like me, you're more than a little concerned about the privacy aspects of RFID there's a useful enthusiast's web page on making your own RFID-blocking wallet. OK, it's never going to win any prizes for beauty or garner fashion awards but should be effective and seems perfectly practical. "

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