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Comment Ratner's Resume (Score 5, Informative) 395

Brett Ratner is one of the biggest problems in Hollywood, not Rotten Tomatoes. Here's his directorial resume (I count one decent movie):

  2014/I Hercules
  2011 Tower Heist
  2007 Rush Hour 3
  2006 X-Men: The Last Stand
  2004 After the Sunset
  2002 Red Dragon
  2001 Rush Hour 2
  2000 The Family Man
  1998 Rush Hour
  1997 Money Talks
Your Rights Online

Submission + - UKNova TV catch-up site removes links after copyright threat (zdnet.com)

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Volfied
Volfied writes: "The UKNova website has stopped letting users share links to copies of UK TV shows, apparently after legal threats from the copyright enforcement body FACT.

"UKNova is being forced to change. We have been issued with a 'cease and desist' order by FACT," the message began.

"Despite our efforts to cooperate with the UK media companies, FACT have stated: 'ALL links or access to content provided by UKNova are infringing, unless it can be proven that explicit permission from the copyright holder for that content has been obtained'.""
United Kingdom

English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell 363

Posted by timothy from the it's-coming-from-inside-the-house dept.
Several readers have written with word of a new doorbell, invented by 13-year-old Laurence Rook. What's so special about a doorbell? This one lets you answer the door from wherever you can receive a call from its embedded 3G chip; to your in-person caller (facing the doorbell), that means it sounds like you're answering the door over an intercom system, even if you're really across town. Pretty clever way to make it harder for a thief to know if a home is actually occupied, though Rook says that he initially just wanted a system to avoid missed packages.
Games

Ubisoft CEO Says Next Gen Consoles Closer Than We Think 326

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the better-faster-stronger dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot tells CNBC that he believes the next generation of video game systems isn't as far away as the public has been led to believe. Guillemot noted that public demand for the best machine possible, as well as coming competition from companies such as OnLive could spur Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo to roll out new systems sooner than they want. That's not good news for publishers, though, as he says games in the next generation will likely cost $60 million to create."
Earth

Climate Engineering As US Policy? 355

Posted by samzenpus from the get-in-there-and-fix-it dept.
EricTheGreen writes "The Associated Press has an article featuring Obama administration science advisor John Holdren discussing potential climate engineering responses to global warming. Among the possible approaches? His own version of Operation Dark Storm — shooting micro-particulate pollution high into the atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays. I'm sure the rest of the world would have no issue with that at all, of course. Yikes ..."

Comment Zotero (Score 1) 211

by Volfied (#27510585) Attached to: Building a Searchable Literature Archive With Keywords?

Zotero is what you want. Integrates smoothly into a research workflow. Great for managing research materials of all kinds. Powerful search and tagging features. Adding sources is quick and easy and it works hand in glove with lots of research databases. Also interoperates with Word or OpenOffice to manage citations and biblographies.

www.zotero.org
The Courts

Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS 648

Posted by kdawson from the that-would-be-an-oopsie dept.
Preedit writes "Mac cloner Psystar is claiming in new court papers that Apple's copyright suit against it should be dismissed, because Apple has never filed for copyright protection on Mac OS X 10.5 with the US Copyright Office. Infoweek is reporting that the claim, if it holds up, could open the door for third-parties to enter the Mac market without fear of legal action from Apple. In its latest set of allegations, Psystar is also accusing Apple of bricking Macs that don't run on genuine Apple hardware." We've been following the Psystar-Apple imbroglio since the beginning.
Microsoft

Microsoft Working On "Post-Windows" Cloud Computing OS 208

Posted by CmdrTaco from the it's-all-up-there-in-the-clouds-or-something dept.
Barence writes "Microsoft is working on a web-based operating system called Midori, as it looks to life beyond Windows. Midori is expected to be a cloud-computing service, and so not as dependent on hardware as current generations of Windows. It's also expected to run with a virtualization layer between the hardware and the OS, and is expected to be a commercial offshoot of the Singularity research project which Microsoft has been working on since 2003." If this story sounds familiar to you, it probably is.
Books

World's Oldest Bible Going Online 1183

Posted by kdawson from the what-the-web-is-good-for dept.
99luftballon writes "The British Museum is putting online the remaining fragments of the world's oldest Bible. The Codex Sinaiticus dates to the fourth century BCE and was discovered in the 19th century. Very few people have seen it due to its fragile state — that and the fact that parts of it are in collections scattered across the globe. It'll give scholars and those interested their first chance to take a look. However, I've got a feeling that some people won't be happy to see it online, since it makes no mention of the resurrection, which is a central part of Christian belief."On Thursday the Book of Psalms and the Gospel According to Mark will go live at the Codex Sinaiticus site. The plan is to have all the material up, with translations and commentaries, a year from now.

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