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This quote is also more-or-less featured in Farm Sluts, a short movie by Fox searchlight. view here at their site.
Their Quicktime movies used to be a lot better in quality, too bad that flash applet is getting featured everywhere without download option...

There is a pretty funny short movie about this type of thing starring Saturday Night Live's Chris Parnell called Farm Sluts: http://content.foxsearchlight.com/videos/node/598, about a guy whose life is ruined by just such pop-ups. Good supporting cast too.

like this....

http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/theringer/

in non crippled HD.....

YAY!!!!!! no really.....

the should worry less about image tokens and more about not making crappy movies

on the other hand they are making it easier for me to say no to DRM since there is almost nothing i wanna listen to or watch right about now.

But what happens if you the standard deviations don't float your boat? What happens if you only like non-standard deviations?

Farm Sluts is a hilarious dark comedy of a man's journey upon opening that one unfortunate e-mail leading to a neverending cascade of pop-up windows and scantily clad women.

Farm Sluts contains partial nudity, language and untimely random acts of perversion. All Searchlab Shorts are unrated.

reminds me of farmsluts.
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/lab/shorts/index_far msluts.html
worth watching if you havent seen it, funny as hell.

See this film how one man's life was ruined by porno. It's called Farm Sluts. Don't worry it's work safe.

Why the decision to go with an almost totally American leading cast)? Other big book to movie adaptations (Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings) did outstanding with a fully british, and very mixed (respectively) cast. Was this by design to win over American audiences, or studio pressure, or just because they were the best auditioned actors these right roles? and also, were they the 1st choice for the roles.

In an interview on The Connection on WBUR radio this week, Danny Boyle -- indie director of "Trainspotting" and other movies -- commented on this very point.

Basically, according to Boyle, there's a checklist of British-isms that are believed to cut into the marketability of a film when it is screened in the USA. The bigger the movie, &/or the more likely the producers intend to bring the movie to the American market, the more closely they need to adhere to this checklist. Every checked-box on the list is a compromise for the director -- a little movie like Boyle's Millions can get away with mostly ignoring it, but a high profile movie like Hitchhiker "has to" pay more attention to the list.

For better or worse, this checklist comes up all the time. Jokes based on references to "zebra crossings" and "Ford Prefect" will be lost on the vast majority of Americans, for example. (And it's not just the Hitchhikers movie: the green smiling mascot familiar to American readers of the books never showed up in the British editions [at least at first, not sure about later ones]; with the Harry Potter books and movies, some of the names & dialog were changed so that they'd be less alien to American kids.)

If the director has a lot of clout, or doesn't care about the American mass market, then they can get away with this, but with something as prominent as Hitchhiker, they'll feel like they "had" to Americanize it, whether or not fans of the original versions of the story agree with sanding down all the quirky bits that made the stories so fun to them in the past.

"Burn Hollywood, burn."

To see what the parent is talking about, look at this humourous short. And remember that the real life is not always as funny. :)

P.S. Not that there is anything wrong with distributing child pornography.

Last month they interviewed Natalie Portman over her new movie Garden State.

Worms need not be benign in order to propagate and destroy. The Witty worm probably infected within 45 minutes every vulnerable machine which was exposed on the internet and powered up at the time -- and then wrecked them.

The Spread of the Witty Worm
Witty Worm Analysis -- LURHQ

A hybrid worm/mass-mailer-virus could have the best of both worlds -- lying "dormant" for a while on filesystems, in email systems ready to infect any systems that wake up late in the day -- even after it's destroyed the bulk of the vulnerable Windows systems on the net. If it were further hybridized with worms that can be delivered as adware/spyware it would crawl down browsers, bypassing both your firewall and your antivirus program, and then spew itself out via email and network probes to infect the soft candy center that exists at the heard of most networks. We've seen worms that do each of several very clever things. A worm that does all of them won't be stopped in time on today's networks.

If Witty had exploited LSASS instead of a second-tier firewall product, people in Hawaii would have woke up that morning to a Windows-free world. Kinda like the computer version of 28 Days Later where we *NIX users would be wandering around a nearly-empty internet wondering, "where did everybody go?" (Well, OK, most of us would be wondering, "Why is my network connection so fast today?")

It could happen with the next buffer-overflow exploit in anything on Windows that listens on any of the ports that we all know and loathe. A Witty/LSASS worm would have destroyed a significant percentage of the Windows systems in the world within two hours. I am left with questions.

Would managers of IT shops continue to act as though Windows insecurity isn't a problem?

Would Microsoft be able to get the CERT advisory revised a couple days later to strike the recommendation that customers consider using a more secure system?

If the world keeps licking the Microsoft Windows Tootsie Pop, eventually we're gonna know how many licks it takes.

Anyone interested in Binaural Beats should check out SBaGen, the Binaural Beat Brain Wave Experimenter's Lab, available for Linux, Mac and Windows.

All this talk of dreaming reminds me of a very cool film called Waking Life which all Slashdotters should see. It's a fantastic philosophical journey into the world of dreams and consciousness. The main character wanders around meeting professors and strangers who discuss the nature of being asleep and lucid dreaming. The action is all filmed and then re-animated in an amazing technique called Rotoscoping.

... last year or so...

Farm Sluts

bwahaha!

Could
Happen Like This: Farm Sluts

Animal porn popup causes guy to lose his job and ruins his life. Farmsluts

Pornographic spam is quite a problem...

Anyone remember farm sluts?

Well, judging from this comedy short at Fox Searchlight, it's not always shooting yourself in the head with a shotgun.

Big Bang It Like Beckham

Who will be cast as Trillian? Mmmm....Trillian....

You and everyone else that laughs at that, go to Fox Searchlab and watch farmsluts (no porn shown) [17 minute clip, Quicktime format]. I'll spare you the details so you can laugh about it while watching it.

Or this guy. (Warning: many megs, but worth it if you have the bandwidth.)

Seriously, you really should watch this short film. I'll leave it at that. Ignore the fact that it's titled "Farm Sluts"; or rather don't ignore it, watch it at home and not at work.