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I'm starting to hate being old enough to get formally popular references http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/

And, on the opposite side, I would like to recognize the movie "Wargames." It wasn't perfect (the AI is certainly exagerrated), but it's definitely one of the most realistic computer films to ever come out of Hollywood. If they remade that today, they would probably show Joshua blowing up buildings and sending robotic minions after David. As it is, Wargames makes a simple ringing phone and a countdown clock way more suspenseful than anything ever produced with CGI special effects. Kudos to John Badham for getting away with making a movie that's pretty thoughtful and low-key--and just a year after Tron showed us how evil programs can suck you into the digital world with a laser, no less.

Wargames: The Dead Code (2008)

COREA INVENTED IT FIRST!

Seriously, see for yourself:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972542/

There is sequel to Wargames:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865957/

Ellie Arroway: Is it possible that it didn't happen? Yes. As a scientist, I must concede that, I must volunteer that.

From Airplane II quotes:

Soldier: Those lights are blinking out of sequence.
Murdock: Make them blink in sequence.

I would like to recognize the movie "Wargames." It wasn't perfect (the AI is certainly exagerrated), but it's definitely one of the most realistic computer films to ever come out of Hollywood. If they remade that today, they would probably show Joshua blowing up buildings and sending robotic minions after David.

I didn't see it, but perhaps the 2008 remake will give you what you want? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865957/

this.

You ARE aware of "Wargames 2"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865957/ :-(

From IMDB:

Dr. Egon Spengler: I'm worried, Ray. It's getting crowded in there and all my data points to something big on the horizon.
Winston Zeddemore: What do you mean, big?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's sample, it would be a Twinkie... thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
Winston Zeddemore: That's a big Twinkie.

I can't, off the top of my head, think of any examples of an ordinary computer system developing self awareness independent of human interaction.

Colossus: The Forbin Project has one.

Actually... maybe not, now that I think about it. In that movie, the computer was programmed to be "curious" in that it would seek out information it hadn't previously been told about... I could see an argument that that's almost the same thing as sentience.

But in the movie it doesn't actually begin acting independently until it begins communicating to the Russian computer of similar capability.

Enemy of the State (1998)

Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/

I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Enemy of the State (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/). Not a great movie, but not awful either.

Here's another one I can recommend for pseudo-realistic hacking: Sneakers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

Nope.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110478/ is tops.

I think it should be that wonderful book "Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him.".

If they remade that today, they would probably show Joshua blowing up buildings and sending robotic minions after David.

Close. Not a remake, but a "sequel" - WarGames 2: The Dead Code. And yeah, it's guilty of all that crap.

> It may sound stupid but one of the few reasons I've got for accumulating more
> money is being able to pay the medicine I hope will exist by the time my body
> starts failing in those kind of ways.

Hehe, your post reminded me the movie "The Island".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/

The MS DOS 5 Upgrade rap commercial makes me ashamed to be Caucasian. That guy was a Navin Johnson, tuna fish sandwich eating, with the crusts cut off, and a twinkie for dessert kind of Caucasian. I could actually visualize Bill Gates clapping his hands and stomping his foot, almost in rhythm with the video, just like Navin.

I don't feel so good now.

I'm fairly certain the MS DOS 5 one was meant to be a bit silly, a bit of a joke. And for that reason I think they pulled it off well. I thought it was one of the less dorky ones. You can tell that MS put a fair amount of money into it.

The MS DOS 5 Upgrade rap commercial makes me ashamed to be Caucasian. That guy was a Navin Johnson, tuna fish sandwich eating, with the crusts cut off, and a twinkie for dessert kind of Caucasian. I could actually visualize Bill Gates clapping his hands and stomping his foot, almost in rhythm with the video, just like Navin.

I don't feel so good now.

I wonder how soon I'll see this used in a movie.

District 9: African leader wants to eat a human mutating into an alien to gain his mutant-properties.
The way this works isn't explained, yet it's implied it's a voodoo-belief.

It seems you are correct. Shows how much I liked the show. I can't remember a damned thing about Lost - just something about a white bear creature and Michelle. I must have missed the latter half of season 1 and started near season 2, then tuned out again and caught only the last episodes.

I've never heard of binge eating fruit, let alone fruit of only 1 kind [e.g. "I was so sad that I ate 30 granny smith apples, last night."]. I've never heard of overeating fruit, either. I have heard that apples cause cancer. That FUD came from the research, where the scientists concentrated 30 apples and injected some of the stuff into lab rats, or something like that. How dangerous is it to eat 10 apples/day? I ask, because that would be beyond the norm, and if it is safe, then we can rule out extreme cases of 10+ apples/day. This should also apply to other fruit and vegetables.

I'm not arguing that all fruit is automatically safe. I'm just saying that normal use, and slightly more, is safe. That isn't necessarily true with fast food. I think that "Supersize Me" proved it. It is possible to eat fruit, legumes, and vegetables, all day, every day, but not fast food.

I'm not calling for a ban on unhealthy food. I'm really calling to ban the companies' attempt at marketing towards kids. This undermines the parents' attempts to steer their kids in the right direction. Essentially, giving the kid a toy is a "positive" reinforcement for the unhealthy food.

You're not telling me that you'd approve of children's commercials for smoking, would you?

It was a pretty cool step for 3d and visual effects, but it's a crappy movie story-wise. Seeing it outside of the theater is pretty pointless. Save the bucks and buy something good that deserves the support... Something like 'Moon' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/

"Ah, the smell of hyperbole in the morning...."

You must be in a different time zone. The entry shows that you posted at 12:29 p.m.

I think he was perverting a quote for humor:

Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like victory. Someday this war's gonna end...

Apocalypse Now

I would rather have a Linux server with feet processor instead of an arm processor:

I heard Tux was an extra in Happy Feet.. ;)

Your line of argument is ridiculous.

So you believe that anyone found guilty in a court of law belongs in jail ... regardless of whether they have committed a crime or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Dale_Adams

Also available in movie format:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096257/

So no, being convicted by a jury does NOT mean that you belong in jail.

If you are scrambling to point one of those things at an armored vehicle that is trying to kill you,

And you don't remember your training, you blow up your dune buggy instead.

Just for reference sake, her name is Tamara Hope. She's actually quite pretty.

I have no doubt that she's pretty, but not when rolled in bleached flour, told to stare unblinkingly into the lens, and filmed through a double soft filter. It works when you're trying to create a "mostly human" look, or if you're trying to fry trout. Otherwise it's just creepy.

They already did this on the show Eureka. If it all goes bad, just launch a missile at it to make it implode on itself, and it's all good. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232290/

within the next two years...

say, sometime late in 2012?

Just for reference sake, her name is Tamara Hope. She's actually quite pretty.

For those that don't follow graffiti news, Banksy articles are appearing in media all over the world right now as his pieces (or imitations of the original, Blek le Rat , and Banksy style) appear as promotion for his movie Exit Through The Gift Shop

Banksy pieces showing up in San Francisco
Banksy in Seattle
Banksy feud with King Robbo

well duh, it's the hackers that are buying them.

OMG. Me too! We should totally hang out sometime!

Any chance you also like sex and money?

I require that you cast Wallace Shawn as the Bean Counter!

It is coming already tomorrow (Wednesday) in some parts of the world. IMDB has a list.

I have ticket reservations for it tomorrow evening (I'm Swedish).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164184/ Except it was originally a US nuke if memory serves.

You had the choice between talking about a redheaded dominatrix and a car analogy, and you went with the car analogy?

Considering the redheaded dominatrix in Tomcats (ok, not truly a dominatrix), one has to be careful of what wishes for. Especially when granny is around.

There was a movie made in 1953 "Le salaire de la peur" with a hero named "Mario" who had a best friend "Luigi"

Take a look at this still and see if it make you think of Mario!

If only I could remember useful things.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/quotes?qt0448608/

Brazil is in the brink of 1984 and the world will end.

Perhaps rather than 1984, Brazil is on the brink of... Brazil (1985).

No, that soundstage was used to film Capricorn One

How to get Ahead in Advertising is also a movie that a few people here will appreciate. (Yes, on topic)

There's an IMAX movie out right now called Hubble 3D which details the repairs of the Hubble as well as some discoveries and has some fun effects. It was rather inspiring. I definitely loved it and plan to take the kids.

-l

Why does anyone do anything? For the lulz!

This reminds me all too much of the "Law & Order" Called Home (2008) episode http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031360/synopsis

While I'm not necessarily disputing the argument here, I would like to know what possible resource we might have on the Earth that can't be found much, much more abundantly and in a form much easier to obtain elsewhere that can only be found on the Earth? Here are some common favorites in science fiction stories:

• Water - Only the most abundant chemical compound in the universe, made up of two of the most common elements in the universe. Even in our own solar system, there are whole worlds made up of mostly water ice and major bodies, like comets, that literally announce their existence with a massive display of water. There may be "local" shortages of water (however you may define it), but it is incredibly common and easy to find this stuff. You certainly wouldn't need to engage in an interstellar or better an intergalactic journey just to get some extra water from little ol' Earth. There is enough water ice in the solar system (in chunks movable with human technology) to completely submerge the surface of Mars with a massive ocean, including Olympus Mons and not even touch the oceans of the Earth. Studies of other stellar planetary systems seem very likely to have the same quantity of free ice and perhaps even more than our relatively older solar system.
• Meat - This is an argument that simply defies logic.... that somehow the aliens are going to "eat" us. Particularly given that we live in an industrial society, modern humans is one of the worst possible sources of protein that you can come from. We are top predators with a lifetime of accumulated chemicals, heavy metals, and parasites that would be and are lethal to anybody eating that kind of flesh. If an aliens society simply needed the protein for survival, I'm sure there are several rather large food processing corporations that would gladly provide domestic livestock in sufficient quantities to more than satisfy their needs anyway. How many McDonald's Hamburgers do these aliens really want and why is that not sufficient to be sold by.... McDonald's?
• Unobtainium - More to the point, some sort of rare convergence of ultra rare elements that somehow made the formation of the Solar System unique, and some super-heavy element that also happens to be radioactively stable is found in our Solar System in quantities sufficient to send a massive mining party out to wipe out a species to get that mineral. Again, what possible mineral might this be? I admit that detailed geologic surveys of the whole solar system have yet to be done in significant quantity, but I think we got a pretty good idea of what elements are "out there" and based on stellar spectra we are quite confident that those same elements... at least to Uranium... are in fairly significant quantities.
• Labor - Sort of back to the meat argument, but this time the aliens are needing "thinking" meat to get everything accomplished. Presuming that these aliens got into space starting from a planet somewhat like the Earth (why else are they coming here?) implies a certain minimum industrial base. More to the point, slavery generally has not been economical and there are usually significant alternatives to slavery even in those human civilizations where it was tried... where ultimately automated machines in some fashion ended up improving the productivity far better than what a slave could produce. When a horse can plow a field for less grain than you can feed a team of people to till and cultivate the same acreage, you use a horse. Again... these aliens are traveling incredible distances... for this?
• The Earth itself - I'll admit that a planetary body with a liquid water ocean and sufficient atmosphere for prolonged habitation is a rather rare thing, so there may be some desire to seek for habitable planets. Still, for a civilization to send not just a single explorer or representative, but to send a massive invading army, are planets like the Earth really all that r

"Mayday" Falling from the Sky (2006)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954699/

Excellent episode:
Parts 1 to 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrNuY2qXWhI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-N-Lx4seUU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZaB6PZz_6Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_4BO-WnDk

"Shall we play a game?"