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Judging from how some movies are edited for television, you can't say Jesus, but you can say God. (Or is it that you can't pretend to be Jesus, but you can pretend to be God?)

In others you can't have an alien creature show its face or speak English, but you can in its sequel. Its been suggested that the vagina-shaped mouth (behind the mandibles) is the reason to not show the face, but to remove its ability to mimick English?

Judging from how some movies are edited for television, you can't say Jesus, but you can say God. (Or is it that you can't pretend to be Jesus, but you can pretend to be God?)

In others you can't have an alien creature show its face or speak English, but you can in its sequel. Its been suggested that the vagina-shaped mouth (behind the mandibles) is the reason to not show the face, but to remove its ability to mimick English?

Quick! Whats the RGB color value for "pink"?

No idea, but in order to cover more bases so to speak, don't they also need to know the RGB value for "stink" too?...

#FF00FF for pure (transparent in GIFs) pink

I think you want a more lightish than bluish red, like #FFCCCC (or, more concisely, #FCC).

Atleast it was better than this!

Anyone else remember that awful sequel?

Are you old enough to remember the Beta 2 version of Landru?

Kirk says "where is the damn computer room?" This man, named Marplon, shows him. Now kirk and Spock see Landru's face on a video on the wall and hear him, but WAIT. it is a computer voice. he is fake. Kirk says "I am going to pull the plug on him." He explodes a hole in the wall with his phaser, and there is the computer, still talking nonstop. He cannot shoot it, the computer has a self defense screen. But he will outTHINK it. He says "Landru, you are for the good of the body?" Landru says yes. Kirk says "The body is dying. Young girls are being raped and beaten. How is that good for the body?" Landru does not know, and then he explodes. Spock says to Kirk "Logical. Flawlessly logical."

-Don

I for one welcome our Amanda Pays based overlords.

I think he's exceeded the recommended weight limit for his utility belt.

This has been thought about before.

Only, we have no John Spartan to thaw out.

With all of this anger and unfocused rage, is there any doubt that we'll be entering in to a sort of "Ghost Busters II" event very soon? Could The Tubes be used to transport a River of Slime?

Earth vs the Spider is the more thoughtful movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282178/

No. By far, the most tragic happening of a human is that we die.

If people ceased to die on their own, it would become necessary to kill them. That's a tragedy of another kind.

The buff was because of criticism of the early games that Radscorpions were too badass to be such easy monsters and that they should be more like Deathclaws. Sometimes developers agree with the advice, other times not. Personally, Radscorpions and Killer Cockroaches are too Damnation Alley for me (see here for a shot of the giant scorpions).

I want star cruisers and Earth 2.0.

You already got Earth 2 back in 1994. Too bad it kinda sucked.

At the moment he's busy smoking cigars with Captain Kirk.

(Hint: I'm talking about the Dr. Daniel Jackson from the movie Stargate (1994).)

At the moment he's busy smoking cigars with Captain Kirk.

(Hint: I'm talking about the Dr. Daniel Jackson from the movie Stargate (1994).)

At the moment he's busy smoking cigars with Captain Kirk.

(Hint: I'm talking about the Dr. Daniel Jackson from the movie Stargate (1994).)

At the moment he's busy smoking cigars with Captain Kirk.

(Hint: I'm talking about the Dr. Daniel Jackson from the movie Stargate (1994).)

Consider yourself lucky that Disney changed the ending of The Little Mermaid... :-)

> I mean, I've seen it before but I guess I'm desensitized to violence and don't realize how bad it is until my daughter starts crying.

My sons are a little over 10. They used to be very sensitive to violence in movies, but they are less and less because, well, just every movie is amazingly violent these days. Same goes for comics/mangas. There isn't much I can do about that... In the same vein, it is extremely difficult to find a movie without a gun in the plot.

> I think that people are just, in general, more comfortable with violence because it's not something private.

That is entirely possible, but it doesn't explains the rise of violence in movies, and the parallel removing of nudity.

Last year, I was re-watching the whole James Bond saga, and you can just see the violence getting up and up with each installment. I saw the last one recently, and I just can't grasp how anybody can have greenlighted that. For the fun, it is PG-13:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381061/parentalguide

I have weird and useless theories on that, but I'll save that rant for another time...

Anyway, good luck raising your kids!

The Doctor is alien - Tennant, for example, is Scottish. From the 'making of' episodes following each Who episode, his native accent is quite contrasted.
For that matter, how come all the aliens speak the Queen's English, given the show is filmed in Wales?
Try this for the regeneration episode... Explain as a plot device, in trek terms, that the Universal Translator is broken. Which is why when landing all the 'native' dialogue is subtitled into English from a language that sounds remarkably to viewers' ears like Welsh! The doctor regenerates but can initially only speak this alien language. Consequently, we have a new doctor with a non-English accent:
Ioan Gruffudd, no stranger to scifi through Fantastic4.

Now if only Microsoft & Apple could harness & effectively utilize the power of p2p ... *cough* *cough*

That's funny, I've never had any trouble downloading from either Microsoft or Apple. It's not like they can't afford the bandwidth or server capacity.

I keep meaning to configure a P2P setup on my home system, but somehow never get round to it. It almost never seems to be an issue. When I'm looking to download software, there's usually enough HTTP or FTP server capacity available. When there isn't, it always seem to be a package that's so marginal, it's not worth my time anyway.

I'd be more motivated if I didn't have a huge Netflix backlog. That's because there's a movie and TV show that will probably never make it onto Region 1 DVD because of copyright issues. Really, the main reason to have P2P seems to be to bypass copyright laws, both stupid and legitimate.

P2P does have a higher technical kewlness factor than client-server. Oddly enough, few people care about that.

Now if only Microsoft & Apple could harness & effectively utilize the power of p2p ... *cough* *cough*

That's funny, I've never had any trouble downloading from either Microsoft or Apple. It's not like they can't afford the bandwidth or server capacity.

I keep meaning to configure a P2P setup on my home system, but somehow never get round to it. It almost never seems to be an issue. When I'm looking to download software, there's usually enough HTTP or FTP server capacity available. When there isn't, it always seem to be a package that's so marginal, it's not worth my time anyway.

I'd be more motivated if I didn't have a huge Netflix backlog. That's because there's a movie and TV show that will probably never make it onto Region 1 DVD because of copyright issues. Really, the main reason to have P2P seems to be to bypass copyright laws, both stupid and legitimate.

P2P does have a higher technical kewlness factor than client-server. Oddly enough, few people care about that.

Aye, pretty cool -- but not half as cool as Firefox, one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies as a kid. Concidentally, for some reason now, when I say the name of this movie out loud, it always comes out as "Foxfire."

It is a strange and funny world we live in.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

Movies have to pass a censor board

According to This Film Is Not Yet Rated the American Movie Ratings Board censors heavily according to some hidden agenda..

Given how many people have given up on the political system, I don't think you can say either will have a true mandate. What I'd like to see is for every ballot in every election to have a "None of the Above" option. Then you'd truly see how little support these guys get. Hell, I'd be enthusiastically campaigning for None of the Above. Although with my luck, I'd probably end up helping to elect Montgomery Brewster.

"There's possibly some law against entering an unsecured premises with the intent of committing a crime, but if it exists I couldn't tell you want it is (maybe something like trespassing, but without the need for posting or other notification)."

The term I have heard before is criminal trespass.
I got lazy, but here is what I found on a quick check.

It seems to me (IANAL) that you would need to be deliberately trespassing with criminal intent for this to qualify as an acceptable charge to be inflicted on you.

There seems to be some facts missing from the summary and article to enable a rational 'decision', or consensus here on /.

Links from the article lead us below the tip of the iceberg.

We also have this to work with.

I claim the 'Johnny 5 defense here: "Need more input!"

...and for you I'd recommend brushing up on popular culture

Has the kid sold the film rights yet? I've got this great idea for using his story, basically a 'hacker' kid gets blamed for a crime bigger than just breaking into a computer system, it could involve a bunch of his hacker friends pissing off "the man" responsible for the kid's arrest, like signing him up to online dating services and changing medical records to show he's dead. Maybe we could get an a-lister in the cast like Angelina Jolie & some other well knowns like Jonny Lee Miller & Matthew Lillard.

Oh, wait, too late...

I shudder to think of the chaos that Bush and Cheney would have unleashed on the world if they had one million autonomous combat robots at their disposal.

I, too, shudder every time I think about it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/

Since you asked...Gandhi II was a character in the classic Weird Al film UHF.

No one in America is dieing because we aren't taking enough from rich people. We pay taxes to support a limited social contract to protect life, liberty, and property.

If someone's life is in danger, then as part of our "limited social contract" to "promote the general welfare", then of course the funds are to be used to keep said "pauper" alive.

Buttfuck, Alabama? I'm familiar with BFE, but assumed it was Egypt. Anyway...what happens when enough people realize they don't really have to work very hard, since the collective whole will take up the slack? Where is the incentive to work harder or be smarter if the collective whole will get the rewards and your life never changes (or worse yet, just gets absorbed by all the lazy people mentioned above?)

People naturally form free markets. It's our nature. Look at every black market operating in any socialist country. Supply and demand. Property and exchange. When you fight it, you loose your efficiency (look at 1980's Soviet factories). You loose your competitive edge (look at public schools). Oh...and you eventually loose your freedom.

I'd actually see people living free... i guess i'm just a crazy libertarian nutjob. (:

Either 1984 has become so diffuse that all it means is badness+database, or the summary is badly confused. 1984 was all about a scenario where the state had ubiquitous control(with force of law) over information, which was used against everybody all the time. The state in 1984 was oppressive, and not one I would consider legitimate; but it ran "by the book" as it were. In this case, we have a much more prosaic example of certain individuals illegally accessing a celebrity's records, against policy, on an ad-hoc basis.

Such situations are bad, and I hope the perps will be punished, and they are (yet another) reason to oppose the creation of Giant Exploitable Databases(tm); but they have very little to do with 1984. If you simply must have a dystopian cultural reference, try Brazil.

Mjeah ... well ...

Actually, this movie may hold an answer to that ...

I will give it some thought, now that you mention it.

;-)

- Jesper

Either that has stopped working or these countries have become populated with Hitler's descendants

I'd stupidly thought this was just a slightly silly film, not a documentary :-O

Those boys will probably be in their early forties by now and just approaching real power.... OMG!!!!!!11111 OBAMA IS A HITLER CLONE!!!!!!

Dude does everyone on the scientology planet go around with dreads and giant shoes? I don't know if that would horrible or hilarious.

Maybe we should call it The Running Man.

I thought it was Patrick Swayze who delivered the victory to the American militias by using guerrilla warfare.

I already saw that in a movie.

Rewriting history again? Everybody knows it was Mel Gibson who delivered the victory to the colonial militias by using guerrilla warfare.

You keep saying that. I don't know if it's just you or others too but it annoys me. Sometimes it fits well but most of the times it's just too condescending.

Condescending..? See The Princess Bride if you want to see what he and the GGP are quoting.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/

Read this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089461/.

I know what you were referring to. You'd have to see the movie I linked above to understand the joke. Hence, it fell flat.

Johnny Mnemonic http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/

Everlasting Sunlight of the Spot-Free Brain

If you're referring to the similarly titled movie starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, I think you mean Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The samba team already made sure it was interoperable. You can use samba/ldap as an AD replacement.

I have done it.

I've never had to trouble myself with the Windows side of this problem, but I've done Samba/LDAP as well. My impression is that the Windows people have to install a client, or at least tweak some settings on the desktop to make this work. That violates the Microsoft policy that basically states, "We will do whatever it takes to hide from our desktop customers the fact that huge IT departments are laboring to keep their precious systems running and connected."

MS just wants to save some customers by doing this. I say it's not going to work all that well.

The 'customer' in this case being some PHB with a Windows desktop being told to "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" [1].

Those customers are probably not going to ditch windows desktops for linux anytime soon though.

Not as long as they can boot up their new laptop and be comforted that it works right out of the box.

Obligatory:
... Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!

What next, über-realistic?

They've gone to plaid!

I don't know why the E3 organizers would want to go back to the horrible old format

Simple: They want to make money.
Or: They want to generate press for the industry's benefit.
Or: They want to generate public awareness for the industry's benefit.

Everyone bitched about how "wrong" the old event way. And yet a ton of press were there, generating a ton of press for all of the studios/etc. Studios that, for all their bitching, turned up, rented space, etc. for it.

Then they went ultra exclusive. And the press got bored because it wasn't a spectacle. And the companies realized they may as well do their own private gig, across town, and totally squeeze out the competition. And now no one paid for it and it kept dying a slow death.

A very good lesson is to ignore everyone talking about how things "should be" but instead look at what the evidence really supports. The "bad old days" that everyone "hated" kept getting more and more successful when judged by the simple metric of "did more and more vendors see it as worth being there?" The "improved" recent events failed by that simple metric.

If E3's goal is to function as a profitable event, the old way was better.
If E3's goal was to generate press attention, the old way was better.
If E3's goal was to generate public excitement with the industry, the old way was better.

If E3's goal was to be elitist but lonely to the point of insignificance, the new way rocks.

I'd say the other three are three great reasons to go back, holier-than-thou protesting about how bad it was aside.

(Speaking as a non-Gamestop stockroom industry person. *grins*)

Bah, you beat me to it... the first quote listed on the page.