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  1. Re:Abuse of the system by justzisguy · · Score: 1 · on Amazon Sneaks One-Click Past the Patent System

    Hmm, never saw the "justiz" reading of my name. I had always thought of JustZisGuy, as in I'm "just zis guy, ya know?", from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm certainly not a lawyer nor do I have any formal legal training (I am a computer engineer, however).

  2. Re:Low production run? by Von+Helmet · · Score: 1 · on Amazon's Kindle Sells Out In 5.5 Hours

    an 800x600 eInk display really (such as the one Kimble uses)

    I would have that thought that Kimble had more important things to do than read e-books.

  3. Re:Yes but... by rts008 · · Score: 0 · on KDE 4.0 RC 1 Released

    Egads!.....You FOOL!!
    What a can of worms you you have burst open here.!
    The world may implode! We are DOOMED!

    *obligatory*

    'I was just upgrading to KDE 4.0, you insensitive clod!
    In Soviet Russia/N.Korea/USA,a Beowulf Cluster of e-mails will run your Vista on *nix', even on a dead badger http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml, and of course...CowboyNeal said:

    "....'Daddy!'
    Daddy?
    DADDY!
    Well son, since you haven't learned to respect your elders, it's time you learned to respect your betters!."http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066831/
        (very bad paraphrase from the movie : 'Big Jake'-John Wayne, and the Dog...in case this gets fsck'ed somehow)'

    Ahh! I'm shocked at what has transpired here!

    "does it run on Vista?" Uhmmmm....not sure, but I'll give you a running start of 20 seconds, and if you can reach your Vista before my 50 cal. 'reaches out and touches someone', then by all means run it on towards the Vista.

    *have penguins, will travel...with RPG's*

  4. Why do we still use punctuation in sentences? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Why Do Games Still Have Levels?

    Lets break it down even further. Why do we still use punctuation in sentences. Really, on the internet there is no need for someone to stop and breath while reading a sentence. Unless there very weird and read aloud to themselves. Of course, some idiots posting do actually just write entire paragraphs without any punctuation... educated people immediately disregard thier posts. The concept of levels, missions, chapters, objectives, sentences and paragraphs are all part of basic syntax. Its parsable information. If you've ever watched the classic Alfred Hitchcock film "Rope" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/ )It essentially filmed without any camera cuts. They only stopped filming to change film 10 times due to the ammount of film a camera could have. Even still though, it has very distinct acts etc.

  5. Re:Why do movies still have cuts? by skeeto · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Why Do Games Still Have Levels?

    Hitchcock's Rope appears to be one single long continuous shot. There actually are a couple cuts, which you can spot if you look for them. They are carefully hidden by clever camera movements. But, to the audience, it appears as a single shot with one scene.

    In fact, this movie is based on a play that isn't broken into scenes either. (Maybe it is a metaphor for the name "Rope"?)

    Anyway, one continuous scene like that can be exhausting to watch. I am glad that this isn't common.

  6. How do you live with yourselves? by Jack+Action · · Score: -1, Flamebait · on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson

    I am curious if you ever had any qualms about making a career out of attacking other peoples' hard work.

    While some films featured on your show were shoddy and amateurish, many just lacked a mainstream presentation. When one sets aside the markers we are conditioned to expect in a "good" film (slick sets, smooth acting, professionalism instead of enthusiasm or originality), there is alot to be gained by watching and understanding the films you have slighted. At the very least these film-makers had a sensiblity and a point-of-view not available in mainstream, Hollywood productions (I thinking particularly of the films of Ted V. Mikels -- who I believe was one of your foremost punching bags). To make them the target of mockery was really an exercise in conformism -- something I thought the geek/scientic community was supposed to be against.

    One has only to read through the comments left at the Internet Movie Database on films featured on your show, to see page after page of the kind of derision towards the work of these men and women you have inspired (example: Girl with the Gold Boots by Mikels). Do you think that this kind of mob mentality is the permanent legacy of your show?

  7. Joe Don Baker (Mitchell), I Believe by eldavojohn · · Score: 3, Funny · on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson

    Has any actor/writer/director been legitimately peeved by your often acrid, yet so very accurate commentary? The final episode that Joel did was for the movie Mitchell, starring Joe Don Baker. Now, you may actually have seen him in movies today including Goldeneye, Congo, or The Dukes of Hazzard. This actor reportedly threatened to physically harm the MST3K staff if he ever saw them. One of the voices said that he was sure JDB was just joking but I'm not so sure.

    Also, there have been some new introductions to the DVDs licensed by Rhino and I've watched them all. At the beginning, they often talk with or about trying to contact the actors/directors of the films. Oftentimes, it's kind of sad when they show the actors or actresses as they really poured their heart into the movie. For Time Chasers, Mike opens up saying that they invited the original cast to see the movie together with them. I guess they thought it was going to be more friendly ... than it was. There were many low blows at acting quality, how people looked, how they talked, the music for the movie, the region it was filmed in, the list goes on. It put the whole movie in a new context when I rewatched it. Still, hilarious MST3K, I highly advise seeing it.

    That said, I have spent considerable amount of time and resources researching Manos and although this is off-topic from your question, I must point out that it was written, directed, produced and starred in by the same man. Hal P. Warren, a fertilizer salesman from El Paso Texas. You can find considerable material on that movie including that the camera had no sound function and couldn't hold more than 60 seconds worth of film which resulted in many cuts and bad editing and three people doing the voices. The film crew was not allowed to do anything artsy and soon dubbed the production "Mangos: Cans of Fruit." The unfortunate story of Torgo is that he was supposed to look like a Satyr but instead put the metal leg inserts in backwards (supposed to make his legs look like that of a goat's) and, as a result, had hilariously large knees. This caused him great pain and, whether he was addicted to pain killers or shamed from the movie I can't say, but he committed suicide shortly there after. Rest in peace, Torgo. After I found out about that, I did feel a touch bad for him, considering his short life.
  8. Re:Why do movies still have cuts? by Danny+Rathjens · · Score: 2 · on Why Do Games Still Have Levels?

    heh, I was just telling a co-worker about Russian Ark, a movie shot in one continuous shot. :) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318034/

  9. Cheap Seats by hansamurai · · Score: 1 · on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson

    Did you ever watch Cheap Seats (kind of like MST3k but featuring sports) when it was on ESPN Classic? I'm a huge fan of it and whenever I watched it I thought of 3k and how much it probably inspired the writers of Cheap Seats. It wasn't really a show for the typical Slashdot reader but the Sklar brothers are mighty hilarious in my book.

    Cheap Seats

  10. Eleanor Arroway by infonography · · Score: 1 · on Arecibo Observatory Loses Funding

    Needs to not mouth off to the national science director about her space alien theories.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/

  11. Re:Simple (sort of) solution: by justthinkit · · Score: 1 · on The Evolving Face of Credit Card Scams

    ...the amount of interest you're going to make [from my advice] in that amount of time is minimal

    And what you stand to lose if you go over-limit is large. So, by all means make a "mid-month" payment if you just bought something unusually large to avoid going over-limit.

    Credit cards are a stacked deck in favor of the crooked credit card companies. Avoid, at all costs, going over-limit or being late in your (minimum) payment. Maxed Out should be required viewing.

  12. Re:What about us "Donating Organs..." by davidsyes · · Score: 1 · on Are Aliens Living Among Us?

    They ARE among us:

    The Vidiians, Malon, Talosians, Kazon/Ferengi hybrids occupying the white house. Maybe we need to SAVE this green planet

    (a reference to Save the Green Planet:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354668/

    http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/horror/savethegreenplanet/savethegreenplanet.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Green_Planet!

    http://www.indiewire.com/movies/movies_050419save.html

    http://www.koreanfilm.org/kfilm03.html

    It's funny, serious, nutty, and more. One reviewer said this is one film that packs virtually every known film genre into one sitting.

    But, I better stay low, and to borrow a phrase from Janeway, "... Steer us a course clear of that... I'm in NO MOOD to donate organs today..."

    )

  13. Re:That's the whole reason why there is a problem by CodeBuster · · Score: 1 · on US Senators Take On The ESRB Over Manhunt 2

    To quote Tom Arnold as "Gib" from True Lies

    "You aren't her parents anymore, her parents are Axl Rose and Madonna, you can't compete with that kind of bombardment."

    Or in other words, the modern media has you effectively neutralized as a parent unless you are going to raise your kid in a very strict household with no television, no Internet, and no pop culture media of any kind and even if you did that they would probably rebel as teenagers anyway. Yes, parents are responsible but they have to be realistic about what they are up against in the modern world when it comes to influencing their kids. Some minimal level of assistance in helping them make informed choices, like the rating system, is reasonable and appropriate.

  14. Re:That's the whole reason why there is a problem by CodeBuster · · Score: 1 · on US Senators Take On The ESRB Over Manhunt 2

    To quote Tom Arnold as "Gib" from True Lies

    "You aren't her parents anymore, her parents are Axl Rose and Madonna, you can't compete with that kind of bombardment."

    Or in other words, the modern media has you effectively neutralized as a parent unless you are going to raise your kid in a very strict household with no television, no Internet, and no pop culture media of any kind and even if you did that they would probably rebel as teenagers anyway. Yes, parents are responsible but they have to be realistic about what they are up against in the modern world when it comes to influencing their kids. Some minimal level of assistance in helping them make informed choices, like the rating system, is reasonable and appropriate.

  15. Re:Bribing the monitor against corruption by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Samsung Caught Bribing Government Officials

    It's the classic Homegrown dilema. Bribe the cop too much, and he expects it from them on. Bribe him too little and he is insulted and busts you.

  16. Zardoz... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Scientists Trap a Rainbow

    Next we will have Sean Connery running around in a diaper trying to break the prism so he can kill immortals.

    http://imdb.com/title/tt0070948/

  17. McClaaaaaaanee!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack

    I've read the summary twice and it's like the plot of a Bruce Willis movie.
    Will this affect me in any way besides exposing my PizzaHut.com orders, and the fact I bid on any auction that includes ceramic cats?

    There, see? The truth will set you free.

  18. Re:Just wait... by k31bang · · Score: 1 · on Sesame Street DVD Deemed Adult-Only Entertainment

    ...and so, Romeo and Juliet lived happily ever after.

    Hey, if they can do it to H.C. Andersen and the Grimm Brothers, they can do it to Shakespeare..


    Damn right they can! Though R(T)&J's kids might have a few birth defects. :-)
  19. Re:'That modeled the wrong behavior' by AThinerCoin · · Score: 1 · on Sesame Street DVD Deemed Adult-Only Entertainment

    Disney released a new, live-action version of 101 Dalmations in 1996 in which Glenn Close (Cruella DeVil) is the only who smokes a cigarette. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115433/

  20. Re:w00t by Ruben3d · · Score: 1 · on MIT Students Show How the Inca Leapt Canyons

    Maybe you should see this movie to catch the reference... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/

  21. Re:But who will work there? Gojira? by securityfolk · · Score: 1 · on Sun to Create Underground Japanese Datacenter

    Well, either that or mushroom people...

  22. Sounds like a job for by Windows+Breaker+G4 · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's Plan to Be King of All Media

    NURV! And synapse anyone? This is what i am referring too if anyone is clueless

  23. Antitrust: the Movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft's Plan to Be King of All Media

    This new network would be the switchboard through which all entertainment content and communication flows. Ever see the movie Antitrust?
  24. Re:Hardware RNG by SamMichaels · · Score: 1 · on Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator

    I was referencing the line when 1955 Doc says that plutonium should be available in every corner drugstore.

    Dr. Emmett Brown: I'm sure in 1985 plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.

    Read: http://imdb.com/title/tt0088763/quotes

    You fail. Have a nice day.

  25. There's a quote for everything: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Gene Simmons Blames College Kids For Music Industry Woes

    "Everyone's a Democrat until they get a little money. Then they come to their senses!"

    - Harold Weir

  26. Whoo hoo, whoo hoo hoo by onion_joe · · Score: 1 · on Vonage Loses Appeal; Verizon Owed $120 Million
    whoo hoo, whoo hoo hoo killed my memories of Kill Bill so quickly?

    Vonage, I'ma lookin' at you, bub...

  27. Re:The thing is by 3fiddy · · Score: 1 · on The Nuclear Power Renaissance

    No, but they can make popcorn with space lasers.

  28. Two words: SHANNON TWEED. 'Nuff said. by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Gene Simmons Blames College Kids For Music Industry Woes


    I would hesitate to look at Gene Simmons for any kind of intelligent statement on anything.

    Okay, admittedly, Shannon Tweed is only his "common law" wife, but she was the queen of the B-movies, back in the 1990's.

    Her magnum opus, A Woman Scorned, is one of the epic B-movies of our era.

    Check it out some time.

  29. Two words: SHANNON TWEED. 'Nuff said. by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Gene Simmons Blames College Kids For Music Industry Woes


    I would hesitate to look at Gene Simmons for any kind of intelligent statement on anything.

    Okay, admittedly, Shannon Tweed is only his "common law" wife, but she was the queen of the B-movies, back in the 1990's.

    Her magnum opus, A Woman Scorned, is one of the epic B-movies of our era.

    Check it out some time.

  30. Re:What drives modern science? by sammyF70 · · Score: 0 · on Major Breakthrough in Direct Neural Interface

    aehm . seriously ... he's been dead for 3 years. Maybe it's time to move on ...

  31. Re:Not really an issue by Shakrai · · Score: 1 · on US Control of Internet Remains an Issue

    Well, I think you've summed it up right there actually.

    Hehe, well yeah, but my sig isn't (to me anyway) anything more then homage to one of my favorite movies.

    The only part of the whole deal that bothers me slightly is the US government having veto power over ICANN

    The US Government chartered it. The veto power is a legacy of that. I would like at least one semi-trustworthy government (as much as you can use the word 'trustworthy' next to 'government') to have veto power over ICANN (or whatever replaces it), simply because I don't see any other way to ensure that end-users on the internet have a voice. Short of some sort of extra-governmental international agency whose board would be elected by the citizens of the world (hardly a realistic suggestion), I don't see how you ensure that otherwise.

    IF there has to be a governing body involved as some sort of checks and balances type arrangement then one which is likely to represent everyone's interests rather than one which may have some bias would be preferable.

    I would like to assume that the basic interests of American citizens (freedom of speech and expression being chief among them) align with the basic interests of everybody else in the World. If you abandon US Veto power over ICANN, what do you purpose as a replacement? You can't do it internationally without including nations whose interests don't exactly align with freedom of speech and expression. Wouldn't you agree that's one of the most important things about the internet?

    I would like to thank you for the constructive argument that didn't boil down to "USA sux0r". Maybe we can salvage some productive debate out of this yet :)

  32. bloody pedant .. :) by rs232 · · Score: 1 · on Colossus Cracks Again

    "Colossus wasn't used against Enigma"

    Don't be a bloody pedant, the work on cracking Enigma went into designing Colossus. Who's going to play Alan Turing in the movie, Jeff Goldblum, or no wait, Turing was a woofter, it would have to be Harvey Fierstein.

    Incidentally, Goldblum got the part of Seth Brundle in the Fly because he once played James Watson in a BBC documtary, once a mad scientist always a mad scientist appariently .. :)

    was Re:didn't Harvey Keitel crack Enigma

  33. bloody pedant .. :) by rs232 · · Score: 1 · on Colossus Cracks Again

    "Colossus wasn't used against Enigma"

    Don't be a bloody pedant, the work on cracking Enigma went into designing Colossus. Who's going to play Alan Turing in the movie, Jeff Goldblum, or no wait, Turing was a woofter, it would have to be Harvey Fierstein.

    Incidentally, Goldblum got the part of Seth Brundle in the Fly because he once played James Watson in a BBC documtary, once a mad scientist always a mad scientist appariently .. :)

    was Re:didn't Harvey Keitel crack Enigma

  34. bloody pedant .. :) by rs232 · · Score: 1 · on Colossus Cracks Again

    "Colossus wasn't used against Enigma"

    Don't be a bloody pedant, the work on cracking Enigma went into designing Colossus. Who's going to play Alan Turing in the movie, Jeff Goldblum, or no wait, Turing was a woofter, it would have to be Harvey Fierstein.

    Incidentally, Goldblum got the part of Seth Brundle in the Fly because he once played James Watson in a BBC documtary, once a mad scientist always a mad scientist appariently .. :)

    was Re:didn't Harvey Keitel crack Enigma

  35. Re:I have a horrible feeling... by rts008 · · Score: 1 · on A New Theory of Everything?

    I think it's already happened from what I'm picking up in the news lately. (past couple of years or so)

    Frankly, I'm scared of the NEXT Inexplicable Universe Replacement (patent pending) after this last Beta we've had to use/test.

    Darn it! I still can't figure out if the cat is dead or alive! Every time I open the box to look, it changes on me. Curse you, your cat, and your box, Schroedinger!

    Damn, with my luck, the universe is set up with Groundhog Day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/) rules!

    It will be interesting to see how this holds up.

  36. Re:Scraping the bottom of the barrel. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on New Ghostbusters Video Game in the Works

    The movie came out in 1984. It's the end of 2007 now. Are they hurting that badly for material?

    The Warriors came out in 1979 and the game in 2005 yet is one of the best film tie-ins I've ever seen, expanding the story and letting you play through the movie.


    An interesting addendum to this. The movie The Warriors was based on a book written by Sol Yurick in 1965. Who himself based it on a book that is required reading for classical Greek students and West Point Cadets called the Anabasis by the Greek writer and soldier Xenophon that details his rise to leadership within a small mercenary army that got stuck deep in Persian territory and had to fight their way back home--Although I'm pretty sure he stole the idea from Herodotus.

  37. Woody Allen - Bananas by antibios · · Score: 1 · on 'Gamercize' Cardio at Our Desk

    Tell me someone else here has seen Bananas by Woody Allen
    http://imdb.com/title/tt0066808/

    I never thought someone would actually try something that funny.

  38. Re:Scraping the bottom of the barrel. by uniquename72 · · Score: 0 · on New Ghostbusters Video Game in the Works

    I'm not sure if this is the Guillermo del Toro who directed Hellboy or the one that directed Pan's Labyrynth Umm...it's the same guy.
  39. Re:Product not customer by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 1 · on Second Time 'Round - the Zune Flash In-Depth

    Wait, wait, wait, you're telling me that there was product placement in my favorite show ever: Viper?

    And terrorists in real life don't drive around cities in identical brand-new Dodge Caravans?

    Ridiculous!!

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108983/

  40. Beowulf... by Moryath · · Score: 1, Offtopic · on New Ghostbusters Video Game in the Works

    has about as much to do with the original story (or even modern revisions) as I, Robot had to do with the novel or even Asimov's creation.

    And it'll probably be just as shitty a movie too.

  41. Re:Scraping the bottom of the barrel. by ddrichardson · · Score: 1 · on New Ghostbusters Video Game in the Works

    The Warriors videogame wasn't even written by the same people and it's a great game!

    One of them was involved in both projects - Sol Yurick., in fact he wrote the novel. Plus many of the original actors did the voices used in the game which really added to the atmosphere.

  42. Re:Scraping the bottom of the barrel. by ddrichardson · · Score: 5, Informative · on New Ghostbusters Video Game in the Works

    The movie came out in 1984. It's the end of 2007 now. Are they hurting that badly for material?

    The Warriors came out in 1979 and the game in 2005 yet is one of the best film tie-ins I've ever seen, expanding the story and letting you play through the movie.

    I guess a good game is a good game, maybe when they aren't being rushed out to coincide with the movie's release, not to mention having a cult following.

  43. while on the subject by Some_Llama · · Score: 1 · on Backing Up Your Brain

    If you haven't seen the movie "the final cut" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/ check it out, interesting look into the possibility and what it would entail..

  44. Its impossible man by esconsult1 · · Score: 1 · on Backing Up Your Brain
    I suppose its possible to go around with a camera and a microphone and log everything. But for the ethics of it, see the movie The Final Cut.

    Who's gonna control your memories when you die? Do you really want to record everything, even when you cheat on your significant other? Do you really want to record when you're jacking off? Or taking a dump?

  45. didn't Harvey Keitel crack Enigma by rs232 · · Score: 1 · on Colossus Cracks Again

    I thought Harvey Keitel captured an enigma machine from U-571 2000 .. :)

  46. Colossus & Guardian live by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny · on Colossus Cracks Again

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

    So should we be running for cover?

  47. Re:Prosecute them. by Shakrai · · Score: 1 · on Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual

    Your sig really ought to read:

    Hmm, there isn't any meaning behind my sig other then homage to one of my favorite movies and maybe a little bit of irony directed at my Government.

    he US is a great whipping boy because it's so large, but why not try looking to places where there are serious problems before painting the United States as the only bogeyman in the world, or even the most serious one?

    I really hope you don't think I'm painting my country (yes, I'm an American) as the bogeyman. Hell, I've been slammed many times in this very story for taking people to task for blaming the US for all the woes of the world.

    I'd find it really ironic and amusing if you took my signature literally after I've spent all afternoon engaged in a flame war over another movie quote (from Office Space) that I used being taken too literally ;)

  48. Mini-series? by antdude · · Score: 1 · on From the Moon to Earth in HD

    Rats, I thought this was about the miniseries to HD. :P

  49. Re:Prosecute them. by Shakrai · · Score: 1 · on Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual

    But, I would like to believe you didn't actually intend to advocate such a thing.

    Maybe you should watch a movie?

    No, for the record, I wasn't suggesting that she deserved to be raped. But she did deserve to be punished. If Sean Penn went to Iraq and allowed himself to be photographed next to an IED I'd say the same thing about him.

  50. Far better option... by Panitz · · Score: 0 · on Close but no Cigar for Netflix Recommender System

    IMDB http://www.imdb.com/ has a recommendation section. Pick a film you like and it gives you a recommendation from their database. Feom experience this works perfectly for me... Plus you can read extensive reviews of films if you like.

    Seems netflix are spending a lot of money on something that they seem to have working ok and can be found on other websites anyway.