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Another film I just remembered from my childhood is: The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics It won Chuck Jones an Oscar and remains one of the most visually impressive presentations of geometry ever.

hmm
rick (aka hikaru) - Tobey Maguire
lisa (aka misa) - Kirsten Dunst (she'll have to die her hair red again)

gloval (aka global) - Liam Neeson

Min Mei -
I think it will be really hard to find a good actress for this part. The acting part shouldn't be hard, in every scene, Min Mei is either depressed, or really bubbly happy. She obviously has bipolar disorder.

But good luck finding an attractive young actress who can sing. Maybe they could just hire a talented young actress and have her lip sync over Mari Iijima. That would work.

Or maybe just get Michelle Branch.

Ahh, who am I kidding? This movie will never be made. Studios license movie rights and then never make the movie all the time. Battletech has been licensed a dozen times, and still no movie.

You mean your penis doesn't vibrate?

Of course, if you need your mech-fix you can always check out the Stuart Gordon's wonderful pre-CGI Robot Jox (originally titled Robojox, which I much prefer). The film may be low budget, but as always Gordon delivers in imagination where he lacks in budget.
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Franklin

Pan's Labyrinth is about a lot of things. I found it truly amazing. It is about growing up. About sacrifice ... and not the pretend type we often see in movies but pain, torture and death with no guarantees about the outcome. About the monsters we construct in our fantasy to teach about the real monsters that walk in human form. The movies is a bit like the yin-yang, you're never sure if it is a fantasy referring to real events, or a child's escapist delusions during real horrors ... there is evidence in the movie for both interpretations.

I found this a disturbing movie. It is fantasy and yet it is a little too real, I just can't bring myself to show it to my teenage sons ... and I thought they were too hardened by some movies they have seen. The only other movie that makes me feel that way is "Grave of the Fireflies".

I do agree about the poster. There is a strong theme about growing up, both mentally and sexually. I probably need to see it a few more times because of its complex themes.

One of the greatest movies on mathematics ever. A Disney masterpiece that transcends all grades to show how very complex math concepts appear everywhere around us.

Everyone should check Donald in Mathmagic Land out. It's one of the best movies I ever saw in grade school and I still remember it to this day.

...and lasers for their sharks and dolphins.

I was thinking about moving to a different State, but hadn't figured out which one. Now I'm down to 49 possibilities.

This article is a good place to start.

You could also introduce him to the theory behind Bittorrent, which is a good demonstration of how many computers each doing a small task, given modest bandwidth, can add up to massive distribution and publication power in short order.

Now, what if some distributed network decided to siphon a gig of illegal or embarrassing materials onto a compromised target machine. Perhaps a politician that is voting the wrong way?

Then ask him, not if the entire banking industry is safe, but if an individual's information (SHA hash collision or private key, but that's not "average Joe" speak) could be subject to a distributed brute force attack.

With the growing power of computers making tiny pieces of malware harder and harder to notice (that 1% of processor time is more and more powerful), and malware being able to literally hide files from the user until such time that it chooses to reveal them, it seems like it's only a matter of time before someone with a large enough botnet, and enough imagination, could start attacking individuals and/or siphoning off their money. How you do this is not something I care to discuss, but the black hats (both the actual criminals and the security experts, as an exercise) already have ideas and are working on it. That's why you'll see them periodically calling for stronger encryption (more bits in the keys). If there was no possible threat, they wouldn't be creating and suggesting longer keys. Rootkits would not be a concern, if files hidden from the user were always benign (most are).

But all it takes is the wrong person to have the right idea, a breakthrough that changes the assumptions, especially in cryptography. Show him the movie "Sneakers" if you want to fuel some imagination regarding that. It's crap, but it's also fun and sizes the problem for the average Joe. Assuming that only ethical people work in cryptography is somewhat naive. Assuming that unethical people are not watching the progress of ethical individuals in the field is stupid.

There's nothing to say such solutions and attacks haven't occurred already, but it seems, as your son suggests, unlikely. You can bet if a criminal has figured it out, a little bit of money siphoned off here and there would be almost impossible to detect, especially in an environment where people are unwilling to believe it's even possible. Believe me, if the idea has hit Hollywood, it's old hat. That's exactly how such a criminal would proceed if they had found a way to leverage such distributed computing applications. They would target a distributed network of accounts, one by one, in a way that looked like banking errors (which are numerous and automatically corrected by the bank) and slowly siphon money from the banking industry itself, through compromised individual accounts. No individual would suffer, because of correction processes in the banks, the world's capital reserves would.

Then ask what that money could buy in terms of influence, weapons, elections?

Any compromised machine is a liability to its user. Botnets are a menace to society, and we're lucky all they're (hopefully) being used for is "penis enlargement" ads and DDoS attacks. That's barely scraping the surface of their potential.

If he wants to go on believing that his safety and security are a given, without any effort on his own part, there's little you can do, but anyone with any imagination, who is not in flat out denial, can demonstrate that distributed computing applications have a great deal of power, and that basic security is everyone's concern. It is definitely not good that these ne

This article is a good place to start.

You could also introduce him to the theory behind Bittorrent, which is a good demonstration of how many computers each doing a small task, given modest bandwidth, can add up to massive distribution and publication power in short order.

Now, what if some distributed network decided to siphon a gig of illegal or embarrassing materials onto a compromised target machine. Perhaps a politician that is voting the wrong way?

Then ask him, not if the entire banking industry is safe, but if an individual's information (SHA hash collision or private key, but that's not "average Joe" speak) could be subject to a distributed brute force attack.

With the growing power of computers making tiny pieces of malware harder and harder to notice (that 1% of processor time is more and more powerful), and malware being able to literally hide files from the user until such time that it chooses to reveal them, it seems like it's only a matter of time before someone with a large enough botnet, and enough imagination, could start attacking individuals and/or siphoning off their money. How you do this is not something I care to discuss, but the black hats (both the actual criminals and the security experts, as an exercise) already have ideas and are working on it. That's why you'll see them periodically calling for stronger encryption (more bits in the keys). If there was no possible threat, they wouldn't be creating and suggesting longer keys. Rootkits would not be a concern, if files hidden from the user were always benign (most are).

But all it takes is the wrong person to have the right idea, a breakthrough that changes the assumptions, especially in cryptography. Show him the movie "Sneakers" if you want to fuel some imagination regarding that. It's crap, but it's also fun and sizes the problem for the average Joe. Assuming that only ethical people work in cryptography is somewhat naive. Assuming that unethical people are not watching the progress of ethical individuals in the field is stupid.

There's nothing to say such solutions and attacks haven't occurred already, but it seems, as your son suggests, unlikely. You can bet if a criminal has figured it out, a little bit of money siphoned off here and there would be almost impossible to detect, especially in an environment where people are unwilling to believe it's even possible. Believe me, if the idea has hit Hollywood, it's old hat. That's exactly how such a criminal would proceed if they had found a way to leverage such distributed computing applications. They would target a distributed network of accounts, one by one, in a way that looked like banking errors (which are numerous and automatically corrected by the bank) and slowly siphon money from the banking industry itself, through compromised individual accounts. No individual would suffer, because of correction processes in the banks, the world's capital reserves would.

Then ask what that money could buy in terms of influence, weapons, elections?

Any compromised machine is a liability to its user. Botnets are a menace to society, and we're lucky all they're (hopefully) being used for is "penis enlargement" ads and DDoS attacks. That's barely scraping the surface of their potential.

If he wants to go on believing that his safety and security are a given, without any effort on his own part, there's little you can do, but anyone with any imagination, who is not in flat out denial, can demonstrate that distributed computing applications have a great deal of power, and that basic security is everyone's concern. It is definitely not good that these ne

Flamebait? This is a direct quote from "A Few Good Admin's"

Ok, so I made it up...

My apologies to Col. Nathan Jessep.

For some reason this made me think of Bastian being told he needs to name the Childlike Empress in Neverending Story.

The Unbloated Software: Bastian. Why don't you do what you dream, Bastian?
Bastian: But I can't, I have to keep my feet on the ground!
The Unbloated Software: Call my name. Bastian, please! Save us!
Bastian: All right! I'll do it! I'll save you! I will do what I dream!
Bastian: MOONCHILD!

Hi, you must be new here.

And I could think of worse people to be laid by than Sean Young.

But that's just the problem. They're going to make everyone else look bad.

Easy. Just send 'em over to us down here in Gloucestershire. They'll be up on blocks & covered buried in empty White Lightning bottles before you can say "Mossbauer Spectrometer".

Well, the Predator had a sexy little fishnet get-up.

Or how about image substitution so it's like you're wearing the sunglasses from They Live, replacing advertisements with generic placards, and politicians look like alien zombies?

You are Mr. Wolf, aren't you?

It's the only way to be sure.

biomechanical killer bugs.

Runaway (with Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons, among others), although the killer bugs are more rat sized than bug sized.

It's the movie Toys: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/

The Island

Here's one: The Clonus Horror. It was remade as The Island.

Here's one: The Clonus Horror. It was remade as The Island.

As noted above, CA, NY, and the mystery six other northeastern states* subsidize the cost of PZEVs, thus they constructed laws that make it difficult to use such a car in other states. I don't understand why these eight states didn't simply tax non-PZEV sales instead; add a new tax and make exceptions for hybrids and PZEVs. This would make it okay to sell these anywhere, and pressure is applied to consumers to buy with the environment in mind.

The article stated that Honda's PZEV costs about $400 on top of the car to produce (CA subsidizes $250 of this), so if we assume four non-PZEVs sold for every PZEV purchase, CA could add a $100 tax to the cost of non-PZEVs and use that money to subsidize the full $400 cost without using money from its budget. However, this doesn't solve the out-of-state problem. Increase sales tax on non-PZEVs by 0.5% (an $85 increase to a $17k Honda Civic, a $275 boost to a $55k Hummer H2) and decrease sales tax on PZEVs by 2% ($348 less for the Civic and ... the H2 won't get a PZEV package). If we assume the PZEV sales won't exceed the non-PZEVs, the state spends less money while almost fully subsidizing in-state (only!) sales. Better yet, this plan would encourage PZEV sales and there would be no reason to discourage out-of-state purchases by those environmentally savvy.

I'm also of the opinion that an excise tax (section 4001 (a)(2)(B), referring to section 179A) should be revisited for more aggressive definitions of fuel efficiency. I'm from MA, where all vehicles are covered by excise tax; I didn't know until just now that laws are already in place to tax less efficient (and luxury) cars, though I do recall hearing that President Carter implemented such things in the late 70s (as seen in the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? ). I'd like to see something like a steep excise tax for fuel-inefficient cars, with an aggressively growing threshold like 30mpg + 1mpg per year after y2k, so 37mpg for cars of this model year and 38mpg in 2008, with NO LIMITS (it is expected that the 2009 Prius will exceed 100mpg, which would meet this threshold in 2070). This should act as a firm reminder that SUVs and other noncommercial trucks are luxury items.

* "California, New York or six other northeast states that follow California's tougher pollution rules" aren't named anywhere in the article. MA, VT, and ME are mentioned in a sister article, leaving three more; it may be fair to assume "northeast" means "New England" (which contains six states), but PA and NJ are often included in the northeast states. On a humorous note, the sentence seems to imply that California is in the northeast.

"Turn left now"

But there is no left.

Which, depending on what is actually to the left (cliff, fuel depot, power station) could mean that not only do we have lying cars, we have homicidal cars. Thus bringing to pass yet another prediction of a well-known futurist.

In the Harrison Ford movie Air Force One, the security people had a laptop which scanned fingerprints on its screen: http://perso.orange.fr/fingerchip/biometrics/movie s_1997.htm I had a laugh about it at the time ... oh well.

Well, not so secret! James Bond broke into one of their vaults in Kuala Lumpur, and walked off with Billions and Billions back at the turn of the false century.

The movie Das Boot starts with the statistic that of the 40,000 German sailors who served on U-Boats in WWII, 30,000 of them died.

Oh yeah, brother! The Suburban Commando

MMMMMMMMMMM Antifreeze!

Or it ends up, due to a faulty queller drive, devastating a whole planet of intelligent beings.. making them angry against humanity when Space:1999's moon meets the voyager space probe..

Paul: "Signal from Voyager One"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0706356/
http://www.space1999.net/~cosmos1999/12/tivrvsact4 .10.html

http://imdb.com/title/tt0080172/

I own the actual fight footage and can attest that Chinese Gung Fu bested every style the Japanese could throw at it, and without Bruce Lee's help.

No legal defense technique was needed then, and still not now.

Confucius says:

If have sidekick in comedy act, funny har har

If receive side kick in kung fu, Yie Ar! Not funny, but still can be side-splitting

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057927/combined
I'd love to see it.

Up up down down left right left right wink blink? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage! ;)

Note: Quote modified from Spaceballs movie.

Move along. Come on, even Hollywood studios can put out more flops than this.

Interesting... (FTA; emphasis added)

"It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways -- in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."
...

"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."

and worrisome:

See also: "Murphy's Law"

Parent's comment is a reference to Sarah Jessic Parker's famous line from Hocus Pocus. I think it may have even been in the preview.

Surprisingly it doesn't appear in IMDB's "memorable quotes" section, despite the fact that it's the ONLY memorable quote in the entire movie. After a bit of googling I finally found the following transcript.

Winifred: Sisters, All Hallow's Eve has become a night of frolic. Where children wear costumes and run amok.
Sarah: (thinks this is funny) Amok? Amok, amok, amok, amok.
(Winifred elbows her in the stomach and she stops.)

(Note: SJP's character is named Sarah Sanderson in the movie.)

Ever since we saw that movie, everyone in my family has always mimicked SJP's playful "amok, amok, amok, amok" upon hearing the word amok in any context. ;)

maybe we will grow reality bending game systems.

Though I bet that if I made an animated "Jungle Book" that told Kipling's (copyright expired) story, I would get a letter from Disney.

A few counterexamples, in chronological order (all dated after the 1967 Disney film):
1977 (with title "Mowgli's Brothers") http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174937/
1990 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1075333/
1995 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910908/

Disney can't stop others from using the same public domain stories, even for animated films of the same stories in Disney's. They can, however, take issue with the copying of specific characters added to the stories (such as Dopey, Sneezy, and Doc) and with renditions of the characters that are obvious copies of the Disney interpretation (such as a drawing of Snow White with a very similar hairstyle & dress colors compared to the Disney version).

Though I bet that if I made an animated "Jungle Book" that told Kipling's (copyright expired) story, I would get a letter from Disney.

A few counterexamples, in chronological order (all dated after the 1967 Disney film):
1977 (with title "Mowgli's Brothers") http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174937/
1990 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1075333/
1995 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910908/

Disney can't stop others from using the same public domain stories, even for animated films of the same stories in Disney's. They can, however, take issue with the copying of specific characters added to the stories (such as Dopey, Sneezy, and Doc) and with renditions of the characters that are obvious copies of the Disney interpretation (such as a drawing of Snow White with a very similar hairstyle & dress colors compared to the Disney version).

Though I bet that if I made an animated "Jungle Book" that told Kipling's (copyright expired) story, I would get a letter from Disney.

A few counterexamples, in chronological order (all dated after the 1967 Disney film):
1977 (with title "Mowgli's Brothers") http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174937/
1990 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1075333/
1995 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910908/

Disney can't stop others from using the same public domain stories, even for animated films of the same stories in Disney's. They can, however, take issue with the copying of specific characters added to the stories (such as Dopey, Sneezy, and Doc) and with renditions of the characters that are obvious copies of the Disney interpretation (such as a drawing of Snow White with a very similar hairstyle & dress colors compared to the Disney version).

Agree with your post except for this film.

Porno knockoffs of Star Wars have been going on a long time. Although, I doubt anyone could really say they "ripped off" Star Wars, the similarities are uncanny.

Or at least that's what my friends tell me after watching it. (cough, cough)

GNAA operatives stormed the home of Wikipedia admin and registered NAMBLA member Ryan Bushby today, brutally murdering his Kenyan AIDS sex slave and cutting his lice-ridden hippy hair. Upon egress from the tar paper and plywood shack, GNAA encountered two other wikipedia admins armed with HH-1488 "Drilldo" anti-aircraft dongs, who then shot down the extraction roflcopter. This forced the GNAA to retreat and set up a defensive perimeter around the crash site. They would remain there sodomizing a large group of Jimbo Wales' militia forces until the early morning, when a rescue convoy led by Hans Reiser would finally reach them. Despite heavy losses on the part of the GNAA, the operation was deemed a success. As GNAA leader timecop observed shortly after the raid, "lol aids." Bushby was unable to be reached for comment, as he was too busy thinking up new ways to let him sit on his ass and smoke weed all day.

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First off, the first key phrase is "By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Google services which are intended to be available to the members of the public..."

That means that they're not applying this to private content, just stuff you intended to be publicly available.

The second key phrase is "you grant Google a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license..." Note the words "non-exclusive". That means that Google does not own your content. You own it. They just have the right to use it anywhere in the world for free. The remaining legalese covers their butts for the current methods that might be used to display or distribute the content, and any future methods they might use.

I used to manage the photo submissions at IMDb and we used similar phrasing in our TOS. That way when we created IMDbPro, it could use the photos, we could put them not only in photo galleries related directly to the actor or film, but in themed photo galleries, in news summaries related to the actor, etc. If Amazon sold IMDb, or we merged with another film site, or we started another spin-off site, we'd retain the rights to display and use the photos.

Technology changes quickly and you'll find most large companies that display user-submitted content have the same kind of release. It doesn't deprive the content's owner of ownership, but makes sure that a lot of potential headaches that could come up in relation to the use and display of that content over the years don't come up.

In my company I always get the new managers to watch The Core.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/ [imdb.com]

The main point of the Core (apart from a load of laughably bad science) is that if you want to be a Leader, you need to be prepared to sacrifice people. Hilary Swank knows she's got what it takes when she allows Tchéky Karyo to be squished like a bug to save the team.

We set up the interviewees with a board with buttons that have pictures of all the cast members. If the interviewee wants to kill someone they press the button.

We've found that the best managers would squish not just him when they need to but an average of 2 other cast members at random points in the movie. Any more than that and their team would run too low on resources and morale to survive, any less and they're clearly not cut out for making hard choices.

I've never been scared by a movie, ever.

I have, several times. Common factor for all occasions: I'm alone, it's dark, and the movie doesn't break the illusion by using some "cheap" special effect monster or similar. Like Session 9, for example.

However I just can't be scared at all if I watch them with others around me. It just doesn't work at all.

In this dramatic courtroom thriller, Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), a Navy lawyer who has never seen the inside of the courtroom, defends two stubborn Marines (Wolfgang Bodison and James Marshall) who have been accused of murdering a colleague. He (Cruise) is known as being lazy and had arranged for a plea bargain. Downey's (Marshall) Aunt Ginny appoints Cmdr. Galloway (Demi Moore) to represent him. Also on the legal staff is Lt. Sam Weinberg (Kevin Pollak). The team rounds up many facts and Kaffee is discovering that he is really cut out for trial work. The defense is originally based upon the fact that PFC Santiago, the victim, was given a "CODE RED". Santiago was basically a screw-up. At Gitmo, screw-ups aren't tolerated. Especially by Col. Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson). In Cuba, Jessup and two senior officers (J.T. Walsh and Kiefer Sutherland) try to give all the help they can, but Kaffee knows something's fishy. In the conclusion of the film, the fireworks are set off by a confrontation between Jessup and Kaffee.

I agree with you that the public isn't "let into the experience" enough to be able to enjoy it. Everytime I see a decent documentary about the universe, or past NASA deep-space exploration programs, the Mars Rovers' (which were very closely followed by slashdotters) or just am discussing the universe with people, these is this great sense of insignifance and awe about space and the universe. Seeing a shuttle lieft lift off and land *is* boring, it can't nearly satisfy my drive to discover and learn more about what the universe is all about. It's pretty anti-climaxive.

Ya know, actually engage the people on the ground in the process.

yea, but PLEASE! Nothing televoting based or big-brother styled :)