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Who are you? Rowdy Roddy Piper? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/

How funny, I was reading this post and happened to see this at exactly the same time:

"Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct. The best kind of correct."

Are you really sure you want to correct me? I mean you weren't exactly Shakespeare in your critique of "ManHole Trawlers" on imdb. (Just kidding)

Event Horizon did this as well, as I remember he was pretty messed up (of course in that movie that is a pretty relative term)

That old guy was "Buckaroo Banzai's" right hand man! And in 1974's "Death Wish" he was Freak #1. I remember him best as a wanna be drug dealer in the move Deep Cover.

(Jeff Goldblum)
"B Movie Super Star!"

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000156/

If you've seen movies based on games, you understand my anger!

If you've seen movies based on games, you understand my anger!

If you've seen movies based on games, you understand my anger!

I win!

I liked how Outland dealt with the subject; just have the guys explode making a mess in their spacesuit.
Can you imagine being the next guy to use that suit?

"Uh, sorry but Jeff thought that tarantulas were crawling in his suit so he pulled his air line and exploded. We cleaned it the best we could."

And let's not forget Event Horizon. (Hey! I wish I could forget EH... my friend had Sam Neill's decapitated bonce, with realistic gory holes where he'd supposedly torn out his own eyes, on her (street-facing) windowsill for months after working on the effects at Cinesite in London (next door to the Private Eye offices, trivia fans!) I believe he was usually used as a stand for sunglasses during the daytime... but I like to think he freaked a few people out after dark :)

I liked the way they portrayed the issue in Event Horizon; took me a while to be able to watch Sam Neill in any other film without getting the creeps after that one. They had the guy expel all the air in his lungs that he could, he survived outside for a few seconds, got frozen, and I want to say his eyes didn't survive the vacum, don't remember too well.

The preponderance of evidence says that global warming is happening and that it is anthropogenic.

Do people really need to be that connected? Probably not.

And do those same people really need to be contactable 24 hours a day? If not, then they do not even need a mobile phone in the first place.

Seriously, this is the same argument that people use against mobile/cell phones before they actually own one. But once they get used to having one (and to leaving it turned on all the time - yes Mum, I'm talking to you) then most people get dependant on the technology. I find now that I feel terribly isolated if I ever go out without my phone - especially if I am meeting friends somewhere and have no way of letting them know if I am running late.

I started using the internet on mobile phones years ago when I was into auction sites. I find that it puts you into a different mindset to be permanently connected to the net. It seems natural to always have access to the phonebook, or street map, or to look up a movie review while browsing in the DVD shop, or read the newspaper on the train, or grab the train timetable, or fill in a spare 5 minutes by checking out slashdot. Yes, it is all stuff that you can live without; at least, until you get used to having it.

There are ways around the screen resolution issues. I have a Nokia 9300 with a screen resolution of 640x200 which, when combined with Opera's Fit to Screen mode, does a really impressive job. However, if I find a site that still doesn't fit well - or is too slow to download - then I use Skweezer to reduce the amount of clutter in the HTML source code. Have a look at the original article when skweezed. Not quite as good as the print page version as linked by _PimpDaddy7_ below, but still a great improvement. There are some sites that I skweeze when browsing them on the desktop just to clean up the crap. I imagine even MySpace pages might look almost viewable using this site.

But you really should not get too hung up on the screen size issue. They are not intended to be desktop replacements. But if you need to make a last minute bid on eBay, then you can live with the slight inconvenience of having to scroll a bit more. It is more about connecting the internet with your life away from the computer, rather than reproducing the experience of sitting at your desk.

--This movie http://imdb.com/title/tt0096486/ suddenly becomes Relevant...

Yeah I hope whoever does it has an electric guitar that can do 4/4 time so they can relieve the energy of the beer atom splitting. Why, yes, Ive seen that documentary on young Einstein.

Tourism.. and hunting!

That kind of bad training doesn't happen overnight. Where is the US Cybersecurity chief, who should be making sure that government agencies use proper security practices? Do we even have one, after every other one since Bush created the department has resigned in disgust?

And is the current one as fired as is the clueless one in _Live Free or Die Hard_?

Or, perhaps, they'd come To Serve Man...

They set up shop on the far side of the moon and launch interstellar spaceflights from there. That's why. Didn't you see that in Star Trek IV when Kirk and the gang used the moon to hide their warp signature from the Vulcans as their ship headed off towards the sun to travel back to the future?

Nah, if it is documentaries with lots of nuclear explosions you want, thisis the movie for you.

You should see this movie.

You really should check out The Man Who Sued God. Basic premise is man loses his boat/home is struck by lightning, and the insurance company won't pay out because it is an "act of God". So he decides to sue God. The logic is that the church (God's representatives on earth), argue that God didn't destroy his boat, then the insurance company should have to pay him. Either way he's entitled to money from someone. Really funny movie that really shows the flawed logic insurance companies use to get out of paying. I really have to watch this again sometime.

Oh, come on, everyone knows that she would just have to pull back her hair and wear glasses in order to look like an unattractive nerd. (Reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160862/)

That movie came out on July 27. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/

Video is still kind of difficult to alter like these photos were, but it's certainly possible for someone with the resources of a government of international organization behind them.

Although I totally agree with you, I must point out government-level resources are not required to reasonably fake video. Remember the movie Kung Pow? Amazing work done in that film placing modern actors in an old kung-fu flick. The budget was only around $10 million USD, and that was for a complete movie. Imagine how little it would cost to get the same effects for a clip only a few minutes long? A professional studio is all you need to make something convincing enough to fool anyone other than video experts, probably any news studio could do it. Scary, really.

They tried that in a movie once.

Hyperspace with Sam Neill had a segment talking about just this.

Holy crap! I've been trying to find out the name of that movie for years. And I found it through reading slashdot comments....

Reminds me of the movie Screamers with robots called "autonomous swords".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/

In case anyone misses the reference, the invitation to "drink from the firehose" is referring to UHF, the 1989 movie by "Weird Al" Yankovic, in which Stanley Spadowski (played by a pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards) treats a kid who wins a game on his Captain Kangaroo-type show to drink from the firehose. The kid opens his mouth wide to the hose's nozzle, Stanly pulls the lever back, and the kid is promptly blown several feet off his seat.

Really funny stuff, including lots of television and movie genre parodies. If you like Weird Al's music and haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend you check it out. It's gained a cult following (obviously, with obscure references on Slashdot and all...) after having a disappointing theatrical release.

(But to be fair, that summer was particularly strong, with the release of Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2, Back to the Future Part II, Ghostbusters II, The Little Mermaid... Any other year, and it probably would have been a moderate success. As you can tell, I wish Al would make another.)

I haven't heard about Cinea protection being cracked yet.

I don't know about the technical details or if it really counts because it is only used by the studios on the screeners they send to association members.

It requires a special DVD player to play the DVDs and those DVD players aren't easily available.

Incidentally, I heard that they have had problems with it, apparently most of the screeners they sent out of Munich in 2005 wouldn't play which may have had an effect on the lack of Oscars the film won (although it still got 5 nominations in 2006).

Of course, if you could get hold of the disc and the hardware you could easily make a nice TS.

> How, exactly, do the Men In Black install this uber-spyware on a target system?

I'm not sure if you've seen Independence Day, but basically they upload it using a Mac.

Kurt

Actually, it somehow evoked the memory of Waterworld. Dammit.

these guys didn't watch "Mission: impossible"?

Malign

1 a : evil in nature, influence, or effect. malignant.
2 : having or showing intense often vicious ill will. sinister.

The audience has faded to black. The genre summer box office poison. Captivity grossed $2.6 million. Rockstar tried to catch the wave and missed.

. Why should your personal judgment override Manhunt 2's intended audience's CHOICE to play it?

A video game is not a movie.

The movies put you at a physical and psychological distance from the action. Manhunt 2 encouraged you to mime a disembowelment using the Wii controller as your weapon.

A good read in this context is Gene Wolfe's "When I Was Ming The Merciless."

As you grow older, you grow weary of attending a high school graduation one week and a funeral the next. The adolescent's judgment is not mature, and his choices are often wrong.

It has never been legal in your lifetime. Your parents. Your grandparents.

Anything less than perfect control is, after all, simply an unexploited opportunity for profit.

Profit drives production and production is the side of the equation that the geek never quite seems to grasp.

The Iron Giant. The Incredibles. Ratatouille.

It takes $150 million to produce animation at this level. Projects can be five to ten years in development. Brad Bird is 50.

the MAFIAA

Spare me this adolescent prattling.

The rights agencies are trade associations representing companies that - in a capitalist society - are accustomed to being paid for the products and services they deliver. Nothing more. Free downloads for the geek with a DVD burner were never part of the deal.

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A 12 year old street kid. A 3 ton orca whale. A friendship you could never imagine. An adventure you'll never forget. link

Charles Darwin, where are you?!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

Yes, a HORRIBLE movie I know, but...its applicable.