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You make an excellent point. All the enemy needs to do is first fire a barrage of Jiffy Pop popcorn. when the laser hits it, the corn pops and rains down on the target. This should be sufficient in preventing the laser from knocking out the REAL rounds, which are fired second.

Hey, it works when fired from a satellite!

It could be a joke about copyright ownership.

After all a story about a young man named Harry Potter fighting evil magical forces and creatures in order to save his family and friends appeared on the big screen a decade before JKR released her first novel.

It was a terrible movie and who knows if Rowling ever saw it. Her stories are almost ceratinly not influenced by it. But in the new DRM encrusted world of Hollywood a lawsuit could bring the entire HP franchise to a screeching halt while the Court case drags on for years. Lets hope that SCO or Nathan Myrvhold don't buy any Intellectual property from Full Moon Entertainment.

Strangely enough, one of the actors was Sonny Bono who went on to become a US Senator. Bono was a sponsor of the updated copyright laws now in place in The US. The Senate in the US is the equivalent of the House of Lords in the UK.

Sonny Bono as Lord Voldemort?

I don't understand how many war critics can't stop mentioning the fact that not finding WMDs would take away all the "legitimacy" of the invasion. The reason Iraq was invaded was definitely NOT that they had WMDs and much less that they threatened the US with using it; that was just a turkey and everyone with a few brain cells knows it.

The reason why it was used and repeated over and over while the troops were assembling in the Gulf was that it was actually a rather safe bet (since it was the US itself that provided him with those!) and that you could scare uninformed folks to death by exaggerating what the evil guy from half way around the globe could to to them.

The invasion was wrong not because Saddam had no WMDs, but (among so many other reasons) because the hawks in Washington used their power and the gullibility of the people (the same people that actually empower them by paying taxes, building stuff, working, inventing... - those same people that actually carry the US forward) to bring war to a country that did not deserve it. Their motive was to intimidate by displaying military strength, to establish control on an oil rich region and ultimately to fill their own bank accounts (if you don't believe this I suggest you read up on privately funded mercenaries "working" in Iraq, e.g. Blackwater and about the huge profits companies like Halliburton are making through Iraq in a war funded by tax dollars while no end or even an improvement of the situation is in sight (intentionally?); there's also a documentary about this).

Alf got them.

...wrote many of his operas for "common folk." The ones which were sung in German were written for the 18th Century equivalent of Vaudeville.

Popular entertainment of the present often becomes the high-brow fare of the future. Of course, eventually that leads us to the world of Idiocracy but that's another story for another time.

Well maybe its named after this film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/

Can I drink my vaccine?

This one will be all se7en deadly sins.

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Listen, I know he is a hero of Canadian comedy, but I don't understand why Eugene Levy gets a cut on every iPod sold up there. Do they come preloaded with Best in Show?

I'd point you to Transformers: The Movie (1986)

Genre: Animation/Action/FAMILY/Sci-Fi
Rating: PG (Not even PG-13)

Quote from Spike (One of two humans in the whole movie):
"It isn't even dented? Oh shit, what are we going to do now?"

Source: http://imdb.com/title/tt0092106/quotes

Just another example, much like the Star Trek one you posted.

(Personally, I'm against censorship in any media that the consumer actively chooses to consume. I don't like censorship in any form, but let the breeders exercise some modicum of control over their spawns if they want to.)

The solution is the same as for Global Thermonuclear War: "The only winning move is not to play."

even with the worst movies, they still "work" because all you are doing is watching them. there's no technological requirement. it's not like the movie film breaks while watching or anything.

Go watch Deja Vu. The movie is not going to win any Oscars, nor are the physics 100% pristine, but it does have an interesting proposal on effects preceding causes and causal feedback loops.

"So what if I was? That has no bearing on who I am. My identity is the sum of the things I've done. Really, the only thing you have to prove is that I didn't do things under a different identity that are naughty."

Really ... considering that it affects what you can inherit ...

Beside, have you ever tried to prove a negative?

BARRY: "Jill, here's a lockpick. It might be handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you.

Is the Vader thing still a spoiler?

I have one word for you: Rosebud.

For those unfamiliar with Frank W. Abagnale, the author of this book, he was the real-life basis for the movie Catch Me if You Can about his crime spree in the 1960s, during which he took on various fake personalities and passed over $2.5M in bad checks. So he definitely has some practical expertise about the criminal mind and identity theft.

That said, nowadays, identity theft online is a very large section of ID theft related crimes nowadays and I would question his expertise in this area since most of his crimes were committed in a time before the internet or even widespread inter-bank computer networks.

If the name of the author is familiar, it is because Frank Abagnale's exploits were popularized in the 2002 movie Catch Me If You Can. Leo DiCaprio played the Abagnale, with Tom Hanks as Carl Hanratty, the FBI agent tracking him down.

Given Abagnale's extensive knowledge and experience in check (and other) fraud, he speaks with some authority on the sad state of how easy identity theft can be.

So we've adopted the porn industries' aging standards? That's really sad. As far as I'm concerned a woman doesn't really start to get interesting until she's hit about 35.

This is what Slashdot has become.
Two years ago there would have been a frosty piss and a two-page discussion on how this douchebag OP was wrong to use the word "cybercriminals" (or cyberfoo for that matter), and how his article reads like a page out of the script to this flaming piece of shit. Where did we go? Since when did Slashdot become Eternal September?
That's right point-bearing masses, mod me flamebait because nobody else has the balls to stand up to this kind of terrible quality news. FFS look at the damn article! It says nothing! It literally states something that was true ten years ago when the botnet was invented! News for NERDS? more like News for NEWBS.
Christ alfuckingmighty.

For my money the worst trailer spoiler ever was Tom Hanks, with a big beard, back in civilization, knocking at his wife's door. I think every single commercial trailer spot featured this portion of the movie. Major suckage.

Like the grandparent, I do not view a trailer of a movie I am planning to watch. I would be hard pressed to find a single trailer that added _anything_ to the watching of a movie.

Actually, it's easy to walk on water if you move fast enough

Question: As you know, in the Netherlands they have very few inhibitions about hemp (and related crops). So, are farmers in that country growing lots of hemp? Why not, if it has so many profitable uses?

I don't know how much hemp is grown in the Netherlands. However according to this over four hundred thousand acres of hemp were cultivated in the US between 1942 and 1945. The federal government made the movie "Hemp for Victory" to encourage farmers to grow it. It was important for the war effort.

Because it was our word first

If you mean first for technolgy and computers, yes, but "hack" had been used for a long tyme to mean someone else. In the 1920s, I believe, "hack" meant someone who was a journalist, reporter, or writer. I'm not sure but I think "hack" was used in the 1941 movie "Citizen Kane" , meaning reporter.

Revisionist history a little?

Revisionist history a little?

... punch through concrete and steel?

Remember in the movie Toys, where kids playing violent war games were, in actuality, controlling real unmanned military vehicles?...

I did see Toys (Favorite Line:"But you don't know where you are" "Exactly"), but the reference most people on /. would get is a reference to Ender's Game

2008, woo!

... is not to play.

Hmm... This story sounds familiar. Although the mitochondria is pretty hot I don't think I want to meet her.

(It's a good movie, btw. I especially love the ending scene!)

twiggy twiggy twiggy
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1066/Mptv/1066/96 41-0022.jpg.html?hint=tt0078579/

Don't compare this to Project Gutenberg. This is the supposed to be the Internet Movie Database" for books (as far as I understand anyway). Anyway, I am pretty sure that a big part of this information can filled with calls to Amazon web services.

An undeservedly underrated movie, it had skin-tight (and sexxxy) spacesuits much like that pictured in TFA

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0180052/C59-28R.jpg

Welcome to a world where the Fantastic Four get science right. Nooooooooooooo!

It was the plot of an episode of Batman: The Animated Series:

Nothing to Fear

Jeffrey Combs as the voice of the Scarecrow.

It was the plot of an episode of Batman: The Animated Series:

Nothing to Fear

Jeffrey Combs as the voice of the Scarecrow.

It was the plot of an episode of Batman: The Animated Series:

Nothing to Fear

Jeffrey Combs as the voice of the Scarecrow.

It was the plot of an episode of Batman: The Animated Series:

Nothing to Fear

Jeffrey Combs as the voice of the Scarecrow.

A look at the first few minutes of Night of the Lepus would be instructive. But don't tell Bones you watched!

I'm sorry, but Deliverance ruined Georgia for me forever.

Greene and Levin calculate that the extra dimensions should have a scale of about 0.01 millimeter.

So this explains Land of the Giants

It was against Filmation

Well, of course BeelzeBush the AntiClinton is personally responsible for everything that ever went wrong, including Ishtar.
I was just seeing if he could link in Haliburton or Harken into the smear.

While they didn't tell the I,robot story, they did of course license, and he is credited as an author.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343818/

Antitrust, anyone?

imagine a beowulf cluster of human brains!

yep, i never thought i'd need to make one, but sure enough my son managed to lose the burned copy of Sky High when we went on a trip.

To me, the appeal of a movie is seeing it, not seeing it over and over again.