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Yes.

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That's my answer.

Simple, ain't it?

You can move along now.

Replace the 3D character of Mel Slater with one of actor Christian Slater. Verify that the participants who go immediately for the lethal voltage setting (without even being instructed to do so) are the same individuals who paid $10 to see Alone in the Dark.

I'd highly recommend Bring Back the A-Team. Here's the first part.

You could try here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/board/threads/

I make no guarantees about the quality of the discussion on IMDB, however.

I thought you were going on a scale of "Ouch!", "Wow", or "Boinnnnnnnnng!" Somebody's been watching too many old Christmas movies. I guess it's me.

At $230, it doesn't look like it's breaking the bank for a DVR...until you realize that it doesn't include a hard disk! It also doesn't record HD video. At that price, it seems like it should do one or the other.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

This was Darren Aronofsky's classic first feature film and it depicted computers realistically. The main character operated a computer with a dumb terminal connected to a larger computer. Some of the computer hardware looked a bit "sci-fi" but feasible. (There were air vent tubes and other bric-a-brac leading to a suspended glass-box which one would imagine, held the CPU and some memory boards). The commands he typed might have seem far-fetched (they were only numbers, if I recall correctly) but still feasible.

Aronofsky simultaneously portrayed a similarly complex subject (Mathematics) in a realistic manner. He used a few well-known mathematical concepts that most movie-goers would understand after some simple introductions. (Fibonacci sequences, pi (duh), etc.). If a script writer is careful (and good enough) I believe there is really no need to dumb down technical subjects. Some well-placed explanations would do.

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

US and Soviet super computers merge and form a super intelligent machine which then rules the world. Predates 'Terminator' and 'Skynet' by about 20 years. Less action, more drama and plot.

Ask a lawyer what they think of Boston Legal or some time. They don't watch it to improve their courtroom skills.

And any computer geek will tell you that the most exciting thing you can see when you've taken over a computer is not ten seconds of swirling colors with "Access Granted" throbbing in the middle while 80s synth-pop plays in the background. No, it's a single hash mark, like this:

Medicine is most two minutes of questions, two minutes of poking, a minute to write the prescription, then a lifetime of paperwork.
Police work is mostly pulling over bad drivers, arresting the drunk ones, then a lifetime of paperwork.
Lawyering is a lifetime of paperwork.
Flying, even military flying, is mostly just sitting there, staring at the horizon, then checking the instruments occasionally.
Computering is mostly sitting there, staring and the screen, then typing occasionally.

None of this is worth watching. The real world is mundane. It takes a long time to happen. The most drama any of use are likely to see in IT is hoping and praying that the backup tapes are up to okay.

Ask a lawyer what they think of Boston Legal or some time. They don't watch it to improve their courtroom skills.

And any computer geek will tell you that the most exciting thing you can see when you've taken over a computer is not ten seconds of swirling colors with "Access Granted" throbbing in the middle while 80s synth-pop plays in the background. No, it's a single hash mark, like this:

Medicine is most two minutes of questions, two minutes of poking, a minute to write the prescription, then a lifetime of paperwork.
Police work is mostly pulling over bad drivers, arresting the drunk ones, then a lifetime of paperwork.
Lawyering is a lifetime of paperwork.
Flying, even military flying, is mostly just sitting there, staring at the horizon, then checking the instruments occasionally.
Computering is mostly sitting there, staring and the screen, then typing occasionally.

None of this is worth watching. The real world is mundane. It takes a long time to happen. The most drama any of use are likely to see in IT is hoping and praying that the backup tapes are up to okay.

Ask a lawyer what they think of Boston Legal or some time. They don't watch it to improve their courtroom skills.

And any computer geek will tell you that the most exciting thing you can see when you've taken over a computer is not ten seconds of swirling colors with "Access Granted" throbbing in the middle while 80s synth-pop plays in the background. No, it's a single hash mark, like this:

Medicine is most two minutes of questions, two minutes of poking, a minute to write the prescription, then a lifetime of paperwork.
Police work is mostly pulling over bad drivers, arresting the drunk ones, then a lifetime of paperwork.
Lawyering is a lifetime of paperwork.
Flying, even military flying, is mostly just sitting there, staring at the horizon, then checking the instruments occasionally.
Computering is mostly sitting there, staring and the screen, then typing occasionally.

None of this is worth watching. The real world is mundane. It takes a long time to happen. The most drama any of use are likely to see in IT is hoping and praying that the backup tapes are up to okay.

The first Jurassic Part (1993) has a unix network, the one Wayne Night password protect and Samuel L. Jackson decide to unlock by rebooting / turning off the power. Other interesting part was when Ariana Richers navigates the systems through a nice looking object code interface simulating a city full of buildings, near the end of the film - I think CA-Visual Objects took their repository idea from there, although CAVO was 2D.

There is a goof on Sandra Bullock's The Net (1995) where she types an IP address which starts with a number greater than 255... The movie itself is somewhat OK and reasonable enough, and an advanced plot that a nation-wide operating system (in the movie, a firewall) provided by a single company would gave too much power to its creators (any similiarities with actual companies and viral spread is only a coincidence).

The first Jurassic Part (1993) has a unix network, the one Wayne Night password protect and Samuel L. Jackson decide to unlock by rebooting / turning off the power. Other interesting part was when Ariana Richers navigates the systems through a nice looking object code interface simulating a city full of buildings, near the end of the film - I think CA-Visual Objects took their repository idea from there, although CAVO was 2D.

There is a goof on Sandra Bullock's The Net (1995) where she types an IP address which starts with a number greater than 255... The movie itself is somewhat OK and reasonable enough, and an advanced plot that a nation-wide operating system (in the movie, a firewall) provided by a single company would gave too much power to its creators (any similiarities with actual companies and viral spread is only a coincidence).

Despite it's age (35+): "The Andromeda Strain" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/

I can't believe nobody's mentioned "Pirates of Silicon Valley" (1999) yet ... it's most certainly about computers/computing, and most certainly portrays them accurately. It's not (all) fiction, but then again the original Q doesn't state it has to be.

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/

That movie, along with the folklore.org site, gives the younger audience as much of a history lesson as can probably be conveyed, about the early history of the current mainstream OSes.

Buy him a copy of 'The Rabbit Trap' starring Ernest Borgnine. I'm unsure if it's on DVD at all ... not even sure if it is on Video Cassette, but it seems pretty relevant.

The movie Antitrust had many things right.

If I remember correctly, it had real gnome desktops, actual C and HTML code and showed *nix command line operation that made sense.

- It is God!

This was a happy accident in 2001. 9/11.. not so much.

Maybe but the only real thing the US produces anymore is intellectual property. Without tough and intergrated copyright and IP laws, the US economy would tank. I'd like to think that the US is so interested in IP as an alternative to the creation and exportation of real materials and work output but the global market provides US companies with an advantage that the US consumers will never have again.

Our kids or our grand kids will be walking to school up hill both ways just as our grandparents did. Face the truth and prepare for it or milk it out and enjoy it while it lasts.

The story behind "The Running Man" could become a reality. I hope "Mad Max 2" does not.

Maybe but the only real thing the US produces anymore is intellectual property. Without tough and intergrated copyright and IP laws, the US economy would tank. I'd like to think that the US is so interested in IP as an alternative to the creation and exportation of real materials and work output but the global market provides US companies with an advantage that the US consumers will never have again.

Our kids or our grand kids will be walking to school up hill both ways just as our grandparents did. Face the truth and prepare for it or milk it out and enjoy it while it lasts.

The story behind "The Running Man" could become a reality. I hope "Mad Max 2" does not.

"So, dumbfuck, let me brake it down for you how that hurts YOU."

this sentence passes the spell-checker just fine but there is something wrong with it... i just wish i could just put my finger on it...

Do we cry out in anger when an entire movie goes by and nobody uses the can? Of course not. It's just not important to the story,

Well, most of the time, anyway. "So much for the seashells. See you in a few minutes.".

Apparently, that mish-mash was delibrate.

How a Macintosh computer interfaces nicley with an alien computer in ID4 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/

Even better . . . how a virus written on a Macintosh works on an alien system.

The movie Disclosure http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109635/ had the single most worst stupid 3d interface.

In the movie they had to walk through a virtual database while walking. Then try to find something that was filed in virtual drawers, then bring the virtual file to a place to print the stupid file.

Let me see . . . activate Spotlight (okay I am using a Mac) type in few words and bing my file pops up, double click and I am gone. Total time 5 seconds.

The movie Disclosure . . .
Put on virtual gear (10 minutes)
Step on the pad and start walking
Search around a database while walking(hours)
FInd the file (10 minutes)
Send the virtual file to the screen or printer (10 seconds)
Get the virtual gear off (10 Minutes)
Fill out a form explaining why you broke the %#(#)&%%^&#@)@*% goggles. (2 hours)
Explain to boss why you broke the ^%^*(@#*)#@&%@(* goggles (4-5 hours)
Go to make a change in the file (2 minutes)

Could it be that most students today have no ability to critically think?

I miss my donkey.

(if you don't get it)

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Pfft. Supernatural, my geezerly friend. Granted, the targets are usually evil soul sucking demons and whatnot, but salt load *is* used. And at one point fired at a friendly target (who's under the influence).

"In October 2003, police armed with a search warrant showed up and seized his computer (PDF)."

Ouch, this brings back memories of Hackers. As cheesy as it was, that movie hit close to home because I had gotten in trouble so many times in the past all through my earlier years in school, being banned from a total of four or so different school computer labs (three different schools) by the age of 13... One of the better stories: I was snooping around on the computer's hard drive using Netscape by browsing "file:///", which was apparently "hacking". Curiosity killed the cat, I guess.

Anyway, with all that past experience in mind, based on how amateur this guy seems to be (searching on how to execute his attack *on the target's network*) I can easily imagine how freaked out he was when police showed up at his place and took all his computer hardware.

Of course, I don't really feel bad considering how bad a job he did of covering his tracks and maintaining anonymity and so on.

I heard of a pretty cool open source product called Firefox. Someone wrote a flight simulator plugin for it, and it's pretty good, but you have to think in Russian.

Terminal Man? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072267/

Hopefully will the jurors be 12 angry men!

Is Cannibal Holocaust or The Dreamers on high-def discs yet? I'd prefer the latter but either might be worth upgrading the television equipment for.

Is Cannibal Holocaust or The Dreamers on high-def discs yet? I'd prefer the latter but either might be worth upgrading the television equipment for.

Batman Begins is #88 on the IMDB Top 250 and is rated a solid 8.3. Do you really expect us to take you seriously when you're trashing what is arguably the best superhero movie (let alone Batman movie) in the past decade?

perhaps a big CSI fan or something

Funny you should mention CSI. "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" was the basis for a TV series that ran from 1993-1999. I had a girlfriend in college who was a big fan of the show, and freaked one of my friends out once by blurting out, "Homicide rules!" in conversation. Interestingly enough, she was a criminology major...

uhm... as I really don't know how the fs is implemented, I think that reiserfs surely does black magic under my box but why does hans choose a medium for his own defense?!?

I think you're describing something between CORBA and CMIP.

SOAP was simpler to setup (no broker and associated config), easier to grasp publication of servants, and the data packet can be debugged on-the-wire, so you can code-test-debug until it goes. CORBA is a binary format that is more optimal on the wire, but harder to debug. There's Other Issues, but These issues are Mine.

Even thought I can sit in my figurative armchair and say "seen it before", in truth these concepts co back and forth (or iterative cycles, take yer pick) and feed off each other to evolve. Maybe Son-of-CORBA is on our horizon: a better, leaner, easier RPC.

Critical Mass: The perl/python/php/ruby/etc/etc extensions didn't come for CORBA quickly enough :)

For me, there's the SOAP-to-CORBA bridge. Maybe someday I'll have time to hack on that a bit :)

CMIP-to-SOAP-to-CORBA bridge? That would be fun. More hack, less Slashdot. Don't need to find a hidden cache of German tanks to realize even that might be a bridge too far...

I think you're describing something between CORBA and CMIP.

SOAP was simpler to setup (no broker and associated config), easier to grasp publication of servants, and the data packet can be debugged on-the-wire, so you can code-test-debug until it goes. CORBA is a binary format that is more optimal on the wire, but harder to debug. There's Other Issues, but These issues are Mine.

Even thought I can sit in my figurative armchair and say "seen it before", in truth these concepts co back and forth (or iterative cycles, take yer pick) and feed off each other to evolve. Maybe Son-of-CORBA is on our horizon: a better, leaner, easier RPC.

Critical Mass: The perl/python/php/ruby/etc/etc extensions didn't come for CORBA quickly enough :)

For me, there's the SOAP-to-CORBA bridge. Maybe someday I'll have time to hack on that a bit :)

CMIP-to-SOAP-to-CORBA bridge? That would be fun. More hack, less Slashdot. Don't need to find a hidden cache of German tanks to realize even that might be a bridge too far...

The "Powered Exoskeleton: The real bionic man" entry brought to you by none other than Robert A. Heinlein, the inventor of the Waldo, the waterbed and I don't know what else...

The main thing that was missing from Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers was the powered exoskeletons, courtesy R.A.H., circa 1959. Not that I didn't adore the "Doogie Howser, S.S.", "Klendathu 90210" aspects of the film, but the only really good example of the notion we've had in film is Ripley's "Get away from her, you bitch!" from Aliens.

The "Powered Exoskeleton: The real bionic man" entry brought to you by none other than Robert A. Heinlein, the inventor of the Waldo, the waterbed and I don't know what else...

The main thing that was missing from Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers was the powered exoskeletons, courtesy R.A.H., circa 1959. Not that I didn't adore the "Doogie Howser, S.S.", "Klendathu 90210" aspects of the film, but the only really good example of the notion we've had in film is Ripley's "Get away from her, you bitch!" from Aliens.

IAmNotALawyer. But two ideas from my (mis)understanding of the law seem relevant from where I sit.

First, there is in US property law (via common law) the idea of adverse possession. Essentially, if you occupy a property long enough without the rightful owner doing anything, you can't be booted. I'm not sure what the exact case law is; I have a vague recollection of seven and ten years being associated, but I'm guessing.

The other idea is that a trademark, if not actively and vigorously defended, may be voided, and lose its protected status.

The current Wargames.com owner has been there since '98 -- over seven years. The original Wargames movie came out in 1983, according to IMDB. In my jaundiced eye, this leaves MGM on very questionable ground for both of these aspect. With a good lawyer, he might have a decent shot at getting a settlement where he keeps the domain, and in exchange agrees to carry their computer game if they make one, maybe points some lost traffic their way, maybe a non-compete agreement in the movie business... but he doesn't challenge the underlying validity of their trademark. A damn good lawyer might even be able to get MGM to cover all legal expenses, but I wouldn't bet on that.

And, yeah, based on what IMDB says, MGM seems to have a plot vastly less realistic than the hardly credible original, and are starting out by pissing off the zealous geek contingent and their solid block of prospective moviegoers. I'd wonder if Harlan Ellison's proverbial "intellectual capacity of an artichoke" was involved, but he seems to be listed as being with Paramount (currently working on a project perhaps well-suited to the reputed scope of his intellect). This is one movie where I'd not only be unwilling to go to, but now might consider encouraging refund requests by taking advantage of my knowledge that the main breakers for individual projectors at three of the local theaters are located outside the buildings.

This movie sounds like it may not be merely a gobbler, but radioactive putrid gobbler fecal matter. Get the hazmat suit.

Rather than pi, couldn't we just have it play checkers against itself? It tasked the computer in War Games. Maybe the War Games Sequel will use a PS3?

Jim

...surely the Rodney Dangerfield of scripting languages.

She's 27:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000611/

I'm 5 years older than my wife - no big deal, but there are times 5 years is a big deal..."What, honey? They never played 'Every Rose has its Thorn' at your prom???". Or when I realize when I graduated HS, she was 13...

But when yesterday, I realized my wife was only a few months older than the UNIX girl from Jurassic Park, I felt like a dirty old man...

The real problem is the loner hacker getting off with ally sheedy. Mind you, she later turned out to gay: http://imdb.com/title/tt0139362/ ("High Art") http://imdb.com/title/tt0337717/ ("Shelter").