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The dude was hacking before I knew what a computer was: he was dumpster diving and doing late nite hack sessions on a work computer, LEO (Large Enumeration Officiator).

http://imdb.com/title/tt0067219/

Also of note:

Spock and James T. Kirk, they programmed and logic bombed many a computer in thier time - Star Trek
http://imdb.com/title/tt0060028/

and where is Bryce Lynch??!!??! he was able to pirate some guy's brain into a mainframe! - Max Headroom
http://imdb.com/title/tt0089568/

Totally missed was Michael Fox & Judy Collins - in Prime Risk
http://imdb.com/title/tt0087942/

Bobby Witherspoon (aka Xardon) - in Interface
http://imdb.com/title/tt0087476/

Dr. Charles Luther - in Runaway
http://imdb.com/title/tt0088024/

Marcus Pendleton alias Caesar Smith - in Hot Millions
http://imdb.com/title/tt0063094/

Freeman Lowell - in Silent Running
http://imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

Then there are 'Computer' Hackers which are computers using the system,

Edgar, the Pinecone OS - in Electric Dreams
http://imdb.com/title/tt0087197/

such as Colossus - in Colossus: the Forbin Project
http://imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

Proteus - in Deamon Seed
http://imdb.com/title/tt0075931/

And the well meaning but not too bright MCP (kind of like Microsoft) - in Tron
http://imdb.com/title/tt0084827/

and the Robotrix Maria - in Metropolis
http://imdb.com/title/tt0017136/

A statement:

I am a sound designer and a programmer. I have on many occasions intentionally, even without being asked, cut "blip" sound effects for code scrolling across a screen -- not just code, but any sort of stdout/text output/situational awareness display.

I do not do it because I'm stupid, or am trying to dumb down the audience, it for a few specific reasons:

• There are several storytelling conventions in cinema, namely, computers make beeping noises when their graphics change. Though most computers don't now, they used to, and the convention was started around the time Robert Redford was passionately waiting for a teletype to emit an important bit of data.
• Aside from the computer convention, there is the strong convention of providing a sound effect for any physical change that occurs on screen that humans cannot account for with alpha, beta or delta motion (see phi phenomenon for a discussion of how humans interpret 2-dimensional images). "See a sound, hear a sound" is the first commandment of sound effects.
• Along these lines, I could show you footage of a computer screen and give you nothing but a fan whirr, and you'd be bored and immediately looking around the room, and the sound helps keep your attention on the data on screen. This is important, since computer displays often are bearing an embarrasing amount of exposition. Sound is like control characters in ASCII: it's out of band and can do magical things to your "session" (in the broadest sense of the word).

We put blips on a computer screen for the same reason ipods chirp when you press a button. Psychology.

Very dated now, but they did at least get some things right. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

don't worry, I doubt it was sarcasm.

I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains.

I'm surprised that The Net didn't make it onto the list. After all, this is the movie where the bad guys kill a guy by hacking into the computer controlling his car's anti-lock brakes.

Really.

i also can't believe they left colossus out. tsk tsk tsk.

Wow! That's even more than it takes to travel in time!

Have you seen the movie "Thank you for smoking" http://imdb.com/title/tt0427944/ ?
Well there's one phrase on this movie that stunded me like a thunderbolt. It went something like this: Even though we are constantly exploring the subject WE HAVEN'T found direct link between cell phone usage and brain cancer.
Instantly i saw my self 40 years ahead in time watching the movie "Thank you for talking!".

Wow, this all has a ring of Hackers circa 1995. Don't tell me his background check revealed that he commonly went by 'Zero Cool', or wait maybe 'Cereal Killer'.

Any company that trusts someone with their deepest darkest secrets, and doesn't have the brains to conduct a bg check deserves what they get.

• But we also shouldn't want USA to become uber-specialized Chiba City surrounded by a vast wasteland of poor serfs.
• Well, speak for yourself - personally I'm all for that, as long as I get to be a Chiba. At least until the uprising, anyway...

[SantaVoice]You'll shoot your eye out kid!!![/SantaVoice]

"almost live."

Is that like "almost funny"

Back in the late 1980s, a TV show -- I think it was Totally Hidden Video -- was doing "man on the street" interviews with people in front of some state's capitol.

They asked the pedestrians something like "Are you aware that Senator so-and-so is in there right now being questioned on corruption/fraud charges, etc."

Of course, Senator so-and-so was fictional, but a lot of people agreed what a scumbag he was.

While this was more of a display of ignorance than fasle memories, one woman said, "I feel awful because I voted for him."

Lunch is all well and good, but I'm still waiting for an investigation into the device's popcorn-popping capabilities.

False memories are a consequence of insufficient feedback to the mind. Anyone who ever went into an isolation tank (think Altered States, but without the apemen leaving the tank) will tell you. The mind compensates for excluded experience when it's used to experience being included by creating that experience, often indistinguishable from "real" experience of real reality.

Feedback is the return loop of interactivity, after the "sensitive" send loop.. VR is usually (some would say theoretically certainly, as in lesser degrees of infinitude) less interactive than reality. So the mind compensates. Perhaps there is a threshold of interactivity or just feedback (in which we can get a measure of sensitivity) below which the mind starts compensating. Or perhaps it's always a complement, as we remember a continuum of sense images, not the digital representations we actually experienced. From "perfect" VR presentation with no "help" from our minds or in our memories, or down to total hallucinations when the VR is really shoddy, or just perfectly minimalist, like pulling a rorschach trigger.

For an extreme case of these memory tricks, try nemory: What you don't remember, that never happened.

T-Mobile uses the GSM cellular protocol, which is the best, by far, and is used throughout Europe and most of the world. If you plan to travel to other countries, you will need a quad-band phone like the Motorola Razr V3.

Are you sure about that? GSM is the open protocol, which by default makes me respect it some more, but CDMA has several compelling advantages. Higher density of users per site, continuous transmission instead of time division (ever held a GSM phone near a speaker?) and in my experience CDMA performs better in marginal signal areas then GSM does. That may not mean much to you in Europe or if you live in an urban area, but out where I live that's huge.

In any case, I'd love to dump big red (VZW) for T-Mobile, based on T-Mobiles reputation for customer service, the fact that they will unlock my phone and the fact that they told the NSA to go to hell when they were compiling the calls database. Unfortunately T-Mobile has no signal where I live. They also broke up with Catherine, in favor of a "new re-branding strategy". Yeah, whose bright idea was that? I was told that I'd get to sleep with her if I signed a ten year contract. *sigh*

In all seriousness though, T-Mobile is about the only provider that I have any respect for. VZW has you by the balls and knows it (best coverage), Cingular customer service sucks and Sprint doesn't have good coverage (where I am). All hail the free market! Between the three of them I see very little price differences and the only compelling feature is Sprints nights & weekends which start at 7 instead of 9.

Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?

Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime; so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.

Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?

Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.

Bob Slydell: Eight?

Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

Memorable Quotes from Office Space

The phone company is still the most powerful and deadly organization on the planet. There was a documentary produced about it many years ago: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/

Let me summarize...

American: It is no concern of mine whether or not your family has... what was it again?
Peasant: Umm... food?
American: Ha! You should have thought of that before you became peasants.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120917/quotes

I hereby invite Boeing-Spectrolab to open source this technology and give it to the world.

This would easily have the single greatest positive impact on humanity within my lifetime (born in 1973).

That would remind me a little of the movie "The Saint" and how giving away free energy would change the world.

That should even earn the decision-maker Person of the Year award. And really tick off the investors. But, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Wally World is a reference to National Lampoon's Vacation starring Chevy Chase. In the movie, Wally World is a borked knock off of Disney. Thus, calling Walmart "Wally World" is a strong insult, not a term veneration for good ol' Uncle Sam (Walton).

Ooops? :)

Not many here could pull that obscure reference from way back in 1981. Truly a classic flick.

(for those who missed it: link)

Just wrap the card in Tin foil.

Funny ha ha, yes, but has anyone noticed that many science-fiction movies of recent years have included as a plot device one of the characters embedded with some sort of implant (in the brain, under the skin, etc.) or added to some common item (clothing, watch, pen, etc.) that was carried around? I recently watched Jonathan Demme's The Manchurian Candidate on cable and it occurred to me that such a scenario doesn't have to involve a conspiracy of the highest order to be successful or involve a high-concept goal; unwitting or passive acceptance would work just fine, and the goal can be mundane but similarly insidious.

My guess is that monitoring technologies in various forms will increasingly become part of our daily lives. RFID chips, for example, seem destined to be everywhere, and while it's up to each of us to be as vigilant as the article's poster, the future will play out as a constant game of catch-up and workarounds for the select few in the know. Computers are part of our daily lives but knowledge of them is superficial at best. Should we expect the average person to have an inkling of how other technologies that come in smaller packages work?

Have you scanned yourself, lately?

Why is it that all these control devices focus on causing pain? What about pleasure?

Already done:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124819/

I think this guy will say something about prior art.

I've always wondered just how effective protests really are.

Say you lived in Texas when Bush invaded Iraq and you opposed it. Chances are you were feeling pretty lonely. Seeing a whole lotta people protesting might not only make you feel less lonely but encourage you to speak out. Nothing will ever lead Dubya to reverse a Custer decision but protests have other effects.

As someone who finished watching "From the Earth to the Moon" earlier tonight, I can say that I can't wait for humans to return to the moon. We do need a permanent presence on the moon, for many reasons, such as; separation of the human species in case of global tragedy, explore moon's geology (where did that thing come from?), explore theories about colonization, biospheres, and self-sustenance, launch point for future missions to distant worlds (if we could build a manufacturing center on the moon, its 1/6th gravity would be very beneficial to launching new craft), and many, many, many more benefits both seen and unseen.

Returning to the moon is in humanity's best interest, and is clearly the path to the future. Focus on the space program will push development and inventions to help push the edge of what is capable. I see space travel as one of the grand challenges we will face in our lifetime, and it would be a shame to hesitate when we have already taken so many steps toward that goal. As someone who was born prior to the last Apollo mission, I feel it is a crime that we have abandoned the moon for the majority of my lifetime.

Unfortunately, the political winds have not been blowing favorably towards NASA, and it may take another visionary like JFK to take us back to the moon and beyond.

"Listen. I work for the CIA. I am not a spy. I just read books! We read everything that's published in the world. And we... we feed the plots - dirty tricks, codes - into a computer, and the computer checks against actual CIA plans and operations. I look for leaks, I look for new ideas... We read adventures and novels and journals. I... I... Who'd invent a job like that?"

Even in the 70's they had really cool microfiche machines! ;-)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/

This is a movie you have to see: http://imdb.com/title/tt0089652/

So we can nuke Tagish Lake like in the movie?

personally, having read the black cloud. This seems more Evolution http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251075/

Plot Outline: A firefighting cadet, two college professors, and a geeky-but-sexy government scientist work against an alien organism that has been rapidly evolving ever since its arrival on Earth inside a meteor.

Maureen O'Nigger (GNAP) Hong Kong, HK - Gary Niger, known here as the intrepid Nigger-Anus pilot and spokes-negro of the GNAA (NASDIQ: GNAA) was laid off today from his second job at Lik-Dong after the company spread it's cheeks for the massive legal phallus of the Sony Adult Entertainment Corporation (NASDIQ: ANAL).

Lik-Dong, best known for it's "modchips" which turn Japenese video games into American hardcore gay pornography could not be reached for comment.

Sony Adult Entertainment Corp had stated in previous press release that they did not tolerate anal piracy of any sort and that "we told those nigger bastards they were going to pay!"

Recently a hostile take-over of the heretofor Japanese company left it in solely Jewish hands. An employee of the Sony Adult Entertainment Corp said on condition of anonymity, "maybe if those cheap fucks had spent some money on the GayStation III, instead of whores, and X... we wouldn't be going out of business".

Timecop was notified of the layoff today when he recieved a despondent phone call from Gary. Gary informed timecop that "Being a Gay Nigger just doesn't pay like it used to". Timecop, CEO of GNAA, GNAA Enterprises, and the newly formed GNAA Corps Africa, in his discussion with Gary promised to see what he could do about Gary's compensation package based on his layoff.

GNAA, on behalf of the CEO released an official statement which follows: "Gary was laid off from his day job today, and though his work at the GNAA continues to be anus-breaking, his anus is not as tight as it once was, and though still satisfying, loosens after a severe pounding. I therefore cannot give Gary a raise at this time."

Sony Adult Entertainment Corporation was contacted for comment but all that was audible on the line was "SHOVE THAT NIGGER DICK DEEPER, OOH YES! DEEPER!" This was followed by a click and the line disconnected, no attempt at a return call was made.

About Sony Adult Entertainment Corporation:

LOL.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, an

Andromeda Strain comes to life?

Well, in defense, there are a limited number of expansions, and I didn't really expect to find Urban Assault Vehicles in civilian airspace anyway.

It wasn't the Egyptians. Everyone knows the Mondoshawan got him.

What I was going to say, you said better.
Beyond Borders was clearly not intended to be a blockbuster movie. As entertainment, it sucked. But three years later, I can remember parts of it with *far* better clarity than, eg. The Incredibles.

How seriously can you take would be crackers who go around blabbing about an upcoming attack?

I think this quote from Sneakers sums it up nicely:

Cosmo: Posit: People think a bank might be financially shaky.
Martin Bishop: Consequence: People start to withdraw their money.
Cosmo: Result: Pretty soon it is financially shaky.
Martin Bishop: Conclusion: You can make banks fail.
Cosmo: Bzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few? Think bigger.
Martin Bishop: Stock market?
Cosmo: Yes.
Martin Bishop: Currency market?
Cosmo: Yes.
Martin Bishop: Commodities market?
Cosmo: Yes.
Martin Bishop: Small countries?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chi negro

There was a movie where a woman actually defined the different kinds of intrebred races. Can't remember it for the life of me.

Aha! Domino (2005)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421054/quotes

Some of her other ones were Blactino, blackasian, hispasian, koreagro, Japegro, Chispanic, koreaspanic, and japanic.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Magnificent Seven? Ehh...

Maybe we should vote for Michael Biehn for President.

He was in the Terminator movies with Arnold, and he played a SEAL in The Abyss and Navy Seals....

Maybe we should vote for Michael Biehn for President.

He was in the Terminator movies with Arnold, and he played a SEAL in The Abyss and Navy Seals....

Maybe we should vote for Michael Biehn for President.

He was in the Terminator movies with Arnold, and he played a SEAL in The Abyss and Navy Seals....

Actually, to be honest, there is no **REAL** reason to upgrade to the new Linuz kernel either

Soghoian's blog has insightful comments about the divide between security researchers and government officials on subjects such as TOR.

my Minority Report-style desktop UI?

Seriously, this could bode well for the whole idea of integrating the physical interface with the virtual system, as it's a very adaptable, less constrained design. Sorting objects (files) by physically moving them, zooming in by tapping on an object, sculpting/3D design by actually manipulating a physical object... and I haven't even touched on (no pun intended) the potential porn aspects... the mind boggles...

You skipped a level in the thread.

>>>They took this idea form Stargate sg1.

was replied to by:

>>Subscribers are invited to take a drink from the Firehose
>>
>>This is an example of slashdot homo-eroticism.

(I'm not sure why this poster chose to reply here, as I don't think it belongs in the thread, but I could be wrong.).

The next reply:

>Never watched UHF, or whatever that horrid movie was back in the early '90s I assume.

was in answer to the "Firehose" post, since it was apparently a reference to the Weird Al Yankovic film entitled "UHF" (in 1989, FWIW) where Stanley Spadowski (played by Michael Richards) has a children's TV show where the grand prize is to "drink" from a firehose on full blast.

This is a problem with anything that focuses on winning, rather than doing good work.

Winning is inherently inefficient in an economic sense. The inputs required increase until resources are saturated, rather than stopping at the point of maximum cost-effectiveness. This has serious financial implications in a marketing-oriented culture. Classical economic theory is predicated on the assumption that the cost of production dominates the cost of goods. But, in fact, there are many goods where marketing cost now dominates. Telephone service, for example. The result is frantic overmarketing efforts to achieve a monopoly, in hopes that then, finally, it will be possible to raise prices and make some money.

Jock culture has the same issues. If you play to win, playing becomes all-consuming. In pro sports, that's been the case for decades. It's a modern phenomenon, created by TV. Pre-TV, local teams had roughly the same revenues, win or lose. Today, winning boosts revenues and matters economically. The big sports used to have off-seasons. Now, players train year round. The Olympics was once an "amateur" event, but that hasn't been true in a long time.

Now that you can make money in an MMORPG, that bit of economics intrudes there. And it doesn't matter if you're playing for money; as long as some people are, you have to play as well to stay in the game.

Again, this is a relatively modern concept. Rent The Hustler, which is about pool halls and pool sharks. Modern viewers find it wierd that anyone would consider it unfair for a really good player to win over the sort-of-good players. That's life, right? But the dynamics in that movie are different; the pool shark is attacked and crippled for being a winner. The movie views this somewhat favorably. That seems so strange today.

The implications of winner-take-all culture are insidious. Watch for them.

Maureen O'Nigger (GNAP) Hong Kong, HK - Gary Niger, known here as the intrepid Nigger-Anus pilot and spokes-negro of the GNAA (NASDIQ: GNAA) was laid off today from his second job at Lik-Dong after the company spread it's cheeks for the massive legal phallus of the Sony Adult Entertainment Corporation (NASDIQ: ANAL).

Lik-Dong, best known for it's "modchips" which turn Japenese video games into American hardcore gay pornography could not be reached for comment.

Sony Adult Entertainment Corp had stated in previous press release that they did not tolerate anal piracy of any sort and that "we told those nigger bastards they were going to pay!"

Recently a hostile take-over of the heretofor Japanese company left it in solely Jewish hands. An employee of the Sony Adult Entertainment Corp said on condition of anonymity, "maybe if those cheap fucks had spent some money on the GayStation III, instead of whores, and X... we wouldn't be going out of business".

Timecop was notified of the layoff today when he recieved a despondent phone call from Gary. Gary informed timecop that "Being a Gay Nigger just doesn't pay like it used to". Timecop, CEO of GNAA, GNAA Enterprises, and the newly formed GNAA Corps Africa, in his discussion with Gary promised to see what he could do about Gary's compensation package based on his layoff.

GNAA, on behalf of the CEO released an official statement which follows: "Gary was laid off from his day job today, and though his work at the GNAA continues to be anus-breaking, his anus is not as tight as it once was, and though still satisfying, loosens after a severe pounding. I therefore cannot give Gary a raise at this time."

Sony Adult Entertainment Corporation was contacted for comment but all that was audible on the line was "SHOVE THAT NIGGER DICK DEEPER, OOH YES! DEEPER!" This was followed by a click and the line disconnected, no attempt at a return call was made.

About Sony Adult Entertainment Corporation:

LOL.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, an

Ah, well, there's always Appollonium
Egad, that's a retarded joke.
Better go anonymous on this one.

Spock would know to change the prefix codes ...

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/