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Physical security is just not good enough. Yes, I believe everything I see in the movies.

I thought this story was about a sequel to the first movie.

Yes!

This all reminds me of the "pre-crime police" in Phil K Dick's excellent book/movie Minority Report. I'm glad I live in Mexico where you have to do the bad stuff before they get busy.

"You made one fatal mistake, you trusted us." is the old parable of the scorpion and the frog.

[ Halfway across the river...]

Frog: Why did you sting me, for now we both shall die.
Scorpion: I couldn't help myself. It's my nature.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104036/quotes
http://allaboutfrogs.org/stories/scorpion.html

Novell has made the life or death decision to carry the scorpion (Ballmer). Let's see how it turns out halfway into this deal.
Hint: There's no one more trustworthy than Steve Ballmer. In the scorpion department.

If Sir Ian McKellen can put solar panels on his roof in England and have it generate more energy than he needs I think you could do just fine in Michigan.

If you ask me, it's you brain making solar power hard, not the Universe. The Universe is dumping it all over the ground around you.

Take hydrogen. The day someone figures out how to easily produce hydrogen the days of energy monopolies are over - anyone with access to water

Ok, one last time hydrogen is a carrier of energy not a generator. H20 -> H2 into whatever storage device -> H20(exhaust frm fuel cell) not really going to gain a ton of energy. Sure it's relatively clean(although you are turning a bunch of liq H2O into water vapor) but hydrogen has energy density problems that need to be solved. So basically, stop getting your science info from Keanu Reeves movies.

Hooray for Herb!

Heck, they even made a movie about it.

"Evil will triumph because good is dumb" --Darth Helmet

His name is Dark Helmet.

"If the Sun were ever to produce such an outburst, it would almost certainly cause a mass extinction on Earth."

This sounds like a great premise for a hollywood sci-fi epic.

Unless you're a 6-fingered bad guy from The Princess Bride (who, ironically, is best known as the guitarist from "This Is Spinal Tap"), there's no way to play that game the way you play a real guitar because of the five buttons. Four buttons would've been much better, or perhaps with a couple of rows of four buttons for a total of eight, would've been more realistic and fun for us four-fingered and one-thumbed folk.

As for the rest, the mind boggles. Do people go to some special school to learn how to talk like that?

Not exactly. Here's a movie that explains the process.

Might I suggest the movie "The other side of AIDS". Pretty biased IMHO, but definitely an eye opener on several misconceptions surrounding the issue. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427614/

They wanted to go into Iraq from the moment they took office

Actually, long before that. See here for example (note the signatories on the letter).

If you have a moment, I highly recommend tracking down and watching this documentary. It's out there in torrent-land if you look.

(Posted anon due to previous moderation on this story)

Save some money: Amazon.com $32.99 Overstock.com $31.34 Half.com $28.95 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000696/filmogenre Deep Core http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202314/ Python http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(movie) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Wheaton

Save some money: Amazon.com $32.99 Overstock.com $31.34 Half.com $28.95 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000696/filmogenre Deep Core http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202314/ Python http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(movie) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Wheaton

I wonder if Porn sites could be held to that kind standard...
Am I the only one with a vision of Blinkin with Braille Playboy?

I think he meant Carl Borack but I could be wrong...

It was definitely a bad pun, but one would think that the "+1 SciFi Nerd" would have tipped you off.

Vizzini: You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...

Rocks do walk the earth. I've got inrefutable proof of that:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425005/

This also explains why those little concrete poles at the side of the road always seem to want to cross the road when I'm biking home drunk...

Many Slashdotters may not remember Bill Dana's character Jose Jiminez. From the 1960's. Determined to be politically incorrect by those that judge these things http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199049/

They were trying to avoid contamination of their local crop. I don't remember what they were worried about in Florida, but California did the same thing awhile back during a fruit fly infestation.

I thought this was pretty fascistic.

No, it wasn't. A better candidate was when the US Border Patrol set up a checkpoint where the highway from the Florida Keys entered the mainland, to catch Cubans from the Mariel boatlift. As a result, everyone living in the Keys had to establish citizenship every time they went to mainland Florida. The City of Key West filed suit in federal court, but was denied.

In response, the mayor of Key West announced secession from the US and formed the Conch Republic. He declared war on the US, then immediately surrendered and demanded a billion dollars in war relief. Any resemblance to a movie was purely intentional.

Have you seen Jesus Camp?

" Jesus Camp revolves around a pentecostal minister who hosts a summer camp for children in North Dakota, and the sectarian Christian conservative families who send their children to this camp. Directors ... construct a subtle, yet damning narrative about a religious movement that isolates its children from mainstream culture, indoctrinates them into right-wing causes, and uses them as political props.
...
  The camp director explains that she admires the way Islamic cultures raise children so devoted they will risk their lives for their faith."

The point being that indoctrination can take many forms across all religions.

If you're basing all your knowledge on some 2 hr film, it is more than likely that you're ignoring decades of history which paints the United States (and other Western countries) in a very bad light with respect to their actions regarding Muslim nations.

Almost all the countries in the Middle East & the predominatly Muslim European countries have a history of significant internal intereference by England, France and/or the U.S.

I had to mention this. I thought this was some kind of promo for the last movie in "the series". Ocean's Empty. No? Sorry. I'll let myself out now.

I've already seen it in the Japanese "The man who stole the sun" (1979).

Everyone who goes to the movies knows that global warming causes the planet to freeze over.

Hmm. I must've missed each and every one of those movies. Yes, global warming causes some localized cooling. Unfortunately, you're missing the key ingredient of polar ice caps to melt... No ice caps to melt, no lowering of localized temp due to global warming. Just a raising of the temp everywhere.

Wraith virus?

SWEET! Bring on the kick-ass car!

According to Spike Lee it is "Mo' Better". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100168/

High-budget != good

Whoever tells you that channels like Ch4 are "tacky" has never watched stuff like Low Winter Sun -- which , while lacking special effects and not scifi (which guarantees that it won't appear in IRC channels)... was a fucking excellent, gritty mini-series.

Most Americans seem to judge UK TV by what appears on eztz torrent channels. We don't do much SF or stuff that is IRC-bait.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027271/


Director - filmography
(In Production) (2000s) (1990s)

1. Deathrace 3000 (2008) (announced)
2. Man with the Football (2008) (announced)
3. Castlevania (2007) (announced)
4. AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
... aka Alien vs. Predator (Germany) (USA: short title)
... aka AVP (USA: promotional abbreviation)
5. Resident Evil (2002)
... aka Resident Evil (France) (Germany)
6. The Sight (2000) (TV)
7. Soldier (1998/I) (as Paul Anderson)
8. Event Horizon (1997) (as Paul Anderson)
9. Mortal Kombat (1995) (as Paul Anderson)
10. Mortal Kombat: Behind the Scenes (1995) (V)
11. Shopping (1994) (as Paul Anderson)



Based on this either you will be really really excited, or really really pissed off. I am the latter.

You have to figure HBO has a pretty sizable legal department, and wouldn't air a documentary that wasn't accurate (for fear of being sued). So if diebold's claims are untrue, all they are really doing are serving to help publicize the documentary before it airs. Brilliant move, haha. I know I had my DVR set to record it, but I can imagine many other /.ers did not... and now undoubtedly, some will.

Regarding Diebold's claims, although the article is a little short on facts, for instance, following this section, "According to Byrd's letter, inaccuracies in the film include the assertion that Diebold, whose election systems unit is based in Allen, Texas, tabulated more than 40 percent of the votes cast in the 2000 presidential election." ... "The letter says Diebold wasn't in the electronic voting business in 2000, when disputes over ballots in Florida delayed President Bush's victory for more than a month and raised questions about the reliability of electronic voting machines." I would like to see an actual fact that states whether their claims are true or not. For instance, maybe they weren't in electronic voting business in 2000, but that doesn't mean they didn't still tally many paper votes (the aggregate of which amounts to 40% of the votes in the election)-- or that he hasn't screwed up interpreting what the film says (since he apparently hasn't seen it). Regardless of which, I think it's probably safe to assume if HBO isn't backing down, and does air the documentary, that this is largely smokescreen on the part of Diebold to try and convince the public that HBO is just an extension of the "liberal media" lying to them.

Furthermore, the article is short on explanation, but I don't think this is just a crass comment, "It appears that the film Diebold is responding to is not the film HBO is airing." ..but rather that HBO's spokesman is actually suggesting they are responding to this film, VoterGate, and not Hacking Democracy, whose UK working title is listed as "VoterGate" and whose tagline says, "Computers count America's votes in secret. 'Votergate' hacks the votes." The co-mingling of the word "Votergate" does lead to some confusion, even though the directors of each film are totally different, one is produced by "Digital Bazooka" productions and the other by "Teale-Edwards" Productions (which produced another good, but sad HBO documentary that I would reccomend watching -- Dealing Dogs). My suspicions are probably best supported by the line,"The company, which hasn't seen the film, based its complaints on material from the HBO Web site, Bear said." ..if they haven't seen the film, it's a bit difficult to suggest it is full of eggregious errors, and maybe they are commenting about 2004's VoterGate.

On a personal note, I am a documentarian, and no documentary can ever be completely "true" to everyone. Laymen make the mistake of thinking to shoot a documentary you just point some cameras at stuff, edit it, and voila. But there is so much more than that.. a documentary is about capturing the "truth" the documentarian sees. For (s)he to use cameras and mics to tell the story that (s)he saw. There is always some bias in this, and one important trick to being a good documentarian is divorcing yourself from this bias as much as possible.

You have to figure HBO has a pretty sizable legal department, and wouldn't air a documentary that wasn't accurate (for fear of being sued). So if diebold's claims are untrue, all they are really doing are serving to help publicize the documentary before it airs. Brilliant move, haha. I know I had my DVR set to record it, but I can imagine many other /.ers did not... and now undoubtedly, some will.

Regarding Diebold's claims, although the article is a little short on facts, for instance, following this section, "According to Byrd's letter, inaccuracies in the film include the assertion that Diebold, whose election systems unit is based in Allen, Texas, tabulated more than 40 percent of the votes cast in the 2000 presidential election." ... "The letter says Diebold wasn't in the electronic voting business in 2000, when disputes over ballots in Florida delayed President Bush's victory for more than a month and raised questions about the reliability of electronic voting machines." I would like to see an actual fact that states whether their claims are true or not. For instance, maybe they weren't in electronic voting business in 2000, but that doesn't mean they didn't still tally many paper votes (the aggregate of which amounts to 40% of the votes in the election)-- or that he hasn't screwed up interpreting what the film says (since he apparently hasn't seen it). Regardless of which, I think it's probably safe to assume if HBO isn't backing down, and does air the documentary, that this is largely smokescreen on the part of Diebold to try and convince the public that HBO is just an extension of the "liberal media" lying to them.

Furthermore, the article is short on explanation, but I don't think this is just a crass comment, "It appears that the film Diebold is responding to is not the film HBO is airing." ..but rather that HBO's spokesman is actually suggesting they are responding to this film, VoterGate, and not Hacking Democracy, whose UK working title is listed as "VoterGate" and whose tagline says, "Computers count America's votes in secret. 'Votergate' hacks the votes." The co-mingling of the word "Votergate" does lead to some confusion, even though the directors of each film are totally different, one is produced by "Digital Bazooka" productions and the other by "Teale-Edwards" Productions (which produced another good, but sad HBO documentary that I would reccomend watching -- Dealing Dogs). My suspicions are probably best supported by the line,"The company, which hasn't seen the film, based its complaints on material from the HBO Web site, Bear said." ..if they haven't seen the film, it's a bit difficult to suggest it is full of eggregious errors, and maybe they are commenting about 2004's VoterGate.

On a personal note, I am a documentarian, and no documentary can ever be completely "true" to everyone. Laymen make the mistake of thinking to shoot a documentary you just point some cameras at stuff, edit it, and voila. But there is so much more than that.. a documentary is about capturing the "truth" the documentarian sees. For (s)he to use cameras and mics to tell the story that (s)he saw. There is always some bias in this, and one important trick to being a good documentarian is divorcing yourself from this bias as much as possible.

You have to figure HBO has a pretty sizable legal department, and wouldn't air a documentary that wasn't accurate (for fear of being sued). So if diebold's claims are untrue, all they are really doing are serving to help publicize the documentary before it airs. Brilliant move, haha. I know I had my DVR set to record it, but I can imagine many other /.ers did not... and now undoubtedly, some will.

Regarding Diebold's claims, although the article is a little short on facts, for instance, following this section, "According to Byrd's letter, inaccuracies in the film include the assertion that Diebold, whose election systems unit is based in Allen, Texas, tabulated more than 40 percent of the votes cast in the 2000 presidential election." ... "The letter says Diebold wasn't in the electronic voting business in 2000, when disputes over ballots in Florida delayed President Bush's victory for more than a month and raised questions about the reliability of electronic voting machines." I would like to see an actual fact that states whether their claims are true or not. For instance, maybe they weren't in electronic voting business in 2000, but that doesn't mean they didn't still tally many paper votes (the aggregate of which amounts to 40% of the votes in the election)-- or that he hasn't screwed up interpreting what the film says (since he apparently hasn't seen it). Regardless of which, I think it's probably safe to assume if HBO isn't backing down, and does air the documentary, that this is largely smokescreen on the part of Diebold to try and convince the public that HBO is just an extension of the "liberal media" lying to them.

Furthermore, the article is short on explanation, but I don't think this is just a crass comment, "It appears that the film Diebold is responding to is not the film HBO is airing." ..but rather that HBO's spokesman is actually suggesting they are responding to this film, VoterGate, and not Hacking Democracy, whose UK working title is listed as "VoterGate" and whose tagline says, "Computers count America's votes in secret. 'Votergate' hacks the votes." The co-mingling of the word "Votergate" does lead to some confusion, even though the directors of each film are totally different, one is produced by "Digital Bazooka" productions and the other by "Teale-Edwards" Productions (which produced another good, but sad HBO documentary that I would reccomend watching -- Dealing Dogs). My suspicions are probably best supported by the line,"The company, which hasn't seen the film, based its complaints on material from the HBO Web site, Bear said." ..if they haven't seen the film, it's a bit difficult to suggest it is full of eggregious errors, and maybe they are commenting about 2004's VoterGate.

On a personal note, I am a documentarian, and no documentary can ever be completely "true" to everyone. Laymen make the mistake of thinking to shoot a documentary you just point some cameras at stuff, edit it, and voila. But there is so much more than that.. a documentary is about capturing the "truth" the documentarian sees. For (s)he to use cameras and mics to tell the story that (s)he saw. There is always some bias in this, and one important trick to being a good documentarian is divorcing yourself from this bias as much as possible.

Maliciously placed software code is already weakening our military and hurting its ability to effectively fight wars

It's a conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!

OK, mod me off topic.

The movie is Buckaroo Banzai, not "Buckaroo Bonzai."

And the actual part of the movie that the OP is talking about (the initialization of the Oscillation Overthruster) is "Sined," "Seeled" and Delivered.

Geez. If you're going to quote a cult movie, at least be part of the cult.

John Bigboote? Is that you?

To quote the Buckaroo Bonzai movie, Microsoft's locked in monopoly is sined, sealed and delivered. The EULA for Vista provides more evidence Microsoft is the 800 lb. guerilla that doesn't care about potential faceoffs on these issues any more. The article seems to think differently:

If you thought that the legal troubles the company faced in the late 90s would perhaps mellow it out, you were wrong. Far from it. The draconian limitations I've discussed could only be enacted by a monopoly unafraid of alienating its users, as it feels they have no other alternative. Microsoft may yet learn, however, that there are limits to what its users will bear. To paraphrase what my fifth-grade teacher often told his rambunctious class, "Beware the wrath of a patient user base." Security pros have already given Microsoft a deserved black eye over the never-ending string of gaffes and vulnerabilities streaming out of the company. It seems now as though another black eyes and a bloody nose may be coming, along with a final wave goodbye. There comes a point at which corporate hubris causes a fall, and we may be seeing the beginning of that collapse. If so, Microsoft will have no one but itself to blame.

I'm not sure how the article's author would see the user base reacting. Pick a different platform? How? At what expense? No, Microsoft has got this one in the bag.

I predicted in the late 90's if Microsoft didn't have to pay real consequences for their business practices, eventually they would be rolling out OSes at any price they wanted and noone would be able to do much about it. This was at a time where hardware dramatically was decreasing in price but Windows, all flavors, continued to sustain an amazingly different cost curve. I predicted eventually:

• Microsoft would put out an OS at around $400
• Their OS would eventually be the largest cost of a new machine

It looks like we're pretty close to both. I'll continue to do my development in my Linux world, but I'm guessing there will be a momentary raised eyebrow with Microsoft's Vista, Vista's EULA with it's almost amazing restrictions (especially compared with already draconian past EULAs) and then business as usual.

very interesting point, I forgot about that little agreement there. Kinda reinforces the quote from The Way of the Gun, in which one of the characters states something to the effect of "Saying 'trust me' is the mark of a guilty soul".

I know for a fact that the US would grouse very loudly if the roles were reversed. Anyone over there care to start grousing, please?

Right title - think of "Creature Comforts"

I'm pretty sure the original short predated the gas adverts - although its probably the gas adverts that enabled most people to see them. I'm sure advertising work does a lot to support outfits like Aardman.

Maybe the web will kill off all the crass adverts that everybody ignores (so that people can ignore them on the web instead) and just leave the nicely made subtle and ironic ones (+5 wishful thinking).

:O That'd make one sweet disaster movie.

O Brother, Where Art Thou:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/

Shawn Combs:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004835/

As you can see, Combs' contributions to O Brother, Where Art Thou are far from insignificant. His role in that film was cited as the inspiration behind the transition from rock to folk for Spinal Tap, now known as The Folksmen.

O Brother, Where Art Thou:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/

Shawn Combs:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004835/

As you can see, Combs' contributions to O Brother, Where Art Thou are far from insignificant. His role in that film was cited as the inspiration behind the transition from rock to folk for Spinal Tap, now known as The Folksmen.

Mortal Kombat proved that a movie based on a video game could be successful.

I actually find myself hoping that great young directors never make it "big," lest they fall into making mainstream fare before they're old enough, powerful enough, or wise enough to fight the studio suits. Right now, I'm glad guys like Brad Anderson and David Gordon Green have not gotten "discovered."

-Eric

I actually find myself hoping that great young directors never make it "big," lest they fall into making mainstream fare before they're old enough, powerful enough, or wise enough to fight the studio suits. Right now, I'm glad guys like Brad Anderson and David Gordon Green have not gotten "discovered."

-Eric

Rumor has it that the Street Fighter game is going to be based around Chun-Li which tells me the focus is less on fighting and more on T&A. That being the case wouldnt they have been better off going for Dead of Alive its more well known with the younger gamers and if far more of a T&A fest than Street Fighter

I really hate to do this to you, so blissful and innocent, but....Dead or Alive The Movie.

You can't wage a successful, finite war on an idea.

For some weird reason, the parent post reminds me of the title of this movie. Somehow, I doubt these cultural learnings will make benefit any glorious nations (including the US).

"You see, most blokes will be playing at 10. You're on 10, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff...Eleven. One more."