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"Body Talk" Could Control Gadgets
I hope they don't mean that song by Ratt from The Golden Child...

Go ahead, mod me "offtopic".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/

Check out the above documentary link on IMDB and immediately go and rent this movie (or not). I for one welcome our new(?) Corporate Overlords.

The only thing that's surprising about this, actually, is that it took so long to arrive in a gaming environment, considering that movies have been capable of this "feature" for at least 46 years. The Tingler, starring Vincent Price, naturally, used this gimmic, wiring theater seats to shock viewers at appropriate moments. It didn't last then, and it won't last now.

This comes up as a slashdot story the day after I get info about a Moog film being shown at my local cinema.

Didn't someone else do this in the 70's? Oh yeah! Here it is!

Or Princess Bride.

Until I not noticed in the IMDB entry (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109579/) that it's actually based on a playwrite, by Ariel Dorfman.

Seeing that it (most of the time) all takes place in one room/house, makes perfect sense now, being derived from a playwrite.

Movies that are made from books are never as good as the original.

I have a counter-example: The Tenant.
I first saw the movie, from Roman Polanski. One of the best movies I ever saw.

Years later, I read the book, from Roland Topor, which is a pretty good book. I got amazed as how well the book was translated to the screen. We always complain that the book has so many more elements that can't fit in a two hour movie (LOTR anywone?), but amazingly every tiny aspect of the book was there. Polanski did a genius' job.

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BREAKING NEWS: Pope to star in Weekend at Bernie's III. Let's hope it's better than Weekend at Bernie's II

8============DYup, April fools.

As funny as the block of nonsense text in the abstract is, don't neglect to look at the authors: "Jack Napier, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Seto Kaiba and Yuffie Kisaragi."

Seto Kaiba is from YuGiOh and Yuffie Kisaragi is from the venerable Final Fantasy VII (one of the highlights of my adolescence). I did a Google search on Jack Napier and it returned some highly questionable results. IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0621023/ confirms that he is a porn star.

When Wallace and Gromit had their Grand Day Out they inadvertently took a few stowaway mice with them (it was Wallace's basement, after all). Every since 1991, the mice have been consuming the cheese at an exponentially growing rate.

Wasn't there a movie about this?

In other news, famed actor Milt Longhorne has been signed up to be the spokesperson for the new Windows Longhorn operating system. Microsoft spokespeople said that Milt's popularity with the older generation would help to solidify Microsoft's place in the senior citizens' homes.

Unfortunately, I forgot the title, but a rough synopsis...

A scientist invents a thing called "Viral Construct" (hereinafter, "VC")and tries it on himself. He runs into a friend in a bar who is already slightly tipsy, and the friend takes it, too. The friend goes home and sleeps for 3 days straight, but wakes up feeling astonishingly good. The scientist is dead - it turns out because he didn't let himself sleep the 3 days straight, but forced a normal waking schedule. Kind of an odd, silly, unlikely beginning, but it sets an interesting stage.

It turns out that VC is readily communicable, and has the same effects on those so infected. Not only do they feel good, but they tend to lose their bad habits. They generally quit smoking, and while they may enjoy alcoholic beverages, they no longer abuse. They also tend to automatically eat better, get more exercise, take a more positive outlook on life, etc. In essence, it's a "sanity infection." A small group of people forms around this, and keeping one of them uninfected as a control, the rest set out to infect the world.

One typical case was advance scout soldiers who had not reported in on schedule. Their followup found them - having lunch with the scouts from the other side. They had met and talked, and discovered how much their lives were alike, and that they'd likely be friends, if only they weren't wearing different uniforms.

There was a loose movie adaptation called, "What's So Bad About Feeling Good?" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063799/ starring a young Mary Tyler Moore, in between The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Re:Unscientific Unamerican (Score:2)
by R.Caley (126968) on Friday April 01, @11:18AM (#12111225)
(http://richard.caley.org.uk/)

they are calling us idiots for criticizing them for not sticking to science.

If you critisise them for `not sticking to science' then you deserve to be called an idiot,

...The arresting thing about Scientific American's coverage, however, was not this barrage of ineffective rejoinders but the editor's notion of what was going on: "Science defends itself against the Skeptical Environmentalist," he announced....

...Stephen Schneider, one of Scientific American's anti-Lomborgians, spoke we suspect not just for himself when he told Discover in 1989: "[We] are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we'd like to see the world a better place...To do that we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public's imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." In other words, save science for other scientists, in peer-reviewed journals and other sanctified places. In public, strike a balance between telling the truth and telling necessary lies.

Science needs no defending from Mr Lomborg. It may very well need defending from champions like Mr Schneider.

In essence, you play the part of someone doing something important and no one gives you flak ... same sort of idea.

Wasn't that the basis of the film "Catch Me If You Can"?

Wait, didn't LDS sponsor Orgasmo? If that's not business innovation, I don't know what is.

most important release of the year?

• Tiger
• Tiger
• Vader
• Revolutions (wrong year, does it count?)
• Half-Blood... oops! Wrong site for this entry...

most important release of the year?

• Tiger
• Tiger
• Vader
• Revolutions (wrong year, does it count?)
• Half-Blood... oops! Wrong site for this entry...

His first film was a true independent film. The subsequent ones had no independent nature whatsover.

Doing your own editing does not make you independent.

IMHO the best example of a true US independent filmmaker is Jim Jarmusch.

And the whole "independent label" is a misnomer.

I was hoping for George, and all I got was freakin' John.

It is the same guy, Tony Shalhoub.

...if the chip responds without requiring authentication, as current RFID chips do. If the RFID simply spits out its random Mark One RFID number on initial query, and only provides Mark Two grade information on recieving it's RFID back in a RSA signed query, it might mitigate the problem.

Still, that would leave at least five system weaknesses obvious to even cursory glances:

1) It's still a Mark One RFID initial response; to prevent traffic analysis from making identifying USAssholes (yes, I can say that, I am one) trivial for hostile entities, there need to be a lot more responding Mark One RFIDs chirping away out there.
2) The specific query to the RFID could be played back. This might be solvable by inclusion of a random number component with in the initial response.
3) Every Mark Two RFID query generator needs to have the signature capability; the system is only safe until one is stolen and reverse engineered. Giving each it's own marine guard is liable to increase the expense of the deployment slightly. This might be obviated by an integrity-and-privacy secured uplink connection to a centralized query making server located at Fort Meade.
4) This still implies US passport holders should trust the US government to be able to secretly and silently find out exactly who they are at any time. Survey says...
5) I'm betting the computation for signature checks exceed the RFID remotely powered capabilities; I suspect they don't have much more than needed to play "Marco!".... "Polo!"

The US Air Force is working on this, to create prosthetics for the many amputees coming back from war. But their goal is to be non-invasive; to not have to put yet another hole in the patients for the interface. see FireFox for another application of this.

It kinda sounds like "screamers".

How about....Jude Law? :)Oh shit, I here daleks at my door!

For me, it's strange watching some crimelord's flunky from "Crime Story", first as Buffalo Bill in "Silence of the Lambs", then as Alan Shepard, then as the captain of detectives in "Monk".

We could go on, and on. Shatner was lucky. Typecasting is a real problem for actors.

Typecasting seems to be more of a problem for actors with minimal acting skills.

Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart, for example, could never be typecasted.

We could go on, and on. Shatner was lucky. Typecasting is a real problem for actors.

Typecasting seems to be more of a problem for actors with minimal acting skills.

Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart, for example, could never be typecasted.

You think correctly. http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0403528/

Check out his resume on imdb... He appeared in TV shows like SeaHunt, Dragnet, The Rough Riders, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Perry Mason, Dr Kildere, Combat, The Virginian, The Lieutenant, The Outer Limits, The man from U.N.C.L.E., etc, etc, etc, as well as bit parts in a number of movies.

All that before Star Trek made him famous. He sure got a ton of work on for someone who 'isn't that good of an actor'.

If William Shatner didn't get "typecast" then I don't think this guy has much to worry about; OTTOMH, Shatner has played a starship captain, a policeman, and a lawyer (and all THAT after he played a Hitler-type character...or did he actually play Hitler in a movie...? Aha! to the rescue!! Holy COW, his IMDB entry is HUGE...ok, I'm seriously OT now, but Eccleston has nothing to worry about.)

Agreed... take a look at his filmography ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001772/ ).

Classically trained too you know, a Thespian. :)

I thought about who might be a departure from the usual, British enough for the home audience, yet have appeal abroad...........

What about Sting?

Nimoy played Tave (sp?) in Fiddler on the Roof,

But show anyone a picture of them, and they don't say "Nimoy!" they say "Spock!".

This reminds me of a nasty trick I played on a friend of mine for not attributing appropriate respect to my birthday. I added a little program that enabled sending messages across the network (the network had no native programs for doing so) onto his account, and in his login script, I called it to broadcast:
I enjoy the act of sodomy.
(see Meet the feebles for the song and dance routine that was the inspiration).

On the way home from uni that day, I laughed and laughed. It took about three logins for his account to be suspended.

Seems that somebody quickly understood that "PENCIL" was not the way to go. ;) Anyway, I maintain it's a social, not technical issue.

So what's the point? Is it coming back? Is this going to be a new meme? "Duke Nukem for Longhorn SE to come out at Comdex, now powered by cold fusion... in Japan!"

Thanks, you made my day... After a day full of not invented here and not my job

I needed some good cynicism not directed at me. >;-) 3rd Monday of the week

Has nobody seen Firefox?

Yes, Welles prediction that Muppets would make it to Hollywood seems uncanny.

Perhaps you meant George Orwell as opposed to Orson Welles (or some other Welles?)

I went to my bank's ATM, and the lady in front of me was arguing with the machine.

"That's not TRUE!"
"WTF do you mean, insufficient funds?!"
"I did put it in!"

For a second I had a flashback of that movie Slapshot when the guy inside the vending machine opens the door...

Did Orgazmo come to mind when anybody else saw their domain name ?

What does the pRon watchdog group that manages double oriface insertions have to do with archival media? Or are they just concerned with the preservations of my copy of Orgazmo?

There's always the Mint 400

Hey this story JUST reminded me of what happened in Garfield HS about 20 years ago... Jaime Escalante, latino professor in LA, went to a high school filled with losers (the worst of the worst), and decided to teach the kids calculus.

His method was revolutionary - their students ended up applying for scholarship, and their grades were so high that they raised suspicions of cheating (racism, anyone?)

So they applied for the test again, and succeeded.

The rest, is history.

Thanks for the extremely educational reply. It's stuff like this that makes slashdot worthwhile. That and some of the jokes.

Some more Amiga trivia: The SFX on B5 were done by Foundation Imaging, for which they won an Emmy. Here's an interview of Ron Thorton, the founder of Foundation Imaging, on a B5 fansite.

Obviously, FI dropped use of Amiga a while ago, but they continue to use lightwave.

Oh! Just thought of another show that used the Amiga, toaster, and lightwave. Seaquest DSV! Remember that show, with Roy Scheider?

And one last bit. . .I knew a guy, not very well, that was using the Amiga's lumakeying capabilities, but I remember him complaining that it didn't have chromakeying (blue/green screen). Did this capability come later? This must have been circa 1990, because he was a neighbor in SF. I almost forgot about that.

...but I wonder if the "Tiny Toys" one is anything like the Stephen King short story Battleground? I always loved that story and thought that it would be a neat movie. I really wanted to see it made as a mix of CGI and live action after I saw the little guys in Toy Story.

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Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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