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I've been asked to perform what could be considered DCMA prohibited activities for *my job* and in the name of *fair rights*. I work for an educational instution, and we have been contacted by an instructor who wants to use a part Bowling for Columbine in their humanities course, delievered over the net. Since the copy the professor owns is on DVD, DCMA would have to be violated for it to be used, even within the educational use guidelines for fair use. From talking with my co-workers, one of whom owns BfC on DVD also, it's a good movie, and he's going to loan it to me next week so I can watch it. We're waiting on permission / legal advice of the school to act on this content being brought into the course. Just what I need to have added to "duties as required". Personally, I think this could be a great addition to the course, and it should be well within normal fair use guidelines. (Streaming it, so it's not easily savable, quality will be crap so it can go over a modem, and a student may want to go buy/rent the movie after discussing part of it in class.) The movie even has a Teacher's Guide!

Sounds like a scenerio that should be protected, not made illegal, which, since it's on DVD and Macrovisioned on VHS, it is by the DCMA - even if permission is granted we'd have to circumvent encryption to do it! But IIRC, it's distributed by Miramax, which is a division of Disney, so who know if it will be allowed.

cogito cogito ergo cogito sum

cogito ut cogitem, ergo cogito ut sim

cogito me cogitare, ergo cogito esse

ut cogitem cogito, ergo sim ("i think that i think, therefore perhaps i am")

I you liked the book "Cukoo' Egg'you might also enjoy the movie "23". The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group those hackers from Hannover. Karl Koch is one of the main characters and the story writers did a good job in depicting his fall into drug addiction and paranoia. This movie is fiction so the portrayal of technical details is not always historically correct but it recreates the atmosphere quite well.

I must say that I find it very interesting that people are able to spread worms this fast nowadays.

By the year 2015, all lawyers will be abolished. So the justice system will move quite swiftly as well.

Why won't scientists get working on the nude bomb instead? I think that would have a lot more "peacetime" applications.

Remember: a small group of what were basically graduate students were able to build a city-buster bomb in the middle of a desert with access to only 1940's-era technology, and not really that much of it.

Funny, 'cause I've heard it took about 90 PhD level physicists, many of which were Nobel Prize recipiants.

Maybe you're confusing the real Manhattan Project with the movie "The Manhattan Project"?

Go check out the satellite pictures of Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan pre-November, 2001, and notice how similar they look, from a distance, to Los Alamos circa late 1944.

Go check out the satellite pictures of Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan pre-November, 2001, and notice how similar they look to a generic group of buildings!

=Smidge=

Oh yes, Plan 9. Raising the recent dead to make an army of zombies to take over earth, and show humans the folly of their ways! Open sourcing that will surely work!

Copying from one drive to another on the fly like this can introduce lots of tiny errors. They're not that noticable, but the preferred method of getting an exact copy is to use something like EAC to extract to the hard drive first, then burn to CD.

Umm... Sorry, no.

Although errors can theoretically occur, for the PC to not catch it, you'd need an enormous amount of corruption over a small area, that produces reproduceable false reads, with the correct CRC. Not bloody likely.

here is IMDb link

IMDB page for Gojira (1954)

And no, this is not the one starring Raymond Burr as "Steve Martin".

IMDB page for Gojira (1954)

And no, this is not the one starring Raymond Burr as "Steve Martin".

"If you've never seen Godzilla before, you might actually be impressed by the quality of the acting and script. This isn't a scream-queen b-movie, despite its reputation. Most of the characters seem genuinely terrified of the thin air they're staring into before Godzilla is matted in..."

And I would be remiss if I didn't remind you to check out the imdb

People of Slashdot: I strongly advice against watching The Rocketeer in the near future.

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I think he was referring to shining as in The Shining(1980)

I don't know if we are patriots or pirates, but I do know that I'm putting mine in a van and getting Chrisian Slater to man it.

-Peter

I can't afford camp so I'm just going to rent this instead.

Funny, I first immediately thought about The Librarian in The Time Machine.

Funny, I first immediately thought about The Librarian in The Time Machine.

"Princess Mononoke won an academy award"

No, it didn't. One of Miyazaki's other films did.

uhh... look, dumbass. The original poster was just joking.

And don't lie about not knowing who Ron Jeremy is. The guy is the #1 porn star in the entire globe. There is a movie about his life called "Porn Star" released last year.

Don't act like you don't know who this is. Next thing you'll try to convince us all of is the fact that you have never wanked to Traci Lords. HAH! Whatever.

++AC


P.S. Am I the only one who heard Stuart Smalley's voice in my head while reading his post?

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About Xbox
Xbox (http://www.xbox.com/) is Microsoft's future-generation video game system that delivers the most powerful games experiences ever. Xbox empowers game artists by giving them the technology to fulfill their creative visions as never before, creating games that blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Xbox is now available in the continents of North America, Europe, Asia

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

This particular question of whether computers are faster, and its moral that they are for some things but not for others, was the subject of a 1957 movie with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Desk Set. In it, Hepburn is a librarian afraid that Tracy is planning to replace her with a large mainframe computer with lots of flashing lights. And in the end we find that yes, the computer is faster for some things, but no, it's not faster than a good librarian for all things, and there's a place for both.

(And yes, I couldn't remember the name of the movie, but it took all of about 5 seconds to find the answer in Google; searching on "hepburn tracy library computer" got me several links, and the second one was so obviously on point that the answer was in the snippet that Google itself quoted.)

All I saw of the site before it was Slashdotted was the index page with all the butterflys.

But I have to ask all of you...were they really butterflies?? I think not! They were all Death Head Moths from Silence of the Lambs

"...I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye..."

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If you've seen Lost In Translation, the R with L confusion by the Japanese seems to be a running gag throughout the film. I don't recall anybody screaming that the movie was racist, it's just how they were portrayed as speaking.

from inner space! Making things smaller is not better!

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It's not like David Bowie has fallen off the face of the earth.

No, I believe he fell to earth.

(If anyone else here saw that that film..)

I think Marty McFly already wore these sneakers in BTTF2. You know, the ones that had the automatic-inflation feature. Of course, they were Nikes.

This definitely tears it; Robert Zemeckis was a $#@!ing genius visionary. can't wait for the "Mr. Fusion."

I don't as a rule buy discs without extras, ~.

I agree that is the way to go. Unfortunately, some movies, like The Fifth Element have been out on DVD for almost SEVEN years, and the only "re-release" was to superbit. The DVD has no extras at all, but the movie was excellent.

Actually, no, you _don't_ want that!

evidence

Of the Star Trek animated series, here is the IMBD entry

You can be forgiven for being too young to know what it is, it was shown in the early-mid '70s after all.
Here is the imdb entry

Um, what's your source on that? I don't recall any decently-acted voices in the game, I thought they were all acted by Rare staff members.

Didn't we learn anything from Wallace and Grommit in The Wrong Trousers,?

-Mikey P

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...and someone screw Liv Tyler.

Cyrano de Bergerac. (See the commedy with Steve Martin called Roxane.)
Or why not see the movie Cyrano de Bergerac or the play. Much better ending than the happy-clappy Roxanne.

• Approaching holiday - Christmas brings about the hottest season in retail, and publishers want to capitalize on this by releasing new titles in time for this. The Christmas push is less pressing for smaller studios that distribute outside of retail.
• Media event - E3 is when all the gaming companies and all the gaming press come together and pretty much stand around in a competition to see who can avoid having a seizure (flash/audio). Or, such was my take on it. There's a huge PR incentive to have content prepared for this event; more eyeballs translates into more potential sales.
• Publisher-imposed milestone - Publishers can withhold payment or cancel projects outright if a team misses milestones; if you're nearing such a deadline, the extra hours may be the difference between a happy publisher and a cranky one.
• Competition - You might have a solid first-person shooter, but if it's released concurrent with Doom III or Half-Life 2, there's a good chance it'll be overlooked. If you own the UHF DVD, you'll hear Al Yankovic lament that his movie went up against Batman, Indiana Jones, Lethal Weapon II, among others. You may also have your favorite game that was underrated due to poor timing. (Fortunately, there's always the possibility of a sequel.)
• Budgetary constraints - Especially crucial if a development house is self-funding a title. If a generous publisher sees a promising project go over-budget, they might extend it. If an independent studio runs out of money for going over schedule, it must secure more financing.
• Loss of staff - This can be devastating at project-end. There's no time to train new staff; existing members must take up the slack.

3. Assuming that our population merely doubles, and we make spaceships that will take just half of the people away, each capable of 10,000 people (which is quite a reasonably high estimate) - we will need 500,000 ships. Thats an awful lot of resources that will be needed, both energy and material.

Of course, we don't have to save *everyone*. We just need to preserve a small kernel whence humankind will rise again once danger is past.

In this "Noah's Ark", an appropiate cross-section of humans, plus animals/plants will live for years bidding their time.

Such plan exists already. It was tought out during the cold war for fear of nuking by the superpowers.

You can get more details on said plan here.

Peripheral Interchange Program; or better put, lets smash that Printer / Fax Machine!!!

Naked Rayburn

Have you seen the original Italian Job? There is a scene in it where they drove three minis into the back of a moving truck. It wasn't some special effect, they actually did it in real life. Even more impressive than that is when one of the minis actually jumped between two building (with the aid of a take-off ramp). They actually did it for the film, no special effects. The only difference was, they weren't really carrying gold bars in the back which might have made it harder.

We will of course see several showings of Armageddon on FX.

Better yet...Call Frodo!.

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