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Derp to mod, that's a movie reference.

As Dr FrankNfurter says in RHPS "I didn't build him for YOU!!!" It's amusing whenever new datacenter/server technology gets posted on /. that half the posts evaluate the proposed product in terms of how affordable/practical/useful it would be to them in their little client desktop or notebook. All of these Intel drives are intended for server (or at least technical workstation ) use, so they need to be evaluated by ROI they give a business doing high-throughput work. If you think they have great stats but are too expensive, maybe you are not the intended market.

Imagine the money to be made between society's push to make being fat "normal,"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1368440/reference

You could make a film about a pile of dead body parts assembled into the form of a man being shocked by lightning and being given the will to live. You could even add some wanton violence and philosophical questions of existence to make the story interesting.

And don't forget the enormous schwanzstucker.

I knew all about making my own space vehicle back in 1985 when the docu-drama "Explorers" came out. An expert tale crafted by the 'Gremlins' director Joe Dante, and staring a young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix. It explains how a dream of a circuit board can manifest into "ThunderRoad" and I can make smoochie faces at extra terrestrial life.

Movie poster

Yes you are a load of BS(Said so yourself) and many parents are not labeling it as a disease. Plus there are to many recovery stories out there to discount. Speaking of environment where are the 1 in 66 or 1 in 100 Amish or indigenus kids? This study is so far behind it is a joke. The parents recovering their kids from the "SYMPTOMS" that "OTHERS" label as Autism and ADHD have been using probiotics and other biomedical protocols and treatments for a long time to get gut and other issues under control so that their children can function and develop properly. My son would not be as far along as he is now without various biomed treatments. He would still be spinning like a top half the day flapping like a bird the other half, making no eye contact and eating one or 2 food choices. His apgar was 9 he hit all his milestones till age two, had good eye contact, huggable etc. Then poof within a matter of a few months he was gone into ASD PDD hell.

Was he given mercury-laced vaccinations?

You could make a film about a pile of dead body parts assembled into the form of a man being shocked by lightning and being given the will to live. You could even add some wanton violence and philosophical questions of existence to make the story interesting.

You mean Frank Henenlotter's 1990 masterpiece, Frankenhooker , of which Bill Murray said (and I quote) "if you see one movie this year, it should be Frankenhooker"?

This sounds a lot like Numb3rs s1e10 (first aired 2005-04-22).

I just finished watching a pirated Blue Thunder. I watched some of the series when I was a kid, never saw the movie before. You should maybe watch it yourself. Keep in mind our current monitoring by NSA and the militarization of police forces, including drones, as you watch the movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085255/

I'm sure you know how to use a torrent search.

Enjoy

Also, since Ghostbusters 2, he doesn't do sequels.

For the definitive documentary on zombies see ""American Zombie" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765430/

A Public Safety Message.

I think you mean Gothenburg, Finland.

"Bill Murray's dying showbiz career"

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000195/

The only thing dying is Bill Murray, from alcohol poisoning.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/ Seems to be in the cards.

I'm sure its nothing that a can of spray-paint and some bubble-gum can't deal with

There are other techniques that have been used to varying effect ..

When was the last time Swank gave anyone wood?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090837/

Send it to Africa.
Nobody cares about Africa

((end sarcasm / semi-obscure movie reference))

And cats aren't as tasty.

Well, that's YOUR opinion. -- Alf

What could possibly go wrong?

They have the same law enforcement power that you and I have, assuming you're not a law enforcement officer. Whether you choose to exercise it or not you have the power to affect a citizen's arrest in most jurisdictions.

The biggest difference between a law enforcement officer making an arrest and a citizen doing the same thing is liability. The law enforcement officer is likely to receive qualified immunity such that if the officer followed his or her training and department policies no personal liability will attach to the officer. You, on the other hand, will face the full brunt of any mistakes you make.

Short of conducting an actual arrest, most law enforcement interactions are based on voluntary cooperation until a threshold is crossed giving the law enforcement officer probable cause to make a formal arrest.

Anyone can have a voluntary interaction with any other person. I could approach you and ask for consent to search your car. You would almost certainly refuse such a request. What gets weird is when most people are approached by a figure of authority, such as a person in a uniform, they tend to comply. A good, from the police department's perspective, law enforcement officer can get almost anyone to consent to a search.

The issue is that until a warrant is issued or an arrest is made there is very little difference between a law enforcement officer, a uniformed security guard or me asking to search you or your car. There are some areas related to preservation of evidence and officer safety that give law enforcement some additional latitude but those situations generally require the officer has legal reason, and thus authority, to seize you meaning you are not free to go. The detention short of an arrest is one of the things law enforcement can do that you, I and the mall security guard should not attempt.

The other big difference is that we, collectively or collectively enough, have decided to give law enforcement officers guns, sticks, handcuffs and a system to make it more and more difficult to refuse the voluntary interaction.

But you, Joe_Dragon, and that mall security guard have a lot more law enforcement authority than you may believe. Liability and safety concerns, though, generally lead to employer policies prohibiting mall security guards from doing anything other than Observe and Report.

...and made a documentary about it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080360/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_85

history repeats itself

Lots of room up here. Plenty of space. And if you wait it out long enough the climate will warm up enough to where you might even be able to grow some food.

An Historical Document for you to peruse if you are interested.

But didn't we see that if they are using systems like this that a thief could steal the money by intercepting the transmission?

This is the same as if it were 12345678 or 28159464 or 81159215 or any other 8 digit combination. (or even CPE 1704 TKS)

Perhaps they used a random number generator and came up with this number.
What would be interesting would why only digits. Was this a given, or were characters an option as well?

Another would be how many people are supposed to know the code. You would not want too many people, but also not too few. Also not too complicated, so when the time comes, the person does not have to call IT in India to ask for a password reset. (As a matter of speech.)

On the one hand you have a technical reason to make the password as difficult as possible. On the other it must be as easy as possible. I can imagine that people would not want to be pointed at as to why there was no launch possible when needed. (Those who would want to do that, will not get the job. Saving humanity is NOT the goal.)

Sure, it wasn't good when the NSA was spying, the GCHQ revelations made the situation worse. Australian spying was pretty bad too.

But, Dutch internet spying is taking it all just too far. This is the tipping point, the world's civilian populace will surely rise up against Dutch spying!

Ooh The Voice(wost show ever) is on!

FYI: I think you got whooshed.

[a very tall man scrunched in a Volkswagen Beetle has just grabbed Nelson after being laughed at]

Tall Man: Do you find something comical about my appearance when I am driving my automobile?

Nelson: Yes.

Tall Man: Everyone needs to drive a vehicle, even the very tall.

[points to his Beetle]

Tall Man: This was the largest auto I could afford. Should I therefore be made the subject of fun, huh?

Nelson: I guess so.

Tall Man: [clears his throat] Would you like it if others laughed at YOUR misfortune, hmm? Maybe we should find out!

Tall Man: [Tall man pulls down Nelson's pants and commands him to walk down the main street] Nowwww march!

Tall Man: [honks his car horn while driving behind Nelson] Hey, everyone! Look at this; it's that boy who laughs at everyone! Let's laugh at him!

[the entire crowd yells HA-HA! at Nelson]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701186/quotes

In the movie Conspiracy Theory (1997) Jetty Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is obsessed with Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and does not know why (she swallowed the fly). His apartment is full of unread copies. It turns out that the spooks who monkeyed with his mind planted the suggestion to purchase copies of it because the relative unpopularity of the book made it an excellent way to track his movements electronically.

Today there is discussion on this thread of people who feel compelled to download these torrents, and the possibility of being traced by some shadowy well-connected organization while doing so.

Bring on the evil MK-ULTRA mastermind, Captain Jean Luc Picard.

[Walking through a metal detector]
Jerry Fletcher: Why is this thing safe for me and not for my keys?

Jerry Fletcher: July eighth, 1979, all the fathers of Nobel Prize winners were rounded up by United Nations military units, all right, and actually forced at gunpoint to give semen samples in little plastic jars, which are now stored below Rockefeller Center underneath the ice skating rink...

More than that: the wording was that he "can't trust anyone who..." This would seem to indicate that it's a personal bias, and not some kind of technical requirement.

Perhaps there was some dark paperwork incident in his past of which we're unaware:

I've never trusted Arial documents, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy.

Careless words like that in a personal log can earn you a one-way ticket to Rura Penthe.

How can humans be prevented from having power over other humans if there aren't any humans with power over other humans to prevent the humans from having power over other humans?

A simple engineering problem.

Prometheus was really a science fiction movie, not an Historical Document.

Prometheus was really a science fiction movie, not an Historical Document.

Who is the webmaster of this site?

Jules Winnfield?
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/winnfield.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/

Or his 'real life' doppelganger, Samuel L. Jackson? :D
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000168/

Can't tell since the registrant is a privacy proxy service based in Provo, Utah.

Anyway, that site is how a basic website SHOULD be done with an ABSOLUTE MINIMUM OF BS.

Back when the web got started, it was just HTML-enhanced text, pictures, and links to other webpages and downloadable content.

Thanks to advertising/marketing, the web is now CHOKED with bloated webpages who's sole purpose is to get people to buy stuff or serve up ad impressions or corporate image slickness as much as possible and across as many pages as possible.... :P

CAPTCHA: organic
Pretty much describes the early web before it got 'turned out' through commercialization and became 'plastic' and artificial as it is now for the most part.... :(

Who is the webmaster of this site?

Jules Winnfield?
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/winnfield.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/

Or his 'real life' doppelganger, Samuel L. Jackson? :D
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000168/

Can't tell since the registrant is a privacy proxy service based in Provo, Utah.

Anyway, that site is how a basic website SHOULD be done with an ABSOLUTE MINIMUM OF BS.

Back when the web got started, it was just HTML-enhanced text, pictures, and links to other webpages and downloadable content.

Thanks to advertising/marketing, the web is now CHOKED with bloated webpages who's sole purpose is to get people to buy stuff or serve up ad impressions or corporate image slickness as much as possible and across as many pages as possible.... :P

CAPTCHA: organic
Pretty much describes the early web before it got 'turned out' through commercialization and became 'plastic' and artificial as it is now for the most part.... :(

"This show traces the important role that beer has played in human history from the probable origins of the first beer at the dawn of history to the development of a special beer for use in zero gravity space missions."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832368/

The more you hear about how he supposedly didn't know this or that, the more you have to wonder if he isn't a simple community organizer.

Raising someone from birth to fill a specific job sounds like the plot to a Kurt Russell movie...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120157/

I'm waiting for them to remake that as Sysadmin.

Historically, folks who didn't fit in were banished or just moved to another society on their own.

In the new society or home, they didn't have the Internet to see who those people were. They could come in with a clean slate.

In the movie After Porn Ends, a porn star (Asia) moves to Utah and tries to start a new life. When asked about here name, she gave it. The person looked her up on the Internet. Well, watch the movie to see what happened - it wasn't that bad - to me, anyway. (It's on Netflix streaming)

But really, if one wants to change their life - to reinvent themselves or whatever - how can you do it when there's this permanent record following you around?

NOW there is a permanent record of everything you do and redemption is no longer available.

There is no I in DNA, So it is Gattaca.

WOOOSH common slashdoters that are more than 50 years old, that is why I modded it funny! That quote is one of my all time favourite ones from Dr Strangelove the other one came from Major "Bat" Guano

Tom Hanks needs the cash, Da Vinci Code Part 2, coming up!

I guess you missed Angels and Demons when it came out three years later?

Although, it should be noted that they changed the order of the plots for the film adaptations. The Da Vinci Code is originally the second book in the series after Angels and Demons.

Not manufactured, but copyrighted.

A necessity to keep IP from being stolen by US entities. Prior art or prior use in other jurisdictions has little standing in US courts, so foreign manufacturers obtain US copyrights and patents.

Most movies are American.

Ah yes. The movie industry. One of the last bastions of organized crime in the USA. Most movies you watch are American because the US studio system throws roadblocks up for the distribution of content other then their own. Who do you think created The Office? A few notable works do manage to push their way through the US distribution blockade to success like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Even then, US studios had to try and appropriate that concept for their own with a shit US remake.

Reminds me of the movie "Shooter"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/quotes
First quote...

Can you suggest a realistic scenario where a plastic gun would be essential

Settling my long standing grudge with Clint Eastwood and Rene Russo? ;)

(Link for those who don't get it)

Pretty soon, dinosaurs will be pouring out of the hollow earth.

Or cockroaches that start fires by rubbing their cerci together.

As opposed to garden variety man eating cockroaches. All cockroaches are man eaters as conditions permit, but these couldn't wait. Living in the tropics I was occasionally awakened by a large cockroach gnawing, or what ever it is they do, on a toenail. Makes you feel glad to be alive.

Pretty soon, dinosaurs will be pouring out of the hollow earth.

Are you kidding? This is the polar regions we're talking about. The real threat there is from the secret Nazi Antarctic Fortress which the US countered with its secret nuclear powered subterranean Air Force base. Hopefully the Nazis can still be thwarted so we can avoid an "Iron Sky" scenario. If only ....

certainly the NRO would whine about it exposing capability

"But...But... They will see the big board!" -- General 'Buck' Turgidson (George C. Scott)

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003295/bio

Except for the cat two days ago who was blinded in one eye by a BB gun..

Was it a Red Ryder?