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OK where is D9? I know when I was at high school that was the maths room (in places outside the USA mathematics is plural)

Here.

I really did like the piloting interface on the alien ship. I'd boot up into that in a flash.

Bless the maker and his water, bless the coming and going of him, may his passing cleanse the world.

Not that kind of worm. This kind. We have to wait a couple of million years until the planet dries up for the big ones. Oh, a FTL travel. And Spice.

That's 1.21 jiggawatts - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/quotes?qt=qt0416303

You can leave your nerd card at the door :p

Food, Inc is a fantastic movie that makes a lot of these points. The parallels between software patents and patents on seeds and the like are uncanny. The movie is not preachy at all, and definitely not anti-meat. I'd highly suggest Slashdotters watch it.

How many movies have you seen starting with Tomatoes from Joe's garden evolved into man eating super tomatoes ? None, ZERO.

You seriously have never heard of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?

Highly recommend watching Food Inc.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/
http://www.foodincmovie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food,_Inc.

That's because you didn't get the reference you insensitive clod!

If you want any rural 3G with an iphone, it leaves out everybody.

You get Edge (if you're lucky) and you will like it!

Have you considered leaving your phone at home and going on a real vacation?

This historical documentary includes otherwise unreleased footage of German scientists working on a similar rocket pack, but their model backfires and the test pilot is killed. The documentary also includes a Nazi propaganda film that features rocket-pack equipped soldiers flying out to other countries (including the United States) as an unstoppable airborne army.

From TFA:

Lunar water can be mined then refined into liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. After that, it can be shot into space by a lunar-based rail gun to a fuel depot at one of the Lagrange points, where the gravity of the Moon and the Earth cancel one another out. A spacecraft headed, say, for Mars would not have to carry all the fuel it needs to get to Mars from the Earth, but rather stop at one of these fuel depots, top off its tanks, and proceed on.

Well, first we have to build a moon base from which to do the mining...

Aside from that, let's say you've escaped Earth's gravity well -- wouldn't it be better to not burn lots of fuel firing retro-rockets to stop and fill back up, and re-accelerate? What if the space base on the Moon used it's rail gun to launch the fuel on an intercept course -- you know, like when someone asks for some gas money for their car, and you toss them a Molotov cocktail and say "catch".

I'm sorry, what I mean to say is -- If we have Oxygen and Water refineries on the Moon Base, why not just launch the rocket from there (with their rail-gun) then fire thrusters and not have to stop at all?

Seriously though, at this far out point in our make-believe space future we're just one hypothetical step from having a clone farm manning the Moon base (cheaper than droids), but if the we don't get Kevin Spacey's voice samples for the robotic assistants, it just won't work.

I'm sorry, what I mean to say is -- Let's just start with getting people back to the Moon, or to Mars, an asteroid, hell anywhere other than our own orbit -- that's so routine that a space launch is about 20 seconds of local news. If you want space funding, you need to excite the general public about space.

Sleep with your wife for $1,000,000.

Videocracy. Look it up.

I, for one, welcome our new human-brained robotic overlords.

The TSA has done nothing to make us more secure. Every attempted airline incident has been stopped by passengers and/or air marshals.

You mean the Federal Air Marshals employed by the TSA, right?

Federal Aiur Marshals existed long before the TSA (Wesley Snipes as an air marshall: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105104/ ).
The TSA is a rollup entity created after 9/11.

If anything this is another instance of life imitating art, even if it is some of the most atrocious "art" you've ever had the misfortune to witness.

You've never seen Gigli, have you?

It was paraphrased from the movie BASEketball.

Show me just ONE DOCUMENTED case of chiropractic causing harm to a patient.

May I direct you to this man's entire library of work? Neck Adjustments, ahoy!

At least in America, there has been a "computer" installed in every licensed vehicle for decades that has been illegal to modify or disable:

The Odometer

Yes, as far as computers go it is an analog computer (usually now... there are some electronic ones in automobiles at the moment) based on very simple principles, but it still is there and certainly is illegal. The precedent is already there for automobiles, so all you are talking about is splitting hairs in terms of how much additional information is also going to be stored besides just the distance that vehicle has traveled since it was built.

"Black box"? There certainly has been some considerable effort to make odometers tamper-resistant, and it is something of a joke mentioned in several movies like Matilda and Ferris Bueller's Day Off that had significant plot situations where attempts to tamper with this particular computer were explicitly made by the major characters in those fictional stories.

This isn't a new issue, just the extent of the information being recorded is the issue instead.

At least in America, there has been a "computer" installed in every licensed vehicle for decades that has been illegal to modify or disable:

The Odometer

Yes, as far as computers go it is an analog computer (usually now... there are some electronic ones in automobiles at the moment) based on very simple principles, but it still is there and certainly is illegal. The precedent is already there for automobiles, so all you are talking about is splitting hairs in terms of how much additional information is also going to be stored besides just the distance that vehicle has traveled since it was built.

"Black box"? There certainly has been some considerable effort to make odometers tamper-resistant, and it is something of a joke mentioned in several movies like Matilda and Ferris Bueller's Day Off that had significant plot situations where attempts to tamper with this particular computer were explicitly made by the major characters in those fictional stories.

This isn't a new issue, just the extent of the information being recorded is the issue instead.

Inigo, is that you?

The show being projected is: Gerry Anderson's UFO (TV series 1970–1971) Episode 12 The Psychobombs http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0735638/

Was there ever an episode of UFO where something actually happens?

I've watched a bunch of them and it's always just one or two things happening, never a complete story. So unsatisfying given the work that went into the visual look of 1969's version of 1980.

I wonder why the shirts made of string never caught on.

It'd be hard for Apple to make it mandatory, but at the very least they could simply alter their warranty terms to exclude any system using software installed outside their Mac app store. They could cripple the OS for "security" reasons. They could lock you out of online services. They could do a number of things which may not make it mandatory, but pretty much force you to do as they say anyway.

And in the immortal words of the late, great George Carlin:

I might have brought my arrowhead collection... But I didn't!

Someone should write an Onion article about states banning/hampering municipal water systems because Coke and Pepsi demand it.

You're close. The product was Brawndo ("It's got what plants crave!"), and it was in a documentary called Idiocracy.

So, any one who gets crossed off the hit list becomes known as a "true believer" afterwards...

I wouldn't be surprised to find out years later that all the disappeared folk were the outspoken freedom advocates that had actually just been permanently silenced by a coordinated global conspiracy...Perfect opportunity for a cover up, just sayin'.

Hey, that's more believable than a Super Sky Zombie, coming back after thousands of years to take his followers to a magical utopia, where he'll finally marry them all, then subjugate them in service to his father for 1000 years of constant worship...

You know -- If the aliens arrive tomorrow and abscond with a shit load of gullible "volunteers" as their "chosen people", I'll be skipping the ride to eternal slavery camp, no matter how hellish they promise to make our world afterwards. -- Life Free or Die is what I believe in.

P.S. Didn't they make a movie about this already? IIRC: the aliens finally arrived at their destination, Earth. Their purpose: To retrieve the long lost secrets of the most flavorful food in the universe. All the Hispanics were abducted, mind-reamed to discover their collective recipes for Authentic Mexican Cuisine, then returned, unharmed. The world wept without knowing why -- There was a great disturbance in the force due to the psionic-emotive resonances of the aliens, who all joyously celebrated after finally having achieved their holy quest.

It just shows how primitive and incomplete our technology is that it can't cope with the elderly.

Frankly, I'm surprised. Logan's Run was released in 1976 and we haven't made any progress toward that vision of society.

Explain Primer. Oh, you mean big-budget action/CGI fests that are shot in three different countries with the same handful of actors we've seen a hundred times working a plot that got filtered through a committee. Gee, shucky-darn.

I imagine this was quite challenging as loss of cooling/superconductivity would result in an explosion

Sounds rather like this.

My vote would have been David Fincher to direct.

Also, Gibson's short story from the collection 'Burning Chrome', titled 'New Rose Hotel', was made in into a wonderful film by the same title directed by my all time favorite director, Abel Ferrara. Chris Walken, Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento star.

IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133122/

Interestingly, Ferrara turns an 11 page story (or is it 17 pages - it is prime anyway) with no dialog (not a single quotation mark in the 11 pages) into a film that is solely driven by dialog. Almost no special effects at all. It is simply actors acting and it is beautifully done.

*** WARNING: Ferrara is arty and this film will not please the popcorn crowd. ***

How old are you? That book is still awesome. ...and it would be more appropriate to have visions of Johnny Mnemonic.

The highest score director Vincenzo Natali has on IMDB is 7.5/10 for the 1997 Scifi film "Cube". He has completed 11 projects as director and has never reached a 8/10 on any of them. Average scores by project type are listed here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622112/filmorate Average scores (IMDB) by type of involvement in projects: --- Art Department 7.24 -- Director 6.59 -- Writer 6.84 -- Thanks 6.77 -- Actor 8.10 -- Miscellaneous Crew 6.50 -- Producer 6.40 -- Unless the strength and originality of Neuromancer's story/characters/universe/plot devices inspires him to "reach new heights", this is going to be a probable 7/10 movie (not bad, but not great either). They could have given Neuromancer to a heavyweight like Fincher, Scott, Spielberg or someone like Mathieu Cassovitz (of "La Heine" fame) and it would probably have turned out tremendous. Alfonso Cuarón who did a tremendous job on "Children of Men" comes to mind as well. I hope they don't f%ck this up. Neuromancer is brilliant material. Definitely in the Top 5 best realistic Scifi books category if you ask me.

If you like zombie movies, you need to check out Fido.

I'm not too scared of the zombies, but vampires: [30 days of night] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389722/ that's something to be worried about.

So, this means that "When Worlds Collide" will be lived out, right? In 2012, right?

So, this means that "When Worlds Collide" will be lived out, right? In 2012, right?

Got a what?
Donk

We know what will happen... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549572/

We've no learning, and most people say we're twp. But we're not so twp as to not know that we're twp

Indeed, Disney's well known from taking from the public domain only to permanently copyright the result so as to never give back.

This is nonsense.

Search IMDB for a title like Snow White or Cinderella and you will typically find one hundred or so variations on a theme -

dating back to the nickelodeon days of 1903.

The Rodgers and Hammerstein Cinderella musical produced for television in 1957. The Jim Henson version from 1970. Cinderella

If you are any damn good at all you don't sit there whining that Disney got there first - he didn't - or that Disney did it better -

which is why you need his art, script, voices and music.

All these comments, and not a single one regarding his enlightened view of the sexes. It is a puzzlement.

You prefer the more usual Slashdot practice of linking to some random guy's blog where he misquotes two sentences from a site like IT World, and then uses his misinterpretation of those to spin some elaborate paranoid fantasy about how Google is planning to embed chips in our brains to beam us advertising 24/7?

I was always told by doctors that having a baby after over 35 was dangerous to the mother. That's from several American doctors, who were our OB/GYN's for my 3 children.

The problem with listening to American doctors about child birth is that they aren't the most knoledgeable on the subject. America has pretty bad infant mortality rates for a "1st world nation". They treat child birth as an operation and push way too many Cesarean Sections. I watched a very interesting documentary a little while ago called "The Business of Being Born". It's available on Netflix Instant Streaming. I would recomend it to anyone.

Here, maybe this will help

1984
2010

I figure your problem is if it wasn't a movie you haven't heard of it, right? Kids these days

Here, maybe this will help

1984
2010

I figure your problem is if it wasn't a movie you haven't heard of it, right? Kids these days

That is the name of a video with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The video of US military forces killing civilians, which was released by WikiLeaks was labeled "Collateral Murder".

Let's call it a Colosseum-Complex.

That may be true for those savages in the middle east that stone people to death, but hardly that's the case in western culture.

Are you claiming that western culture is somehow above morbid curiosity and vengeance? How else do you explain Gapers delay(block) (purportedly coined in Chicago) or Faces of Death, a USA-produced movie advertised entirely about watching people die? How about YouTube animal cruelty, many from the USA or UKA (according to TFA)? Get off of your xenophobic horse.

    You'd think they would have known the solution a lot quicker the second time.

    I know, I know, horrible remake. Don't let that ruin a perfectly good joke. :)

I do not trust the government to tell the truth on matters this large. While I doubt bin Laden is alive, I doubt the official version of his death even more.

Let's see..... the US Government announces he is dead:

Obama Announces Death of Osama bin Laden

The terrorist organization he headed announces he is dead:

Text: Al Qaeda statement confirming bin Laden's death

The regional troublemaker with a strong intelligence agency and an avowed enemy of the US announces he was dead before the operation:

Iran's intelligence chief says bin Laden died long before the 'alleged raid'

Family members denounce his death:

My father's death was criminal and I may sue the U.S.: Bin Laden's son slams Al Qaeda leader's killing

The locals are protesting his death:

Pakistani tribesmen protest

At this point, I think anyone doubting Bin Laden's death is about ready to star in their own personal Truman Show, and doesn't really need more news or photographs.... maybe a shrink or philosopher. Cogito ergo Bin Laden moritur.

The looney bin is getting crowded. Sanity: step 1, step 2....

I effin' love twin-tail planes.

They're especially handy if you crash in the desert.

That's awesome. You should be writing documentaries like this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/

I remember when I was a kid I used to watch some sci-fi series that had a dolphin with a translator device on it, all the people talked to it like another human. Can't remember what it was now.

I'm sure it was not the first to do so but SeaQuest seems likely.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106126/

Now a closer theatrical match to this research may be Day of the Dolphin.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069946/