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Foiling Cinema Pirates
minesweeper writes "According to this Associated Press article, in fighting the piracy of advanced-screenings of movies, Hollywood has deployed agents with night vision goggles and placed metal-detectors at theater entrances. Nevertheless, video cameras are still being smuggled in and the recordings smuggled out and onto the Internet. Now, the latest attempt to fight piracy will be to show the movie with a particular flicker, imperceptible to the viewer in the theater, but making any video recording unwatchable. Quoth the article, 'Cinea LLC, which created an encryption system for DVDs, and Sarnoff, a technology research firm, are developing a system to modulate the light cast on a movie screen to create a flicker or other patterns that would be picked up by recording devices...'"
kuroneko-sama's
MODERN GEOPOLITICS MANUAL
for an average mildly retarded leftwinger scumbag hippie
Many of you overgrown apes engage in the puny debate of the war in Iraq. It seems that most of you do not bear the ability to correctly interpret the reality so someone has to do it for you. This is the secondary reason I wasted half a hour of my valuable time on something a common 3 year old should be able to distinguish on the spot. The primary reason, which is even less obvious to you due to humans' inherent inferiority to cats, is that this essay will hopefully hammer the truth about your so called "lives" and make you either collapse out of sheer depression, join the terrorists and get shot, or join the military (and get shot).
Might your existence be short and painful.
And now for the simple worded, easily understood explanation on why war in general and war in Iraq specifically kicks ass.
Why does a war kick so much ass?
First of all, war is where stupid people get
killed. Anything that kills stupid people is good per definition. Second and nonetheless important, war drives the stupider people on the street protesting and rioting, which is a very important endeavour that provides everyone else with
important general idea who the most stupid people are
a gentle reminder of what happens when you're a stupid leftwinger scumbag fuck
entertainment
A war would also definitely provide a lot of stupid people with occupation, deterring them from jerking around with blank stares and protesting on the streets and bringing them into productive activism such as building, digging, or killing other stupid people. War is an outstanding way to detect and weed out stupid people. Unfortunately, pussified governments do not realize the vast social potential a war carrries with it and fail to use it properly. I recognize that I'm being unfair to those with lax reading comprehension skills so here's a shorter summary:
WAR HURTS STUPID PEOPLE - STUPID PEOPLE ARE BAD - WAR IS GOOD
Why does the war in Iraq kick ass?
For a stupid leftwinger like most humans the answer to this question is too complicated to be explained in words. If one were to reach the asswits' tiny minds with the message, they'd be setting out to do that with a table. A table separates concepts, provides an easy way to figure out complications and determine right from wrong and bad from good easily, thus helping a stupid leftwinger to grasp the minimal concepts of the material. Also, since a table consists of cells and humans can only browse one cell at a time, it is easier for people with several DNA impurity and short attention span (such as communists, peace protestors and the french) to understand the written. First, let's see why it is a right thing.
What Before war After war
Population Lots of stupid dumbfucks Less stupid dumbfucks
International anti-war scumbags Being pussies, trying to ban guns and drugs, spreading racist propaganda and selling their ass and passing lame-arsed laws Protesting on the streets so that everyone knows who they are
Terrorist fags from Sand Africa Blowing themselves up like pussies Dying from bullets like dogs
Unimportant lame countries like Belgium Sucking dick Bitching as if anyone cares and trying to sue people (entertainment)
"Holy book" thumpers Bitching and molesting children Shit their pants
It is also especially important to understand why America is better than Iraq, as laid out below:
What America Iraq
Location America No one cares
People Fat, stupid and arrogant Starving, stupid, dirty, and useless
Women Mostly hot and suck cocks Fat, ugly and can't fuck
Fucking Mostly hot bitches that suck cock Camels
Food Anything you please Camels
Clothes Normal Towels
National telecommunications infrastructure and Internet access Strong, free Jack shit
Society Civilized Lameass
Education Yes Jack shit
Freedom of speech Rocks LOL
Ran by Elected assholes Fags
Threat to civilized world N
Darn it! They shouldn't create that flicker, because what if some of the more sensitive of us DO notice it while watching movies in the theatre? What if we don't notice it, but it gives us an unexplainable headache which renders movie theatres unbearable, thus useless to a small percentage of people who previously enjoyed films? If they ever make a movie of the first five of my BANANA CHAN tv scripts, I don't want that flicker, because it'd render the movie unwatchable to a large extent of people who can only afford to watch bootlegged movies! -- that's not a point made in good morals, I know, but the Dreamcast version of SHENMUE 2 wouldn't have been able to be played by me, due to my financial situation, if it weren't for pirates whom I'm sometimes acquainted with; therefore, piracy is the poor world's primary source of cool literature, such as movies and video games, err...again, not a point made in good morals...or is it? I guess my main point, which isn't in :)
god morals is: I've never pirated a movie before, and it'd be a shame to have the opportunity taken away before I get a video camera...maybe I should just shut up, eh? It's my birthday, so don't arrest me for my counter-culture opinions
so no longer first post. Doh! :0)
Simpsons owns.
Comic book guy getting kicked out of the movie theater because he brings his desktop with him.
God spoke to me
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/18/tech/mai n550005.shtml
What the hell is going on? How soon before the Web is closed off?
All I can see is the cbs logo.
konqueror 3.0.5a on openbsd
this fucking thread was a bitch to post to. What the hell happened to /. earlier today?