There is a "good vs. evil" story in it, but that's not the entire movie. I'll comment further at the end of this post, so that people who don't want a slight spoiler can skip it.
The philosophibabble was toned down in comparison to Reloaded. It was still there to some extent, and it was obnoxious when it was, but it wasn't as bad as the crap from Reloaded.
My criticism is on the pacing. Not as awkard as it was in Reloaded, but something about it just seemed off, at least in certain scenes (such as a dialogue between Neo and Trinity that went on about five minutes too long). I also thought that, while the babble was down, some of the visual overtones were just too overt. Overall, however, I preferred it to Reloaded on both dialogue (because there was less bullshit involved in it) and action. I thought that nearly every action scene in Reloaded, good as they were, went on too long. I didn't get that feeling in Revolutions, even though I'm pretty sure that the Zion battle scene was significantly longer than anything in Reloaded -- it probably helped that there was so much going on that they could switch focus so that no one event was dragged out.
-- SPOILER WARNING -- On the subject of good and evil, I'll reveal a minor detail about a plot point. Read no further if you don't want to see it, though I'm not giving much away . . . . . . . The "good vs. evil" is just about two characters and two characters only. . . . .
Well, in the scene where where the image shifted to "fire view" and you saw the cables going into Neo looking like wings, and a cross appearing in his chest, I didn't see a halo. They could have made more overt religious overtones by adding in a halo, but they showed restraint there.
I'm trying to figure out why so many reviews think that the movie is incredibly pretentious.
I'm not saying that it's not pretentious, but there's a hell of a lot less philosophical babble in here than in Reloaded -- I actually prefer this one because it has more action and less of a facade of being intellectually "Deep".
Yes, there are conversations that go on way too long (Neo/Trinity, anyone?), but there aren't as many pointless discussions as seen in the previous movie.
Recently, at work, I was assisting with dealing with a user's laptop that was having all kinds of connection problems.
As it turned out, the culprit was ZoneAlarm. Uninstalling it didn't completely and properly remove it, and it had apparently hijacked certain settings in such a way that if you attempted to manually disable that which was not uninstalled, the computer was effectively firewalled bidirectionally on every port. It took some registry tweaking to finally calm things down.
What do you mean "Nah"? Yes, DEATH. I'm sick and tired of getting these e-mails, ESPECIALLY when I don't have an AOL account.
These people are scum-sucking bottom-feeders. They live by exploiting the computer-illiterate and using theft of service and trespass to chattel to send out their attempted fraudulent communications. The only deterrant that will work is rigourously enforced capital punishment.
The "joe" comes from the name of the first well-known incident of this happening. His name was Joe, and he lost his website because his clueless ISP couldn't figure out that he wasn't responsible for the spam run.
This is a tired old canard. Sudan was not offering bin Laden. Some joker who claimed to have authority that he didn't have claimed that he could get the Sudanese government to offer bin Laden. There was no reason to believe that he was trustworthy. Conservatives make this an issue now even though there is no doubt that a conservative administration would have given this guy just as much attention as did the Clinton administration.
I found it and uninstalled it on three employee computers while doing an Office 2000 update. One of them stated flat-out that she didn't know how it got there. I'll check up on them and find out if this bit of malware has returned.
Perhaps you could look into a 'trap', replacing the default file that uses the default filename with something that would bog down or even break spambots. Perhaps something that, when triggered, would launch a pingstorm at the offending IP address.
Something similar to Webpoison, which created an infinite series of bogus pages all with fake e-mail addresses and fake links to the same bogus page (but with a different name, thanks to the magic of cgi).
...complain to the ISP hosting the spammer's website. Do everything you can to get the website shut down so that the spammer's run is ineffective. Complain to the hosting ISP, the ISP hosting the DNS servers and the registrar. If you can trace the IP from which the spammer posted to your weblog, report it to the owning ISP as well.
Treat it just like e-mail spam. Try to shut down the spammer at every place possible. Sadly, it's still not legal to physically kill them, but killing their connection is the next best thing, I suppose -- well, after firebombing their house.
Actually, I believe that even truth isn't a defense in the UK. If you publish information damaging to a person's or corporation's reputation and they have enough money, they can nail you for libel even if it is true.
Spammers seek to send mail. They also seek to route around any means to filter their mail. They don't care that their mail is unwanted or going to addresses that have no chance of being read by an interested party.
Spammers are incredibly stupid. They don't understand that "barriers on our inbox" means that their junk e-mail isn't wanted.
I once went back and forth with a floppy cable until I noticed that one of the pins on the drive itself was bet.
Fortunately nothing was damaged, and I was able to get it working again after tooling around with a vice grips. Not that a floppy drive would have been a great loss anyway.
I use SCSI equipment in my home machine and I would never *think* of trying to "hot-swap" it, or anything else apart from USB for that matter (well, I admit to sometimes switching network cable and arranging speaker cords while things are turned on).
It works for me, just tried it on a machine that I've never used before so there's no issue of caching. I've heard from someone else who was unable to access the site, though, possibly an issue with their ISP.
Anyway, the website's presence on the net has no bearing as to the life of SPEWS (though the site is up from where I'm sitting). The website is just an information zone. Even when DDoS attacks rendered the site unreachable, the SPEWS DNSbl was still being distributed and used by anyone who wanted it, and it's still out and running today.
I'll look into the issue of the site not responding for some people -- I've checked from three different locations (my ISP, university and work) and I can reach the site from all three.
When would you consider him "reformed"? When he's crouched on his broken kneecaps, begging for your forgiveness for sending you a few unsolicited mails?
How about when he's screaming in agony as his broken, battered body is consumed by flames?
Wallace, like all e-mail spammers, is a sociopath with no respect for property, going so far as to FORGE HIS DOMAIN NAME and implicate Compuserve in his criminal actions. Compuserve had to sue him to stop him from doing that.
Wallace, like all e-mail spammers, deserves to die a horrible, painful death.
Back in the day, Wallace's webserver once went kaput, all the content vanishing overnight leaving his hosted customers stranded. Wallace blamed it on an anti-spam vigilante hacker, claiming that he had logs and the identity of the perp thanks to tcpdump. No arrests were ever made. Interesting was his claim that the hackers managed to "destroy backup tapes". Either he was lying outright about a hacker and had just decided to take his customers' money and run or he was one of the dumbest fucking admins on the planet for leaving his backup tapes in a tape machine where "hackers" could erase them once they gained access to his server.
It's not surprising that he can't manage a nightclub, or that he lies about his success. He was a terrible sysadmin too.
I managed to get an ISP to shut off the unending flow of spam by setting up a filter to bounce the spammers e-mails to every contact that I could find for the hosting ISP...several thousand times. After about 4000 e-mails were sent in less than an hour, the spammer disappeared from their network.
Mind you, this was after weeks of complaint without action.
Weird. I assume that you tried a direct connect via the IP address (216.168.31.31)?
You could look for an anonymous redirect service (one that's still up and running). It's hard to imagine that it's a connection problem on the line, since you can get as far as Supernews, and Supernews is the current host of the SPEWS website, though it could be something a bit off at Supernews at the moment -- though I use them for their USENET service and I've had no problems today.
The page just loaded up for me. It took a moment, but it came up quickly once it started. Oddly, http://spews.org/ came up without any delay at all.
Not that SPEWS depends on a functioning website (it's just an information zone), but there may still be those out there who think that it died with Osirusoft (or that it *was* Osirusoft, which it was and is not).
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There is a "good vs. evil" story in it, but that's not the entire movie. I'll comment further at the end of this post, so that people who don't want a slight spoiler can skip it.
The philosophibabble was toned down in comparison to Reloaded. It was still there to some extent, and it was obnoxious when it was, but it wasn't as bad as the crap from Reloaded.
My criticism is on the pacing. Not as awkard as it was in Reloaded, but something about it just seemed off, at least in certain scenes (such as a dialogue between Neo and Trinity that went on about five minutes too long). I also thought that, while the babble was down, some of the visual overtones were just too overt. Overall, however, I preferred it to Reloaded on both dialogue (because there was less bullshit involved in it) and action. I thought that nearly every action scene in Reloaded, good as they were, went on too long. I didn't get that feeling in Revolutions, even though I'm pretty sure that the Zion battle scene was significantly longer than anything in Reloaded -- it probably helped that there was so much going on that they could switch focus so that no one event was dragged out.
-- SPOILER WARNING --
On the subject of good and evil, I'll reveal a minor detail about a plot point. Read no further if you don't want to see it, though I'm not giving much away
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Well, in the scene where where the image shifted to "fire view" and you saw the cables going into Neo looking like wings, and a cross appearing in his chest, I didn't see a halo. They could have made more overt religious overtones by adding in a halo, but they showed restraint there.
I'm trying to figure out why so many reviews think that the movie is incredibly pretentious.
I'm not saying that it's not pretentious, but there's a hell of a lot less philosophical babble in here than in Reloaded -- I actually prefer this one because it has more action and less of a facade of being intellectually "Deep".
Yes, there are conversations that go on way too long (Neo/Trinity, anyone?), but there aren't as many pointless discussions as seen in the previous movie.
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Recently, at work, I was assisting with dealing with a user's laptop that was having all kinds of connection problems.
As it turned out, the culprit was ZoneAlarm. Uninstalling it didn't completely and properly remove it, and it had apparently hijacked certain settings in such a way that if you attempted to manually disable that which was not uninstalled, the computer was effectively firewalled bidirectionally on every port. It took some registry tweaking to finally calm things down.
What do you mean "Nah"? Yes, DEATH. I'm sick and tired of getting these e-mails, ESPECIALLY when I don't have an AOL account.
These people are scum-sucking bottom-feeders. They live by exploiting the computer-illiterate and using theft of service and trespass to chattel to send out their attempted fraudulent communications. The only deterrant that will work is rigourously enforced capital punishment.
The "joe" comes from the name of the first well-known incident of this happening. His name was Joe, and he lost his website because his clueless ISP couldn't figure out that he wasn't responsible for the spam run.
such as Sudan offering bin Laden on a plate
This is a tired old canard. Sudan was not offering bin Laden. Some joker who claimed to have authority that he didn't have claimed that he could get the Sudanese government to offer bin Laden. There was no reason to believe that he was trustworthy. Conservatives make this an issue now even though there is no doubt that a conservative administration would have given this guy just as much attention as did the Clinton administration.
Odd. Most of the people whom I meet on the street -- those who don't give me a strange look and walk on without speaking -- ask "What's a hex editor?"
...I take it that you too read Al Franken's book.
I found it and uninstalled it on three employee computers while doing an Office 2000 update. One of them stated flat-out that she didn't know how it got there. I'll check up on them and find out if this bit of malware has returned.
Perhaps you could look into a 'trap', replacing the default file that uses the default filename with something that would bog down or even break spambots. Perhaps something that, when triggered, would launch a pingstorm at the offending IP address.
Something similar to Webpoison, which created an infinite series of bogus pages all with fake e-mail addresses and fake links to the same bogus page (but with a different name, thanks to the magic of cgi).
...complain to the ISP hosting the spammer's website. Do everything you can to get the website shut down so that the spammer's run is ineffective. Complain to the hosting ISP, the ISP hosting the DNS servers and the registrar. If you can trace the IP from which the spammer posted to your weblog, report it to the owning ISP as well.
Treat it just like e-mail spam. Try to shut down the spammer at every place possible. Sadly, it's still not legal to physically kill them, but killing their connection is the next best thing, I suppose -- well, after firebombing their house.
Actually, I believe that even truth isn't a defense in the UK. If you publish information damaging to a person's or corporation's reputation and they have enough money, they can nail you for libel even if it is true.
Spammers seek to send mail. They also seek to route around any means to filter their mail. They don't care that their mail is unwanted or going to addresses that have no chance of being read by an interested party.
Spammers are incredibly stupid. They don't understand that "barriers on our inbox" means that their junk e-mail isn't wanted.
...when Software Patents become a reality?
I once went back and forth with a floppy cable until I noticed that one of the pins on the drive itself was bet.
Fortunately nothing was damaged, and I was able to get it working again after tooling around with a vice grips. Not that a floppy drive would have been a great loss anyway.
I use SCSI equipment in my home machine and I would never *think* of trying to "hot-swap" it, or anything else apart from USB for that matter (well, I admit to sometimes switching network cable and arranging speaker cords while things are turned on).
It works for me, just tried it on a machine that I've never used before so there's no issue of caching. I've heard from someone else who was unable to access the site, though, possibly an issue with their ISP.
Anyway, the website's presence on the net has no bearing as to the life of SPEWS (though the site is up from where I'm sitting). The website is just an information zone. Even when DDoS attacks rendered the site unreachable, the SPEWS DNSbl was still being distributed and used by anyone who wanted it, and it's still out and running today.
I'll look into the issue of the site not responding for some people -- I've checked from three different locations (my ISP, university and work) and I can reach the site from all three.
When would you consider him "reformed"? When he's crouched on his broken kneecaps, begging for your forgiveness for sending you a few unsolicited mails?
How about when he's screaming in agony as his broken, battered body is consumed by flames?
Wallace, like all e-mail spammers, is a sociopath with no respect for property, going so far as to FORGE HIS DOMAIN NAME and implicate Compuserve in his criminal actions. Compuserve had to sue him to stop him from doing that.
Wallace, like all e-mail spammers, deserves to die a horrible, painful death.
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Back in the day, Wallace's webserver once went kaput, all the content vanishing overnight leaving his hosted customers stranded. Wallace blamed it on an anti-spam vigilante hacker, claiming that he had logs and the identity of the perp thanks to tcpdump. No arrests were ever made. Interesting was his claim that the hackers managed to "destroy backup tapes". Either he was lying outright about a hacker and had just decided to take his customers' money and run or he was one of the dumbest fucking admins on the planet for leaving his backup tapes in a tape machine where "hackers" could erase them once they gained access to his server.
It's not surprising that he can't manage a nightclub, or that he lies about his success. He was a terrible sysadmin too.
I managed to get an ISP to shut off the unending flow of spam by setting up a filter to bounce the spammers e-mails to every contact that I could find for the hosting ISP...several thousand times. After about 4000 e-mails were sent in less than an hour, the spammer disappeared from their network.
Mind you, this was after weeks of complaint without action.
I just built test7 (mm1) last night. Now test8 is out!
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Weird. I assume that you tried a direct connect via the IP address (216.168.31.31)?
You could look for an anonymous redirect service (one that's still up and running). It's hard to imagine that it's a connection problem on the line, since you can get as far as Supernews, and Supernews is the current host of the SPEWS website, though it could be something a bit off at Supernews at the moment -- though I use them for their USENET service and I've had no problems today.
The page just loaded up for me. It took a moment, but it came up quickly once it started. Oddly, http://spews.org/ came up without any delay at all.
Not that SPEWS depends on a functioning website (it's just an information zone), but there may still be those out there who think that it died with Osirusoft (or that it *was* Osirusoft, which it was and is not).