That's a good idea. I'd also expect it to take the average station tuned in and display an ad for that demographic. No need to appeal to us few listening to NPR when the whole rest of the interstate is tuned in to KSUK 108! All POP all the time!
Though, after all these niceties, it sure does tie up a lot of cash for nothing more than a billboard, no?
Oh, well. At least there aren't any charities that this money could go to...!
IM6100 already hit the points I was goint to hit, but it also dawned on me that operating a jamming signal would be something the FCC could track down. But $5 radio's from Target? You really think they'll spend the effort tracking them down? There's not a damn thing you can use to identify them with. Sure, you could go around town and see who's been buying up Radios, but at that point you're wasting more money than is neccessary for a petty crime (if, as was pointed out, it is even a crime at all).
Don't know about the AC, but I drive an efficient Saturn and was almost broadsided this morning by some woman who was not only driving too fast in her Gas Hog of an SUV, but also didn't bother to pay attention to the road stripes. Her desire to change lanes in the middle of an intersection (turning right, we were!) almost caused her to pay me as much as her car cost in medical bills (maybe I'm exagerating here...).
The point is, they seem to have little regard for people in 'smaller' cars and most don't even have a NEED for these monsters. 'No Blood for Oil!' cry the people, yet so few focus their effort on the 'Oil' half of that battle cry. I'm not saying a war for oil is just, I'm just saying there should be two fronts, not just the one against the government. And the first to be under sights should be the Gas Hogs known as SUV.
Interresting information in the Backscatter movie. I'd always wondered how DoS and DDoS attacks occur. It still leaves me with questions, though.
I assume that since the backscatter is so broad that it doesn't affect the presumed sender MUCH, but it does do damage to the them, no? After all, they now have to pay for, and attempt to distribute, responses to false information, correct? If so, DDoS attacks are much more of a bitch move than I'd originally thought.
My other question was wether or not DDoS attacks can physically damage the victim's machine. I'd assumed it couldn't and that the 'their servers must be in a melted, smoking mound by now!' jokes were just that, but I always wanted to ask anyway. Would someone be kind enough as to enlighten me a bit more?
As MrAngryForNoReason pointed out, they do register and have been seen by a number of people in a number of movies (I've peresonally seen it in about 7 already) as noted in this Movie Answer Man column.
"Q. While watching "Kill Bill, Vol. 1," I noticed that several times during the movie, there would be a flash of three or four small dots, arranged in the same formation, lasting only a couple of frames. It could not have been blood spots (my first theory), because this happened even during parts where there was no bloodshed (which were, of course, few and far between). Is this something Tarantino did, or a problem with the print that the theater showed?
Jeremy Gable, Anaheim, Calif.
A. The dots are part of a new studio anti-piracy system that has already been dubbed "Crap Code" by insiders. The Answer Man was right on top of this innovation, with an item in the column for Oct. 5 by Steve Kraus, Chicago projection expert. He says the dots are so large because then they can be seen even on digital versions pirated on the Internet."
That article from Oct. 5 contains this mention of Cap Codes
"Q. Have you been seeing spots when you go to the movies? It may not be your eyes! More than 20 years ago Kodak devised a system called "Cap Code" designed to uniquely mark film prints so that pirated copies could be traced to the source. Cap Code uses very tiny dots that flash occasionally but are so small that the average viewer almost never notices them.
Well, something new and horrible has been introduced on some studios' prints. Sort of a giant picture-marring version of Cap Code dots: Very large reddish brown spots that flash in the middle of the picture, usually placed in a light area. They flash in various patterns throughout a given reel while other reels of the same film may have none at all.
A Kodak spokesman who helped devise the original Cap Code says this is not the work of his company but theorizes that it may be intended to be more visible on the murky compressed copies that get posted to the Internet where the original, very subtle Cap Code may be difficult to discern.
On one movie technical forum they are referring to this new system as "Crap Code" or "Cap Code on Steroids." There are reports coming in of viewers complaining of the spots on the pictures. While theaters strive to keep prints free of dirt and scratches, Hollywood starts sending out prints with built-in marring. Among the films known to be afflicted are "Ali," "Behind Enemy Lines," "28 Days Later" "Freddy vs. Jason" and "Underworld," probably many others as well.
Steve Kraus, Chicago
A. You're the expert projectionist at our Chicago critics' screening room, with a fierce love of high-quality film, so I can imagine how upset you are. What's amusing about Crap Code and the other efforts to catch pirates is that most of the thieves are apparently industry insiders. A recent news story says studios may even be discouraged from distributing advance DVDs of their Oscar contenders to academy members, because some of these movies quickly find their way to the Web."
What if the next step is a huge backlash against the internet. A bursting of the bubble (to quone a phrase) of a completely different style. It could turn people off of the hassle of the internet, thus driving its marketability into the ground and leaving it a desolate wasteland for businesses and the common man alike.
Stay with me...
From within that wasteland, and on the backs of the technologically adept, a new (more secure? more well thought out?) internet can be born. Kinda like the restructuring of countries after a devastating war.
...now if we could only get Microsoft (or whomever...yeah, Microsoft) to pay reparations, we'd be set!
How do you get anything done with all that added effort?
This is precisely why we're losing the battle to clean our Inboxes. We shouldn't have to go through so much effort (and I do have SOME effort in verifying junk safely) just to see if a piece of mail is safe. This is almost akin to getting mail bombs in your physical mailbox each day. Is it a real package? Is it a bomb? I don't know, but this FedEx box does look authentic...ka-boom.
Fortunately, the consequences aren't as dire as that, but the lost money mentioned in another post is still pretty dire. My time is $50 an hour (and that's cheap!) and I would certainly like to be billed for all of the hassle of having to 'deal' with spam.
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p.s. And what REALLY chaps my hide is that all of my effort is reactive instead of proactive.
Sorry, but isn't this topic about TiVo skipping commercials? How is that violating copyright? I understand that the parent you replied to brought up Hollywood (for some odd reason) but the body of the post was still dealing with the on-topic discussion of TiVo and the changing face of advertisement.
So please put your 'hot-button' back in your hot-pocket and try to stay focused.
I've not heard reports of such a garish movie. Would you care to fill me? I'm always curious/cautious of such bad films.
Though I should point out that "totally commercial romantic comedy" and "a chase scene that was arguably the only action sequence" indicates your confusion with genres.
Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, nineteen for me 'cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small Be thankful I don't take it all 'cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street, If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat. If you get too cold I'll tax the heat, If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Don't ask me what I want it for If you don't want to pay some more 'cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die Declare the pennies on your eyes 'cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman And you're working for no one but me
And if you'd care to read this thread, you'd understand that we're not alone. You obviously learned art from people with no passion and have had that lack of passion and respect bestowed upon you....that's a shame.
You're missing out a lot by pushing art out of your life and are coming off as pompous and arrogant without really understanding why. I would recommend that you review your ideals and explore, more thoroughly, the world around you but, this time, with a more open mind. Maybe you could make friends with an artist to push you in the right direction...
Just remember, we need each other. The artist can dream all he wants, but is lost if he has no knowledge of how to manifest his dreams, and the Engineer can design to his heart's conent, but he'll run out of things to design without an 'idea man' to give him new places to go.
That's true. There is a certain pompus attitude that comes with saying "I'm an Artist" though, as another person put it, there are fields of Engineering in which the finished job IS a work of art, and I can greatly respect that. It's one thing to simply create what someone asks for. It is another thing entirely to do it with pashion and love that leaves anyone who understands the process in awe of the creation!...damn, that is an awfully generalized sentence.
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p.s. I don't know that 'no one ever gets accused of bragging.' As I recall, this thread was started because BlockHeadMomo thought he was Gods Gift to Engineering.
That's the point. The screeners DO help and that these other past movies have been nominated is a testament to that. However, movies from this year's crop won't stand nearly as strong of a chance of even being seen, much less nominated, if this ridiculous ban isn't repealed.
Because one can never use enough acronyms. I just watched Lawrence a few days ago and while my heart is with Kubrick and Kurosawa, I do love that movie!
You're correct. Throne of Blood is based upon Macbeth (and the scene where the Cobweb Forrest advances on the castle will take your breath away!) and Toshiro Mifune solidified his place in history with that role. Ran is based upon King Lear and, while still a good story, seems so oddly un-Kurosawa being shot in Color. Not to say the man doesn't know how to use color (as you obviously know having seen Dreams), but, up until that point, I had only seen him use black and white and would have believed the man invented the medium!
If you want to continue the Kurosawa trend, pick up Yojimbo and Sanjuro. Two movies that helped (along side Seven Samurai) to spawn the modern western. They also contain the best Bad-Ass roll I've seen Mifune play. If you want to see where modern "Cool Motherfuckers" get their attitude from, watch those two movies.
As for Jackson and Lord of the Rings, I can definitely see the love and admiration he had for the stories of Tolkien. I, honestly, did not share that love or admiration and had never read the books or seen any of the earlier movies, but Jackson's pashion won me over and made me a devout fan of the trilogy. (And (for the purists out there), yes, I know Jackson didn't do the movies intact. That doesn't change the fact that they are brilliantly told tales and that anyone who would set themselves up to hate them is doing no one but them a huge disservice.
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That's a good idea. I'd also expect it to take the average station tuned in and display an ad for that demographic. No need to appeal to us few listening to NPR when the whole rest of the interstate is tuned in to KSUK 108! All POP all the time!
...!
Though, after all these niceties, it sure does tie up a lot of cash for nothing more than a billboard, no?
Oh, well. At least there aren't any charities that this money could go to
fs
IM6100 already hit the points I was goint to hit, but it also dawned on me that operating a jamming signal would be something the FCC could track down. But $5 radio's from Target? You really think they'll spend the effort tracking them down? There's not a damn thing you can use to identify them with. Sure, you could go around town and see who's been buying up Radios, but at that point you're wasting more money than is neccessary for a petty crime (if, as was pointed out, it is even a crime at all).
fs
Don't know about the AC, but I drive an efficient Saturn and was almost broadsided this morning by some woman who was not only driving too fast in her Gas Hog of an SUV, but also didn't bother to pay attention to the road stripes. Her desire to change lanes in the middle of an intersection (turning right, we were!) almost caused her to pay me as much as her car cost in medical bills (maybe I'm exagerating here...).
The point is, they seem to have little regard for people in 'smaller' cars and most don't even have a NEED for these monsters. 'No Blood for Oil!' cry the people, yet so few focus their effort on the 'Oil' half of that battle cry. I'm not saying a war for oil is just, I'm just saying there should be two fronts, not just the one against the government. And the first to be under sights should be the Gas Hogs known as SUV.
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p.s. But that is just my humble opinion.
That was more comma splices and run-on sentences than I've seen in a long time.
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Interresting information in the Backscatter movie. I'd always wondered how DoS and DDoS attacks occur. It still leaves me with questions, though.
I assume that since the backscatter is so broad that it doesn't affect the presumed sender MUCH, but it does do damage to the them, no? After all, they now have to pay for, and attempt to distribute, responses to false information, correct? If so, DDoS attacks are much more of a bitch move than I'd originally thought.
My other question was wether or not DDoS attacks can physically damage the victim's machine. I'd assumed it couldn't and that the 'their servers must be in a melted, smoking mound by now!' jokes were just that, but I always wanted to ask anyway. Would someone be kind enough as to enlighten me a bit more?
Thanks
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I'm amazed that no one (that I could find, anyway) has yet pointed out the striking lack of originality in the Lindows website navbar at the top!
Who exactly ARE these guys trying to copy? They seem to be pulling together the worst of each major OS and trying to put them to use.
Poor, dumb bastards.
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I did. Very nice stuff. I particularly like the two girls playing in the field before the Church in the D100 shots.
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I had no idea and it sounds like a good episode. Thanks for filling me in!
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p.s. You'd think an intellectual such as Frasier would've known enough to say Rosebud is CFK's sled.
You know, only one of those was a real spoiler (and it's still a smidge wrong). Why not try:
1) Rosebud is Charles Foster Kane's sled
2) Verbal Kent is Kaiser Soze
3) Dil (in The Crying Game) is a man!
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As MrAngryForNoReason pointed out, they do register and have been seen by a number of people in a number of movies (I've peresonally seen it in about 7 already) as noted in this Movie Answer Man column.
"Q. While watching "Kill Bill, Vol. 1," I noticed that several times during the movie, there would be a flash of three or four small dots, arranged in the same formation, lasting only a couple of frames. It could not have been blood spots (my first theory), because this happened even during parts where there was no bloodshed (which were, of course, few and far between). Is this something Tarantino did, or a problem with the print that the theater showed?
Jeremy Gable, Anaheim, Calif.
A. The dots are part of a new studio anti-piracy system that has already been dubbed "Crap Code" by insiders. The Answer Man was right on top of this innovation, with an item in the column for Oct. 5 by Steve Kraus, Chicago projection expert. He says the dots are so large because then they can be seen even on digital versions pirated on the Internet."
That article from Oct. 5 contains this mention of Cap Codes
"Q. Have you been seeing spots when you go to the movies? It may not be your eyes! More than 20 years ago Kodak devised a system called "Cap Code" designed to uniquely mark film prints so that pirated copies could be traced to the source. Cap Code uses very tiny dots that flash occasionally but are so small that the average viewer almost never notices them.
Well, something new and horrible has been introduced on some studios' prints. Sort of a giant picture-marring version of Cap Code dots: Very large reddish brown spots that flash in the middle of the picture, usually placed in a light area. They flash in various patterns throughout a given reel while other reels of the same film may have none at all.
A Kodak spokesman who helped devise the original Cap Code says this is not the work of his company but theorizes that it may be intended to be more visible on the murky compressed copies that get posted to the Internet where the original, very subtle Cap Code may be difficult to discern.
On one movie technical forum they are referring to this new system as "Crap Code" or "Cap Code on Steroids." There are reports coming in of viewers complaining of the spots on the pictures. While theaters strive to keep prints free of dirt and scratches, Hollywood starts sending out prints with built-in marring. Among the films known to be afflicted are "Ali," "Behind Enemy Lines," "28 Days Later" "Freddy vs. Jason" and "Underworld," probably many others as well.
Steve Kraus, Chicago
A. You're the expert projectionist at our Chicago critics' screening room, with a fierce love of high-quality film, so I can imagine how upset you are. What's amusing about Crap Code and the other efforts to catch pirates is that most of the thieves are apparently industry insiders. A recent news story says studios may even be discouraged from distributing advance DVDs of their Oscar contenders to academy members, because some of these movies quickly find their way to the Web."
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According to the article:
An aside - did you know you can ask him anything you want at: askbill@microsoft.com
What do you get when you write to killbill@microsoft.com?
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I haven't laughed out loud at a comment moded funny in a long damn time. Thank you.
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What if the next step is a huge backlash against the internet. A bursting of the bubble (to quone a phrase) of a completely different style. It could turn people off of the hassle of the internet, thus driving its marketability into the ground and leaving it a desolate wasteland for businesses and the common man alike.
...now if we could only get Microsoft (or whomever ...yeah, Microsoft) to pay reparations, we'd be set!
Stay with me...
From within that wasteland, and on the backs of the technologically adept, a new (more secure? more well thought out?) internet can be born. Kinda like the restructuring of countries after a devastating war.
fs
Huh. Seems Graham, contrary to popular belief, is rather Clueless.
fs
How do you get anything done with all that added effort?
This is precisely why we're losing the battle to clean our Inboxes. We shouldn't have to go through so much effort (and I do have SOME effort in verifying junk safely) just to see if a piece of mail is safe. This is almost akin to getting mail bombs in your physical mailbox each day. Is it a real package? Is it a bomb? I don't know, but this FedEx box does look authentic...ka-boom.
Fortunately, the consequences aren't as dire as that, but the lost money mentioned in another post is still pretty dire. My time is $50 an hour (and that's cheap!) and I would certainly like to be billed for all of the hassle of having to 'deal' with spam.
fs
p.s. And what REALLY chaps my hide is that all of my effort is reactive instead of proactive.
You have a damn amusing (and damn right!) typo right n'yah.
No spam is an essential component in modern society
fs
Sorry, but isn't this topic about TiVo skipping commercials? How is that violating copyright? I understand that the parent you replied to brought up Hollywood (for some odd reason) but the body of the post was still dealing with the on-topic discussion of TiVo and the changing face of advertisement.
So please put your 'hot-button' back in your hot-pocket and try to stay focused.
fs
I've not heard reports of such a garish movie. Would you care to fill me? I'm always curious/cautious of such bad films.
Though I should point out that "totally commercial romantic comedy" and "a chase scene that was arguably the only action sequence" indicates your confusion with genres.
fs
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some more
'cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
'cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me
And with all these special effects companies and computer generated films, no one watches Citizen Kane anymore!
*scoff*
fs
Any girl who brings along a copy of Dreams is a wonderful chic, in my opinion!
Enjoy the flicks!
fs
And if you'd care to read this thread, you'd understand that we're not alone. You obviously learned art from people with no passion and have had that lack of passion and respect bestowed upon you. ...that's a shame.
You're missing out a lot by pushing art out of your life and are coming off as pompous and arrogant without really understanding why. I would recommend that you review your ideals and explore, more thoroughly, the world around you but, this time, with a more open mind. Maybe you could make friends with an artist to push you in the right direction...
Just remember, we need each other. The artist can dream all he wants, but is lost if he has no knowledge of how to manifest his dreams, and the Engineer can design to his heart's conent, but he'll run out of things to design without an 'idea man' to give him new places to go.
fs
That's true. There is a certain pompus attitude that comes with saying "I'm an Artist" though, as another person put it, there are fields of Engineering in which the finished job IS a work of art, and I can greatly respect that. It's one thing to simply create what someone asks for. It is another thing entirely to do it with pashion and love that leaves anyone who understands the process in awe of the creation! ...damn, that is an awfully generalized sentence.
fs
p.s. I don't know that 'no one ever gets accused of bragging.' As I recall, this thread was started because BlockHeadMomo thought he was Gods Gift to Engineering.
That's the point. The screeners DO help and that these other past movies have been nominated is a testament to that. However, movies from this year's crop won't stand nearly as strong of a chance of even being seen, much less nominated, if this ridiculous ban isn't repealed.
fs
Because one can never use enough acronyms. I just watched Lawrence a few days ago and while my heart is with Kubrick and Kurosawa, I do love that movie!
You're correct. Throne of Blood is based upon Macbeth (and the scene where the Cobweb Forrest advances on the castle will take your breath away!) and Toshiro Mifune solidified his place in history with that role. Ran is based upon King Lear and, while still a good story, seems so oddly un-Kurosawa being shot in Color. Not to say the man doesn't know how to use color (as you obviously know having seen Dreams), but, up until that point, I had only seen him use black and white and would have believed the man invented the medium!
If you want to continue the Kurosawa trend, pick up Yojimbo and Sanjuro. Two movies that helped (along side Seven Samurai) to spawn the modern western. They also contain the best Bad-Ass roll I've seen Mifune play. If you want to see where modern "Cool Motherfuckers" get their attitude from, watch those two movies.
As for Jackson and Lord of the Rings, I can definitely see the love and admiration he had for the stories of Tolkien. I, honestly, did not share that love or admiration and had never read the books or seen any of the earlier movies, but Jackson's pashion won me over and made me a devout fan of the trilogy. (And (for the purists out there), yes, I know Jackson didn't do the movies intact. That doesn't change the fact that they are brilliantly told tales and that anyone who would set themselves up to hate them is doing no one but them a huge disservice.
fs