Think again, SirCam is indeed an executable virus, however the message body contains a VBScript that exploits unpatched installs of Outlook/Express and executes the attachment for you.
Anyone can be infected by opening the attachment (sorry, anyone running Windoze), but only Outlook/Express users will spread the virus as it exploits the MS Address book.
So, yes the virus is not strictly restricted to Outlook users, they are simply more vulnerable than others.
Yeah, kinda ranks up with the guy who says, "No offence but,..." and then proceeds to insult your appearance, intelligence, race, creed, religion and probably call your children ugly to boot.
Here's a plot hole that actually woke me up the night after the movie (there are others I'll admit, but this one stood out).
The apes evolved from the genetically enhanced trained apes aboard the Oberon in about a thousand or so years. It's a stretch but I'll suspend disbelief for that. The humans are apparently descendents of the survivors from Oberon who survived the initial ape attack. Sure, OK, I'll accept that with reservations.
The question no one seems to ask is:
WHERE DID THE HORSES COME FROM?
You can't expect me to believe they just happened to have a couple horses aboard the Oberon. Most people missed this one because, well, there were horses in the original movie so it's normal for them to be here in this one. But Tim set this on some other planet than Earth (I was led to assume it was some terraformed moon of Saturn since opening scenes looked to have Oberon orbiting Saturn. We won't go into the obvious problems of a cold airless moon out by Saturn turning into a verdant jungle world in a thousand years).
Perhaps it's the fact that this movie appears to be little more than a sequel to Clueless.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it was intended to be Clueless 2 but they couldn't get Silverstone, so they cast someone else in the role and changed a couple names.
Katz' backhanded review notwithstanding, I think I'll pass on seeing it anyway.
It certainly does, it says Napster is dead. However, it's rotting corpse remains as a decoy for the RIAA to stomp on while the rest of us quietly move on to other methods and programs, ie. gnutella, etc. Let RIAA tilt at the Napster windmill.
Hey, what about the attractive Dr. Helena Something from Space: 1999? Speaking of which, there's another show I'm surprised they haven't tried to resurrect.
Just so long as they leave Maia or whatever the shapechanging alien lady's name was. Granted, the morphing effects would be much better than showing a close-up of her eye with the reflection of [insert creature here] in it, but morphing aliens have now been done to death especially by Star Trek.
The biggest is this: the linchpin of the entire plot is that the robotic boy can never stop loving and longing for its "mother" owner, despite being destined to outlive her. This is absurd -- not being able to reboot his software, or at least reinstall it, is really contrived.
Thank you, I thought that was one of the sillier points of the movie myself. Granted, the story couldn't have taken place without this apparently permanent bonding, but I wondered to myself as I watched the movie, "what, have they forgotten how to format c:?"
Especially after an earlier scene shows Hurt's character removing what appears to be a CPU with a massive heatsink from the female "mecha"'s forehead.
Apparently, David is just another poorly designed beta or alpha model unit unleashed on the world;-)
There is a spoiler in here, be forewarned:
I can think of at least two other otherwise good movies that were ruined by the introduction of "Shiny happy aliens" as a friend of mine puts it.
The Abyss: diver considers his fate as he plunges to the depths of the ocean and learns life's lessons too late only to be saved by an alien vessel that's been hidden under the ocean for millenia and physics gets thrown out the window (everyone is raised to the surface in seconds without explosive decompression or even a nasty case of the bends).
Mission to Mars: Astronauts shipwrecked on Mars discover alien artifact and are miraculously saved by alien entity.
Now we have A.I. and its aliens/advanced robots sort of giving David his dream. Frankly, the one day thing was just plain silly though, it really didn't make sense other than as a means to wrap up a story that already ran a half hour too long.
Well, I would have put the ending slightly later but still short of the actual ending. Simply roll the credits after the narrative with David frozen in the next ice age. But I guess Spielberg wanted a "happy" ending.
I have difficulty believing any of that alien ending was Kubrick's, he would have had the guts to deny David his happy ending.
Yeah, there's twenty more minutes of Jar-Jar being a clumsy retard rastafarian alien. Oh yeah, and a song and dance number where Anakin and Jar-Jar sing the loveable number "Aren't We Awfully Cute?"
Unless there was a Phantom Edit mode, I wouldn't waste change I found on the sidewalk for the Phantom Menace on DVD, VHS or full digital immersion hologram for that matter.
I'll wait for the Definitive Collection of IV, V and VI on DVD so I can retire my Laserdisc player once and for all. ChodaBoy
I can't see it happening, at least not done right. Every time Hollywood tries to do a "hacker" movie, it comes out so mindbogglingly stupid (eg. Hackers or the botched William Gibson movie, Johnny Mnemonic) that no real fan of the genre would see it.
The closest I've seen to a Gibsonesque movie was The Matrix and it had its faults too. But perhaps the Wachowski brothers should give Neuromancer a try, they're the closest ones to actually pulling it off.
Not to mention the fact that the Canadians won't be spending all their money on the $500,000 toilet seats and the $50,000 "Threaded fastener manipulation tool", etc.
The only problem is that Napster now controls the format on the receiving end of the download (ie, it's not going to be a straight MP3, it'll be something protected.) It's a little harder to descramble when the file is encrypted and you don't control the player.
Well, if that's the case, Napster is too late. Liquid Audio is already using a similar model.
Or did Doug not actually answer question 8 (Licensing)?
He spoke about the differences in Linux distros, Mac, etc. but never really commented on how the hardware specific licensing is affected by changes in an end-user's hardware.
For example, if I have to phone MS (probably getting charged for the call to boot) for a new license when I replace my MoBo, CPU, whatever; I'll be a lot less likely to go with XP. ChodaBoy
A little behind the story, frankly anything proposed by the current BC government should be taken with a grain of salt as they are bound to be looking for new jobs within the next couple of months.
This is just another attempt at grabbing attention (and maybe winning a vote or two from concerned, but lazy parents who can't bother to keep an eye on their own children when it comes to video games) by a government so overwhelmingly incompetent and/or crooked that even they are now aware of the fact that they couldn't possibly win the next election.
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Think again, SirCam is indeed an executable virus, however the message body contains a VBScript that exploits unpatched installs of Outlook/Express and executes the attachment for you.
Anyone can be infected by opening the attachment (sorry, anyone running Windoze), but only Outlook/Express users will spread the virus as it exploits the MS Address book.
So, yes the virus is not strictly restricted to Outlook users, they are simply more vulnerable than others.
Yeah, kinda ranks up with the guy who says, "No offence but, ..." and then proceeds to insult your appearance, intelligence, race, creed, religion and probably call your children ugly to boot.
Yeah, I guess Jeri Ryan (sic) wasn't available to traipse around FBI HQ in skin tight spandex :)
ChodaBoy
The problem is, none of the rest of the movie is in tune with the original book, so why drag that obviously out of place ending into it?
What gets me is they made something like five different endings, and this was the best of them?
ChodaBoy
Here's a plot hole that actually woke me up the night after the movie (there are others I'll admit, but this one stood out).
The apes evolved from the genetically enhanced trained apes aboard the Oberon in about a thousand or so years. It's a stretch but I'll suspend disbelief for that. The humans are apparently descendents of the survivors from Oberon who survived the initial ape attack. Sure, OK, I'll accept that with reservations.
The question no one seems to ask is:
WHERE DID THE HORSES COME FROM?
You can't expect me to believe they just happened to have a couple horses aboard the Oberon. Most people missed this one because, well, there were horses in the original movie so it's normal for them to be here in this one. But Tim set this on some other planet than Earth (I was led to assume it was some terraformed moon of Saturn since opening scenes looked to have Oberon orbiting Saturn. We won't go into the obvious problems of a cold airless moon out by Saturn turning into a verdant jungle world in a thousand years).
ChodaBoy
Perhaps it's the fact that this movie appears to be little more than a sequel to Clueless.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it was intended to be Clueless 2 but they couldn't get Silverstone, so they cast someone else in the role and changed a couple names.
Katz' backhanded review notwithstanding, I think I'll pass on seeing it anyway.
ChodaBoy
That speaks louder than the comments.
It certainly does, it says Napster is dead. However, it's rotting corpse remains as a decoy for the RIAA to stomp on while the rest of us quietly move on to other methods and programs, ie. gnutella, etc. Let RIAA tilt at the Napster windmill.
ChodaBoy
Hey, what about the attractive Dr. Helena Something from Space: 1999? Speaking of which, there's another show I'm surprised they haven't tried to resurrect.
Just so long as they leave Maia or whatever the shapechanging alien lady's name was. Granted, the morphing effects would be much better than showing a close-up of her eye with the reflection of [insert creature here] in it, but morphing aliens have now been done to death especially by Star Trek.
ChodaBoy
The biggest is this: the linchpin of the entire plot is that the robotic boy can never stop loving and longing for its "mother" owner, despite being destined to outlive her. This is absurd -- not being able to reboot his software, or at least reinstall it, is really contrived.
;-)
Thank you, I thought that was one of the sillier points of the movie myself. Granted, the story couldn't have taken place without this apparently permanent bonding, but I wondered to myself as I watched the movie, "what, have they forgotten how to format c:?"
Especially after an earlier scene shows Hurt's character removing what appears to be a CPU with a massive heatsink from the female "mecha"'s forehead.
Apparently, David is just another poorly designed beta or alpha model unit unleashed on the world
ChodaBoy
There is a spoiler in here, be forewarned: I can think of at least two other otherwise good movies that were ruined by the introduction of "Shiny happy aliens" as a friend of mine puts it.
The Abyss: diver considers his fate as he plunges to the depths of the ocean and learns life's lessons too late only to be saved by an alien vessel that's been hidden under the ocean for millenia and physics gets thrown out the window (everyone is raised to the surface in seconds without explosive decompression or even a nasty case of the bends).
Mission to Mars: Astronauts shipwrecked on Mars discover alien artifact and are miraculously saved by alien entity.
Now we have A.I. and its aliens/advanced robots sort of giving David his dream. Frankly, the one day thing was just plain silly though, it really didn't make sense other than as a means to wrap up a story that already ran a half hour too long.
ChodaBoy
Well, I would have put the ending slightly later but still short of the actual ending. Simply roll the credits after the narrative with David frozen in the next ice age. But I guess Spielberg wanted a "happy" ending.
I have difficulty believing any of that alien ending was Kubrick's, he would have had the guts to deny David his happy ending.
ChodaBoy
Yeah, there's twenty more minutes of Jar-Jar being a clumsy retard rastafarian alien. Oh yeah, and a song and dance number where Anakin and Jar-Jar sing the loveable number "Aren't We Awfully Cute?"
ChodaBoy
What it should include is a half-hour apology from Lucas for Jar-Jar and for making Anakin such an annoying little git.
ChodaBoy
Unless there was a Phantom Edit mode, I wouldn't waste change I found on the sidewalk for the Phantom Menace on DVD, VHS or full digital immersion hologram for that matter.
I'll wait for the Definitive Collection of IV, V and VI on DVD so I can retire my Laserdisc player once and for all.
ChodaBoy
Well, it can't be too hard to make it sound obnoxious in French ;-)
ChodaBoy
Yeah, that's what we need. Another MTV-esque braindead bit of movie crap.
ChodaBoy
I can't see it happening, at least not done right. Every time Hollywood tries to do a "hacker" movie, it comes out so mindbogglingly stupid (eg. Hackers or the botched William Gibson movie, Johnny Mnemonic) that no real fan of the genre would see it.
The closest I've seen to a Gibsonesque movie was The Matrix and it had its faults too. But perhaps the Wachowski brothers should give Neuromancer a try, they're the closest ones to actually pulling it off.
ChodaBoy
I guess that makes Windows HIV. After all, it leaves your PC vulnerable to infection
ChodaBoy
Not to mention the fact that the Canadians won't be spending all their money on the $500,000 toilet seats and the $50,000 "Threaded fastener manipulation tool", etc.
ChodaBoy
Yeah, or how about "your PROHIBITED". My prohibited what? :-)
ChodaBoy
The only problem is that Napster now controls the format on the receiving end of the download (ie, it's not going to be a straight MP3, it'll be something protected.) It's a little harder to descramble when the file is encrypted and you don't control the player.
Well, if that's the case, Napster is too late. Liquid Audio is already using a similar model.
ChodaBoy
Or did Doug not actually answer question 8 (Licensing)?
He spoke about the differences in Linux distros, Mac, etc. but never really commented on how the hardware specific licensing is affected by changes in an end-user's hardware.
For example, if I have to phone MS (probably getting charged for the call to boot) for a new license when I replace my MoBo, CPU, whatever; I'll be a lot less likely to go with XP.
ChodaBoy
By the way, the grammar in you post is terrible.
Hmm, talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
ChodaBoy
A little behind the story, frankly anything proposed by the current BC government should be taken with a grain of salt as they are bound to be looking for new jobs within the next couple of months.
This is just another attempt at grabbing attention (and maybe winning a vote or two from concerned, but lazy parents who can't bother to keep an eye on their own children when it comes to video games) by a government so overwhelmingly incompetent and/or crooked that even they are now aware of the fact that they couldn't possibly win the next election.
ChodaBoy
Thanks CoreWalker, I haven't had a good chuckle like that in a long time :-)
ChodaBoy