1
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Protests EVERYWHERE
« on: Yesterday at 04:30:57 pm »
WOOO, I'm going to be In Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. I have nothing but the best timing.
Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
2
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Prism and Verizon surveillance discussion thread
« on: Yesterday at 02:49:12 pm »
surely it's the the system that he has exposed that is treasonous. The entirety of the prism system is detrimental to the United states security, business confidence, and is open to abuse against the people. All he has done is highlight treason in the highest ranks of the administration.
3
Apple Zone / Re: Film Flam
« on: June 17, 2013, 08:31:16 am »
Well it makes sense it goes against the Kryptonian ungodly way of reproducing. And he's less like Jesus in this movie then he has ever been on screen. Dean Cain included.
4
Apple Zone / Re: Film Flam
« on: June 16, 2013, 11:45:42 pm »
In fact my problem with this movie it is exactly the same as my problem with the watchmen: Snyder focusses in on the climax ("I did it 35 minutes ago"), while leaving out the resolution of why that's important ("Nothing Ends, Adrian, Nothing EVER ends").
5
Apple Zone / Re: Film Flam
« on: June 16, 2013, 11:38:17 pm »
I went to see Man of Steel yesterday. I wasn't impressed. It had lots of nice elements (and was infinitely better then Sucker Punch) but overall it's a film that left me feeling cold.
The studio has had huge successes with the Christopher Nolan Batman Films, and it looks like tonally they wanted to keep this consistent. The problem with having a gritty, morose Superman film is you have to compromise the more goofy aspects of superman. What makes him superman is his boundless compassion and kindness.
So instead we get a brooding introspective Clark (before ever taking on the mild mannered reporter persona), more in line with Bruce Wayne, its a fair take on the character and can work well when examining the character closely.
In this case it is used to examine his Identity Crises in terms of his alien heritage versus his Kansas upbringing. Its intriguing, but it is the only way the character is explored in the film.
(spoilers follow)
The parts that I really liked about this concept were how irreconcilable they are. Pa Kent never encourages him to use his power, even suggesting that perhaps he should let people die rather then get found out.
On the other hand we have Jor El, who is actually the more likeable of the two paternal characters, he leaves the choice up to his son and doesn't suggest he should live one way or an other (in fact Jor El's own words on the matter imply the Kryptonians deserved what happened to them), but he offers him the choice of restoring his people (which incidentally would wipe out the human race in a horrible terraforming).
This is about as far as the exploration went, there's a couple of lines on Eugenics during the punching scenes that make the Kyrtonians look like assholes and in the final confrontation Clark makes his decision and kills Zod. This doesn't bother me.
There are a lot of people out there upset at how "Superman Never Kills", which just isn't true, he can kill whenever a writer writes him to kill. It would be completely out of character if this guy was a symbol of hope, which this movies version isn't.
The problem with it is, they throw in some sobbing afterwards and don't deal with the ramifications. It would work really well saw some of the consequences, some kind of insight into how this changes Clark.
If we got a little sense of what is going through Clarks mind. Instead the movie switches over to superman destroying a spy drone in one of the movies only light hearted scenes. Followed up with him going for the introduction to mild mannered reporter Clark Kent.
It felt waay to casual to convince me that he had no other choice. For the Incarnation of Hope Superman this is NEVER possible. Just as the Joker has Killed over 1000 people because Batman wont kill him. There was no real struggle with the decision or aftermath. It is a story without a proper conclusion and a movie without an ending.
Instead of a well thought out tense and semi tragic compromise we get: "I kill. I do what I want don't spy on me. Now I am the mild mannered reporter everyone smile."
I think Donners Script probably HAD that resolution in it which was left out for the tediously overly long fight scenes and September 11th re-enactment (which I feel too cheap an emotional exploitation for this film).
They are going to be making sequels to this, and I like the actors involved I'd just really like to see someone other then Zack Snyder make them, his films are too goddam joyless and sterile.
The studio has had huge successes with the Christopher Nolan Batman Films, and it looks like tonally they wanted to keep this consistent. The problem with having a gritty, morose Superman film is you have to compromise the more goofy aspects of superman. What makes him superman is his boundless compassion and kindness.
So instead we get a brooding introspective Clark (before ever taking on the mild mannered reporter persona), more in line with Bruce Wayne, its a fair take on the character and can work well when examining the character closely.
In this case it is used to examine his Identity Crises in terms of his alien heritage versus his Kansas upbringing. Its intriguing, but it is the only way the character is explored in the film.
(spoilers follow)
The parts that I really liked about this concept were how irreconcilable they are. Pa Kent never encourages him to use his power, even suggesting that perhaps he should let people die rather then get found out.
On the other hand we have Jor El, who is actually the more likeable of the two paternal characters, he leaves the choice up to his son and doesn't suggest he should live one way or an other (in fact Jor El's own words on the matter imply the Kryptonians deserved what happened to them), but he offers him the choice of restoring his people (which incidentally would wipe out the human race in a horrible terraforming).
This is about as far as the exploration went, there's a couple of lines on Eugenics during the punching scenes that make the Kyrtonians look like assholes and in the final confrontation Clark makes his decision and kills Zod. This doesn't bother me.
There are a lot of people out there upset at how "Superman Never Kills", which just isn't true, he can kill whenever a writer writes him to kill. It would be completely out of character if this guy was a symbol of hope, which this movies version isn't.
The problem with it is, they throw in some sobbing afterwards and don't deal with the ramifications. It would work really well saw some of the consequences, some kind of insight into how this changes Clark.
If we got a little sense of what is going through Clarks mind. Instead the movie switches over to superman destroying a spy drone in one of the movies only light hearted scenes. Followed up with him going for the introduction to mild mannered reporter Clark Kent.
It felt waay to casual to convince me that he had no other choice. For the Incarnation of Hope Superman this is NEVER possible. Just as the Joker has Killed over 1000 people because Batman wont kill him. There was no real struggle with the decision or aftermath. It is a story without a proper conclusion and a movie without an ending.
Instead of a well thought out tense and semi tragic compromise we get: "I kill. I do what I want don't spy on me. Now I am the mild mannered reporter everyone smile."
I think Donners Script probably HAD that resolution in it which was left out for the tediously overly long fight scenes and September 11th re-enactment (which I feel too cheap an emotional exploitation for this film).
They are going to be making sequels to this, and I like the actors involved I'd just really like to see someone other then Zack Snyder make them, his films are too goddam joyless and sterile.
6
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Prism and Verizon surveillance discussion thread
« on: June 14, 2013, 03:13:08 pm »
So Snowden is banned from the Uk.
At first I was was thinking that the UK and the NSA probably have very close ties and the significance of him doing this goes against the subservience culture of the UK.
But everyone knows the UK is a surveillance state, in fact if they really wanted to brown nose the NSA they wouldn't have said anything and kept the lookout to catch Snowden.
I guess they are afraid they would either have an other Julian Assange on their hands and explicitly went out of their way to avoid it.
At first I was was thinking that the UK and the NSA probably have very close ties and the significance of him doing this goes against the subservience culture of the UK.
But everyone knows the UK is a surveillance state, in fact if they really wanted to brown nose the NSA they wouldn't have said anything and kept the lookout to catch Snowden.
I guess they are afraid they would either have an other Julian Assange on their hands and explicitly went out of their way to avoid it.
7
Literate Chaotic / Re: ITT: Original Story Ideas
« on: June 12, 2013, 01:16:45 pm »
Screenplay for a movie.
A semi biographical story about how Brian Blessed and luciano pavarotti were twins separated at birth. Then when this gag runs thin the rest is a plagiarism of the talented Mr Ripely.
A semi biographical story about how Brian Blessed and luciano pavarotti were twins separated at birth. Then when this gag runs thin the rest is a plagiarism of the talented Mr Ripely.
8
Apple Zone / Re: LIFECRAP
« on: June 11, 2013, 01:57:58 pm »
I call our home-brew discordian version Kaleidoscope
9
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Prism and Verizon surveillance discussion thread
« on: June 11, 2013, 11:58:57 am »http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22850901QuoteAn ex-CIA employee who leaked details of US top-secret phone and internet surveillance has disappeared from his hotel in Hong Kong.
Well that was quicker than expected.
Edit - Rest of article practically worthless.
FUCK. I hope he has gone to ground and hasn't been picked up.
10
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Prism and Verizon surveillance discussion thread
« on: June 11, 2013, 11:56:32 am »
The failures on the parts of the NSA to properly manage this project and keep it's security and secrecy intact have led our administration to restructure development.
With that in mind, going forward we are pleased to announce that the PRISM project has been reassigned to the remit of the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Bureau who are now entrusted with its use in the role of national security.
The project will be rebranded to PRIAPRISM later this month to better reflect the new direction in brand.
With that in mind, going forward we are pleased to announce that the PRISM project has been reassigned to the remit of the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Bureau who are now entrusted with its use in the role of national security.
The project will be rebranded to PRIAPRISM later this month to better reflect the new direction in brand.
11
Apple Zone / Re: Uncomfortable topics: Let's talk about race
« on: June 10, 2013, 09:04:10 am »
He's also to handsome and competent sounding. The last doctor looked like an Easter Island head and this is someone with a time machine that has never gone where he wants it to go.
12
Apple Zone / Re: Uncomfortable topics: Let's talk about race
« on: June 10, 2013, 08:05:45 am »And even more importantly, Doctor Who is a terrible show anyway, and people should feel bad for liking it or putting it in a position of social relevance.
It's like 2000AD, it has a plethora of writers. Mostly bad, with some marvellous exceptions. But when its excellent it really is fantastic. The show has been running for fifty years and has about 300 episodes at this point, you could watch all the good episodes in about eight hours.
13
Apple Zone / Re: Uncomfortable topics: Let's talk about race
« on: June 09, 2013, 08:10:43 am »All I've seen him in is Lock, stock, he didn't come across a beautiful in that but Id seen him in something else first I might have a different opinion.
I would just like to return to this image again for a minute. Does anyone else think that this is one hellaciously beautiful man?
14
Apple Zone / Re: Open Bar MMXIV^2: Solace of Quantum
« on: June 06, 2013, 10:45:01 pm »What the hell is going on with the board? It keeps fucking going in and out of service.
I got an email from Hetzner about this while I was out at the pub.
Quote
Dear Client
At the end of last week, Hetzner technicians discovered a "backdoor" in one
of our internal monitoring systems (Nagios).
An investigation was launched immediately and showed that the administration
interface for dedicated root servers (Robot) had also been affected. Current
findings would suggest that fragments of our client database had been copied
externally.
As a result, we currently have to consider the client data stored in our Robot
as compromised.
To our knowledge, the malicious program that we have discovered is as yet
unknown and has never appeared before.
The malicious code used in the "backdoor" exclusively infects the RAM. First
analysis suggests that the malicious code directly infiltrates running Apache
and sshd processes. Here, the infection neither modifies the binaries of the
service which has been compromised, nor does it restart the service which has
been affected.
The standard techniques used for analysis such as the examination of checksum
or tools such as "rkhunter" are therefore not able to track down the malicious
code.
We have commissioned an external security company with a detailed analysis of
the incident to support our in-house administrators. At this stage, analysis
of the incident has not yet been completed.
The access passwords for your Robot client account are stored in our database
as Hash (SHA256) with salt. As a precaution, we recommend that you change your
client passwords in the Robot.
With credit cards, only the last three digits of the card number, the card type
and the expiry date are saved in our systems. All other card data is saved
solely by our payment service provider and referenced via a pseudo card number.
Therefore, as far as we are aware, credit card data has not been compromised.
Hetzner technicians are permanently working on localising and preventing possible
security vulnerabilities as well as ensuring that our systems and infrastructure
are kept as safe as possible. Data security is a very high priority for us. To
expedite clarification further, we have reported this incident to the data
security authority concerned.
Furthermore, we are in contact with the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in
regard to this incident.
Naturally, we shall inform you of new developments immediately.
We very much regret this incident and thank you for your understanding and
trust in us.
A special FAQs page has been set up at
http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Security_Issue/en to assist you with further
enquiries.
It scared the shit out of me at first but apart from the control panel password which isn't the same as the server password it sounds fine.
Though they don't specifically mention the down time today I would imagine the two are related.
15
Apple Zone / Re: Uncomfortable topics: Let's talk about race
« on: June 06, 2013, 10:39:13 pm »Vas Blackwood would make a great Doctor.
Holy shit yes. Or if they HAVE to go with an old white guy again: Brick top
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OCvm7CTo_0