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Soon? Never? Our grandchildren will see it? Any other thoughts? |
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I... don't know. |
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Couple of Nic Roeg films on iPlayer if you can "Hola" it from there; Walkabout (Jenny Agutter in the nip) and The Man Who Fell To Earth (David Bowie in the nip). What this Cap'n Crunch fable can bring to the table I don't know (Cap'n Crunch in the nip!?!???!) |
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all i know about capn crunch is that 2600hz whistle thing from bluebox phreak days, what's the skinny on this guff hobbesy? |
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tetris movie |
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blue boxing hasn't worked in forever got a red box to work precisely once forever ago |
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phreaking is gone. it's all computers, now, and thus collapsed into the waveform of hacking |
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ditto for free cable. your cable box has an ip address and ip dox and you can't just cleverly slice off the coaxial choke that blocks out the premium channels. |
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i have only the vaguest idea how to steal satellite TV. it involved some first-gen smartcard crypto thing. obviously, people made counterfeit ones somehow. i only have the vaguest idea. it's not worth stealing |
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steal satellite television ~~ OR ~~ view it on youtube over mcdonalds wifi on the free android phone that came with your happy meal hard. |
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and those are my other thoughts. |
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forbs thots |
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i knew you was going to say that |
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i didn't. i really didn't know i was going to say that not until i got to "...hard." posted. then, i re-read the initial post: oh! hah. let's end with that. i closed the thread. then i sat there for a moment, stewing on it: i did read that post before i wrote anything. the original post was in me as soon as i opened the thread... it could have been influencing the whole thing. heck -- it definitely was... i just can't tell you how far that influence carried. either it was a lucky grab i caught at the last moment... OR it was there all along, and i did not consciously notice it until the precise moment when it became relevant to shitposting. it's quite a machine in there |
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tetris movie was my first free-associative thought. it arrived before i opened the thread, IIRC. i open the thread. read the first post. skim the rest. i'm thinking about belb's answer about a microsecond after i click reply. each time i load up the thread again, close it, re-open to post more shit, well, that initial post strobes into my eyes. i'm not consciously reading it a second time, but on some level, three or four posts in i probably am subconsciously aware that these are "my other thoughts." but also, it could just be from habit: once i peter out on freeball association, i'll generally skim the thread to make sure i didn't miss anything. is it luck? habit? emergent complexity? the answer is: yes |
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cereal the hacker (emmaluel goldstein in hackers) is someone else. obviously... but, is this movie about the cereal or the phone phreak? the peanut butter captain with the blue hat or the man in the VW van with the illegal information device? i was just assuming it was about the actual cereal, the cap'n crunch peanut butter cereal. i thought: heck, that's even worse than a tetris movie. now i'm wondering if i got it wrong and it's about phone phreaks. i just sort of assumed belb was freeball associating like i was |
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and those are my other thoughts about belb's other thoughts about my other thoughts. next doomed question, please |
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i remember reading about all the gold boxes, blue boxes etc when i was younger, i had no idea what they were on about until i was older, by then everything had been digitised at the phone exchange anyway |
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it was a crusty old public phone when a friend and i got it to work with a microcassette recorder. the microcasstte recorder was fumbly and hard to play into the phone -- it had to be loud. too loud, though, and the tape player would distort it. getting it to work once was one of those "shiit, nah, it ain't working... let's just give it one more try" sort of moments. then, boom, and we're so convinced it'll ask for coins that there was a bit of brain fart when Shit Finally Happened that we can barely get a word out when the line connects then i bought a radio shack tone dialer to modify with a new timing crystal [there's probably an article about that in 2600 magazine!]. the modified tone-dialer had a rubber gasket seal sized for a phone, and, yes, this is what we need. but that was it. the phones were fixed. even the tape player never worked again. i kept the modified tone dialer as an odd conversation piece for many years and eventually gave it away to lewis, who lost it. probably for the best |
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COCOT-spotting is even worse than trainspotting on the squarepusher scale of anorakism. whether or not red-boxing would work depended on the type of pay phone and who ran the phone lines. Customer-Owned, Coin-Operatated Telephones. another acronym in the graveyard... along with PCMCIA (People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms) and SCSI and IDE |
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cereal will never become obsolete. unless you're ray kurzweil |
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my freshman year of college, i was taking a moment away from my classes on AI and psych to relax by learning app development on my sharp zaurus 5600, which was somewhere between a palm-pilot and an open-source linux pda. my roommate, i think, was getting drunk. i got "hello world" compiled on my desktop system and the binary ran properly on the zaurus. now what? hmm... oh, yes, let's make a red box app! i knew it would never work. i knew red-boxing hadn't worked in years. that wasn't the point. i wrote it. i got the beeps i fondly remembered out of my zaurus. i shut it off. i shut my computer off. i got drunk |
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i think i'm going to shut my computer off. |
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yes sorry i did before i saw your replies, i woke up again now |
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ray kurzweil will die of vitamin poisoning |
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Hah! Great thread, considering. I was just, you know, they make films from rides, from video games, from comics, so why not 'cereal heroes? SUTL, i player doesn't work in my country of residence. Recorded the man who fell to earth though the other day. |
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Tetris the movie: produced and directed by Michael Bay. Rapist cunt. |
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I can imagine "Burger King: The Movie", a bit like Game of Thrones (I've never watched Game of Thrones). The Man Who Would Be.. Burger... King. |
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It's a pity that Tetris will only be a trilogy. Hopefully they'll spread the last one over two films, so it'll be 4 Tetris films. Maybe it'll be like The Cube crossed with... crossed with... crossed wiiiiiiiiitthhh... .I've gone blank here. Crossed with ...nothing, maybe it will be truly original. |
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I use the "hola" extension in Chrome to watch iPlayer from abroad (currently abroad). Last night I watched the "Inside No.9" Christmas special... I wish they'd kept it to the 70s/80s TV drama-style without breaking the 4th wall, it was otherwise so well done (that isn't a spoiler, by the way, just preparing you for that development) |
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Although at times hit and miss, some of the episodes are superb. The 12 days of Christine made me cry like a baby. That Tom and Gerry one was great too. I hope you're well, me old celebrity death voyant! |
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