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1983
Kevin Poulsen again. A little-known incident when Poulsen, then just a student, hacked into Arpanet, the precursor to the Internet was hacked into. Arpanet was a global network of computers, and Poulsen took advantage of a loophole in its architecture to gain temporary control of the US-wide network.
1988
Twenty-three-year-old Cornell University graduate Robert Morris unleashed the first Internet worm on to the world. Morris released 99 lines of code to the internet as an experiment, but realised that his program infected machines as it went along. Computers crashed across the US and elsewhere. He was arrested and sentenced in 1990.
1990
When a Los Angeles area radio station announced a contest that awarded a Porsche 944S2 for the 102nd caller, Kevin Poulsen took control of the entire city’s telephone network, ensured he is the 102nd caller, and took away the Porsche beauty. He was arrested later that year and sentenced to three years in prison. He is currently a senior editor at Wired News.
1993
They called themselves Masters of Deception, targeting US phone systems. The group hacked into the National Security Agency, AT&T, and Bank of America. It created a system that let them bypass long-distance phone call systems, and gain access to private lines.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a Nvidia 6800. I hooked up an external monitor and whenever I view video it takes over my entire 2nd monitor and shows it in full screen mode. So to stop the video from autoplaying and displaying fullscreen on my second monitor I went into the GeForce settings, “Full Screen Video” and changed “Full Screen Device” to disable instead of the default Auto-select.
So there you have it. If you have the same full screen video problem I hope this helped you.
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We love turkey. We love fried food. That’s why we decided to fry our thanksgiving turkey this year. I can just imagine waking up the next day with red sploches all over my face from the flying grease. And that’s what the holidays are all about. And family, too, I guess.
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What’s goin’ on!
A lof of people claim tha this movie sucks, but maybe they weren’t in a relationship. The movie had some good points that made you think about your marriage and go “yeah! that’s happened to me[us] at times!” Ben (Bruce Willis) and Katie Jordan (Michelle Pfeiffer) separate for the summer to independently evaluate their 15-year marriage. While doinig this they keep it from their kids and their friends until they’ve decided on the fate of their relationship. Luckily for them the kids are sent off to summer camp. While seperated they look at how they’ve each changed and the strengths and weakness of their marriage on their own, together, and with friends. After looking to friends for guidence they come to realize that they have to ultimately decide themselves on what they want to do. Marriage counselling was tried, they try to live life alone, and also to work it out with eachother. Nothing seems to work becuase there is tension between each other or one person is having a bad day when they give ‘us’ another try.
The movie is played out well, but a lot of important things are shortened in the movie making it lack that real life feeling. Even so, it gives a little insight into somebody else’s life with relationship problems. They have children and I’m glad to see that they weren’t thinking “Oh what about the kids! Oh no!” becuase they really need to focus on eachother for this to work.
Things I Learned From This Movie
- Men can cry
- Love is lust in disguise. Lust fades, love is life long friendship and companionship
- It takes two people to make a relationship work
- A divorce isn’t final until the papers are signed, even if another house is purchased
- You can still be friends even if the marriage isn’t working
- Chow Fun’s has great food!
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The Plot
This is a story about two marines who are assigned to protect two Navajo indians during combat, The Navajos are code talkers that use their native language to talk code during transmission to the other marine code talkers. John Woo is known for the special effects in his movie and the battle scenes are great. Things blow up, gun fire zinging by, people running and dying and vehicles exploding, this made it feel like I was right there in the battle. The acting was great but the movie seemed to be all about the battle within Enders (Nicholas Cage) and the decisions he’s made in the past. There’s also a very weak love scene between Enders and a nurse. It was fine in the beginning but it carried on throughout the movie and made little sense to why it continued. I thought the movie was supposed to be about the Navajo code talkers and since that wasn’t the focus of the movie I’m giving it a 3 out of 5.
Things I Learned From This Movie
- Navajo Indians were code talkers during WWII
- When a person gets really upset they become INVINCIBLE!
- A hero is a person who lives longer
- In a war you go back to save a friend, you’ll die
- if you don’t go back and save your friend, you’re a coward
- Mines are a terrible thing to waste (haha, get it?)
My Rating: 3 out of 5
Final Thoughts
This is a good movie to rent. Surround sound will make you feel like part of the action. I have seen this once and will probably not see it again.
Movie Details
Windtalkers (2002)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Christian Slater
Directed by John Woo
Links
Windtalkers Site
