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23 (not the jim carrey one) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/ if you've ever read the cuckoo's egg, 23 is sort of the other side of the story, following karl koch and the germans (though stoll was mostly tracking markus hess in the cuckoo's egg, not koch).
I've been looking for a version of this with English subtitles for a while now. Do you have any suggestions?
I liked "a beauiful mind" about John Nash and game theory. And "The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" is a must-see about how Microsoft, Apple, et al. started out.
Fan of: The headache inducing blue ribbon winner: Pi - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/ The slightly corny but worthwhile: Sneakers - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/
1. "Code Rush", documentary about Netscape open sourcing Mozilla.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/coderush/videos/1/
2. "Revolution OS" was a pretty interesting documentary on Linux and the free software movement.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409&...
3. "Freedom Downtime", a documentary about Kevin Mitnick. There's also "Track Down", but that's more of a fictional portrayal loosely based on him.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6746139755329108302...
I recently rented August from blockbuster. Its about a VC funded startup with little revenue that goes bust. It was a pretty terrible movie though and the web2.0 talk will make you cringe.
August was pretty bad. I just watched it Friday. What did LandShark do?
I liked "a beauiful mind" about John Nash and game theory. And "The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" is a must-see about how Microsoft, Apple, et al. started out.
There's no computers in it, but Coppola's "The Conversation" is a classic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation - it's about electronic surveillance. There's a great scene near the end that reminds me of debugging - the wikipedia article has a picture and descriptive caption of that scene: "At the end of The Conversation, Gene Hackman, as paranoid audio surveillance expert Harry Caul, plays the saxophone in…
I always thought Gene Hackman's character in "Enemy of the State" (opposite Will Smith) was Harry Caul 30 years later.
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That's what he says, but they lack the skepticism of actual scientists. I love the movie - and the quote - but Venkman is clearly calling himself a scientist because it's convenient at the moment.
Wait, how do we know that Venkman isn't a legitimate scientist, again? Because he's insufficiently skeptical about ghosts? But in the universe of Ghostbusters ghosts physically exist ! If anything, the part of Ghostbusters that strains my credulity is that in their universe there seem to be scientists who don't believe in ghosts. You'd think that the accumulated evidence would be pretty overwhelming by the 1980s!
Accumulated evidence has actually tended to slam into the brick wall of popularity contestance.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RiskandSafety.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=aaron+wildavsky
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress
http://www.google.com/search?q=john+mccarthy+sustainability
http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource
http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book
Antitrust: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ Pirates of Silicon Valley: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
As far as I could tell they weren't really doing any sort of web programming in the movie.