ENHANCE!!!!!!!! 

Luckily, I sp34k 733T!

LMAO! 

So awesome. 

You see, IRC is like a series of tubes doing drugs... 

I'd like to Fist HER Ooze. 

i actually really like numb3rs... but that was pretty bad... they were clearly trying to add way more drama to something thats pretty tame 

Man, if they go that crazy over IRC, AOL's really gonna blow their minds. 

i cried a little. 

Cambot said:

I'd like to Fist HER Ooze.

Done in 5. 

Oafah said:

You see, IRC is like a series of tubes doing drugs...

Apparently IRC is a series of boats running drugs. 

hope the nsa runs like this. 

That's some hilariously bad writing. The fact that they had to make that CGI model of two boats meeting in the ocean and show it visually instead of just letting her speak the line is hilarious. 

                        ACID BURN
                        SEZ LEAVE B 4
                        U R EXPUNGED

 

lord_nightrose said:

                        ACID BURN
                        SEZ LEAVE B 4
                        U R EXPUNGED

Yeah, okay Acid Burn. That's enough. 

Can we get a screen shot?
....tension.....keys.....clack......ooooooooooooooo....GOT IT!!!!!
Phewwwwwwwwwwwwww 

that was pretty weird to watch. I felt sorry for them. 

The Youtube comments (uncharacteristically intelligent) pretty much have this covered. Worth the read. I read most all of them. Excellent! 

Four keystrokes to get a screencap? 

I'm on a boat! 

lol, maybe they should have checked bash.org 

If we are going to discuss this seriously we will need to do it on IRC, someone get the screencap ready, you will need to be fast if your gonna get it though. 

DorgoDorato said:

lol, maybe they should have checked bash.org

What's the url to that? 

Some TV shows seriously need a technical adviser. 

They probably do have several people on staff who know what IRC is and all about IPs and ports and all sorts of shit grounded in reality... and those people explain how things really are and the producer and director and screenwriter say, "Wow, that sounds really fucking boring." And thus you end up with this. 

ignite said:

They probably do have several people on staff who know what IRC is and all about IPs and ports and all sorts of shit grounded in reality... and those people explain how things really are and the producer and director and screenwriter say, "Wow, that sounds really fucking boring." And thus you end up with this.

I bet more of them just get a glassy eyed stare so the writers have to come up with something else. Or someone just has to jingle their keys a bit to get the producer and directors attention. 

That was so fucking painful to watch. 

mediaphile said:

Yeah, okay Acid Burn. That's enough.

Do you remember what song they played during that sequence? Hrm... going to have to check that out. For some reason I remember it as sounding like Voodoo People, but it's clearly not. (Voodoo People was played during that montage where they were fucking up Richard Gills.

AHA! It was Voodoo People... (I'm not sure if that means I was right or wrong...)

U HAVE TREAD
UPON MY DOMAIN &
MUST NOW SUFFER

WHO R U ?

ZER- "No, wait" CRASH OVERRIDE - WHO WANTS TO KNOW

The best part is that INSTANTLY it says "Acid Burn" after he asks. Must be real time chat yo -- they're obviously using fullscreen ICQ with a different skin. Clearly.

"Unbelievable... a hacker..."

and then Voodoo People starts playing --

"I will swat u like the fly u r"
"I will snap your back like a toothpick"

I remember this sequence being insanely fucking awesome.

MESS WITH THE BEST
DIE LIKE THE REST

YOU ARE
TERMINATED

CONNECTION TERMINATED

"Shit on me!" 

Paetrw said:

that was pretty weird to watch. I felt sorry for them.

Don't. The actors went home that night feeling like they had really connected with the spirit of all that is geek.

The fact that I quit IRC before some people here were even born is scary to me. 

so she wrote a program that sits on every IRC server EVAR. to tell her if two specific nicks are used?

like, even private servers, or just EFnet?

The fail in this clip is like a goldmine. You could dig in it forever. 

I thought they were called channels, not chat rooms. 

theJustin said:

I thought they were called channels, not chat rooms.

They are 

Who the hell is that brunette??? WOW!!!! 

ignite said:

The best part is that INSTANTLY it says "Acid Burn" after he asks. Must be real time chat yo -- they're obviously using fullscreen ICQ with a different skin. Clearly.

Every single computer related thing in that movie about computer hackers was absolutely painfully retarded. I mean, the computer virus is shown as a fullscreen animated worm thingy. The giant computer they hack into is a bunch of transparent glass towers.

But I still love Hackers, and owned both soundtracks at one point. 

mediaphile said:

But I still love Hackers, and owned both soundtracks at one point.

You didn't have the third one too? Man, you are 73h £@m€r. 

skrolnik said:

You didn't have the third one too? Man, you are 73h £@m€r.

Holy shit! No I didn't. The second one sucked bad enough though that I probably wouldn't have bought the third even if I knew about it. Which is probably why I never bothered looking for it. 

"LUCKILY I SPEAK L33T"

rofl 

why do they try to glamorize hacking? It's some pretty creepy looking doods in rooms with no windows watching their computer scan ports for hours.

nothing about it looks cool. I don't even think "hackers" think it looks cool. IT's fucking VERBOSE. 

poker56 said:

"LUCKILY I SPEAK L33T"

"You have no idea how hot that is."

/facepalm 

Snooj said:

The fact that I quit IRC before some people here were even born is scary to me.

cool story 

skrolnik said:

You didn't have the third one too? Man, you are 73h £@m€r.

Lol... I only found out about the third album a few months ago. The tracks look horrendously bad. I downloaded it though and, yes, they are painful. The first two albums though are pretty awesome.

Underworld - Cowgirl
Orbital - Halcyon & On & On
The Prodigy - Voodoo People
Squeeze - Heaven Knows

The second album had some fantastic songs though that easily rivaled the first:

BT feat. Jan Johnston - Remember
Underworld - Cherry Pie
Chicane - Offshore (Disco Citizens Edit)
Luce Drayton - To Be Loved (Disco Citizen R+D Edit)

The third album was epic fail though. "Quiet Then" by Cloak is half-way decent because it has John Jonston on the vocals... but otherwise the song is pretty stupid. Even the songs by BT (Godspeed), Orbital (An Fhomhair), and Chicane (Strong In Love) are ridiculously out of place. 

Loreo said:

Four keystrokes to get a screencap?

the government needs everything in triplicate 

You know, some kid on IRC is gonna hear from his parents after this.

"OUR SON IS DEALING DRUGS?! NO MORE INTERNET FOR YOU, YOUNG MAN!" 

............................................________
....................................,.-'"...................``~.,
.............................,.-"..................................."- .,
.........................,/..............................................." :,
.....................,?......................................................\,
.................../..........................................................., }
................./......................................................,:`^`..}
.............../...................................................,:"..... ..../
..............?.....__.........................................:`.........../
............./__.(....."~-,_..............................,:`........../
.........../(_...."~,_........"~,_....................,:`........_/
..........{.._$;_......"=,_......."-,_.......,.-~-,},.~";/....}
...........((.....*~_......."=-._......";,,./`..../"............. ./
...,,,___.\`~,......"~.,....................`.....}............../
............(....`=-,,.......`........................(......;_,,-"
............/.`~,......`-...............................\....../\
.............\`~.*-,.....................................|,./.....\,__
,,_..........}.>-._\...................................|..............`=~-,
.....`=~-,_\_......`\,.................................\
...................`=~-,,.\,...............................\
................................`:,,...........................`\.............._ _
.....................................`=-,...................,%`>--==``
........................................_\..........._,-%.......`\
...................................,<`.._|_,-&``................` 

Promoted to front page. Impressive, and yet sad at the same time. 

FlamingGuts said:

cool story

hahaha 

mediaphile said:

Promoted to front page. Impressive, and yet sad at the same time.

Comments like this are the reason some of the mods don't frontpage a lot of things in the first place ;-P 

StolenFlipFlops said:

............................................________
....................................,.-'"...................``~.,
.............................,.-"..................................."- .,
.........................,/..............................................." :,
.....................,?......................................................\,
.................../..........................................................., }
................./......................................................,:`^`..}
.............../...................................................,:"..... ..../
..............?.....__.........................................:`.........../
............./__.(....."~-,_..............................,:`........../
.........../(_...."~,_........"~,_....................,:`........_/
..........{.._$;_......"=,_......."-,_.......,.-~-,},.~";/....}
...........((.....*~_......."=-._......";,,./`..../"............. ./
...,,,___.\`~,......"~.,....................`.....}............../
............(....`=-,,.......`........................(......;_,,-"
............/.`~,......`-...............................\....../\
.............\`~.*-,.....................................|,./.....\,__
,,_..........}.>-._\...................................|..............`=~-,
.....`=~-,_\_......`\,.................................\
...................`=~-,,.\,...............................\
................................`:,,...........................`\.............._ _
.....................................`=-,...................,%`>--==``
........................................_\..........._,-%.......`\
...................................,<`.._|_,-&``................`

Am I a geek for seeing Jean-Luc here? 

interwebs 

Schmierwurst said:

Am I a geek for seeing Jean-Luc here?

You're supposed to see Jean-Luc, because that's who it is.

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4740/picardnofacepalm.jpg 

mediaphile said:

You're supposed to see Jean-Luc, because that's who it is.

Ah, and how fitting the demotivational is to my question.