Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Richard Clamp wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 07:17:06PM +, Jon Eyre wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: Mallrats, His best film No! Smith pimpz his talents out to the Mouse, and the end result: A John Hughes movie with buttfscking jokes... Which is exactly what makes it his best film. Miramax made Jason Mewes audition to play *himself*... Now that I think about it, Clerks always seems a bit slow when I watch it now - a lot of good *bits*, and probably the best gags of the four, but not great as a whole. Mallrats at least has a beginning/middle/end... Chasing Amy But she has such an annoying voice. Rings a bell... raspy, throaty, Captain-Janeway-type voice? Dogma was good, but a little tame after the Jay Silent Bob comics - pity they couldn't persuade Neil Patrick Harris to appear... snootchybootchies j
Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:18:36PM +, Richard Clamp wrote: But she has such an annoying voice. http://www.ifilm.com/images/audio/960803.mp3 ...from... http://www.ifilm.com/db/static_text/0,1699,13280,00.html *That's* an annoying voice, shared by many Californian women ;-( Paul
Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:27:38AM +, Jon Eyre wrote: Miramax made Jason Mewes audition to play *himself*... Which he did so well. Miramax did a very good thing though, they dumped the original start sequence. Chasing Amy But she has such an annoying voice. Rings a bell... raspy, throaty, Captain-Janeway-type voice? Only higher, so when they argue at the hockey ground it makes me think of breaking glass. Dogma was good, but a little tame after the Jay Silent Bob comics - pity they couldn't persuade Neil Patrick Harris to appear... Yeah, but I imagine he's too busy with his directing career. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest
When Mallrats was released I was at University in the US. A week before the release the local paper ran a contest to win tickets to an advance screening. You had to use the work snootchie-bootckies in a sentence, best sentence winning. Long story short... I won advance tickets, a mallrats CD, Mallrats baseball hat, mallrats stickers, and... A FULL SET OF MALLRATS TRADING CARDS! (which I still have). "I thought maybe the Lo Mein had been poisoned, but I soon realized it was just my snootchie bootchies acting up again." -Hamlet _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
RE: Kevin Smith Film Fest
Title: RE: Kevin Smith Film Fest While we're off-topic...Jason Lee (Mallrats and Chasing Amy) a severely under-rated actor or does my love for the Kevin Smith films cloud my judgment, the closest I've seen him to real fame is a 5 minute appearance in Enemy of the State which really doesn't seem right, what else has he been in? Oh, and as Stan Lee appears in Mallrats there's no relation there at all is there? Finally, I have yet to see Dogma as I was so disappointed with Chasing Amy (except the first 20 minutes before the love Story kicked in), any good? Where does it rate in Kevin Smith repertoire? Mark K.
FW: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Non-HTML version!
Sorry for the HTML posting! Here's the proper one *blush* While we're off-topic...Jason Lee (Mallrats and Chasing Amy) a severely under-rated actor or does my love for the Kevin Smith films cloud my judgment, the closest I've seen him to real fame is a 5 minute appearance in "Enemy of the State" which really doesn't seem right, what else has he been in? Oh, and as Stan Lee appears in Mallrats there's no relation there at all is there? Finally, I have yet to see Dogma as I was so disappointed with Chasing Amy (except the first 20 minutes before the "love Story" kicked in), any good? Where does it rate in Kevin Smith repertoire? Mark K.
Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl
Wow! A perl post on london.pm...
I know most people here probably read Slashdot, but this was too sweet to
pass up.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# 526-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# MPEG 2 PS VOB file on stdin - descrambled output on stdout
# arguments: title key bytes in least to most-significant order
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$c=142;if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]48){$h=5;
$_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$/;$d=
unxV,xb25,$_;$b=73;$e=256|(ord$b[4])9|ord$b[3];$d=$d8^($f=($t=255)($d
12^$d4^$d^$d/8))17,$e=$e8^($t($g=($q=$e147^$e)^$q*8^$q6))9
,$_=(map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])110;$t
^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271)
)
[$_]^(($h=8)+=$f+(~$g$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eva
l
Code originally at:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/qrpff.pl
Slasdot story:
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/03/06/1954213.shtml
Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl
its at times like this, the fact we are archived suddenly seems
a good thing (TM)
* Simon Batistoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Wow! A perl post on london.pm...
I know most people here probably read Slashdot, but this was too sweet to
pass up.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# 526-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# MPEG 2 PS VOB file on stdin - descrambled output on stdout
# arguments: title key bytes in least to most-significant order
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$c=142;if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]48){$h=5;
$_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$/;$d=
unxV,xb25,$_;$b=73;$e=256|(ord$b[4])9|ord$b[3];$d=$d8^($f=($t=255)($d
12^$d4^$d^$d/8))17,$e=$e8^($t($g=($q=$e147^$e)^$q*8^$q6))9
,$_=(map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])110;$t
^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271)
)
[$_]^(($h=8)+=$f+(~$g$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eva
l
Code originally at:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/qrpff.pl
Slasdot story:
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/03/06/1954213.shtml
--
Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl
Simon Batistoni sent the following bits through the ether:
I know most people here probably read Slashdot, but this was too sweet to
pass up.
It's cute. Doing the 'x' - 'pack+' substition by hand and then
running through perltidy (http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/, does a
pretty good job) gives :
while ( read +STDIN, $_, 2048 ) {
$a = 29;
$c = 142;
if ( ( @a = unpack +"C*", $_ )[20] 48 ) {
$h = 5;
$_ = unpack +b24, join "",
@b = map { pack +B8, unpack +b8, chr( $_ ^ $a[ --$h + 84 ] ) } @ARGV;
s/...$/1$/;
$d = unpack +V, pack +b25, $_;
$b = 73;
$e = 256 | ( ord $b[4] ) 9 | ord $b[3];
$d =
$d 8 ^ ( $f = ( $t = 255 ) ( $d 12 ^ $d 4 ^ $d ^ $d / 8 ) )
17, $e = $e
8 ^ ( $t ( $g = ( $q = $e 14 7 ^ $e ) ^ $q * 8 ^ $q 6 ) )
9, $_ = (
map {
$_ % 16
or $t ^= $c ^=
( $m = ( 11, 10, 116, 100, 11, 122, 20, 100 )[ $_ / 16 % 8 ] )
110;
$t ^=
( 72, @z = ( 64, 72, $a ^= 12 * ( $_ % 16 - 2 ? 0 : $m 17 ) ),
$b ^= $_ % 64 ? 12 : 0, @z )[ $_ % 8 ];
} ( 16 .. 271 ) )[$_] ^ ( ( $h = 8 ) += $f + ( ~$g $t ) )
for @a[ 128 .. $#a ];
}
print +pack +"C*", @a;
}
Simple, huh? Leon
--
Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/
yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/
... He who reads many fortunes gets confused
Re: FW: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Non-HTML version!
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we're off-topic...Jason Lee (Mallrats and Chasing Amy) a severely under-rated actor or does my love for the Kevin Smith films cloud my judgment, the closest I've seen him to real fame is a 5 minute appearance in "Enemy of the State" which really doesn't seem right, what else has he been in? Mi vida loca (1993) Teenage Drug Customer nothing else which I've seen... http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lee,+Jason+(I) I didn't realise it was him as Azrael in Dogma until the credits rolled... must be a beard thing. He's a good actor for an ex-skateboarder... Oh, and as Stan Lee appears in Mallrats there's no relation there at all is there? Don't think so... and failure to refer to him as Stan 'The Man' Lee will see you up in front of a fanboy firing-squad if you're not careful ;) Finally, I have yet to see Dogma as I was so disappointed with Chasing Amy (except the first 20 minutes before the "love Story" kicked in), any good? Where does it rate in Kevin Smith repertoire? s'pretty good, Alan Rickman hams it up something awful (as always), Chris Rock's good, Damon+Affleck their usual selves... the FX are bloody terrible though. j --- jon eyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (http://simpson.dyndns.org/~jon/) the slack which can be described is not the true slack
Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl
Nice. I'm sure it can easily be shortened some more.
Without even understanding what it does, it seems pretty clear
that we can shave 2 bytes by changing:
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){
into
$_='$/=\2048;while(STDIN){
Any more obvious shavings?
.robin.
--
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Jason Lee
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:12:22PM -, Hamlet D'Arcy wrote: professional skateboarding and videography. It was directed by Spike Jones (the same who directed Being John Malkovitch). nitpick ref="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Jonze,+Spike"/ more (in)correctly spelt Spike Jonze, though imdb does seem to also call him Spike Jones, for which I blame the contributors. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Jason Lee
what else did Jason Lee appear in... Since we're talking about Jason Lee... He was in another Spike Jonez feature which was untitled. Airwalk (J. Lee's shoe sponsor) produced a video to promote Airwalk which was again filmed by Spike. This one came out in '95. It was only distributed to Airwalk team riders, Airwalk Retail Stores, and special industry people. It was about 13 minutes long and featured J. Lee hitting tennis balls over a net, alone. J. Lee wore a smart tennis outfit of a white shirt and much to short shorts (especially for those days). J. Lee's big acting break reportedly came through his then girlfriend. If you've seen Dazed and Confused, he dated the red-headed girl who drove around with the two not-so-cool guys looking for the party out in the woods. She reportedly introduced him to the right people. The relationship seems to be fact, but the acting break might be a rumour. And yes, Jason Lee was my idol for about 4 years (until it became apparent that he had quit skating in order to act). And yes, those in the know call him simply, "J. Lee". -H. D'Arcy _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl
Robin Houston wrote: Any more obvious shavings? Try posting to Fun With Perl; they like playing golf there. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Re: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:44:54PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: Try posting to Fun With Perl; they like playing golf there. What do you think I did, immediately after posting here? :-) FWP is so bloody slow though, that it hasn't got there yet AFAICT... .robin. -- God! a red nugget: a fat egg under a dog.
RE: Kevin Smith Film Fest
Drifting further off topic - In case anyone hasn't seen it yet: http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=8343 Mark K.
Re: FW: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Non-HTML version!
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:12:11PM +, Jon Eyre wrote: Mi vida loca (1993) Teenage Drug Customer nothing else which I've seen... He has a fairly significant part in Mumford, as a skateboarding tech millionaire ... Tony -- -- Tony Bowden | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.tmtm.com/ sheep-boy, duck-call, swan-song, idiot son of Donkey Kong --
RE: Descrambling CSS w/ 7 Lines Of Perl
its at times like this, the fact we are archived suddenly seems a good thing (TM) That occurred to me as I was posting it, although it could actually make it a violation of the DMCA to read our archive anywhere inside the borders of the US... :) Anyway, the guy who originally posted the perl code to the web is archiving as many copies of DeCSS as he can get his hands on, going as far as the rock song which uses the code as the lyrics: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ He's already been approached by the MPAA's lawyers (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/mpaa-00-02-08.html), and his basic response was "do ya feel lucky? well? do ya?" (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/mpaa-reply-feb2001.html) They went away, tails between their ratty little legs...
Re: Scraping news feeds?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:36:56PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: What's the best way to scrape a variety of news headlines from various sites? Sort of a moreover for the intranet... Probably using RSS (XML file format) and XML::RSS (which includes a nice scraper tool). -Dom
Re: Scraping news feeds?
At 12:54 07/03/2001 -0500, Dave Cross wrote: [snip] Chapter 10 isn't it Dave ? Section 10.4 to be precise. "Specialized parsers - XML::RSS" :) You've got a bit further since last Thursday then! Yep, but not quite that far ! Also been reading Rebel Code which has a nice bit about Perl in it. Simon.
Re: FW: Kevin Smith Film Fest - Non-HTML version!
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:05:07PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the HTML posting! Here's the proper one *blush* You BASTARD! While we're off-topic...Jason Lee (Mallrats and Chasing Amy) a severely under-rated actor or does my love for the Kevin Smith films cloud my judgment, the closest I've seen him to real fame is a 5 minute appearance in "Enemy of the State" which really doesn't seem right, what else has he been in? He has a notable role in Cameron Crowe's excellent Almost Famous (that *has* come out there by now, right?). Oh, and as Stan Lee appears in Mallrats there's no relation there at all is there? name dropStan used to live in my building before he moved out to LA. :-)/nd dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ You get the idea that if Apple won a 90% market share, bought out Microsoft, and hired Bill Gates to mop the bathrooms, Business Week would write: "Apple has all but ignored the possibility of alien invasion..."- David Pogue
