Re:Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”
by mhurron on Friday January 16, 2015 @01:27PM
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If Congress is making laws and policy based on movies, we have a bigger problem then which movies they base it on.
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Re:Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”
by djent on Friday January 16, 2015 @01:43PM
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From the article:
Congress passed the original CFAA in 1984 in direct response to the seminal hacker flick Wargames.
Re:Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”
by IgorPartola on Friday January 16, 2015 @01:33PM
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I don't know, if they watched Inconvenient Truth, it might benefit some of the knuckleheads there. Or 12 Years a Slave. Or even Lincoln.
Re:Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”
by lifeisstillgood on Friday January 16, 2015 @01:48PM
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Well the Congressional Cinema Club could put on some special showings and ask for sponsorship
- Car Manufacturers Lobby: Bullit
- Anti Car Lobby: Duel
- Trans-Atlantic Airlines Lobby : Titanic
- Construction Lobby: Bridge over the River Kwai
- Elon Musk : Iron Man 1 or 3 (but not 2)
- The Hamptons Tourist Board: The wicker man
- The Banjo Players association of America: Deliverance
- Tesla Car Showrooms: Death of a salesman
- Climate Change Deniers Lobby: Some Like It Hot
- Liberal Atheists for a kinder America: Any Harry Potter
Re:Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”
by godkingjim on Friday January 16, 2015 @03:05PM
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"The Hamptons Tourist Board: The wicker man"
I'm curious; what you mean by this one?
Re:Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”
by anigbrowl on Friday January 16, 2015 @03:54PM
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I laughed hard at this one! The Hamptons is basically a vacation destination in eastern New York state for very very wealthy people, who don't want any riff-raff cluttering up their picturesque vacation views. 'The Wicker Man' is a film (+ a remake) about a police officer who goes to investigate a crime in a remote idyll where everyone knows everyone else and runs into...problems. Translation: let's ensure that the 'wrong' people stay away.
Re:Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”
by lifeisstillgood on Friday January 16, 2015 @05:41PM
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Yeah, did not sleep well for a week after watching that one :-)