• Posts Tagged ‘Movie Monday’

    Battle of the Brains – BBC Horizon – Movie Monday

    by  • July 23, 2012 • Movie Monday

    Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? What’s your emotional intelligence? Can you create a work of art in ten minutes?

    Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field – a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader. Each is put through a series of tests to discover who is the most intelligent?

    The principle way that we measure intelligence, the IQ test, remains popular and convenient. Yet most psychologists agree that it only tells half the story… at most. Where they disagree is how to measure intelligence, for the simple reason that the experts still don’t know exactly what it is.

    Hackers: Outlaws and Angels – Movie Monday

    by  • July 23, 2012 • Movie Monday

    This alarming program reveals the daily battle between the Internet’s outlaws and the hackers who oppose them by warding off system attacks, training IT professionals and police officers, and watching cyberspace for signs of imminent infowar.

    Through interviews with frontline personnel from the Department of Defense, NYPD’s computer crime squad, private detective firm Kroll Associates, X-Force Threat Analysis Service, and several notorious crackers, the program provides penetrating insights into the millions of hack attacks that occur annually in the U.S. – including one that affected the phone bills of millions and another that left confidential details of the B-1 stealth bomber in the hands of teenagers.

    The liabilities of wireless networks, the Code Red worm, and online movie piracy are also discussed.

    A Discovery Channel Production

    Ian Murphy Info:

    http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ian_murphy/

    BBC Documentary – “Stupidity” – Movie Monday

    by  • July 16, 2012 • Movie Monday

    This documentary about stupidity tells us the history of the word “moron”, the difference between stupid, moron, smart, intelligent, genius and questions the regular practice of classifying peoples intelligence through standardized IQ tests. Of course also Mr. Bush is examined in this report. A well educated guy who, nevertheless, acts in a completely dumb way — or at least wants us to believe so.

    UFO Hacker Gary McKinnon – Inside Story – Movie Monday

    by  • July 9, 2012 • Movie Monday

    From UFOTV®, accept no imitations. Research by Matthew Williams – In 2001, a British man named Gary McKinnon allegedly carried out the “biggest military computer hack of all time” when he accessed US Government computer systems in search of data on UFOs. Using the codename of “Solo,” McKinnon is said to have hacked into hundreds of computers over a