Enjoy those film looked, grainy, black n' white screenshots, artworks, wallpapers (1280x X) from the Mafia game (take2Interactive).

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Added : Goodfellas, E.T. and Sim0ne

Read / Download them at http://onickz.com/screenplays

"Le Bonze" made us smile again with his talented toys - watch his "Move" - http://www.lebonze.co.uk/stuff/move.htm

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

Relax and watch this neat java applet here :Powers of 10:

The nominated films in the Achievement in Visual Effects category are:

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke

Spider-Man

John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier

Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones

Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll and Ben Snow

The 75th Annual Academy Awards Presentation from the Kodak Theatre will be televised live March 23, 2003 by the ABC Television Network beginning at 8:30 p.m. (EST) / 5:30 p.m. (PST).

The complete list of nominations can be found at www.oscar.com or www.oscars.org

Congrats to all those who worked on nominated films!

President of Unifrance, and president of the Césars Academy, the french productor Daniel Toscan du Plantier, died of heart disease, Tuesday in Berlin (61 years old). He went ill in a café of Marlene Dietrich Place, near the palace of Berlinale, the pretigious film festival of Berlin he participated in. The doctors did all they can do bu he died shortly after.

(Photo Reuters)

Konami is currently developping ISS3 on PC platform, announced to be shipped in April 2003.

It will be the internet provider Wanadoo who will provide first this offer.

No more wire, you can stay connected on the Net while moving from room to kitchen (to toilets? :) ) in your house with your laptop computer.

And if you have other computers, no more need to wire them to get the Net !

For the moment in France, only Paris and suburbs, and Bouches du Rhône will receive this offer. In store soon!

Nearly 9 Out of 10 Users Polled Cited Improved Audio Quality, Fast Streaming and Improved Player Performance as Key Areas of Satisfaction; Windows Movie Maker 2 Tallies Over 3 Million Downloads in First 30 Days

REDMOND, Wash. -- Feb. 6, 2003 -- Microsoft Corp. today released download statistics that show record-breaking consumer demand for the new Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 9 Series and Windows® Movie Maker 2 for Windows XP in their first month of availability. 14 million downloads of Windows Media Player 9 Series were recorded worldwide in just 30 days -- a rate of over 5 downloads every second. This shatters the previous record for downloads of digital music jukebox software, held by Windows Media Player 7 -- nearly doubling the number of downloads in the first 30 days. Based on data unveiled today, a key driver behind this momentum is the high level of customer satisfaction.

"These kinds of download volumes are truly amazing. Clearly the high satisfaction expressed by beta users of Windows Media Player 9 Series has resulted in massive interest and adoption," said Dave Fester, general manager of the Windows Digital Media Division at Microsoft. "This kind of response shows the breakthrough new digital media experiences we designed for Windows XP have clearly struck a chord with our customers around the world."

High Customer Satisfaction Driving Record Uptake

Proving Windows Media Player 9 meets its design goals for fast and flexible playback, new research from Microsoft indicates the rapid uptake for the new player has been driven by several key improvements based on customer satisfaction. In a recent study of more than 1,600 Windows Media Player 9 Series beta users, completed in November 2002, users of individual features in Windows Media Player 9 Series indicated the following:

Nearly 9 out 10 users of the individual features expressed their satisfaction with innovations such as improved audio quality, new Fast Streaming technology that minimizes buffering, and player performance improvements.

Nearly 8 out of 10 users of the individual features indicated their satisfaction with the new Mini-Player mode, new audio effects such as crossfading and volume leveling and the new Smart Jukebox capabilities. These capabilities include Auto Info, which can automatically update a music collection's metadata information; Auto-playlists, which can create custom music mixes automatically; and new automatic song ratings based on a user's music-listening habits.

:Check it out here:

Version 1.4:

Core changes:

- added bilinear and bilinear plus filters

- added interframe blending support

- added support to show speed in fullscreen mode (transparent or opaque)

- added detailed speed display

- added autoframeskip support

- added support for ELF DW_FORM_strp (used by newer GCC versions)

- added support to enable/disable GB/GBC video layers

- fixed crash when loading a second ELF file

- fixed missing EMMS instruction in ADVANCEMAME Scale 2x MMX version

- fixed some timer settings problems (bad copy paste of code)

Windows version:

- allows AMD CPUs to take advantage of MMX code

- added support to select video mode for fullscreen mode

- added fullscreen triple buffering support

- added support for multiple joypad configuration

- added support to store settings to INI

- added export settings from Registry to INI

- added throttle support (between 5% and 1000%)

- fixed problem displaying error messages in fullscreen mode

- fixed tile viewer to display all tiles in 256 mode

- fixed Visual Studio project files so that they work on other computers

- fixed problem with disable SFX not being read when program starts

- fixed (minimized) screen corruption problem when filter is active in fullscreen mode

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From the creators of the famous "The Matrix" movie.

::Click here to watch the trailer::

::Click here to watch the first episode::

Is the RIAA "hacking you back"?

(source : The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk)

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco

The RIAA is preparing to infect MP3 files in order to audit and eventually disable file swapping, according to a startling claim by hacker group Gobbles. In a posting to the Bugtraq mailing list, Gobbles himself claims to have offered his code to the RIAA, creating a monitoring "hydra".

"Several months ago, GOBBLES Security was recruited by the RIAA (riaa.org) to invent, create, and finally deploy the future of antipiracy tools. We focused on creating virii/worm hybrids to infect and spread over p2p nets," writes Gobbles.

"Until we became RIAA contracters [sic], the best they could do was to passively monitor traffic. Our contributions to the RIAA have given them the power to actively control the majority of hosts using these networks."

Gobbles claims that when a peer to peer host is infected, it catalogs media and sends the information "back to the RIAA headquarters (through specifically crafter requests over the p2p networks) where it is added to their records", and also propagates the exploit to other nodes.

"Our software worked better than even we hoped, and current reports indicate that nearly 95% of all p2p-participating hosts are now infected with the

software that we developed for the RIAA."

The "hydra" is uncorroborated.

Gobbles attached two pieces of code, one of which jinglebellz.c details a frame header exploit for the Linux player mpg123. The code chastises OpenBSD lead Theo de Raadt for failing to checksum the public MP3s (written to celebrate each OpenBSD release). The group has singled out OpenBSD in its previous exploits

In their presentation to last year's DefCon, the group described itself as "the largest active nonprofit security group in existence (that favors full disclosure)," consisting of 17+ members.

"They're real, and they're damn good. They have made what appeared to be extremely exaggerated claims in the past, and when mocked, they have demonstrated that they are serious," one security expert familiar with their work, who declined to be named, told The Register.

"He's a funny guy," De Raadt told us. "This is a buffer overflow exploit," he confirmed. De Raadt said he was more concerned by social engineering than by external exploits. "We had Fluffy Bunny, now we have Gobbles. They come in waves. "

An exploit of this nature is of dubious legality, right now, but language in Howard Berman's "P2P Piracy Prevention" bill last year legitimizing such exploits was backed by RIAA chief Hilary Rosen:

The Berman bill, ensured a copyright owner would not be liable for "disabling, interfering with, blocking, diverting, or otherwise impairing the unauthorized distribution, display, performance, or reproduction of his or her copyrighted work on a publicly accessible peer-to-peer file trading network, if such impairment does not, without authorization, alter, delete, or otherwise impair the integrity of any computer file or data residing on the computer of a file trader." Berman is expected to re-introduce the bill in this Congressional session. ®

(source : The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk)

It's quite difficult to get and watch any equal or higher picture quality on the net : 1024x464, 24fps, 44.1 Khz 16bits.

:(Re)download it and (re)watch it from there:

La volonté exprimée par le président George W Bush, dans son discours sur l’état de l’Union, de créer un nouveau service chargé de fusionner tous les renseignements relatifs à des groupes terroristes ressemble surtout à un constat d’échec au sujet des coopérations entre les divers services secrets.