http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/04/07/s ... -security/
They probably need to do more for the shounen demo though, "HOPE" is not a good mecha password.
-- ∇×V

My father's looking at dropping cable and going to "rabbit ears" for local TV and streaming or pre-downloaded video for everything else. What should he be looking at in the way of set-top boxes? (Apparently, it seems TiVO wants a monthly fee nowadays... What else is out there?)

My father can use a soldering iron and write code ... but my mother needs something easy to use.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Lyrics:

Spoiler

[Twilight Sparkle]
Nothin' stays the same for long
But when it changes, doesn't mean it's gone
Time will always get away
As it leaves behind another day
[Fluttershy]
Things may come and things may go
Some go fast and some go slow
Few things last, that's all I know
But friendship carries on through the ages
[Rarity and Fluttershy]
Things may come and things may go
Some go fast and some go slow
Few things last, that's all I know
But friendship carries on through the ages
[Rainbow Dash]
Been around for a long time
Rockin' out hard, 'cause I'm in my prime
Maybe it'll change further down the line
But my friendship carries on through the ages
[Applejack]
Every single style has somethin'
Diff'rent it can say
There's nothin' wrong with bein' unique
And special in your own way
[Pinkie Pie]
Maybe you wanna be a pop star
Get your fifteen minutes of fame, wah-ah, oh!
That won't last forever
But friendship remains the same, ah-oh, oh!
[The Rainbooms]
Things may come and things may go
Some go fast and some go slow
Few things last, that's all I know
But friendship carries on through the ages
Things may come and things may go
Some go fast and some go slow
Few things last, that's all I know
But friendship carries on through the ages
Oh, oh, carries on

This one is probably one for Doug's evil alternate:  (from S5E1 of MLP:FiM)

Lyrics:

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Starlight Glimmer:Heads high, ponies! Marching proud! [whistle blows] All together now! Every one of you! No pony left behind!
Life is so grand in our town
We're always filled with cheer
We never have to look around
To know that we're all here
[Citizens]
In our town, in our town
We don't have to wait
To find out that our destiny
Is just to emulate
Starlight Glimmer: Let's see those big, happy smiles!
Life is a smile in our town
Our cutie marks the same
Because we do not separate
Ourselves by more than name
[Citizens]
In our town, in our townWe dare not compete
Winning only breeds the worst
Ego-filled conceit
Starlight Glimmer: You see? Now everypony wins!
Life is a joy in our town
We're all equal here
No one is superior
And no one shakes in fear
[Citizens]
In our town, in our town
We work as a team
You can't have a nightmare
If you never dream
[Starlight Glimmer]
Other ponies argue
Do you ever wonder why?
When you think your talent's special
You don't see eye-to-eye
There's just too many differences
That lead to disarray
But when you learn to act as one
It's like a holiday
[Citizens]
In our town, in our townWe don't complicate
When you learn to simplify
Life is oh, so great
Join in our utopia
Come out of the dark
Banded by equality
By our cutie mark!

It's official - there are no more decent names for anime. I present the following three examples:

1. Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai (A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist)
2. Danna ga Nani o Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken (I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying)
3. Danjon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Daro ka? (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?)

And on a side note, while there is nothing new in the actual entry, is anyone else a little exited by the Macross 7 hyperlink on the "Category:2015 anime films" page of Wikipedia?

Got a commission of another of my STO captains from Ian Samson, and I'm very pleased with the end result. Meet Captain Mika Ito of Starfleet and Captain Aphrodite, mercenary captain under contract with the Klingon Defence Force.

FINALLY got to see this movie. I saw it at the last showing slot at the nearest theater within reasonable driving distance (down in Alamogordo - 50 minute drive from where I live in Ruidoso). As of tomorrow it's no longer showing anywhere near my area. 
GLAD I saw it on the big screen. Hell of a movie! 
Fair warning though - INCREDIBLY violent! It more than earned it's "R" rating, completely outside of the... ahem... Swedish Princess ending. (Of which no more will or needs to be said. Yow.)
Also an incredibly SUBVERSIVE film! And equal opportunity subversion all around is to be had in the end. Imagine if the creators of Southpark had made a James Bond film with as much seriousness and loving attention to detail as they could get, while at the same time pole-axing sacred oxen of all stripes politically and culturally. (Yes - I actually used the words "Southpark" and James Bond" in the same sentence. Even I'm struck by the bizarre set of circumstances that has led to that comparison.)
Not only does a Westboro styled hate-church... well... get destroyed by hate in one of the most over-the-top carnage sequences of all time. (Karma anyone?)
But the main villain's motivation is one of the more violent "earth-first" eco-terrorists WET DREAMS. 
And during the "Scanners" style denouement, there was ONE PARTICULAR person - only implied - not mentioned, but if you're paying attention, you KNOW who it is, who went "pop" with the rest. 
Of course that entire sequence is so cartoonishly over-the-top (in fact I'd liken it bizarrely to Busby Berkeley choreography!) that it's impossible to take it seriously. But still - in THIS particular time with PC correctness at an all-time high? 
I can't BELIEVE they actually WENT THERE!! O_O
That took an incredible amount of steel-clad BALLS to make that decision and stick to it. Wow. 
Needless to say - I'll NEVER be able to listen to "Pomp and Circumstance" ever again without a sick, twisted grin on my face. ^_^

"She Blinded Me With Science"Thomas Dolby, 1982

It's poetry in motion
She turned her tender eyes to meAs deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
"She blinded me with science!"And failed me in biology
When I'm dancing close to her
"Blinding me with science - science!"I can smell the chemicals
"Blinding me with science - science!"
"Science!"
"Science!"
Mmm - but it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
And failed me in geometry
When she's dancing next to me
"Blinding me with science - science!"
"Science!"
I can hear machinery
"Blinding me with science - science!"
"Science!"
It's poetry in motion
And now she's making love to me
The spheres're in commotion
The elements in harmony
She blinded me with science
"She blinded me with science!"
And hit me with technology
"Good heavens Miss Sakamoto - you're beautiful!"
I -
I don't believe it!
There she goes again!
She's tidied up, and I can't find anything!
All my tubes and wires
And careful notes
And antiquated notions
But! - it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Mmm - but she blinded me with science
"She blinded me with - with science!"
She blinded me with ....

I think that, if Doug ever visits that particular world, thereafter this song will produce a simulacrum of ... Agatha Heterodyne.  (C'm'on, a song in which a guy keeps shouting, "Science!" is tailor-made for calling up Madgirls Sparks.)  Note, though, that back in '02, our host predicted that this little ditty should go under permanent "Do Not Play" lock.
Normal length is 3 minutes 42; extended version plays for 5 minutes 09.  For Agatha, that's plenty of time....
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

Lyrics:

Spoiler

[Sunset Shimmer]
Power
Was all I desired (I desired, I desired)
But all that grew inside me
Was a darkness I acquired
When I began to fall
And I lost the path ahead
That's when your friendship found me
And it lifted me instead
Like the phoenix burning bright
In the sky
I'll show there's another side to me
You can't deny
I may not know what the future holds
But hear me when I say
That my past does not define me
'Cause my past is not today
Ambition
Is what I believed
Would be the only way
To set me free
But when it disappeared
And I found myself alone
That's when you came and guided me
And it felt like I was home
Like the phoenix burning bright
In the sky
I'll show there's another side to me
You can't deny
I may not know what the future holds
But hear me when I say
That my past does not define me
'Cause my past is not today

Apparently, chapter 113 of Less Wrong's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality posed a challenge to the readership, to find a solution to the careful forethought and planning Voldemort has performed to neutralize all possible threats.

One of the readers who took up this challenge was Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning David Brin, author of  the Uplift series and The Postman, among others.  He posted his solution on his blog.  Which I think is very cool.  Especially as Brin's far more of a pro than I am.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.