Must see documentaries..

BBC 4 History / Art / Natural History is about all I can stomach on TV these days.

Alice Roberts is always great. Sam Willis doing the story of weaponry is brilliant. He did one half of a great tie-in / double header on William Marshall a few weeks back. I've even grown to love Neil Packham. I just love the goth girl who does similair stuff (Ancient History and Legend).

Best of the lot is Richard Fortey. Fossil Wonderlands was the best thing I've seen all year. The specimens are just breathtaking, and he imparts several metric tonnes of insight and knowledge to piece together how the ecosystem worked and the impact it had on evolution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06yjly5/episodes/guide

although the fuckers seemingly want you to pay to watch it.

It's not all good though, some of these presenters I just can't stand. Yentob... obviously... know nothing, charismaless toadie.

Far and away worst of the lot is that twat from Natural History. Did 'Me and The Wolf Pack' or whatever. Which comprised of him camping about half a mile away from a wolf pack.
He became is utterly convinced they have accepted him as part of the pack. All they did was ignore him totally, and raid his shit when he was out. And apparently wolves aren't at all fearsome and ferocious because he's seen them be nice to each other in the pack. Moron.

He did another program on Bears. Spends 70% of the time filming his own face saying 'wow', 'I don't believe it' 'so amazing' and all that crap, like it was some major drama being able to get within 100 yards. Jesus man, they are black bears. They scavenge around humans all the time. They run a mile if startled. I don't think I've learned one single thing from his programmes. But someone must like him, cos all of a sudden, he's everywhere. Worse than Trump and Marriner put together.
 
abu13 said:
What is it about?
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A virus the US and Israel (and potentially others) created that can basically be put out with a mission to destroy say a nuclear reactor without the need for any commands from whoever sent it out. Somehow it can even access systems not connected to the internet.
 
Manchestercitychorlton said:
A virus the US and Israel (and potentially others) created that can basically be put out with a mission to destroy say a nuclear reactor without the need for any commands from whoever sent it out. Somehow it can even access systems not connected to the internet.
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Ok thanks, might give it a go.
 
Machiavelli said:
I watched this on the server Guy. It's amazing what's going on without folks knowledge. Stuxnet was a motherfucker for those Siemens HMI's controlling those Iranian nuclear plants.
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I could not believe it, the actual centrifuge things were hacked. That scientist got shot dead in a drive by due to this or something. It blows my mind how this was kind of ground zero for hacking with severe real life repercussions. The scary bit was how the malware was so specific, like a terminator, it wanted only those controllers and it found them, amaazing stuff.
 
The British Who Fought for Hitler.

British Free Corps a section of the Waffen-SS That were made up partly by British POWs.
 
TCIB said:
I could not believe it, the actual centrifuge things were hacked. That scientist got shot dead in a drive by due to this or something. It blows my mind how this was kind of ground zero for hacking with severe real life repercussions. The scary bit was how the malware was so specific, like a terminator, it wanted only those controllers and it found them, amaazing stuff.
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Like imagine if with this technology someone figured out how to destroy an entire countries' nuclear capability, and subsequently launch an attack on them. Crazy and worrying stuff. No doubt there is already a race to develop this possibility.
 
Manchestercitychorlton said:
Like imagine if with this technology someone figured out how to destroy an entire countries' nuclear capability, and subsequently launch an attack on them. Crazy and worrying stuff. No doubt there is already a race to develop this possibility.
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I think it exists bud tbh. I am a jack of all trades and i could build something similar from stuff of github. there are dedicated programmer guys on here who could do it in a day. All they need is a few bits of info that only a state can get, MI6 for example would have the infrastructure to get the tiny but important bits you need.

There is a guy on irc/skype i talk to a lot and hand on heart he could take down a country. When i mentioned 'mirai' to him he just said 'ahh minecraft cunts' in his sheep shagging new zealand accent. Turns out after months of digging an acclaimed expert just sussed it, irc guy knew the code and basically said it's for kids and he would not get involved as it was not worth his time (keep in mind a top end minecraft server can earn you 60k a month). So it begs the question what is worth a top level hackers time? banking i reckon, quasar for example i don't think is secure as it can be (barclays back end banking software).
 
The Cult Next Door

This documentary by acclaimed director Vanessa Engle tells the extraordinary story of a strange cult, which came to light in 2013 when a sensational news story broke about three women emerging from a small flat in Brixton in south London after decades in captivity. Tracing the group back to its roots in the 1970s, the film describes how its leader Aravindan Balakrishnan, a student of Indian origin, believed in an international communist revolution and created a tiny political sect that followed the teachings of China's Chairman Mao.

The film features exclusive interviews with two of the women who escaped - Aisha Wahab, a 72-year-old Malaysian woman who was part of Balakrishnan's group for 40 years, and Katy Morgan-Davies, Balakrishnan's daughter, who was born and raised in captivity. The film documents how this left-wing collective evolved into a bizarre pseudo-religious cult, where members were controlled, threatened and brainwashed so that they were too terrified to leave.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c3vrx
 
idahoblues said:
I know it's been talked about quite a bit but just watched the OJ Simpson doco.pretty amazing
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The 5 part ESPN one was really good. I'm now watching one on CI, it's a private detective looking at an alternative theory - it's very American but I like the alternative theory.
 
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