'Source Code' Filmmaker Duncan Jones, the son of David Bowie, made a lasting impression on viewers with 2009`s low-budget "Moon," a trippy science-fiction movie that stands as a noteworthy debut. With more money in the budget, Jones escapes a sophomore slump with the thrilling "Source Code," an action-packed and quickly paced film. Jones' movie introduces viewers to a regular guy (Jake Gyllenhaal) on a commuter train into Chicago. Something's different, though, and this man isn't who he looks to be. He's actually Captain Colter Stevens, a soldier in the midst of a military experiment. He's ordered by an officer (Vera Farmiga) and her boss (Jeffrey Wright) to stop the train from being destroyed by a terrorist. As Stevens delves into the attack, he also finds out where he now stands as a ...
The revolution in quantitative finance that occurred over the last two decades produced models that enabled the rapid growth of securitization and derivatives. This Article demonstrates that financial regulators delegated or outsourced to these computer-based risk models the responsibility of regulating a wide range of risk transfers in the economy - from consumer finance to global financial markets. These risk models failed spectacularly in the global financial crisis that started in the subprime mortgage market, and this outsourcing of regulation exacerbated the crisis. To understand the crisis, the failure of risk models, and the dangers of regulatory outsourcing, it is helpful to sketch out the system by which mortgages are connected to asset-backed securities, derivatives, and fina...
Alfred Hitchcock had a celebrated recipe for suspense: a time bomb planted under a table, people sitting at the table and only the audience being aware that something is ticking. It's a formula for tension that's more or less thrown out the train window by "Source Code," the psychological thriller opening Friday and starring Jake Gyllenhaal: The movie has about eight explosions. Characters and audience know they're coming. And you can still cut the tension with a knife.
State law affords a drunk driving defendant the means to obtain from an out-of-state corporation the for the breath testing machine used in her arrest, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a conviction. The defendant was charged with driving under the influence based on evidence that an Intoxilyzer 5000 recorded her blood alcohol concentration as .179 grams.
... STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS FOR SOURCE CATEGORIES. Subpart GGG: National Emission Standar...
Source Code" (PG-13): Teens who like science-fiction and just plain science, as well as cerebral thrillers, will totally get into the ingenious "Source Code. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Colter Stevens, a recent war vet who wakes up on a train on the outskirts of Chicago. In the restroom, he doesn't recognize the face in the mirror -- then the train blows up. Colter awakens in a kind of capsule. He's told by Goodwin (Vera Farmiga), a military officer talking to him via a computer, that he will be sent "back in" to the train, and will have another eight- minute chance to prevent the explosion and find the would-be bomber.
Source Code," the action thriller directed by College of Wooster graduate Duncan Jones, opened last Friday to rave reviews in Wooster and across the nation. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, and Vera Farringa, the film centers on a soldier who awakens in the body of another man only to discover that he is part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. Mick LaSalle, a film critic at the San Francisco Chronicle said, "Duncan Jones achieves a strange and winning amalgam, a gripping action film that also works as poetry." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times called the film "an ingenious thriller." USA Today's Claudia Pulg described it as a "high-octane mind game.
A former Goldman Sachs employee did not violate federal criminal statutes when he allegedly took the investment firm's proprietary computer source code for use in another business, the 2nd Circuit has ruled in reversing his convictions. The defendant is a computer programmer. He worked for Goldman Sachs in New Jersey developing computer source code for the company's proprietary high-frequency trading system. He was hired by an Illinois firm to set up a similar system. Before leaving Goldman, the defendant allegedly encrypted and uploaded to a server in Germany more than 500,000 lines of Goldman source code for use by his new employer.
Review by Rick Romancito There was a pleasant surprise awaiting anyone who expected "Source Code" to be just another run-of-the-mill sci-fi adventure, at least as outlined by its trailers. Luckily, the makers of those ads paid heed to the intricately woven plot and decided to show just enough to get people in the door, curious to see if their suspicions would be confirmed.
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