Interesting things you learn about computers from the movies
Interesting things that you learn about computers in movies:
# Word processors never display a cursor.
# You never have to use the spacebar when typing long sentences.
# All monitors display 2 inch high letters.
# High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, have easy-to-understand graphical interfaces.
#Those that don't will have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.
# Corollary: You can gain access to any information you want by simply typing "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard.
# Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS."
# Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. The *really* advanced ones also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer as the characters come across the screen.
# People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data.
# A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.
# If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen.
# Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.
Re: Love the movie thread!
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Originally posted by Maxixe
"Hackers" came out. BTW, loved "Hackers" in a campy sort of way. I thought the teen cyberpunks in it were really cute.
What is your favorite hacker movie? I wish they would make a movie about Kevin Poulson. The book about him (forgot the name of it, sorry) was fascinating.
I enjoyed "Hackers" too, although the computers they used were light years ahead of ours. Seems in real life all you get is a boring command line, not a 3D gui operating system. They did have a nice scene where they showed the rainbow of computer books, and they showed the often forgotten phreaker. I like how when they were chatting, the words were at least 6 inches tall. Damn now that is how aol instant messenger should be. Back to swordfish and the crap that it is, Id bet that this guy couldnt hack his own computer in a minute. Hell it would take two on account of the *******. He must have had a dedicated t3 line when he was doing this, and the computer he broke into must have been a supercomputer because he wasnt even giving it a chance to respond to his commands before he typed another one. Is there a such thing as 528 bit encryption, and is there a way to decode it without the use of a supercomputer? Do you remember "Office Space" when they put the virus on their computer at work. The funniest part was when they figured out that they wrote it wrong. If Office Space can be considered a hacking movie, its my favorite. The most work the main character does on a computer is check his e-mail and play tetris. He is supposed to be working to fix the Y2K problem. I guess he is a programmer even though they never show him programming.
