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Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies
Billosaur writes "As with anything, Hollywood has a weird way of viewing computer technology and the people who use it. To help quantify things, take a look at The Top 20 Movie Hackers, the Top Ten Movie Servers, and the things code doesn't do in real life." From the servers article: "3. UNIX environment - Jurassic Park (1993). The UNIX environment here is a classic geek joke. Everything we saw was real - created by Silicon Graphics and called IRIX. InGen was the corporation funding the island, and from an IT perspective they let the worst possible thing happen: they allowed one programmer to design the infrastructure with no supervision. What's worse, they obviously required no documentation of what was done. The result was a kid had to hack in and gain ROOT privileges. The likelihood of a young kid knowing a way to get ROOT (and not a more experienced programmer) is pretty hard to swallow. The hardware for this server was probably minimal, running door locks and starting Quicktime movies. 'We spared no expense!' You would think that with the millions of dollars they spent on the park, they could have hired a couple newbie programmers and added a server on the backend."
8. Code isn't just 0100110 010101 10100 011
Sure, when you get down to the binary level it's a bunch of 1's and 0's, but who does that? I've never met anyone who codes binary.
Hey Hollywood directors: programmers use this neat thing called the ALPHABET. It's got letters that you put together to form words. We even put spaces between those words (see #3).
This guys never met anyone who codes in binary? I've done it plenty of times. It's called Assembly.
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
you matrix faggots have ruined everything. fucking homos.
neros a fucking rump roaster and we all know it. you fucks on slashdot use to worship this fucking film. for nearly a year there wasn't a day without a faggot matrix article. you fuckers fell hook line and sinker for taht faggot fairy shit.
you bitch fags loved it, admit it you fucking dick smokers
Sorry to break it to you - ER sucks. Yes, even with their countless medical "experts" to guide them. But House sucks even more.
So do CSI and other forensics-related shows (their biochemistry is atrocious).
BTW, having read some Chricton, I have to say his knowledge of biochemistry is so bad that I'm surprised he ever passed enough of his exams to become a doctor. Seriously, the guy is a dumbass.
Please mod parent +5, Obvious. Are computer geeks really that arrogant that they think the rest of the world can't comprehend a little bit of exaggeration?? Or are computer geeks that stupid??
So many bogus claims -- too many bogus claims -- to even bother rebutting them individually. I simply don't have to, your claims are so ridiculous.
It's one thing to make up this shit out of thin air to impress your little friends down at the mall, but quite another to pull it here at Slashdot.