Watch "The Cuckoo's Egg" it's real, and based on a true story....might be hard to find, but "The Matrix" was laughable as far as reality goes...if you don't compare it to the real world, it was great.
yeah, not bad. At least they took over a house like a computer group would do -- and they ordered an excess of pizza to go with it. Still now accurate though, and not at all realistic.
I've been watching hollywood botch the movie scene with reguards to programming for a long, long time...I remember when Wargames came out, and everyone thought it was the coolest thing...and I remember thinking "that's not the way it is(!)"
My favorite is the user who types his password which promptly comes up in letters that fill the whole screen and arn't protected by some kind of character echoing sceme (like asterisks or something..). Or the guy who types out a whole line of stuff and never hits the "enter" key or the spacebar even once...*real* users know those keys make destinctive sounds....
My opinion is that hollywood hasn't a clue what it's about at all. I mean, if you're an actor, you probably wouldn't have time to program anyway...
Anyone who would like to see a documentary about hacking should watch Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" which is at least based on reality.
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why is it that anyone who defends hollywood's feeble attempts at protraying hackers replies anonymously? come on.....
HAHAHAHHAA -- that is the BEST reply I've read all day :) Thanks very much for sharing that with us...it's *exactly* how I feel. Definatly a 10/10
Watch "The Cuckoo's Egg" it's real, and based on a true story....might be hard to find, but "The Matrix" was laughable as far as reality goes...if you don't compare it to the real world, it was great.
obviously you arn't a coder, or you woulodn't be saying that.
don't know what your BS is all about, but the last I checked, this was supposed to be a friendly debate -- you should keep the language out of it..
heh -- good one...hadn't thought of that. I especially liked the fax machine beating.....wish I could do that to the photocopier at work...
yeah, not bad. At least they took over a house like a computer group would do -- and they ordered an excess of pizza to go with it. Still now accurate though, and not at all realistic.
I've been watching hollywood botch the movie scene with reguards to programming for a long, long time...I remember when Wargames came out, and everyone thought it was the coolest thing...and I remember thinking "that's not the way it is(!)"
My favorite is the user who types his password which promptly comes up in letters that fill the whole screen and arn't protected by some kind of character echoing sceme (like asterisks or something..). Or the guy who types out a whole line of stuff and never hits the "enter" key or the spacebar even once...*real* users know those keys make destinctive sounds....
My opinion is that hollywood hasn't a clue what it's about at all. I mean, if you're an actor, you probably wouldn't have time to program anyway...
Anyone who would like to see a documentary about hacking should watch Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" which is at least based on reality.