[ale] Computer centric Movies/TV Shows

[Pete Hardie]

To correct one point - she says with delight "this is a Unix system!"

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 08:27 Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Documentaries comment reminds me of an old one called "The CIA, the KGB
> and Me" about a guy who discovered East German hackers accessing CIA
> computer via his mainframe.  He found them due to the fact there was "time"
> used on the computer he couldn't figure out to which department in his
> company it should be billed.   That appeals to me as an ex-bean counter as
> well as an IT person.
>
> Hollywood movies being clueless:  The original Jurassic Park where the
> little girl is going to undo what the professional admin did to sabotage
> the computers.   A funny moment though was when she sits down and says
> something like "Ugh, it's UNIX".
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ale [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Simba via Ale
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 12:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ale] Computer centric Movies/TV Shows
>
> Oh man you should see it! Cereal Killer is my fave ;)
>
> Sandra Bullock is cool. The only thing I liked about that film if I
> remember...
>
> Mr. Robot may be an exception but it's lightyears ahead of what the 1990s
> were like. And it also a phenomenal production in general, those two things
> seem to go hand in hand.
>
> I don't expect folks who make their careers in filmography or sound or
> casting actors and so forth to be computer experts, but I have a lot more
> respect for productions which consult with experts for accuracy.
>
> Simba Lion - https://tailpuff.net
> https://keybase.io/simbalion
>
> "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
>
> On 9/24/18 11:54 PM, A. P. Garcia wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 11:43 PM Simba via Ale <ale at ale.org
> > <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Yeah but The Net was stupid. Hackers was at least funny :) All the
> >     characters are lovable and it doesn't even try to take the technology
> >     seriously.
> >
> >     Of course it's worth remembering that back then literally none of
> those
> >     "hollywood" people knew anything about computers. They weren't
> trying to
> >     be ironic or anything, it just turned out that way.
> >
> >
> > I never saw Hackers. I'm not going to argue the merits of The Net. I
> > didn't particularly like it, but I didn't particularly hate it either.
> > I do kind of like Sandra Bullock though.
> >
> > Alas, those Hollywood people haven't improved much. There are some
> > fairly respectable representations of technology in the media now, but
> > there's also still a lot of crap.
> >
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