At 04:15 PM 6/18/01, you wrote:
>--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In a message dated 6/18/01 11:22:47 AM,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > << I liked it other than the puter parts. Why can't
> > they have a guy just
> > using linux or bsd, ftping somewhere, enter a
> > username and pw, and grab a tar
> > file? "lookit my super secret hax0r program! It
> > took me 3 hours to write
> > the crypto code and 4 years to write the
> > graphics!">>
> >
> > Why can't they? Why *should* they? This is light
> > entertainment, not the
> > Learning Channel.
> >
> >
> > <<And how many world class hackers look like Clint
> > Eastwood or a European
> > male model? >>
> >
> > How many people would want to see a movie in which
> > the performers looked like
> > us? I know *I* certainly wouldn't. As Nick Hornby
> > writes, film and television
> > actors look better than you and me - that's their
> > job. In fact, that's the
> > entire point of their existence.
> >
>
>Point taken. But if you saw your trade or one of your
>hobbies horribly portrayed time and again by
>hollywood, you'd probably scream bloody murder too.
>=)
>
>dean
You should come to class one night when I show the first five minutes of
"Deep Impact" and tear it apart.
-- Ronn! :)
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University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL
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