Joel C. Ewing wrote: >Brown was certainly not the first author to use as a plot device an >impossible-to-develop virus with impossible capabilities for a computer >platform of which the virus writer was ignorant: the popular movie >"Independence Day" has the same fault.
Indeed! There are 2 things about that movie which annoyed the sh*t out of me: 1. Cracking an Alien computer on the first attempt without understanding the underlying principle of operation of that computer. I nearly walked out of utter disgust, but stayed until the end. 2. Destroying that little building (and its interesting occupants) in Washington. Why that building, why not any other government building? They could rather attack our nice Union Building for more drama! ;-) Ok, granted, those producers made a LOT of money! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
