[Gllug] OT computers in the movies

[Richard Cohen]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Stig Brautaset wrote:

> * Mike Brodbelt <mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk> spake thus:
> > On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 11:49, SteveC wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyone have better examples of computer fantasy at the movies? I know
> > > MacOS made it into Independance Day right? Windows has been in lots of
> > > films but what about Linux? :-)
> >
> > Not sure about Linux, but there was a great scene in "The Net" where
> > Sandra Bullock tracks down the villains IP address, and the last octet
> > is three hundred and something....
>
> Yeah. I lost many hairs over that one :P
>
> You would think that they would check their facts just a bit... Or did
> they use a completely invalid address on purpose (the same way they use
> 555 as the area code for all phone numbers) so they would not risk
> getting in any kind of legal trouble?

Surely they should have used an IP address with 555 as the first quad?

:-)

> Stig

Cheers
Richard


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