[Gllug] OT computers in the movies

[Pavel Bradut Boghita]

I can't remember the title of this movie, but it's a quite well known 
Hollywood production. There is this woman scientist who is in the search of 
aliens and eventually she gets a movie from them which turns out to be 3d 
plan of a machine that will take her places.... eventually she ends up in 
some astral strange place where the aliens appear in the form of her 
father.... 
Ok... I just realise I haven't really paid too much attention to the os they 
were using. But computers are quite central to this film. First is the one 
that translates whatever the aliens have transmited.... the film about Hitler 
I think than the 3d map.... then the misterious zillionaire resident in orbit 
sends messages to this scientist via a laptop connected to satellite 
telephone....
Hey this OT really gets my memory going...;- )

On Wednesday 28 August 2002 5:17 pm, you wrote:
> Tethys wrote:
> >>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?
> >
> > An RFC1918 address would have served that purpose just as well, as would
> > one of the IANA reserved ranges such as 31.0.0.0/8, and neither would
> > have been so horrendously wrong...
>
> Yes, but for the sake of mildly annoying 20 geeks, the completely invalid
> IP addresses is probably the safer bet.
>
> Will

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