It was totally bad to perform image leeching.
The site http://www.williamrobertson.net/
Where the image are hosted, is now off-line, because of this.
You can use imgur, minus, or even blogspot itself instead.
The girl with the ANSI tattoo
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Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo
#92Is there a reason why none of the images work?
They hotlinked to a different domain, and the traffic brought the other site over its allotted bandwidth. Very un-neighborly thing to do. You should always host your own images or use a dedicated image host.
Edit: never mind the moralizing, it was his own domain that he linked to :)
Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
> interfaces for Jurassic Park Replace Jurassic Park with "Operation Swordfish" or "Hackers," and you might be on to something. Especially since the Jurassic Park interface was a real program that actually existed.
Hackers is funny, but I watched it recently and was surprised at the realistic touches. In one scene, a character is showing off his "hacking" books - which included the dragon book, and a Unix book I believe is real.
THANK YOU
This movie gets so much completely unnecessary hatred. Yeah, it's a joke, but there is plenty of little nods to "real" culture in there. To me it has always been pretty obvious that it was supposed to be silly, but that the people making it knew what they were doing.
I'm pretty sure most of the books from that scene were actually real books.
Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hackers is funny, but I watched it recently and was surprised at the realistic touches. In one scene, a character is showing off his "hacking" books - which included the dragon book, and a Unix book I believe is real.
THANK YOU This movie gets so much completely unnecessary hatred. Yeah, it's a joke, but there is plenty of little nods to "real" culture in there. To me it has always been pretty obvious that it was supposed to be silly, but that the people making it knew what they were doing. I'm pretty sure most of the books from that scene were actually real books.
I'd have to watch it again to be 100% sure, but - going from memory - I believe every single book mentioned in that scene was real. Certainly the "pink shirt book" (IBM Guide to PCs) is real, as is the Dragon book (compiler theory) and the "Rainbow books".
Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hackers is funny, but I watched it recently and was surprised at the realistic touches. In one scene, a character is showing off his "hacking" books - which included the dragon book, and a Unix book I believe is real.
A lot of the phone phreaking scenes in the movie were pretty real as well.
Yeah, the "red box" stuff was legit, it's just that A. few payphones seem to even exist anymore, and B. the ones that do are mostly COCOTs, not Telco operated phones that are (or were) susceptible to red-boxing.
Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo
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Did I just now get that SolarOS was just a pun on Solaris?
I think the capitalisation and the "4.0.1" was a hint that it's really a pun on SunOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS
I feel like a complete putz for not getting the Sun-Solaris relation until RIGHT NOW.
Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of the phone phreaking scenes in the movie were pretty real as well.
Yeah, the "red box" stuff was legit, it's just that A. few payphones seem to even exist anymore, and B. the ones that do are mostly COCOTs, not Telco operated phones that are (or were) susceptible to red-boxing.
Yeah, but you can op divert COCOTs or just hack them directly (one of my schools' COCOTs had a flaw where you could make the modem think you were still operating for free after dialing toll-free if you hadn't hung up the phone completely, rendering free unlimited calls)
Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo
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It's even worse than this. When everytime you're "good" at something, you notice movies get it wrong, after some point you start to wonder, maybe they also get it wrong for all the things you're not good at, you just don't notice it. So basically, it could be that movies get everything wrong.
This is absolutely true. I had the opportunity to complain about this once to a big name Hollywood producer, and he told me that the rule of thumb that most movie makers use is, "If we don't know the difference, our audience won't either." Occasionally they hire experts to be sure they get it right, but that is more the exception than the rule, and mostly happens when a feeling of realism is considered important for…
It was so absolutely nice that NUMB3RS hired actual applied math geeks to write the equations that their statistician uses to solve crimes.
If only they had hired a computer geek to write the crap about the Turing test. ;_;
Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, the "red box" stuff was legit, it's just that A. few payphones seem to even exist anymore, and B. the ones that do are mostly COCOTs, not Telco operated phones that are (or were) susceptible to red-boxing.
Yeah, but you can op divert COCOTs or just hack them directly (one of my schools' COCOTs had a flaw where you could make the modem think you were still operating for free after dialing toll-free if you hadn't hung up the phone completely, rendering free unlimited calls)
Even better, you can just beige box off them if you can find the demarc point, which is usually on the backside of the building where the phone is. Since all the "magic" that makes it a "pay" phone is in the phone itself, the line it's hanging off of is just a plain old phone line, with full toll call ability and everything.
Back in the mid 90's, when I was a little bit into the phreaking scene, me and my buddies used to always beige box off of a COCOT to dial into the modem for the local phone switch, so we could play around. We found a payphone at a gas-station halfway in the middle of nowhere that closed fairly early, so we'd just pile my laptop in the car, drive out there, park about 40 feet from the phone, run a long ass cable to the demarc box and then sit in the car and hack/phreak. Good times... :-)
Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hackers is funny, but I watched it recently and was surprised at the realistic touches. In one scene, a character is showing off his "hacking" books - which included the dragon book, and a Unix book I believe is real.
A lot of the phone phreaking scenes in the movie were pretty real as well.
The viruses mentioned were real, too, even if their usage was silly.
"Type cookie, you idiot!"