At 10:33 AM 7/29/95 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:

At 3:04 AM 7/29/95, Joel McNamara wrote:

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Don't bother. Better to wait until it hits the video shelves then have a party and see who can find the most (of many) technical flaws and gaffs. Would be much more entertaining in that context.

Agreed. In television interviews Ms. Bullock talks about how she's "on the net all the time" while in further conversation it's clear that all she does is hang out in AOL auditoria and chat-rooms, probably with some net.flack at her elbow....

So good for her. I've spent most of the evening chatting on cypherpunks and cyberia rather than writing code.... Some recent survey found that 60% of time that average folks spend on the net is communications rather than information retrieval. I rather enjoyed the movie, though I did share the experience of being one of the two or three people in the theater laughing at various technical gaffes and/or in-jokes. Obviously, you can't take anything from Hollywood too seriously technically, but they did look at a few social issues related to computerisation, such as the isolation, computer addiction, lack of face-to-face relationships, difficulty in knowing what's real when everything's on the computer, vulnerability of society to computer problems, trustability of people who tell you that you can trust their computer security system for everything - even the government uses it! So they didn't look into them too deeply - they're Hollywood. That's not their job :-) Also, I like Sandra Bullock, and I think her acting pulled the movie together more than the script did. #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts@ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #--- # Export PGP three lines a time --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/ M0V]N9W)E<W,@<VAA;&P@;6%K92!N;R!L87<@+BXN(&%B<FED9VEN9R!T:&4@ M9G)E961O;2!O9B!S<&5E8V@L(&]R(&]F('1H92!P<F5S<SL-"F]R('1H92!R M:6=H="!O9B!T:&4@<&5O<&QE('!E86-E86)L>2!T;R!A<W-E;6)L92P@( T*