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Re:Best Hacker Movies of All Time [Vote] by cpfohl on Thursday November 14, 2013 @09:10AM (#6732318)
Jurassic Park has an awesome scene of epic hacking....
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Re:Best Hacker Movies of All Time [Vote] by ethomson on Thursday November 14, 2013 @10:38AM (#6732862)
Jurassic Park may have been a bit silly with the Dennis Nedry "you didn't say the magic word" but at least it had some photogenic computers.

The CM-5 was a real beauty, certainly one of the more attractive supercomputers that ever was. (I think it was a Y/MP in the book which, while resplendent with a stately elegance, lacks the visceral blinkenlights of the Connection Machine.)

Also that weird Irix Motif-based file navigator thingy. Which I guess is cool, too.

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Re:Best Hacker Movies of All Time [Vote] by Baustin on Thursday November 14, 2013 @09:22AM (#6732399)
"It's a Unix system! I know this."
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Re:Best Hacker Movies of All Time [Vote] by qbrass on Thursday November 14, 2013 @07:29PM (#6736885)
The book actually explained why she knew what she was doing.

The movie seemed more interested in product placement for SGI and Apple.

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