1st DRAFT: Hacking movie drinking game.
Eddie Buckley
1st DRAFT: Hacking movie drinking game.
<begin>
In the tradition of the canonical Star Trek drinking games, the Windows95
infomericial drinking game, and too many others to mention, I present "The
Canonical Hacking Movie Drinking Game" and invite all interested parties
to supply extra suggestions. The movies I had in mind when creating this
include: Wargames, The Net, Hackers, Sneakers, The Manhattan Project (even
though it's not /really/ about hacking it still embodies the same spirit)
and although I haven't seen it, I'm sure Mission Impossible would qualify
as well. Any other similar movie will work as well. (The computer scenes
from Disclosure also qualify but it isn't a movie about hacking).
Here are the rules thus far:
Take one drink when:
- Fedral agents show up (take another drink if they're armed)
- A word like "elite", "lamer", "'puter" or some other AOLish word is used
- A reference to a real person is made
- A reference to a 'net personality is made
Take two drinks when:
- The term virus is used (three drinks if "viruses" is used instead of
"virii")
- A lame slogan like "Hack the World" is used
- Information from a known source is used without credit (i.e. the color
book descriptions in Hackers was taken verbatim from The Jargon File)
- Totally bogus technical info is supplied (i.e. IP address segments
larger than 255 in The Net; encrypted login screens in Sneakers, etc.)
- A machine does something it's incapable of (i.e. Hi-res vector
graphics on an 18 year-old dumb terminal)
- Something totally impossible happens (i.e. kid handling weapons-grade
plutonium without protective gear and NOT getting radiation sickness in
The Manhattan Project)
Take three drinks when:
- Actual technical info is supplied (i.e. the payphone trick in
Wargames)
- Sonething unbelieveable but visually appealing that you just /know/
that clueless people will believe (i.e. the VR crap from Hackers)
Down the whole thing when:
- You get tired of watching the movie and want to piss off to the pub.
Puke your guts out when:
- Everyone lives Happily-Ever-After(tm)
Give up and pass out when:
- You're too pissed to see the tv
- You actually /believe/ the movie!
<end>
When this is finished [and spell-checked!] to my satisfaction it will be
put on various humor FTP/WWW/gopher sites and posted to the humor
newsgroups and possibly alt.drunken.bastards. So anyone who would like
to contribute to this please do.
Eddie
Chester J. Karma, esq.
In a moment of sheer confusion, ed...@mi.net (Eddie Buckley) broadcast to
the world:
>1st DRAFT: Hacking movie drinking game.
>
><begin>
>In the tradition of the canonical Star Trek drinking games, the Windows95
>infomericial drinking game, and too many others to mention, I present "The
>Canonical Hacking Movie Drinking Game" and invite all interested parties
>to supply extra suggestions. The movies I had in mind when creating this
>include: Wargames, The Net, Hackers, Sneakers, The Manhattan Project (even
>though it's not /really/ about hacking it still embodies the same spirit)
>and although I haven't seen it, I'm sure Mission Impossible would qualify
>as well. Any other similar movie will work as well. (The computer scenes
>from Disclosure also qualify but it isn't a movie about hacking).
>
>Here are the rules thus far:
>
>Take one drink when:
>
>- Fedral agents show up (take another drink if they're armed)
(take three drinks if they come through a window)
>- A word like "elite", "lamer", "'puter" or some other AOLish word is used
>- A reference to a real person is made
>- A reference to a 'net personality is made
>
>Take two drinks when:
>
>- The term virus is used (three drinks if "viruses" is used instead of
>"virii")
>- A lame slogan like "Hack the World" is used
>- Information from a known source is used without credit (i.e. the color
>book descriptions in Hackers was taken verbatim from The Jargon File)
>- Totally bogus technical info is supplied (i.e. IP address segments
>larger than 255 in The Net; encrypted login screens in Sneakers, etc.)
>- A machine does something it's incapable of (i.e. Hi-res vector
>graphics on an 18 year-old dumb terminal)
>- Something totally impossible happens (i.e. kid handling weapons-grade
>plutonium without protective gear and NOT getting radiation sickness in
>The Manhattan Project)
>
>Take three drinks when:
>
>- Actual technical info is supplied (i.e. the payphone trick in
>Wargames)
>- Sonething unbelieveable but visually appealing that you just /know/
>that clueless people will believe (i.e. the VR crap from Hackers)
>
>Down the whole thing when:
>
>- You get tired of watching the movie and want to piss off to the pub.
- You feel that the plot is realistic and could actually happen
>
>Puke your guts out when:
>
>- Everyone lives Happily-Ever-After(tm)
>
>Give up and pass out when:
>
>- You're too pissed to see the tv
- You're too drunk to see the tv
>- You actually /believe/ the movie!
>
><end>
>
>
>When this is finished [and spell-checked!] to my satisfaction it will be
>put on various humor FTP/WWW/gopher sites and posted to the humor
>newsgroups and possibly alt.drunken.bastards. So anyone who would like
>to contribute to this please do.
My contributions are included above, where I think they should go. (Nice
tho, I think I'm gonna try the game)
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Lukas Bradley
>- Everyone lives Happily-Ever-After(tm)
Damnit!
Damnit....damnit.....damnit.....
Happily-Ever-After was my idea! You're just lucky you posted the trademark
after it first...
Lukas
Halal the Horrible
ed...@mi.net (Eddie Buckley) wrote:
>- Actual technical info is supplied (i.e. the payphone trick in
>Wargames)
The payphone trick in Wargames could never happen. On all payphones,
the caps are glued on. (Try to reomve one sometime.)
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Chris_Vaughan
Eddie Buckley (ed...@mi.net) wrote:
: 1st DRAFT: Hacking movie drinking game.
: <begin>
: In the tradition of the canonical Star Trek drinking games, the Windows95
: infomericial drinking game, and too many others to mention, I present "The
: Canonical Hacking Movie Drinking Game" and invite all interested parties
: to supply extra suggestions. The movies I had in mind when creating this
: include: Wargames, The Net, Hackers, Sneakers, The Manhattan Project (even
: though it's not /really/ about hacking it still embodies the same spirit)
: and although I haven't seen it, I'm sure Mission Impossible would qualify
: as well. Any other similar movie will work as well. (The computer scenes
: from Disclosure also qualify but it isn't a movie about hacking).
: Here are the rules thus far:
: Take one drink when:
: - Fedral agents show up (take another drink if they're armed)
: - A word like "elite", "lamer", "'puter" or some other AOLish word is used
: - A reference to a real person is made
: - A reference to a 'net personality is made
: Take two drinks when:
: - The term virus is used (three drinks if "viruses" is used instead of
: "virii")
: - A lame slogan like "Hack the World" is used
: - Information from a known source is used without credit (i.e. the color
: book descriptions in Hackers was taken verbatim from The Jargon File)
: - Totally bogus technical info is supplied (i.e. IP address segments
: larger than 255 in The Net; encrypted login screens in Sneakers, etc.)
: - A machine does something it's incapable of (i.e. Hi-res vector
: graphics on an 18 year-old dumb terminal)
: - Something totally impossible happens (i.e. kid handling weapons-grade
: plutonium without protective gear and NOT getting radiation sickness in
: The Manhattan Project)
: Take three drinks when:
: - Actual technical info is supplied (i.e. the payphone trick in
: Wargames)
: - Sonething unbelieveable but visually appealing that you just /know/
: that clueless people will believe (i.e. the VR crap from Hackers)
: Down the whole thing when:
: - You get tired of watching the movie and want to piss off to the pub.
: Puke your guts out when:
: - Everyone lives Happily-Ever-After(tm)
: Give up and pass out when:
: - You're too pissed to see the tv
: - You actually /believe/ the movie!
: <end>
: When this is finished [and spell-checked!] to my satisfaction it will be
: put on various humor FTP/WWW/gopher sites and posted to the humor
: newsgroups and possibly alt.drunken.bastards. So anyone who would like
: to contribute to this please do.
: Eddie
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Eddie Buckley
On 30 May 1996 21:52:10 GMT in article <4ol5aa$8...@tribune.concentric.net>,
: >- Actual technical info is supplied (i.e. the payphone trick in
: >Wargames)
: The payphone trick in Wargames could never happen. On all payphones,
: the caps are glued on. (Try to reomve one sometime.)
Yes, but when the movie was produced (mid '80s) the caps were quite
easy to remove. BTW, the trick still works if you stick a pin in
one of the holes in the mouthpiece and ground it to the hookswitch.
Eddie
Halal the Horrible
ed...@mi.net (Eddie Buckley) wrote:
>Yes, but when the movie was produced (mid '80s) the caps were quite
>easy to remove. BTW, the trick still works if you stick a pin in
>one of the holes in the mouthpiece and ground it to the hookswitch.
>
You're not even close. If you live in a major city, the caps have
been glued since the 70's. Also, payphones use a weatherproof
transmitter with a metal shield. You can't stick a pin in them.
Also, the hookswitch is not a good ground. Finally, even if you
could dial, you still need to put in a quarter.
ÇÝßËRMäñ
On 29 May 1996 12:08:58 GMT, ed...@mi.net (Eddie Buckley) wrote:
>1st DRAFT: Hacking movie drinking game.
>
><begin>
>In the tradition of the canonical Star Trek drinking games, the Windows95
>infomericial drinking game, and too many others to mention, I present "The
>Canonical Hacking Movie Drinking Game" and invite all interested parties
>to supply extra suggestions. The movies I had in mind when creating this
>include: Wargames, The Net, Hackers, Sneakers, The Manhattan Project (even
>though it's not /really/ about hacking it still embodies the same spirit)
"Under Siege 2" is pretty much shows the same craps.
"I'm walking in the digital world."
... End of transmission.
//olitoph
>Yes, but when the movie was produced (mid '80s) the caps were quite
>easy to remove. BTW, the trick still works if you stick a pin in
>one of the holes in the mouthpiece and ground it to the hookswitch.
>Eddie
You get a dial-tone?!
/\/\olitoph
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Eddie Buckley
On 1 Jun 1996 13:16:54 GMT in article <4opfs6$c...@tribune.concentric.net>,
: >Yes, but when the movie was produced (mid '80s) the caps were quite
: >easy to remove. BTW, the trick still works if you stick a pin in
: >one of the holes in the mouthpiece and ground it to the hookswitch.
: You're not even close. If you live in a major city, the caps have
: been glued since the 70's. Also, payphones use a weatherproof
: transmitter with a metal shield. You can't stick a pin in them.
: Also, the hookswitch is not a good ground. Finally, even if you
: could dial, you still need to put in a quarter.
It works (the pin trick) here (in New Brunswick, Canada) on the older
payphones, doesn't work on the newer computerized phones though.
Eddie
Eddie Buckley
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996 17:12:27 in article <molitoph.2...@micon.net>,
/\/\olitoph (moli...@micon.net) wrote:
: >Yes, but when the movie was produced (mid '80s) the caps were quite
: >easy to remove. BTW, the trick still works if you stick a pin in
: >one of the holes in the mouthpiece and ground it to the hookswitch.
: >Eddie
: You get a dial-tone?!
Yes, here (New Brunswick) you always get a dial tone whenever you pick up
the phone (so you can call 911, the operator, etc), I thought it was like
that everywhere (in North America anyway), actually, isn't it a law that
you have to be able to dial 911 from a payphone for free?
Eddie
Halal the Horrible
ed...@mi.net (Eddie Buckley) wrote:
>: >
>
>: You're not even close. If you live in a major city, the caps have
>: been glued since the 70's. Also, payphones use a weatherproof
>: transmitter with a metal shield. You can't stick a pin in them.
>: Also, the hookswitch is not a good ground. Finally, even if you
>: could dial, you still need to put in a quarter.
>
>It works (the pin trick) here (in New Brunswick, Canada) on the older
>payphones, doesn't work on the newer computerized phones though.
>
>Eddie
>
In Canada, they have Northern Tellecom payphones. These work totally
different from payphones in the States.
BlacK DragoN
On Wed, 29 May 1996 23:34:34 GMT, f...@cris.com (Chester J. Karma,
esq.) scribbled on the monitor:
[snip!]
>My contributions are included above, where I think they should go. (Nice
>tho, I think I'm gonna try the game)
Heheheh, I got the beer if you got the time.. Hell, we have a whole
summer. =)
-B.D.
DingleSoft
I especially liked the user interfaces of the movie Brainstorm. If you've
seen it, you may weave that flick into the game.