Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!uc.rgh@MIT-EECS@MIT-MC From: uc.rgh%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V7 #43 Message-ID: <2473@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 12:46:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2473 Posted: Thu Jun 23 12:46:00 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jun-83 18:25:16 EDT Lines: 17 From: Randy HaskinsLauren really lambasted WarGames. I could handle it up until the last few lines where he said he had been fuming about the movie ever since a friend told him about it. That was a pretty long flame for not having seen it in person. Admitted, as I told my non-computer-scientist friends (I was in Florida at the time), that most of it was just made up and that a standard university Multics was more secure than the WOPR. But lasers only leave trails in dusty rooms and you can't hear explosions in space, and Movie commits N other sins against science and we say, "Oh, yeah, well, it's okay." Give the movie a break and at least go see it if you want to murder it. It was very entertaining, and the characters (human) were likeable, too. Sorry, I'll flame off now. --Randy -------