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I watched it on netflix the other day, and it still makes me cringe when phreak says "twenty eight point eight"
by dec0dedab0de 11y ago
I watched it on netflix the other day, and it still makes me cringe when phreak says "twenty eight point eight"
- xhrpost 11y agoCome on, he's the king of Nynex!
- dragonbonheur 11y agoI still do not have a clue what a BLT drive might be... Bacon-Lettuce-Tomato ??? How is that possible?
- mmoche 11y agoThat's the joke. Dade was utilizing social engineering to obtain information from a security guard. Realistic or not, it's a great example of how technology is never stronger than its weakest link, and often that link is human.
- dragonbonheur 11y agoThe abuse of acronyms causes wetware buffer overflows, I guess.
- dijit 11y agoHe looks at his sandwich before he says it; he's showing that you don't even need accurate information to get people to do what you need. sound potentially important, hurried.. and desperate for a favour- and people will try to help
- dragonbonheur 11y agoOkay... How many times have you watched it to notice that minor detail? Just curious.
- enneff 11y agoIt was pretty noticeable on the first viewing IIRC. It's a common movie trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LineOfSightName http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LineOfSightName
- wj 11y agoHe also called himself Eddie Vedder. That was part of the fun!
- steverb 11y agoI wonder if that's possibly an east coast vs. west coast thing. We always said point (south east).
- amyjess 11y agoGrew up in North Texas, we all said point too.
- jharger 11y agoI grew up in the south-east, but then moved out west... in both places we said fourteen-four and twenty-eight-eight.
- steverb 11y agoAh. I thought the OP was implying they said "dot". We used both versions depending on context (twenty eight point eight and twenty eight eight). Might be an age thing though, I was post teen years when the movie came out and tended to hang out with a lot of overly precise military members/geeks.
- dec0dedab0de 11y agoDon't forget thirty-six-six.
- rconti 11y agoOr thirty-three-six.
- cobalt 11y agoit's been a while since I've watched the movie: what's the context and what do you think it would be?
- dec0dedab0de 11y agohe's talking about a modem, and it should have been twenty eight eight.