Actually I think the Aliens may have been running MS Windows 2200 which would explain it as the security would be set to off on a default install.
Rob Martin Software Engineer phone 03 377 0495 fax 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:10 PM Subject: Re: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Specs for development Machine > Actually I believe the best example of this is in that great movie, > independence day (you know the one where all the other countries in the > world sit around being blow to bits while they wait for the Americans to > come up with a plan to beat the aliens). It takes about 10 minutes on an > apple (??) to create a virus capable of turning of the shields of all the > alien ships and make it run on the aliens pc (which must have been using > Ethernet / tcp/ip and no security system (ignoring the fact that the code > would even run on the aliens system). > > > > > Rob Martin > Software Engineer > > phone 03 377 0495 > fax 03 377 0496 > web www.chreos.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Allan, Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:00 PM > Subject: RE: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Specs for development Machine > > > I'm impressed by their productivity. Software to steal millions of dollars > from a bank, or launch the USA's nuclear arsenal takes only a couple of days > to put into production, if that. Allthough I suppose that the security on > the nuclear arsenal consists of: > > Password: XXXXXXXX > Deploy (Y/N): Y > > And the password is the name of the President's dog. And to get access you > just have to go to www.usa-okay.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt at DBC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2003 2:46 p.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic > Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Specs for development Machine > > > Roderick Rebada wrote: > > > they're using the kb, that's so unrealistic. i haven't > > seen one actually using a mouse, point and click, > > even for a simple info : ) > > I always like how tv/movies can infinitely zoom photos. > > Pixellation is for amateurs, cheers, kurt. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
