Re: Scientifically Literate Novels Made Into Movies
- From: John Schilling <schillin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Aug 2005 12:53:32 -0700
In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0508181325550.13603-100000@xxxxxxxxx>, Alcore says...
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>On 18 Aug 2005, Michael S. Schiffer wrote:
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>>Alcore <alcore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0508180857090.13603-100000@xxxxxxxxx:
>>>...
>>> And if you think Hollywood can't do real science... wait until
>>> the television script-writers get ahold of your plausible story.
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>>> Perhaps I'm being excessively skeptical, here. But even
>>> "realistic" shows like Battlestar Galactica embrace nonsense
>>> like "networking two computers together somehow makes them
>>> hackable"... even though the enemy *still* has no physical
>>> access or logical gateway into that network.
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>>Not that I think that the overall way that that was handled makes
>>sense. (And I don't watch BG for the scientific or technical
>>plausibility, though the comparative low tech gives a deceptive feel
>>of verisimilitude.) But I figured that the access was via the sensor
>>array. Basically, in addition to getting star sightings or
>>gravimetric readings or whatever, it's also being flooded with Cylon
>>buffer overflow attempts or the like in the same bands.
>ummm... Yeah.
>I'm thinking if networking *inside* a ship is a bad thing, then the sensor
>grid had better be designed to *not* be a wireless networking hub.
Well, yeah. The sensor grid *wasn't* designed to be a wireless networking
hub. There were no networking hubs on the Galactica wireless or otherwise,
and the sensor grid was hardwired to a non-networked standalone computer.
That was the whole point - in order to get enough concentrated computronium
they needed for a fast jump, they needed to circumvent the well-designed
security features of the ship's computational infrastructure.
How this was depicted, was sometimes clumsy, but the concept is sound.
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