Forgot your password?  Comment: with real internet, you don't GO
anywhere (Score 1) 38  by jinchoung (#46432819) Attached to: New
VR Game Makes You a "Hollywood Hacker"  i think this is the most
misleading thing about cyberpunk and hollywood hacking tropes...
that there is a cyberspace that actually exists in some
allegorical way and that a user's avatar can actually "travel"
from point to point looking upon and travel to floating pyramids
of information. that analogy is totally wrong.  the far more
accurate analogy is simply making telephone calls. if you are
anywhere at all, you are right smack dab, ass down in chair in
front of your computer. and your computer itself doesn't ever
travel anywhere. all it is doing is sending and receiving
messages. sure, you're getting messages from different nodes but
that's just like receiving lots of phone calls from different
people.  you can surreptitiously send messages that cause
unexpected behavior or make a call under an assumed identity...
but ultimately, all hacki