lars@ACC@sri-unix.UUCP (08/03/83)
From: <lars@ACC> In: SF-LOVERS V8 #39 Date: 2 August 1983 From: Steven.Clark@CMU-CS-A ... the reservations were not his nor was there any way to trace them to him. This statement has come out a dozen times, so: When I make reservations for two, the ticket agent always asks for both names. I presume that IATA and FAA regulations demand that a passenger list be made up for each flight; also of course this provides an easy reference to the reservation at check-in time. Therefore, the menu screen of the reservation system has a field for passenger name, and with any reservation, this field must be filled in. Since the scene in which the reservations were made looked like romantic teenage daydreaming to me, I would presume that one of the reservations carried the name of our young hero. Lars Poulsen <Lars @ ACC.ARPA>
SELINGER@RU-GREEN.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (08/13/83)
Well, yes, this could explain how they found out that he had made reservations to Paris. HOWEVER - it would have also given them his "partner's" name, which they were trying so furiously to drag out of him! Speaking of Wargames... Have you heard the latest uproar about the kids who broke into (among other things) the Los Alamos computer? The media is having lots of fun with that...I noticed they say that the infiltrators "didn't get any classified information" without even mentioning that there was NO WAY for them to even get to any top- secret stuff (different computer with NO phone lines, guys). Also, one newspaper said that the computer they tapped into was responsible for overseeing the manufacture of nuclear weapons. (*Gasp!* go John and Jane Q. Public) WRONG! Most probably they should have said "nuclear POWER PLANTS", this being the Department of Energy's computer! Talk about Freudian slips...or, I guess it's just the sort of sensationalism the public wants to hear... Marla
ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP (08/16/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-416300:ucbesvax:8400002:000:1390 ucbesvax!turner Aug 16 00:42:00 1983 Re: Speaking of Wargames... Have you heard the latest uproar about the kids who broke into (among other things) the Los Alamos computer?.... Also, one newspaper said that the computer they tapped into was responsible for overseeing the manufacture of nuclear weapons. (*Gasp!* go John and Jane Q. Public) WRONG! Most probably they should have said "nuclear POWER PLANTS", this being the Department of Energy's computer! Talk about Freudian slips...or, I guess it's just the sort of sensationalism the public wants to hear... Just because it's the Department of Energy doesn't mean that it doesn't do weapons work. In fact, ALL nuclear weapons work is done under the auspices of DOE. Just as it used to be done under the Atomic Energy Commission, which also did a lot of reactor research. An aside: before the Reagan administration dropped their plans to abolish DOE, they planned to put nuclear weapons under (can you guess?) the Department of COMMERCE. (This actually made a bit of sense: DOC oversees interstate commerce, and it well-positioned to control and monitor the transportation of nuclear materials. Only, in the case of Reagan, it doesn't make sense, given the substantial Mafia penetration of the trucking industry, and Reagan's cavalier attitude toward appointing people suspected of links to organized crime.) Michael Turner ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner
els@CSvax:Pucc-H:pur-phy.UUCP (08/29/83)
Just because the computer was a Los Alamos doesn't necessarily mean
that the machine involved had anything to do with weapons or energy! There
is a great deal of theoretical and experimental physics done at Los Alamos.
els[Eric Strobel]
pur-ee!pur-phy!els