11. A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.

12. Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function (see Demolition Man and countless others).

13. Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. Movie modems usually appear to transmit data at the speed of two gigabytes per second.

14. When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.

15. If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access it.

16. No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all computer platforms.

17. The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has (Aliens). However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labelled.

18. Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, active animation, photo-realistic graphics capability.

19. Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY Supercomputer.

20. Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face (see "Alien", "2001").