I miss the days when kids with a Commodore 64, a 300 Baud Acoustic Coupled Modem, and a Barbie Doll could hack into DoD computers for "extra power" and make a GIRL!!!
OMG, computers and cell phones!
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I like it in Mission Impossible when Tom Cruise does an internet search for the word "job" and gets no hits.
Oh, man, that's hilariously awful. Doesn't he wind up finding a Usenet post and sending an e-mail to job@3.14 or something?
Swordfish is a reletivly recent movie and that sitll manages to seriously abuse computer technology...
Although what cracks me up is to this day, on Smallville, Chloe can hack just about any computer system with a wifi laptop or her cellphone/pda/blackberry. I'm wondering... when in the flaming hell did she find time to become THAT good at hacking and the fact that only a couple of times was she ever called on it.
Granted NOW she's "Watchtower" and has Queen industries stuff to play with and stolen LuthorCorp stuff, but the fact she was able to do some of this stuff from an iMac...
Granted NOW she's "Watchtower" and has Queen industries stuff to play with and stolen LuthorCorp stuff, but the fact she was able to do some of this stuff from an iMac...
I miss that stuff in movies and TV shows. Someone else brought it up to me not that long ago and dismissed those references as corny, but I still think they're hilarious.
One of the things I really love about NCIS is how Special Agent Gibbs, the bad-ass team leader is basically clueless about cel phones and computers and is constantly needing explainations from one of the younger agents.
One that gets me is the BSG episode Scattered where they hook three computers up with cables in the CiC, and somehow this will allow the Cylons to hack into their "network" wirelessly. 
Then they made things worse by putting up five firewalls and displaying them like actual walls on a monitor.
Luckily that was one of the few attempts at technobable on the show.
Then they made things worse by putting up five firewalls and displaying them like actual walls on a monitor.Luckily that was one of the few attempts at technobable on the show.
If the park were run on windows they wouldn't have the problems they had
I dunno, I always laugh at this bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AziH7yJlbE
Once you've accepted that their study of the alien fighter has allowed them to write a virus for the alien systems at all, the method of its delivery hardly requires much additional credulity.
Or play War Games with Mathew Broderick.
I think computers in TV/movies would be frustrating to work with considering they seem to beep with every action and/or keystroke.
It is funny, though, to watch shows from even the early-mid 90s where the internet was very young, if around/available in it's current form at all, and cell phones were just that (phones, not multi-function tools with internet, datebooks, radios, mp3 players and back-massagers all in one) and just "marvel" at the primitiveness of that old technology.
There's been plenty of times I've watched shows from the 90s or so and said to myself, "Well they could just get the answer to their problem by checking the inter... Oh, that's right. It's 1994. Internet not so prevalent, reliable, or assessable."
It is funny, though, to watch shows from even the early-mid 90s where the internet was very young, if around/available in it's current form at all, and cell phones were just that (phones, not multi-function tools with internet, datebooks, radios, mp3 players and back-massagers all in one) and just "marvel" at the primitiveness of that old technology.
There's been plenty of times I've watched shows from the 90s or so and said to myself, "Well they could just get the answer to their problem by checking the inter... Oh, that's right. It's 1994. Internet not so prevalent, reliable, or assessable."
Lord, that film could've saved so much abuse if they'd only thought to add a simple throw-away reference.
Scientist: "We can't beat their weapons, but after studying their hardware for ** years. We do have...this."
*He clicks a mouse button sending computer code scrolling down a monitor.*
Speaking of computer code how about computer code which is blatantly Chinese characters LOL
What ? I'm a software engineer and I promise you my desk really is a big chair with 9 screens where I manipulate code via a virtual interface. It's completely true.
Jesus! All I have is a single screen mounted on a wire rack, and I actually have to use my hands to make it do things.
It's not that crazy, actually. I was doing tech support ten years ago (so it's 1. ten years ago and 2. just tech support) and I had 3 monitors. Ok I was playing CounterStrike on one and browsing the Internet on the other so I only really needed 1 to actually work but still...
I always think of Zach Morris' Gigantic Home Cordless Phone on Saved by the Bell...we had one of those when I was young and it felt like space-age technology for 1992!
