I remember an episode similar to this where two people were watching as someone was trying to hack into the system and one began to type furiously on the keyboard to try and stop them.
Apparently, they couldn’t type fast enough, so the other person started typing also - on the same keyboard, at the same time - in order to get enough keystrokes in to save the day
If they are going to portray fantasy on these shows, why not just promote it as a crime fantasy series and be done with it.
NCIS
I enjoy doing genealogy and use that site a lot.
They have a lot of yearbooks, but they are missing about 90% of the ones I would like to see. So Abby or Garcia could find the person they’re looking for but it would be more unusual than usual.
Saw a show recently where they wanted a DNA test and someone pointed out that that would take weeks. Wow! I thought all police lab DNA tests took a couple hours on TV.
One ridiculous trend is the fast turnaround of real life stuff into fictional fodder for these shows. One recent SVU even did a two-fer: a Paula Deen-Trayvon Martin case rolled into one.
Thank you.
My favorite
I am actually more bothered by the fact that nobody ever uses a mouse. How would I know they are working hard if we don’t hear the keystrokes?
When it comes to L&O that trend is approaching 25 years old.
That’s hilarious, I’m watching the episodes now. It’s a worthy successor to Police Squad.
For anyone who enjoys A Touch of Cloth check out A Touch of Cloth: Charlie Brooker & Dan Maier in The Writers’ Room where Charlie explains that, to check what they wanted to parody, they got editors to assemble DVDs of types of scenes from various shows. And how similar they all are once taken out of the narrative flow.
The keyboard IS a lot faster, if you know how to type.
Unless you are working in a browser … oh. Good point.
My friend uses vim bindings so he can use a browser (actually, his whole OS) entirely via keyboard and vim-lifted keyboard macros.
It’s a lot faster than a mouse.
Nonsense, Dr. Warner on Law and Order: SVU gets results like this back in a couple of hours. 
I suspect medical examiners around the country suffer severe ocular muscle sprains from the eye-rolling they must do in response to her rapid-fire forensic findings.
“You know that murder victim’s body I just posted for you? Well, the seminal fluid contains traces of a prescription drug used to treat hypertension in marmosets. And there was a tiny leaf stuck to his underwear, which I’ve identified as belonging to a plant that only grows on Avery Island, Louisiana. So you’d better check out Tabasco employees with access to veterinary drugs.”
I was under the impression that a DNA test only takes about a day or so, but the limiting factor was that most DNA labs are swamped with weeks of backlog work. So in theory-land where you have your own personal DNA lab, you could get results fairly quickly.
What are these vim bindings of which you speak?
I have to use a lot of browser-based applications (read as: spawn of satan), that, as an only reasonably good typist, I find incredibly frustrating and time-consuming.
Is there really a way I can get around this?
:smack::smack::smack:
There’s a Reddit thread from a few years back where one show writer explained why they have all of those ridiculous “zoom/enhance” or “computer hacking” scenes. Basically (1) most of their viewers aren’t tech-savvy and don’t know any better and (2) it really riles up those that are, so they get a good laugh at their expense.
I’ve started a separate thread on knife wound identification here, titled “CSI: Pointy Weapons”.
Imho, they’re the new zena/Hercules/highlander, where science has replaced magic.
L&O-SVU must be right on top of a Hellmouth.