And what kind of computer could support that many screens?!?! When I want to plug to monitors at once into my 256mb graphics card (which is way the hell better than any POS that the Swordfish computer had) it freaks out. So how could they even plausabily do that?
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Heck, I do dual monitor all the time on my laptop, with a 128MB card using native ATI drivers and have no problem at all…
The crazy ass Frankenstein monster my SO uses can run six right now without thinking twice, but then again he has two graphics cards in there on top of onboard graphics–that thing scares me a bit…
I can give this one a bye under the same rationale as all movie phone numbers being 555-XXXX–you wouldn’t want to give a real IP address onscreen, would you?
I can give this one a bye under the same rationale as all movie phone numbers being 555-XXXX–you wouldn’t want to give a real IP address onscreen, would you?
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you don’t have to give a real one, just one that looks real. when Class C and D addresses are created, whole ranges of addresses become “invalid”. Pick something that only a truly geeky person who’s got the whole subnetting theory memorized could spot. don’t go with something so blatant.
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I can give this one a bye under the same rationale as all movie phone numbers being 555-XXXX–you wouldn’t want to give a real IP address onscreen, would you?
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No, but they could have used something like 192.168.43.71.
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you don’t have to give a real one, just one that looks real. when Class C and D addresses are created, whole ranges of addresses become “invalid”. Pick something that only a truly geeky person who’s got the whole subnetting theory memorized could spot. don’t go with something so blatant.
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See, now you’re assuming the movie people have some great understanding of what they’re doing–they asked some geek friend of theirs what they oughta use, got a complicated explanation which caused blank looks and this —> so the geek just sighed and said “Make it start with 300, okay? You’ll be off the hook for lawsuits that way.” Then the movie people went like this —> and all was well…
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Heck, I do dual monitor all the time on my laptop, with a 128MB card using native ATI drivers and have no problem at all…
The crazy ass Frankenstein monster my SO uses can run six right now without thinking twice, but then again he has two graphics cards in there on top of onboard graphics–that thing scares me a bit…
I can give this one a bye under the same rationale as all movie phone numbers being 555-XXXX–you wouldn’t want to give a real IP address onscreen, would you?
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My desktop has dual monitors, I found that I ran out of screen space with my recording software so I got a dual monitor video card. What I REALLY want, but will probably put off until I get rich is a Zenview Powerscape monitor which you can see here, it’s at the bottom.::drool:: I’ll probably end up with a triple screen though.
IIRC, the X-Files and Millenium generally got the computer stuff sorta correct.
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One nice example of hacking is in Sneakers. A password needs to be found to do something or other. What do the guys do? Do they they run a counter decrypt thingy? Mirror a flash drive using a mind control device?
No. They film the guy typing his password through a window and then argue for five minutes as to whether he tped an R or a 5
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“She’s in the way!”
My dad’s problem with the movie is that they don’t have to press the phone into the cups on the modem, they just set it down and it works!
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You’ve never seen hacking until you’ve seen Chloe O’Brian from 24 hack her way into ANYTHING in a few minutes. If it wasn’t for her the world would have ended a half dozen times already.
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Yeah, that’s so unrealistic! Everyone knows girls don’t know how to hack!
It’s not really hacking, but one classic hilarious computer moment is from Revenge of the Nerds, where Gilbert, purely by typing super-fast, first converts a text-only display into graphics mode, then draws and animates cartoons, with no interface or feedback of any sort.
In at least one episode of Alias, the IP address of a computer controlled by some “evil organization” was actually displayed, and it was a real one. The address was owned by Disney.
My favorite recent example of fake hacking in movies is in Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis. The reason it’s so funny to me is that they got so close to being realistic. One person at a computer was writing code in a text editor, saved it, then ran a command from an Xterm, which started spewing out text output. It looked, for a moment, quite realistic. Until you looked at the actual text generated. It looked like this
Very obviously someone just banging away at the home row of a keyboard.
In The Matrix Reloaded, Trinity used an existing exploit tool for an actual, real-world bug in the SSH daemon, which was still unpatched on lots of machines at the time that the movie came out (and probably still today). Rather classy, that.
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Now in his defense, he might not realise that the number of screens you have is not directly proportional to the number of times you can defeat physics.
And what kind of computer could support that many screens?!?! When I want to plug to monitors at once into my 256mb graphics card (which is way the hell better than any POS that the Swordfish computer had) it freaks out. So how could they even plausabily do that?
I also doubt any super program that would defy bank security would be saved on a reel-to-reel magnetic tape computer across the country.
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At least 6 years ago a guy I worked with at PGE had a Win98 machine running 8 monitors simultaneously, just to see if it’d work.
