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#26 2012-05-21 20:07:40
- soupoftomato
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Re: Computers in movies - Seriously?
stevetheipad wrote:
I know what you mean!
Family/kids movies tend to show computers as this giant button panel where you can just press a button and hack through a Government site.
On Doctor Who government passwords are unreasonably simple.
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#27 2012-05-21 20:16:37
- jji7skyline
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Re: Computers in movies - Seriously?
soupoftomato wrote:
stevetheipad wrote:
I know what you mean!
Family/kids movies tend to show computers as this giant button panel where you can just press a button and hack through a Government site.On Doctor Who government passwords are unreasonably simple.
In many other movies as well. So funny xD
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#28 2012-05-22 15:28:17
Re: Computers in movies - Seriously?
It would be kind of dumb if they showed REALISTIC programming/hacking, though - hours of typing unintelligible letters and commands into dull black and white screen.
Though if you look up "Scenes That Prove Hollywood Doesn't Get Technology" and pick the first one (I can't link because it has bad words), it does have some truly terrible scenes. Cop shows like NCIS are especially bad, mostly due to the thing where they zoom in on a photograph and it changes angles and/or has a one zillion pixel resolution.
As for the government passwords being really easy: http://blogs.canada.com/2012/02/08/syri … ord-12345/
http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.cfm
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#29 2012-05-22 15:48:56
Re: Computers in movies - Seriously?
sparks wrote:
Think about all the bad press robots get in the media! If you study robotics people instantly start saying "oh, you'll probably be the one that brings on robot Armageddon, then!". Which is foolish because they get the movie version of robots with guns and such, not the real versions that can barely walk
Exactly. >:I
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#31 2012-05-22 16:19:05
- GameHutSoftware
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Re: Computers in movies - Seriously?
soupoftomato wrote:
stevetheipad wrote:
I know what you mean!
Family/kids movies tend to show computers as this giant button panel where you can just press a button and hack through a Government site.On Doctor Who government passwords are unreasonably simple.
Ah, yes. I remember that.
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#32 2012-05-22 16:28:25
- maxskywalker
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Re: Computers in movies - Seriously?
Lolkid332 wrote:
stevetheipad wrote:
I know what you mean!
Family/kids movies tend to show computers as this giant button panel where you can just press a button and hack through a Government site.+1
I agree, though I'd also say that the button could call a function or class in which the rest of the code is in. Though you also don't need (or want) to use a button for that. Use the console. GUI if you somehow don't like the keyboard, and yet managed to hack into some ultra-high-security system. Or better yet, just run it from the main function and double-click!
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#34 2012-05-22 16:54:34
- GameHutSoftware
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Re: Computers in movies - Seriously?
maxskywalker wrote:
Lolkid332 wrote:
stevetheipad wrote:
I know what you mean!
Family/kids movies tend to show computers as this giant button panel where you can just press a button and hack through a Government site.+1
I agree, though I'd also say that the button could call a function or class in which the rest of the code is in. Though you also don't need (or want) to use a button for that. Use the console. GUI if you somehow don't like the keyboard, and yet managed to hack into some ultra-high-security system. Or better yet, just run it from the main function and double-click!
You're going way too deep into it.
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#35 2012-05-22 17:16:39
- maxskywalker
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Re: Computers in movies - Seriously?
GameHutSoftware wrote:
maxskywalker wrote:
Lolkid332 wrote:
+1I agree, though I'd also say that the button could call a function or class in which the rest of the code is in. Though you also don't need (or want) to use a button for that. Use the console. GUI if you somehow don't like the keyboard, and yet managed to hack into some ultra-high-security system. Or better yet, just run it from the main function and double-click!
You're going way too deep into it.
What? I am incapable of making distinctions about this 'depth' in such a subject.
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