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<blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 5334542" data-attributes="member: 11437"><p>My turn.</p><p></p><p>Computers as represented in TV and movies. I don't believe there is ANYTHING more grossly misrepresented in entertainment. If you watch practically ANY show with a computer in it (I'm looking specifically at Smallville, 24, CSI, and so forth), people can do CRAZY OUTLANDISH things with a computer, things that would take hours AT BEST -- with a few keystrokes and BOOM here's the traffic camera in another city check it out!</p><p></p><p>Sidebar: Actual computer users only use the keyboard when typing their Twitter messages and Facebook statuses. They use a mouse for clicking buttons and so forth. Yes, I understand that watching someone furiously typing away on a keyboard is more INTERESTING and EXCITING than someone quietly clicking a mouse button, but c'mon...</p><p></p><p>anyhoo, back to the main topic. Hackers, even the best of them, have to spend HOURS to hack into major government and corporate systems. And these are people who spend their lives hacking. The people represented on these shows are hardly the sort who seem like they spend their lives in their mom's basement reading UNIX manuals and trolling black hat forums for new code. It strains even the barest shred of credulity when some runway model sits down in front of a computer, types three letters and boom, here's the backdoor to the Pentagon's anti terrorism database.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Insight, post: 5334542, member: 11437"] My turn. Computers as represented in TV and movies. I don't believe there is ANYTHING more grossly misrepresented in entertainment. If you watch practically ANY show with a computer in it (I'm looking specifically at Smallville, 24, CSI, and so forth), people can do CRAZY OUTLANDISH things with a computer, things that would take hours AT BEST -- with a few keystrokes and BOOM here's the traffic camera in another city check it out! Sidebar: Actual computer users only use the keyboard when typing their Twitter messages and Facebook statuses. They use a mouse for clicking buttons and so forth. Yes, I understand that watching someone furiously typing away on a keyboard is more INTERESTING and EXCITING than someone quietly clicking a mouse button, but c'mon... anyhoo, back to the main topic. Hackers, even the best of them, have to spend HOURS to hack into major government and corporate systems. And these are people who spend their lives hacking. The people represented on these shows are hardly the sort who seem like they spend their lives in their mom's basement reading UNIX manuals and trolling black hat forums for new code. It strains even the barest shred of credulity when some runway model sits down in front of a computer, types three letters and boom, here's the backdoor to the Pentagon's anti terrorism database. [/QUOTE]
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