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Stupidest hacking clip ever?

Bob2002

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Apparently this is the most ridiculous scene ever -

So Scorpion debuted last night on CBS, bringing us the thrilling tale of "geniuses" who help DHS by setting up wifi access points in restaurants. Yes, that is a true plot point. It all leads to this scene, whose true meaning I will unfold for you so that you can appreciate the full amazing awfulness.

All you need to know about the main character is that he's a genius who is "on software," which means he tells people things like "open your email and click the link." He has trouble communicating his emotions because he's a geek who only understands machines, and he has a dusty warehouse space that's shared by a tough hardware expert, a hat-wearing psychology master, and a nerdy "human calculator."

This week, the DHS brings him an emergency! There is a bug in the local airport's software and now 200 planes are going to crash if he doesn't do something! So he decides that the best thing to do is reboot from a backup version (yes that is the ACTUAL SUPER ELITE HIGH TECH THING HE'S DOING). But where is the backup? Ohhhh, it turns out EVERY PLANE has it, and if only they could download it from one of the planes, everybody could land and nobody would crash. The only way to get that backup, though, is USING AN ETHERNET CABLE DANGLED OUT OF THE BOTTOM OF THE PLANE AND PLUGGED INTO HIS LAPTOP.

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99% of TV is drivel.
Worse still, this appears to be something from Plankland, and you can make that 99.99% for their tripe.
I'm so glad mine went in the bin some years ago.
 
I agree, I just tend to have a rolling news channel running in the background on my desktop(often with the sound off), don't watch "normal" channels. If there's a Sky at Night or a good Horizon(fewer and fewer) I might watch that, but that's about all.

Back when we only had a few channels people thought that more channels equalled more quality programmes being made but the reality is the extra broadcasting space has just been filled up with more programming of lower, and lower, quality. As I've said before I believe Internet broadcasting is the future, where everyone can watch programmes tailored to their special interests.

Sentup you might be interested in edX, free university courses from around the world on many different topics - you can just sign up and watch the lectures without committing to the study portion of the course, there is also iTunesU(can install iTunes under Wine if necessary). :)
 
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edX - interesting idea, but I think I'm a little past the learning lark nowadays.
Over the last few years I have wound down considerably, and when I'm not forcing my brain to work overtime digging out the murky secrets of the family's past, I'd rather do the complete opposite and just totally relax - maybe read a good novel, or if my legs are having a good day jump on a bus heading out of London and go for a daydreamy country stroll (as I did today), anything which allows me to stop thinking about the serious side of life.

Oh - and on clicking a sample course, "Terrorism and Counterterrorism" for more detail, I'm disappointed to find that it won't teach me how to become a top-notch terrorist anyway, so that's not a lot of use, is it? ;)

iTunesU I have not heard of - will take a look at it later, but I suspect from the "U" in the name that it will also be something that would involve me having to switch the information absorbing part of the brain on - I try not to use that too much these days, it's getting a bit worn out.
 
Boeing 747 10ft off the ground, fast car matching its speed.. and an Ethernet cable. Seems perfectly plausible to me, except that guy is way too fat to squeeze through the planes wheel bay and the runway should have ended 3 minutes earlier. At least it's more interesting than the cyber-espionage plot points of at least 50% of action movies produced in the last decade, which usually involve one teenager or several individuals "hacking" an entire country, planet, bank or some such.

If movies are going to do this stuff seriously they should focus on the state surveillance and espionage side, with a James Bond style twist, where you have buildings with thousands of people all trying to work out how to break into each others World of Warcraft accounts or steal ISK from Russian EVE Online players.
 
I thought the most realistic part was the Ferrari spinning its wheels at 160mph+
 
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