http://www.cracked.com/article_19160_8-scenes-that-prove-hollywood-doesnt-get-technology.html
Oh, Jesus. Watch the Second Life chase scene. How could anyone write something so stupid?

Well, that scene did come from CSI, which is one of the stupidest shows ever put to television.

Except for all the other shows mentioned here.

Which is why I haven't watched television since, oh, 2001 or so.

There's some good stuff on there. It's just that I wait for it all to pop up on Netflix, so I can always avoid the bad.

^This. This is why my wife will never throw the PS3 at my head like she does my computer.

It was friday afternoon and they wanted to be paid then get the fuck away from a place that would accept shit like that

No. No there is not. I have seen the lineup of shows available for nearly the last decade. So, so terrible.

With the exception of most of Farscape. And parts of Firefly.

It's kinda funny how when you're watching a show dealing with something you know nothing about, it ends up sounding pretty credible and the acting is so serious and convincing. Then the show turns to deal with something you're familiar with... and it all sounds like the made up hogwash it is and you wonder why the actors aren't laughing from the lines they're saying.

I love it when in the cop shows they have a blurry pixelated shot from a security camera, and the cop asks the tech guy to clean it up and voila! All the giant pixels are gone and a number or a name can be read in perfect detail. I wonder if these shows actually help deter crime, by making would-be criminals think the cops have these high tech equipment that can do what you see on the show and give you perfect results in less than 24 hours.

Believe it or not, in some trials it's actually making it easier for the crook to get away.

"Officer, why didn't you just suck the DNA out of the air using a multi-spectral sonograph?"
"You're fucking retarded, jury member who thinks they know everything because they watched CSI."
"No, you're wrong, this man is obviously innocent!"

That's paraphrasing actual court cases.

People can be amazingly stupid.

Until they canceled it, The Cape was actually a pretty good watch. Didn't take itself too seriously, a really good set of villains, allies that were grey enough to be interesting. Just in general a well thought out and creative superhero series.

It's unfortunate that they didn't give it the time to find an audience. It's also unfortunate because it's one of the only shows I've gotten into right off the bat lately. See if they trick me like that again. One of the awesome things about civil trials here is that the jurors get to submit questions for witnesses.

I must defend one of my favorite shows NCIS. I can't defend the first of its two appearances however. As for the second I can partially defend. In that episode McGee, the guy that asks if it's a 12 core found her at a laser tag building when investigating the use of a stolen credit card. When he finds her and realizes she's the queen of gaming, they geek it all up. Him being a super geek on the show naturally figures the top dog's custom rig would be top of the line so he asks if it's a 12 core. As for her being able to hold all the other scores simultaneously, well that was just stupid.

As far as the Hackers movie goes, I'm surprised they did't just point out how the entire plot was idiotic. In 1995, there was no way a school computer lab Mac LC line could be used to hack into the school's sprinkler system. The school's system would be running on a closed circuit. Using regular public payphones for dial-up access or the main plot where oil tankers way out of range of any internet access for which wi-fi wasn't used commercially until 1999 could be controlled and made to capsize. Even if it were 2011, how the hell can you send a command to capsize a boat?

I still enjoyed Hackers despite the stupidity.

Now now, lets be fair. That was one of the most believable things in the movie. Anyone could rig an explosive to a key logger with a cellular arming system. Just that it would cost more than it would be worth in most cases. :)

I guess the old old crime way of detonating by radio control nearby wasn't Apple approved.

Good i don't watch CSI. But the "enhance the image" routine regularly seen on TV shows really pisses me off. I think once You've seen the Lawnmower Man and Matrix [yeah, i know] You just don't care anymore.

My thinking was that they wanted to insure that the person was near the explosive when it went off, hence the linked to a key logger.