yeah some of us do use the command line or keyboard shortcuts an awful lot, even for things most people would use a mouse for, but TV still manages to make it that little bit too much too be believable on occasion.
There is also the issue where anyone doing something technical and fancy, like hacking or breaking codes, usually has a big fancy display with lots of mysterious fancy graphics (Swordfish a particular offender here), when this is exactly the sort of thing that is done with a plain command line most of the time.
Weirdest example of them getting it sort of *right* - in Matrix 2, trinity breaks into a computer using an actual, real, known exploit to break in, and using (one real, one fictitious but plausible) command line tools to exploit it - which is just hilarious, becaue it would be realistic except she is just about doing a somersault as she types it in two seconds or something, making it still hilariously unrealistic.
Also, people that are supposed to be evil geniuses, or even the worlds smartest man (in Watchmen) seem completely ignorant of basic computer security, like choosing a good password.
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:55 am (UTC)There is also the issue where anyone doing something technical and fancy, like hacking or breaking codes, usually has a big fancy display with lots of mysterious fancy graphics (Swordfish a particular offender here), when this is exactly the sort of thing that is done with a plain command line most of the time.
Weirdest example of them getting it sort of *right* - in Matrix 2, trinity breaks into a computer using an actual, real, known exploit to break in, and using (one real, one fictitious but plausible) command line tools to exploit it - which is just hilarious, becaue it would be realistic except she is just about doing a somersault as she types it in two seconds or something, making it still hilariously unrealistic.
Also, people that are supposed to be evil geniuses, or even the worlds smartest man (in Watchmen) seem completely ignorant of basic computer security, like choosing a good password.