World Domination… one day at a time

I was watching CSI:Miami last night and found myself having to show considerable restraint in not shouting at the screen whenever they did anything in the lab on a computer.

Now don’t get me wrong, I realise that it’s a work of fiction. I know that it’s glamorised for TV. I know it’s heavily laden with absolute techno-bollocks, but sometimes it’s just offensively turd.

Take their lovely animated desktop background on the lab computers with its swirly green stuff going on while they’re looking at cryptic blog posts in super-large type - that would drive any real human mad within minutes of use.

What really got me, however, is that they were immediately able to access the data used by a pretend blogging service and figure out what IP a particular post came from based only on the time of the post.

Fair enough, you might think, and indeed I could have let that slide, but then they used their “solve crime now” button to do a reverse IP lookup and resolve the IP address back to an email address. Not an individual network access point or even an individual computer - a specific email address. What the…?
OK, so it’s only a TV programme and they need to make computers look glamorous and whizz-bang to Joe Public, but that’s just turd. Turdy turd turd.

I’m not even going to touch on the fact that the IP address began with three hundred and something…

Then again, I think they’ve got some more fundamental issues that they need to address first, like shooting whoever writes David Carusso’s script in the face with a large calibre handgun. If he does the “stand in profile, deliver half a line, tilt head forward, put on sunglasses, deliver bloody awful punchline” thing one more time I may have to punch something. Or someone.

Oh well, hopefully there’ll be new series of the vastly superior Vegas and NY variants on the idiot box to appease me soon.

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