Iām almost surprised they havenāt adopted a standard "greeked" chunk of code by now.
āItās a Unix system. Oh boy, are we screwedā¦ā
Oooh, thatās a good idea for a random generator!
For example,
Sinisterness: |ā¦0ā¦|
Brainfuckedness: ā¦0ā¦|
Futuristicness: |ā¦0ā¦|
Zazzle: |ā¦0ā¦|
Would create random 8080 assembler, in glowly green on black. Whereas
Sinisterness: |ā¦0|
Brainfuckedness: |.0ā¦|
Futuristicness: |0ā¦|
Zazzle: |0ā¦|
would be the boot screen of an Amiga 500, and
Sinisterness: |ā¦0ā¦|
Brainfuckedness: |.0ā¦|
Futuristicness: |ā¦0ā¦|
Zazzle: |ā¦0.|
Would create something human-readable in spinning 3D starring Mick Jagger and Anthony Hopkins
Itās all a fuck ton less cringe worthy than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
Tron also did something reasonable for once. Piping ps into grep, then attempting to kill said found process. I giggled in the theaters when I saw something sensible on screen that wasnāt an animated 3d swirly effect. Apparently this guy has a preference for emacs for whatever reason.
Ha! I feel dumb, I missed the part in the post where Rob talks about the use of NMAP in the Matrix.
I think there was some real-ish code in The Social Network and Girl with a Dragon Tattoo.
I recall being pretty excited to see Apache httpd.conf files edited on-screen in The Social Network when he indeed was setting up a website.
Yeah the social network even seemed to show KDE desktops appropriate to the time when facebook was started.
The terminator watched 6502 assembler. They canāt have made that up. Somebody must have had it floating around.
There are a few services out there that let you hit any characters on the keyboard and print out code to the screen.
A quick search found http://hackertyper.net/, but Iām pretty sure Iāve seen one that letās you select between various languages. Also, you can pop up an āACCESS GRANTEDā dialog by hitting alt three times.
All real hackers keep Nullsoft Beep running in the background.
Ohhh wonderful. I think Iāll do that the next time Iām fixing my MiLās computer.
We need to Hack into Microsoft to fix your email.
After talking to a number of people with expertise in a variety of topics I have to say that we programmer types do not hold any special position when it comes to how Hollywood depicts our profession/hobby. It doesnāt matter if the subject is technical, legal, medical, business, investing, education, engineering, art, you name it. None of it is depicted accurately. And if you sit and watch a show or movie with an expert in the field they will cringe and shake their head and tell you what theyāre doing wrong, that the line just delivered was meaningless jargon or the way the person is holding the tool (or animal, or prisoner) was wrong and inviting disaster.
Back during the first season of Babylon 5, there was an episode where somebody was misusing the Gold Channel for communication back to Earth, and whoever it was was able to stop Girabaldiās console from tracing him or her. One time when Girabaldi had a trace going, and it failed, his screen went black with a blinking red rectangle at the top. I knew somebody working at Foundation Imaging at the time, and they confirmed that yes, in fact, Girabaldiās console had just undergone a Guru Meditationā¦
Yes, as a painter, it always makes me cringe to see someone in a film describe a hack painting as a masterpiece.
edit: Of course, masterpieces are expensive, but there are some really talented painters out there who very rarely get their work onscreen. Almost had an orgasm once when I saw a Wayne Thiebaud in the background of a movie.
I like to watch old war movies to see where they pretend that generic Morse code practice recordings are real messages.
I donāt remember the exact context but the funniest one I ever spotted was TWAIN documentation in Gundam Wing. Example screencap here, looks like a medical scan but I think they did it for all sorts of things.
Slightly OT: That show also featured the most awful keyboards in existence (grid square vs ā¦ fuck, I canāt remember the term but letās just say it was like a tic tac toe grid instead of what your keyboard is), an āIntel Outsideā gag, and a slew of characters named after French names for numbers.
As implausible as the scene is in Swordfish (2001) where Hugh Jackmanās character is being asked to hack into a secure network while being fellated and having a gun pointed to his head, I vaguely recall what appeared on the screen to be not entirely insulting: I think it showed him accessing an FTP client (on the command-line!) which is at least plausible considering the historically accurate security holes in FTP services.
