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by jshort 5268 days ago
I find it most annoying when a computer is used in basically any TV show or movie. The actors always look to just be tapping on the keys at random, often hitting completely irrelevant keys to the task at hand. It doesn't ruin the scene for me but it does not make it as good as it can be. The attention to detail in this film made it more enjoyable.
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Sadly, they overlooked the detail that most people in Victorian England actually didn't know kung-fu.
Holmes did know martial arts in the original stories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu
Well... TIL.

Thank you.

Extending this to the representation of current technology in TV and film, Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror[1] (particularly the first of the series) has, in my opinion, the most accurate depiction of it I've ever seen.

[1] http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/4od http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)

Did you ever notice that in movies, people almost never use a mouse? That's always bothered me.
it's because they all use xmonad and emacs.
I think Trinity actually uses nmap in one of the Matrix movies...
And she uses a program called "sshnuke" which outputs "[a]ttempting to exploit SSHv1 CRC32." Although sshnuke doesn't exist, the CRC32 exploit is real.