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- thatgirlismine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39Actually, the interface that the girl uses in Jurassic Park was a real piece of UNIX technology. It was a 3D File system navigator that Silicon Graphics developed for its IRIX operating system, though it never really went anywhere.
Link: http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html - celticeric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32CSI has got to be the worst offender for turning grainy video into super hi-def images. Licence plates and faces magically revealed by furious typing. Everytime I see that in a movie or TV shows, suspension of disbelief is thrown out the window.
- TiMMY8765, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31it doesn't matter, duggmirror gets the referrer and automatically sends you to the correct page
(I just wish duggmirror would mirror all 3 pages) - KayMan2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29I don't understand where Jurassic Parks fits on a list about inaccurate portyals of technology on film. Yes, the "I this... its a Unix system!" line is a bit corny and grossly incorrect, but the character was like 13yo! The software used to navigate the file system really does exist and the computer really was *nix based (actually, Silicon Graphics' IRIX - which ran Jurassic Park's rendering machines). Technology is portyed in Jurrasic Park much better than most movies not on this list, shall we mention "The Net"?, Besides, the movie is science fiction based, which violates the websites own rules!
Bogus. - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28I always thought "The Net" with Sandra Bullock was far worse than "Hackers" I mean please
"All I have to do to undo all your changes is to hit ESC" which coincidentally was the trigger for a virus that would become resident just by inserting a floppy to mess up an entire secured shadow network? - jhuebel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28It begs the question: Why doesn't digg simply include a duggmirror link for every post? It would make things easier for users and would be gentler on webmasters who get dugg to death.
- otterpdp, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32I KNOW UNIX! rofl
- topher1078, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Where is Independence Day? I thought inserting a virus (using a Mac, no less) into an alien spacecraft was just notoriously bad tech. I mean, Bonjour's good and all, but it's not that good.
- dangerboy13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Yeah, duggmirror, except for the fact that it is spread over multiple pages.
- LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17For those having problems accessing the pages:
10) Wargames - 1983
9) The Italian Job - 2003
8) Antitrust - 2001
7) Hackers - 1995
6) Transporter 2 - 2005
5) Swordfish - 2001
4) Goldeneye - 1995
3) Mission: Impossible - 1996
2) Jurassic Park - 1993
1) Firewall - 2006 - pritch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Agreed. I want whatever photoshop plugins they've got on CSI.
- TheWriteGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13This is a great (and hilarious) list, but The NET is not on it??
- thwackitechnica, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Swordfish better be on that list (can't tell, page 1 only). If casting John Travolta as a hacker and designing a virus in 3d doesn't get you disgraced on the internet, nothing should.
I don't care if Halle Berry's topless.
Well, I don't care enough. - ClearCaseMan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I love it. all the favs right there. :)
- IAmTheWhale, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11What about TV shows? 24 comes to mind...
Jack (driving in a suburban many miles away): "Chloe, open me a socket and send it to my screen."
Chloe (@ CTU): "But Jack, I'm too busy playing with myself and you're being very rude!"
Jack: "Look, Chloe, JUST DO IT, okay?" Click. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"“Breaking into the Pentagon computer… double click on “yes…” Oh, password protected! 20 billion possible chances… eh… JEFF… Hey!”
“How did you know?! How did you know it’d be ‘Jeff’?”
“Ah, I knew there’d be a back door.”
In films, there’s always a back door.
“The guy who made the software, you see? He left a back door, so that he could get back in when he wanted, and look around, and look at all the missiles, and go, (creepily) “Ooh!” and put one on his head. The guy who made the software was called Jeff Jeffty Jeff, born on the first of Jeff 19Jeffty Jeff, so I put in Jeff, and hey!”"
Izzard rules - xswag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Great list but the Jurassic Park mention should have been replaced by "The Net".
- jhuebel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Simply linking to duggmirror from the comments section of a post will automatically redirect you to the right site mirror. You don't have to specify the long URL as mrASSMAN says.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10chit, it bloody hit the digg effect
- LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They're including only mundane plots, so no sci-fi.
- swei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6sci-fi genre is not eligible to be on the list ;)
- EdLesMann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"SSH was abandoned in 2008 after it was shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals"
sheesh...I dont even want to know what telnet does to people then... - tominabox1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Funny how site has a "digg this" but cant stand it if it gets dugg... Whatever, The mirror has a couple but I'm hoping that "The Core" is number one. That movie has THE WORST technology I've ever seen. So much in fact that I've played the drinking game (one shot per bad science/technology).
- strictlybogart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5ah ah ah. you didn't say the magic word.
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5mirror only works for the first page (at least for me).
- Ensnared, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The list was somewhat decent, up until the #2 spot.
"Where on this planet is there a 10 year old girl who knows and can understand UNIX?!?"
What - they mean as opposed to the multitude of islands on the planet filled with live dinosaurs?
It's quite astounding - not only did they put the movie at #2 for that one scene and nothing else than that one scene, they actually missed the entire point of why the scene is absurd. Apparently is's something they read once, and they just swallowed it. The fact that a 10 year old girl "knows Unix" isn't why the scene is absurd - if you can't figure it out, you really shouldn't put it up as #2 on such a list.
And no, it's not the 3D file-manager either - everyone knows that's a real piece of software. - Xeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Disclosure?
- Lyianis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You can dogde anything as long and the person shooting sucks enough :P
- euphoriadj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah I didn't get that
Why the heck isn't the worst tech movie ever there? - pritch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4SledgY, SSH was abandoned in 2008 after it was shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
- isthisnametaken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4what about the part in swordfish when they are transfering money to the banks and the money counts up? They always do that in movies, I could imagine a bank making 1 million $1 transactions....
- millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I guess no one remembers Demi Moore "hacking" into a database in Disclosure. Apperently, when someone hacks into a computer, a virtual reality ghost of them haunts the system...
- radison2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Is there a way to get it to play itself?
YES! Number of players ZERO!! - carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6that doesn't mean it wasn't pretty inacurrate in portrayal of tech. it was a very cool movie though
- Moscube717, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Enhance (clickity clickety)....enhance (clickety click)....enhance (clickety)....enhance....
- starnix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The Core (2003) easily tops Firewall...
- 4815162342, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3LOL i remember thinking the exact same thing about the iPod scene when I was watching Firewall. I was wondering if the people around me in the theater believed that what he was doing was actually possible.
- zenmeta4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can't believe that niether Weird Science or Electric Dreams made the list.
- LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nah, not the worst technology, but certainly the worst science.
- GhostToon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That Core would be Sci-Fi
- GhostToon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Whats the movie with Michal Douglass and Catherine Zita Jones where she sexually harassed him then frames him and he has to go the companies virtual reality data base to copy a file?
- dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Bah to their idea of Sci-Fi films not qualifying...
Johnny Mnemonic.
There I said it.
A man who has a 20 GB drive implanted in his head, who doubles it to 40 GB and will die in 24 hours because it's too much data in his head. Come on! We could do a helmet made of 4GB flash chips that could be quadruple that, and probably be USB compatible as well. Beat that Keanu!
Also, Strange Days was pretty out there. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3While I'm waiting for the site to come back up after seeing page one of the diggmirror.... two movies to comment on:
Most *realistic * portrayal of computers I've seen yet: "Hannibal" People in this movie use real computers running real software and even seeing real web pages all the way through, and the computers were neither fantasized nor focused on, just matter-of-factly used.
Best fantasy interface I'd like to see: Tom Cruise's system from "Minority Report". Man, that thing was sophisticated, and yet it all made good sense - the motions with his hands co-ordinated logically with what was going on onscreen the whole time.
Do do do do do....nope, still down! - leva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Makes you wonder how this warps the average Joe's perception of what can and can't happen with computers. Or technology in general. It's hard to get drawn into a movie with these kinds of screw ups. Its almost as if they are intentional. Actors are usually well paid, and most (I hope) know how to use a computer, so why is this issue never raised during filming? Makes it hard to take a movie seriously sometimes.
radison2, just saw it this weekend and WTF! I would of never thought that.. - strictlybogart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3c'mon -- "The only way to win is not to play."
- Saiing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I used to be good friends with the designer who created a number of the interfaces mentioned in this story (although I won't mention which ones). There are a number of companies that specialize in the business of "videographics" as they tend to call it in the industry. Interestingly enough he's also a very good programmer and probably knows a lot more about tech than the average person.
It's just that the studios and particularly the movie directors don't want a flashing unix command prompt, or a bog standard XP desktop. This is the movies. The interfaces are designed to look exciting on a big screen, not be realistic. If everything had to be real, half the stunts in action movies wouldn't be allowed either. - ADent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What abour Electric Deams ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087197/ )
"Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after a having champagne spilled down on him. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, how the computer calls himself, fall in love with Madeline, an attractive neighbour." - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8jhuebel, create a new greasemonkey userscript and add this as the code:
// ==UserScript==
// @name mirrored by DuggMirror
// @namespace http://cannedlaughter.net/2006/05/28/duggmirror-greasemonkey-script/
// @description Adds a link to DuggMirror on every digg news item.
// @include http://digg.com/*
// @include http://www.digg.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
var diggs = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
for (i = 0; i http://duggmirror.com/";
a.innerHTML = "DuggMirror";
a.className = "tool";
a.target = "_blank";
diggs[i].insertBefore(a, diggs[i].getElementsByTagName('span')[0].nextSibling);
}
}
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The original author has shutdown his website since he made it.. so the script isn't publically available anymore.. anyway I fixed the code to work better with the new version of Digg - raptormn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ohhh i remember one
"The Core"
with Zena tapes and hot pockets he can hack anything - Eccohawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"We can't hack it! It has a phoenix shield!"
"The cisco systems are self-defending!" -
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