Tech Experts React to Bad & Great Tech in Movies

Department of redundancy department

To be fair to NCIS, I once read that the writers know how tech works but they intentionally write in bad tech to the show in order to make an inside joke for people who know anything about tech, while still being exciting for people who don't.

he didn’t unplug the computer, he unplugged the monitor lol

Linus - "That's not even how you spell sync" Oxford english dictionary - Sync - past tense: synched; past participle: synched

Guarantee the PSU "hard drive" is because a director said "That's too small. I need something big and with cables so it looks like a computer part." Kinda like how a bomb needs to look like wires and a clock, not fertilizer and an arduino.

Wendel: Help. I've been kidnapped and forced to watch bad tech on tv.

Hollywood tends to glamorize tech in movies, leading to unrealistic representations. It's refreshing to see an in-depth analysis to counter such portrayals.

CSI: Cyber could be an episode on it's own. The best thing about CSI:C is that it made Scorpion seem like a Shakespeare/MENSA co-production.

"2 of the blinky boxes to go" probably the most accurate line of the scene!

Also shooting the control panel always makes it do the thing you want. Want the door open? Shoot the control panel. Want the door closed? Shoot the control panel.

So, as someone who has consulted on one of the projects, yes transport departments are using boxes similar to that that monitor traffic by watching for nearby Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices and counting them up. Before the bluetooth randomisation stuff, you could get an estimate of traffic speed/flow by watching the same mac address traverse a city. Now its more just about aggregate data, how long each mac is seen for, how many macs at any point, etc, to get an idea of peak and minimum traffic levels and how much a road is used.

Modern cars like new Teslas for example do actually use Bluetooth LE for the TPMS.

18:33 "Cars are the best thing... other than family" had me bust out a laugh 😂 Edit: The timestamp changed since the video was released

I know it´s old AF, but... the IT CROWD: "what OS are you using?" "It´s VISTA" "We´re gonna die"

Wendell is one of those people that knows alot, you just have to ask the right questions. Id love to just sit down and pick his brain about tech for hours.

Yes! Please do another one of these. I was shaking my head so much with each fail, it's a wonder it didn't fall off my neck.

Imagining Luke and Linus just grabbing Wendell all like "Hey can you do this video with us real quick?" makes me chuckle.

Since I was 9, my favourite scene of this kind was the girl in Jurrasic Park confidently navigating the "UNIX" system GUI at about 8fps... Until I recently found out that it actually was an accurate depiction of the File System Navigator for IRIX on SGI workstations - same machines that were used to make the CGI for the movie.

18:53 LOL - I am watching this video wearing a T-Shirt with "Department of Redundancy Department" written on it :D

Would love to see more of this. The IT Crowd with the Internet is gold.