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Scorpion Brings the Stupidest, Most Batshit Insane Hacker Scene Ever

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On the other end of the spectrum, while still simplified and exaggerated, there is "Person of Interest".

They _must_ have some decent technical consultants for the show because they rarely do the Hollywood style of UI and everything has a certain consistency throughout the production. They take technology terms and mostly use them correctly - most recently building a "mesh network" over NYC for private voip communication with "rolling encryption" using existing UHF TV antennae on rooftops (UHF covering up to 3GHz - standard wifi being 2.4GHz).

Could that actually be done? Dunno, maybe - probably not as simply or quickly as shown, but still, it shows effort.

well, in the promos they showed briefly somebody pointing at a kid playing chess against somebody saying "kid's a genius; he's checkmated a chess master in 8 moves", which is beyond ridiculous even against a coffee player.

Don't understand why people seem to think being good at chess is directly correlated with being smart. Chess is just a game that you can get better at through practice like any other game, you can be average in all other respects but still be a great chess player. Sure lots of smart people like chess, but lots of different kinds of people like lots of things. Guy I went to school with was dumb as a rock but was ranked among the top Junior league chess players in the country or something like that cause he was awesome at the game.

Even Bobby Fischer(who reportedly had an "astronomical" IQ), and is considered to be one of the best if not the best player ever, developed his phenomenal skill through countless hours of practice and devotion because he was utterly obsessed with the game - upon beating almost the entire Soviet team singlehandedly at the world tournament, one of the players remarked that Bobby put more time into chess than the entire team combined.

It isn't really something where you have to be intelligent to do it like advanced math or physics and whatnot.

Hardly surprising when you consider this is the executive producer of the show:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Brien

His talk about himself and Scorpion at Global Wealth Summit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeVVSr6Xx60

Only in Hollywood would a person like this become successful. I was certain at first that wiki page had to be a joke, but the video is even worse. This guy is completely full of it.

fake it till you make it I guess?

haha, I just tried to post this. I going to check if it was already posted but I figured HN had that part figured out to avoid duplicates. Just took me right to this post, solid solution.

Anyway, thought this was hilarious. The video is so nuts that I think it is a little funnier if you read the little writeup first. Just to give context to why they are hanging an ethernet cable out of the bottom of a 747. :)

And this, kids, is why we desperately need to teach computing in school.

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