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Re:Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics by jshort on Monday January 09, 2012 @01:06PM (#3443552)
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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Re:Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics by extension on Monday January 09, 2012 @01:18PM (#3443592)
Sadly, they overlooked the detail that most people in Victorian England actually didn't know kung-fu.
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Re:Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics by Umofomia on Monday January 09, 2012 @01:29PM (#3443637)
Holmes did know martial arts in the original stories: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu
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Re:Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics by darylteo on Monday January 09, 2012 @05:56PM (#3444715)
Well... TIL.

Thank you.

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Re:Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics by FuzzyDunlop on Monday January 09, 2012 @07:43PM (#3445086)
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)

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Re:Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics by aorshan on Monday January 09, 2012 @04:12PM (#3444278)
Did you ever notice that in movies, people almost never use a mouse? That's always bothered me.
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Re:Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics by jiggy2011 on Monday January 09, 2012 @04:36PM (#3444384)
it's because they all use xmonad and emacs.
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Re:Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics by endtime on Monday January 09, 2012 @04:22PM (#3444313)
I think Trinity actually uses nmap in one of the Matrix movies...
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Re:Sherlock Holmes averts world war using mathematics by judofyr on Monday January 09, 2012 @04:25PM (#3444326)
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.
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