Ha! How long would it take for the writers to find out what would be required to actually trace an IP addy? I'm sure CBS has an IT department: give those guys a call and pick their brains a little. Is that not doable?

I'll make you a command-line interface using fortran, this will certainly sound smart and technical. Duuuurrrrrr.

"Get me some lettuce, and I'll count to potato, then we'll find grandma." Epic win!

That's so hilarious. Why do they add so many details that just sound stupid? She could have just said "I'll see if I can trace the IP" or whatever. I guess they thought they'd sound all tech savvy.

Reminds me of that clip from the show Life where someone hid his secret Excel spreadsheets in a videogame, but you could only access them by playing really well. Anyone know which vid I'm talking about? I searched like crazy but can't find it.

'tis in the deadpool: http://www.videosift.com/video/TV-still-has-no-fcking-idea-how-games-work
also http://www.videosift.com/video/TV-has-no-idea-about-games-2-CSINY-Second-Life-battle

Complete crap.

EVERYTHING'S got a gooey interface. Some more gooey than others.

tard buckets

Honestly though... this was 'scripted' for people like me... that sounded pretty fancy to me... I mean i have no idea what she is talking about...

Upvote for counting to potato on its own, no need to even watch the video!

That was pure gibberish...

>> ^Januari:
Honestly though... this was 'scripted' for people like me... that sounded pretty fancy to me... I mean i have no idea what she is talking about...


Noone has. GUI is an acronym for Graphical User Interface, IE the buttons, windows and stuff you see in Windows is the GUI of Windows.

Visual Basic is a simplified programming language, and it can actually be used to create GUI's but it makes no sense to do so to track an IP. Its a bit like changing the windscreen to get your car started.

Yeah that'll work - Actually better yet, save time and download the internet to a floppy.

The best Graphical User Interfaces are the ones that are interfaces! I refuse to use GUIs that are not interfaces!

Incidentally the last version of Visual Basic was released in 98...

>> ^gwiz665:
Incidentally the last version of Visual Basic was released in 98...


Yes and no. Today, Visual Basic is distributed in the Visual Studio packages.

Oh, and I upvoted this for the "tits" word balloon that shows up at 10 seconds.

Yeah, I just installed VB 2008 Express. I have been using VB6 forever.

And hell, I would shoot over to my linux box for any IP fun to be had.

Product placement.

they want to sound technical so they use the word "basic"?????

by the way, i love putting the G in GUI, it's my job, i always wanted to do one of those hollywood codebreaking GUI's with the spinning wireframe globes and the warping hexagons and the numbers going clackety clack like a fruit machine, inexplicably rendered in an oldskool LCD style typeface.

"Its a bit like changing the windscreen to get your car started."

Epic win.

*terrible

Adding video to channels (Terrible) - requested by MarineGunrock.

I hate when the writers of TV shows use a book of Mad Libs for their script.

"I'll use the JAVA to find an ABIST to track down the PENIS."

I wish I could upvote the summary too

Would not have up voted this vid without the summary. Nicely done.

"They've penetrated our code walls. They're stealing the Internet!"
"We'll need to hack all IPs simultaneously."

i love making graphical user interface interfaces

I say for punishment, we make the writers of the show write the rest of the season using VI. That'll teach 'em.

It's frickin CSI. They can't even represent crime scene investigation properly and it's their namesake.

DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I CODE DIAMONDS WITH MY CUPCAKE!

It's so ridiculous I had to watch 50 times.

Hey there smarty pants, it's "vi" in fact it won't run or even be recognizable as "VI".

>> ^joedirt:
Hey there smarty pants, it's "vi" in fact it won't run or even be recognizable as "VI".


This is true. It's been so long since I've used it.

CAN'T STOP WATCHING THIS! I need a GUI interface in VB patch, or maybe some gum.

They could have just downloaded Visual Route. - it even gives you a graph of all the hops!

Because in order to trace an IP you have to have an IP to trace.

But you can use Pomcry application to scan a network, or subnetwork to find active hosts.

or you can use Wire Shark and etterCap to make yourself you computer the router.. and see all traffic coming through that router (This is called Man in the Middle).

EDIT: upon watching again... it gets even more stupid. All they had to do is look at the blog's posting logs.. and find the computes IP address. Then trace it, and after that they have to figure out if the person is behind Seven Proxies or using a public computer. Because then it could be impossible to track them down.

^i love how this thread ended.

lmao at the annotation!

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Wow. Mind. Blown. http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/f2i7t/ive_written_for_tv_shows_like_csi_and_numbers/

It's so meta. I think I'm in love.

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