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You been drinking tonight?
Read much?
I watched it a few weeks back and I liked it. Compared to other shows/movies they at least made an attempt at being somewhat accurate and I appreciated that. They did fictionalize some things for sake of story and "wow" factor but it's stuff that could be overlooked. When they showed an IP address that had an octet larger than 255 I was like "oh boy" but I'm sure that was for legal reasons.
The only thing I didn't like is that I found the lead character to be somewhat unbelievable. Maybe if you've met someone with a similar personality it can draw from that, I never have. So you've got these fairly realistic references to tech but you've got a character that I just can't identify with at all.
But that's episode one. Usually takes a few episodes to make a character.
Thread title not clear enough, got my dick stuck in a hard drive bay
You too?!
Just like 555 phone numbers. Although RFC 5737 does specify IPv4 ranges for documentation.
Yeah that desktop environment part was super cringey
As a kid growing up in the UK the only US number I knew was off die hard 555-2491...
I still say the movie Hackers is the most realistic portrayal.......of Angelina Jolie's boobs
I totally WTF at this thread, but you seem to have a vivid imagination, you should write erotic fiction. ^^
555-3226 for me
Heroin junkies cant code
Nice...I never knew that.
@ItsChrisG Your the only true serial rapist.
Perhaps they take a more relaxed approach while building their framework?
Actually a lot of people are like that in this Internet world of ours! I know several that are like that or similar!
In fact, his character reminded me of someone specifically all the way down to the snuffing of morphine and description of his feelings/thoughts - made it seem pretty real/good to me then.
Though I do hate the whole 'anon' aspect they are trying to pitch on him, makes him seem like a bit of a bitch.
As somebody who shares some of these aspects - notably the loneliness, because of other people failing to understand the reason behind your decisions - and knowing some other even more similar people... I can say that their portrayal of his character is disturbingly accurate. Possibly the most accurate portrayal of this state of mind that I've ever come across.
Mr. Robot was very good imho. At least the first episode. Will see how it goes. They got me hooked.
The main character suffers from an anti-social disorder. That's why he's in therapy. It's clinical. Not just garden variety introvert.
Will see where they go with that. It could be that everything including that secret hacker society and the guys in black suits following him are just his imagination. A lot of different ways they can go.
Quite possible he grows on me a lot more. If I think about it, there's been more than a few first episodes where the characters really turn me off but I keep watching, 2-3 episodes in and I'm all in.
Maybe if they show weed creative card can be played, but heroin? I grow up in a ghetto like neighbourhood in the times where that drug was popular, one heroin junkie take my pocket money on several occasions before we send him to jail and another one which lives on the block next to shcool die and i know a guy which brother die from overdose... I can guarantee when they was high drugs make them slow on the brains, best idea idea they got to make money for the drug was to take several teenagers pocket money, sell their moms video player or take cars radios, nothing creative or sophisticated...
Heroin? He was doing morphine, its different
Just watched it. I dug it. The desktop environment scene's dialogue was super cringe-y.
It is one molecule difference...
Not so much. Just less of a high (morphine).
Heroin is simply morphine with an acetyl molecule attached. They are both converted to the same form of morphine when they get into the body. The only significant difference between them is that the acetyl molecule allows heroin to cross the blood-brain barrier more quickly than ordinary morphine. The result is that, in terms of dosage, heroin is about three times stronger. Heroin is illegal simply because of plain old legislative ignorance of the subject.
I was thinking maybe they could use an IP address assigned to them by ARIN, but then I did a lookup for USANetwork.com and realized they use Amazon AWS/EC2 to host their website.
Wait a second. You mean to tell me a mainstream TV show's narrative fiction got it wrong re: something approximating a believable 'desktop environment'? I'll watch anything with Christian Slater, though, even if he's portraying some cheesy caricature of a hacker villain. Impossible for him to do any wrong after Heathers.
EDIT: Why not name the rootkit Castration Anxiety ?
OMG!!!!! This shows Cliffhangers are driving me crazy!!!! Can't wait till next Wednesday now!
But I got to say they do a very good job at keeping you watching.
Dude, do what I just did. Get really drunk and rent Ex Machina on iTunes. It'll fuck with your head.
I'm already drunk so Step 1 = Complete.