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[–] 21 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

I'm like this when something gets very basic technology wrong.

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  • [–] 15 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    “I’ll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic. See if I can track down the IP Address”

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  • [–] 15 points 11 hours ago* (1 child)

    I'd like to see a cop show that applies that level of writing to guns.


    A: What can you tell me about the bullet you recovered from the victim?

    B: It's a handgun round, caliber 9x19 inch, solid steel frangible hollow-point. Fired with a muzzle velocity of 100 joules, one of these can punch through an inch of hardened RHA like wet toilet paper.

    A: 100 joules?! Jesus Christ, that's enough to kill someone!

    B: Exactly. This is the kind of bullet only a professional would use. Thankfully the firing pin left an imprint on the bullet; if we can find the shop that sold the gun they can tell us who fired it.

    A: Only one shop in LA carries weapons that powerful. Let's go.

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  • [–] 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

    With scenes like that and the 'two characters typing on the same keyboard to hack faster' one, I'm 90% sure it's just the writers having fun and seeing what they can get away with. Long-running formulaic shows must be boring as hell to write for, so I can understand the impulse.

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