CSI nonsense…
First, a word about the Adobe Blogs. Adobe has really set the bar for corporate blogging. They have people evangalizing their tech, while simultaniously having a very free, personable posting style that absolutely never feels corporate. Kudos to Adobe for adopting such a great policy surrounding their blogs. But, on to more important matters:
Last night there was a scene where they are viewing survelliance tape. They stop the frame on this grainy, night shot, B/W tape, then zoom in on an area 1/1000 the size of the screen:
"There! That piece of paper. Zoom in on that" - wait for it…."See if I can enhance that…" - get ready for some magic!
"What is it a barcode?" - looks like nasty pixels to me
"Looks like a PDF 417" - LOL, ROTFL, I am enhaling carpet at this point
Gunar's Adobe Blog
I *love* how they constantly preform the technical equivlent of taking a 320×240 video stream of a pin across a football field and zoom in on the pen head and realize that there is a microscopic code imprinted on the pinhead. It's pretty simple, the data simply isn't there, you can't do it, not possible.
Another annoying thing is their complete lack of understaning of the internet. For example, in the same episode, they are able to instantly find an IP address of someone who visited a website, instantly translate that to an email address, and then instantly translate that to actual subscriber information. Two, of those three are possible, potentially, with the proper subponeas and given enough time, the third (translating an IP address to an email address) is simply impossible. Just as frustrating, is the ip address they used, 360.xxx.xxx.xxx… WOOT? did we add some extra bits to IPv4 while I wasn't looking? This is rather annoying, especially when 192.0.2.0/24 is reserved for exactly this purpose, assuming you want a non-routable IP (specifically, it's reserved for use in documentaton and examples, but this is close enough). Moreover, why not use a REAL ip address, and have it point to some hidden site with cool content (Ghristam's blog anybody?). Come on CBS, it's what Lost would do!
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