>> But then, I guess I'm one of a small band of elite experts, and the
>> general populous doesn't know this...
>
> Exactly. Grandma wouldn't know this makes no sense at all, and most
> people prefer to see a 10 year old girl "flying" over a wireframe mesh
> of the Jurassic Park building to get to the building they're in and lock
> the doors before the raptors get in than to see Trinity use bash to
> exploit a buffer overflow in ssh v1.0 and hack into the Matrix.

To some extent, I can feel the script-writer's dilemma. Watching 
somebody *actually* hack a computer is very uninteresting. There isn't 
really much to see.

This, however, is absolutely no excuse for inserting random gibberish 
into dialogue just because you think nobody will know you're talking 
nonsense. That's just lazy.

Also: I'm pretty damned certain that no matter how much of an elite 
computer nerd you are, you *cannot* actually hack traffic lights. You 
know, seeing as they aren't controlled by a computer in the first place...

> Whle we're on the topic of Epic Fails, as it pertains to computers in
> movies, Goldeneye is really bad for it. The least of which is the
> persavise IBM product placement through out the movie. "e-Mail" that
> looks like some sort of kiddie chat with cartoon avatars, viruses that
> make rack modems fizz with sparks, and IBM product placement in the
> least likely places (watch for the OS/2 Warp boot screens all over the
> course of the movie!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl0LZsyi_tA

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