Comments on: Fake Science: CSI Makes Me Want to Smack Someone http://resistmedia.net/blog/2007/12/11/fake-science-csi-makes-me-want-to-smack-someone/ This is a blog about adventures in design, and sometimes other crap. My name is Beth Dean and I'm a web designer from Cleveland Ohio. I work for Progressive Insurance as a UX Developer. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:27:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Bridget Stewart http://resistmedia.net/blog/2007/12/11/fake-science-csi-makes-me-want-to-smack-someone/#comment-41193 Bridget Stewart Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:41:53 +0000 http://resistmedia.net/blog/2007/12/11/fake-science-csi-makes-me-want-to-smack-someone/#comment-41193 aha! didn't know about the police parents, beth. i'm married to a cop, so that is where my cynical frame of reference is grounded. :-) aha! didn’t know about the police parents, beth. i’m married to a cop, so that is where my cynical frame of reference is grounded.

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]]> By: beth http://resistmedia.net/blog/2007/12/11/fake-science-csi-makes-me-want-to-smack-someone/#comment-41165 beth Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:27:27 +0000 http://resistmedia.net/blog/2007/12/11/fake-science-csi-makes-me-want-to-smack-someone/#comment-41165 Oh yes, the faux-Second Life dude not only had giganto monitor, but a wall of many many monitors from which he was tracking every single player of the game, and then magically flipped a switch to make it daytime in the game. The most bizarre part about the fake cabin that was actually a real cabin was if all the places in the game had a real physical analog, where was the strip club the girl started in the game? As someone who grew up with police parents I agree about tv giving people ridiculous misconceptions on how law enforcement works. (Most people don't realize police are only allowed to shoot to kill, gunfire is deadly force and certain criteria must be met to necessitate deadly force.") Oh yes, the faux-Second Life dude not only had giganto monitor, but a wall of many many monitors from which he was tracking every single player of the game, and then magically flipped a switch to make it daytime in the game. The most bizarre part about the fake cabin that was actually a real cabin was if all the places in the game had a real physical analog, where was the strip club the girl started in the game?

As someone who grew up with police parents I agree about tv giving people ridiculous misconceptions on how law enforcement works. (Most people don’t realize police are only allowed to shoot to kill, gunfire is deadly force and certain criteria must be met to necessitate deadly force.”)

]]> By: Jen http://resistmedia.net/blog/2007/12/11/fake-science-csi-makes-me-want-to-smack-someone/#comment-41134 Jen Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:24:34 +0000 http://resistmedia.net/blog/2007/12/11/fake-science-csi-makes-me-want-to-smack-someone/#comment-41134 So true. Due to an inexplicable fixation on Vincent D'Onofrio, I watch a lot of L&O: CI, but I always yell at them for getting the computer stuff wrong. They did a computer game episode a couple of years back that was full of holes. My other favorite thing about the fake science is how the technican will call saying, "Hey, I found something," and then proceed to actually do the experiment in front of the detectives - or, even worse, do it <i>again</i>. Because they won't believe it if they don't see it. So true. Due to an inexplicable fixation on Vincent D’Onofrio, I watch a lot of L&O: CI, but I always yell at them for getting the computer stuff wrong. They did a computer game episode a couple of years back that was full of holes.

My other favorite thing about the fake science is how the technican will call saying, “Hey, I found something,” and then proceed to actually do the experiment in front of the detectives - or, even worse, do it again. Because they won’t believe it if they don’t see it.

]]> By: Bridget Stewart http://resistmedia.net/blog/2007/12/11/fake-science-csi-makes-me-want-to-smack-someone/#comment-41129 Bridget Stewart Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:02:22 +0000 http://resistmedia.net/blog/2007/12/11/fake-science-csi-makes-me-want-to-smack-someone/#comment-41129 Ah yes, fake science. Dana and I have discussed this same thing before. One of the particularly great things in CSI is the transparent double sided 40something inch monitors they have for their computers. Awesome. Where's mine? I saw the L&O:SVU episode of which you speak. It was awhile ago, though, so you might have to refresh my memory. When they went to the head honcho of the fake second life, wasn't his office a gigantic room, dimly lit with a computer on a desk with a giant monitor? Didn't he just punch a few keys and track every "player" of the game in a matter of seconds and pinpoint exactly what the detectives were after? Especially hilarious was finding the exact specs for a fake cabin that resembles a real cabin and geolocating it as a result. FTW! What makes this stop being funny is when stupid people in real life think that crimes can be solved in this exact manner. I remember the days when I would see mothers crying because the cops killed their gun-toting, liquor-store-robbing, ready-to-kill-a-cop, nearly adult children saying things like, "The cop didn't have to kill my baby! The cop could have just shot him in the knee or shot the gun out of my son's hand." Yeah, right! That's exactly what they are learning in the police academy. /sarcasm Ah yes, fake science. Dana and I have discussed this same thing before. One of the particularly great things in CSI is the transparent double sided 40something inch monitors they have for their computers. Awesome. Where’s mine?

I saw the L&O:SVU episode of which you speak. It was awhile ago, though, so you might have to refresh my memory. When they went to the head honcho of the fake second life, wasn’t his office a gigantic room, dimly lit with a computer on a desk with a giant monitor? Didn’t he just punch a few keys and track every “player” of the game in a matter of seconds and pinpoint exactly what the detectives were after? Especially hilarious was finding the exact specs for a fake cabin that resembles a real cabin and geolocating it as a result. FTW!

What makes this stop being funny is when stupid people in real life think that crimes can be solved in this exact manner. I remember the days when I would see mothers crying because the cops killed their gun-toting, liquor-store-robbing, ready-to-kill-a-cop, nearly adult children saying things like, “The cop didn’t have to kill my baby! The cop could have just shot him in the knee or shot the gun out of my son’s hand.”

Yeah, right! That’s exactly what they are learning in the police academy. /sarcasm

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