'have you tried typing a straight IP address'... Hahahahahaha....

Yes, I'd rather they hire a bunch of consultants to make the show as accurate as possible, and then hire discount writers to pen the scripts and use cardboard special effects. Realism is important but it is very far from the most important thing.

It's fiction. If you can't look past minor flubb ups then I fear there is very little entertainment out there for you.

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"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the antidote to shame."

Yeah, I do agree, I did cringe a bit when they did the first three-octets.

They could've at least stuck to the basics of each octet not exceeding '255' in value. I'd have been fine with seing a '255.255.255.255' Class D address over '827.750.304.001'. Robert being in satellite installation would have had him familiar with some of those terms, so I'd imagine his daughter being familiar isn't too bad a of stretch.

In fiction, though, we could just rule it out as that being the IP she tried typing, and the explanation being her lack of knowledge of IPs.

Hell, I'd have given it some leighway if it were even an IPv6 address, FFS, instead of one that has three-octets exceeding the numerical range for each octet's maximum quantity (1-255).

I do give Jericho the benefit of the doubt when believing if the girl (Robert's daughter, forgot her name), has a lack of knowledge and the IP she typed in wasn't a show error, but an error on her part for thinking she knows how to link with it. I'm not saying kids are stupid, but I'd like to believe, since it's not a bad stretch of it.


And no, I'm not really in technology much -- I just studied it while I was in the Army Rangers in between tours. I do like a lot of the field, so I'm not claiming all of what I wrote is fully correct.

Of all the things wrong with this show, that is just another one... LOL

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day." -Douglas Noel Adams

well, this show is by the guy who brought us National Treasure, so...

Seriously? It's not like they could use a "live" IP address. If they used an IP address starting with 169.*.*.* you'd have bitched about that too I imagine. They used a bogus IP to tell the story just like in most shows when you have to use a phone number the 3 digits after the area code are usually 555 because that is unused in any area code except for information calls.

People try this stuff out now because computers are everywhere. You wouldn't want them to make up an IP and accidentally give them yours would you? You'd be getting pinged so hard it would've brought your Internet provider down if not your own home server if you had one.

"Gaaah.... I hate it when people can't understand the story telling industry."

You could argue the point the character actually has NFI but wanted to appear smart and helpful as the girls she was helping wouldn't know their arse from their elbow when it comes to tech.

I could yammer a similar line to someone like say my mum and type 123.456.789.0 and go "oooooh well the internet is broken"