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   From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Mar 1, 2026 at 1:23:35 PM PST, "The True Melissa"   
    wrote:   
      
   > Verily, in article <10o25bg$h5u2$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com   
   > deliver unto us this message:   
   >>   
   >>  On Mar 1, 2026 at 7:42:33 AM PST, "The True Melissa"   
   >>   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>  > Verily, in article <179267364.794071571.311223.anim8rfsk-   
   >>  > cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this   
   >>  > message:   
   >>  >>  When she says that, on screen, you can actually see   
   >>  >>  the interface running QuickTime movies.   
   >>  >>   
   >>  >   
   >>  > I've read that the screen contents have to be pasted in later, since   
   >>  > glare would prevent them from being filmed. In the early days, when few   
   >>  > people knew anything about computers, they pulled some real boners. I   
   >>  > recall laughter in 1995 because some show had pasted a Mac desktop onto   
   >>  > the screen of an IBM.   
   >>   
   >>  I've always laughed at Hollywood's obsession with inserting bleeps and   
   >> bloops   
   >>  into every scene where someone's working on a computer to let us know the   
   >>  computer is "thinking".   
   >   
   > One of my favorite things is the way that TV and movie pictures have   
   > infinite resolution. "Zoom and enhance. Again. Again, again, again."   
   > Then, instead of a realistic blur, we somehow read the writing on a   
   > scrap of paper. Computers are magic!   
      
   There was a CSI:HORATIO episode where they managed to read a license plate in   
   the reflection of someone's eyeball off a security cam tape.   
      
   The CSI shows are an example of how TV nonsense has a negative influence in   
   the real world. When they were at their height of popularity, real-world   
   juries expected the government to have all those gee-whiz super-duper   
   techniques and equipment to find evidence. They had ridiculous expectations of   
   the abilities of the police because Hollywood made up nonsense and put it on a   
   TV show. It was difficult to convince juries that no, it's not really possible   
   to take video from a low-rez VHS convenience store security tape, blow it up   
   1000x, and get a reflection of the perp's license plate off the retina of a   
   bum sitting at a bus stop across the street.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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