Ok, I'm going to start sounding like a broken record soon. I hold myself as the most intelligent person I know. I Recognise this as arrogance.
that said a new show started airing on CBS called Scorpion. it's premise is that it's based partially on the real life experiences of Walter O'Brien the CEO Scorpion Computer Services. the main character is Walter O'Brien (played by a much younger and handsome guy) who, with his IQ 197 (thats the real Walter's IQ), solved unsolvable problems with his team of similarly "Enabled" friends. The real Walter acts as a producer for the show.
I'll cut this short and say that it's the only show I've ever seen where the techno babble is coherent and accurate, sure it will fly over most people's head but I understand it.
Here's the problem, the show is supposed to as I understand it deliver a drama of fasted paced problem solving while relating the more emotional deficiencies of the team through the "Normal" public relations team member, Page. She is supposed to be the relatable character for the public.
I Identify HEAVILY with Walter. as in I see my own thought processes and actions, personal delima's like the panicking and feeling helpless to solve any problem when I can't solve one which happens in the pilot etc.
It's clear to me that this show is Walter's personal wish fulfillment attempt but It's also quickly become my favorite show even though the writing is a bit lackluster. That characters at least are completely genuine in their gifts, disabilities, and interactions.
Ok so now to my point. The comments on the episodes.
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Couchtunerfrom the coment I can tell the show won't have a renew season, I'm ok with that, it's just not written from the right perspective for the public to relate and attach to it enough to make it a blockbuster despite it's great production quality. But, as is human nature when people don't understand something, It's being picked apart to find every perceived flaw. But the flaws they are trying to find? arn't there.
Example one. The show takes place in LA, and in the first episode after the pilot they are tracing a hacker who has attacked the governor's daughter with a bio and computer virus both crafted to target her and only her. In the analysis Walter recognises a design pattern in the process used to disguise the virus origin. Ke know sthe company that developed it. the company is in LA so they drive to it.
The problem with this according to a 20 comment long chain raggin on this particular point is that it makes no sense. HE just happens to recognise this pattern, which just happens to belong to a firm in LA with in driving distance, instead of somewhere else because "realistically" it could've come from anywhere. and he as an expert hacker drives to the firm itself instead of hacking in and finding what he needs. OMG PLOT HOLES! or so the lay person thinks.
See I understand EXACTLY why the writer wrote it this way (who was probably guided by the real Walter). because as implausible as the situation over all is the specifics of how it's playing out are dead on. statistically speaking an attack of this sort, of this specificity especially since it involves a bio agent that had to be given to the daughter. it could ONLY (well like 99.9%) of been done by someone local.
=As for driving to the location instead of hacking in like he did with the LAX security cams (but not with the data back up center, another supposed plot hole from the pilot). Anyone with any experience with network design knows that live hacking a defended network is not anywhere near as possible as hollywood has made it seem over the last few years. Real hacking takes weeks of planning stacking known vulnerabilities in the software deployed in the target and usually some sort of personal knowledge of the human element behind the target to get a good guess at the more obscure details of the setup. Real hacking is something you do when getting direct physical access would take MORE work . IF you know the place is local and you have the government backing you up you dont hack a server when you can get direct access.
On and on the flawed arguments and logic goes.
OK sure, these are internet arguments I can't really expect much, but as read them I felt an overwhelming urge to correct each and every one of the dimwits who only half thought through their logic. and I realised something. I'm doing the same thing every day in my real life I see idiots everywhere, I see idiots calling other people idiots. I see hypocrites, and willful ignorance on a daily basis. and very rarely do I meet people with the mental capacity to truly understand me when I start laying out an argument. Sometimes I THINK I have and then they say "oh ya I totally know what you mean!" and use an intermediate conclusion of my argument when there was much more and treat it like that was my end game. Outwardly I'm all "ya thats what I'm talking about" because atleast they half grasped it and I've learned not to try and go further as they get lost or get upset with me; but inside I'm all " No you dumb shit it goes much deeper than that".
Back to the show" Walter's character has expressed similar sentiments abet with much more agreeable and relatable wording and would likely offend people less. The more I watch the more I see my own thoughts and actions there.
Sometimes I find myself thinking that the world would be such much better off if only the truly smart people were in power and universally respected, that our decisions and opinions were given more weight than the layman's. how much more efficient the world would run and how much better off we would be if all the dumbfucks would stop TOUCHING everything and messing with our hard work.
" No you dipshit, these are carefully crafted formulas, the result of years of academic study, scientific experimentation etc. you you change that it will it throws everything out of balance!" "but it I don't believe you." "yes, instead you trust that guy over there who makes big promises without a 20th of our evidence just because he's more personable and has a bigger smile, dumbfuck". But then I come back to the point that I'm the minority. these people need to live their lives too and so I must be even smarter and find a solution where they don't feel left out of the progress of society.
If you've watched american news you've probably heard of a big hualabalu over a Denver area school board trying to form a review committee of the AP american history courses to remove "unpatriotic material", oh and they also wanted to link teacher salaries to performance reviews that used such unsophisticated ratings as "effective, partially effective, ineffective," etc. there was student walkouts in the thousands to protest, teachers called in sick in such numbers schools had to be shut down. basically a big deal for the local communities. the media tried to smooth it over calling the students "pawns" of the teachers who were "just unhappy about the performance based salaries" a media spin if' I've ever hear one.
All of this the result of a group of three conservatives teaming up to get themselves elected to five position school board to get a majority. all the votes on the matters that caused strife were split 3/5 along the party lines. you see conservative have be quietly trying to muddle in academics for years because they feel there is a liberal bias in our educational system. Because you know, academia has a liberal bias. Academies a world so absorbed in science it rarely give two hoots about politics outside itself is liberally biased.
Ya know, if SCIENCE is liberally biased. You know the discipline that is the sole source of all societal progress dating to the beginning of man. then just maybe, perhaps, there just might be something fundamentally WRONG with conservatism. When your campaign relies on mudslinging, misinformation, fear mongering, and spinning facts? you just might be wrong. mabey.
^^ that I suppose is the true purpose of my rant I guess. It seems to me that the majority of society is so dense, ignorant and blind they they let themselves be misinformed about important issues.
Now to be clear I'm neither Republican nor Democrat, I am and always will be unaffiliated both parties get things wrong candidates from either side are never perfect for their roles. but you know what? we're human, you can only ever ask for the personal best of the candidates.
I'll leave it at this:
if you allow yourself to be misinformed and don't strive to correct it when proven wrong? I consider you below me, end of story. If you spin facts to make your argument appear more valid? your trash. If you refuse to acknowledge scientific findings because they are inconvenient and use such excuses as "it's a theory, it's unproven!" your incompetent and a fool. If you do anything other than strive to find the most current empirically based data and use it to make your decisions your are unfit to do any sort of leadership or management. IF you look at the world through rose colored glasses you're a deluded halfwit.
I don't care what your station is in life or how smart you think you are, if you're not forever trying to improve every aspect yourself and the world around you? you not living, your dull and unimportant. It's not the success that matters, it's the attempt. I'm sorry, but no one is born equal. we don't even all have the same potential. but we're all important as we can all improve and help better each other. every one of us can keep the wheels of society turning in some way.
If you can't accept that, if you're too absorbed in achieving some sort of personal glory to help someone else achieve theirs. get out of the way.
I think I got a bit off my original topic. I was talking about myself up there at the top of this wall of text. Me I see it like this, I functional at a higher level than most everyone I've ever met and whiel I see stupidity all around me I'm not spiteful of the world, quite the contrary I feel it is my duty, my obligation and purpose as an enabled person to guide, to impart knowledge wherever I can, to learn more and more and progress us as a species. It is the Obligation of Intelligence to move forward and leave no one behind.