*That* CSI meme...
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You know the one: [GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address CSI - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU) I still recall my first reaction, which went something along this order: a) You're gonna do what now? b) If whatever you have in mind was actually useful, why would you need to write it now, shouldn't it already exist? c) That sounds very specific, why would you announce to everybody listening you're gonna use VB for that? d) The more I think about the whole thing, the more questions get raised ...and finally, e) When writers don't know the first thing about a particular subject, they just shouldn't go there. Someone will pick up on it, and if it's dumb enough, it'll reach legend status. Or might that have been the original intent all along? :~ Don't ask why I suddenly started thinking about this. Must be a late-Friday afternoon thing.
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You know the one: [GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address CSI - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU) I still recall my first reaction, which went something along this order: a) You're gonna do what now? b) If whatever you have in mind was actually useful, why would you need to write it now, shouldn't it already exist? c) That sounds very specific, why would you announce to everybody listening you're gonna use VB for that? d) The more I think about the whole thing, the more questions get raised ...and finally, e) When writers don't know the first thing about a particular subject, they just shouldn't go there. Someone will pick up on it, and if it's dumb enough, it'll reach legend status. Or might that have been the original intent all along? :~ Don't ask why I suddenly started thinking about this. Must be a late-Friday afternoon thing.
Holy crap, I never saw that. I don't watch the show. But come on, nobody using VB is a hacker. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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You know the one: [GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address CSI - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU) I still recall my first reaction, which went something along this order: a) You're gonna do what now? b) If whatever you have in mind was actually useful, why would you need to write it now, shouldn't it already exist? c) That sounds very specific, why would you announce to everybody listening you're gonna use VB for that? d) The more I think about the whole thing, the more questions get raised ...and finally, e) When writers don't know the first thing about a particular subject, they just shouldn't go there. Someone will pick up on it, and if it's dumb enough, it'll reach legend status. Or might that have been the original intent all along? :~ Don't ask why I suddenly started thinking about this. Must be a late-Friday afternoon thing.
I like Gary Sinise. I used to watch that show back in the day. I think I saw that episode. I seem to remember my utter disbelief of that scene, but I could be wrong. There are so many CSI scenes that could have triggered that feeling. Can you even imagine the primordial scream if a manager told a sys admin, "I want you to write a GUI in VB to track an IP?" :laugh:
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You know the one: [GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address CSI - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU) I still recall my first reaction, which went something along this order: a) You're gonna do what now? b) If whatever you have in mind was actually useful, why would you need to write it now, shouldn't it already exist? c) That sounds very specific, why would you announce to everybody listening you're gonna use VB for that? d) The more I think about the whole thing, the more questions get raised ...and finally, e) When writers don't know the first thing about a particular subject, they just shouldn't go there. Someone will pick up on it, and if it's dumb enough, it'll reach legend status. Or might that have been the original intent all along? :~ Don't ask why I suddenly started thinking about this. Must be a late-Friday afternoon thing.
dandy72 wrote:
b) If whatever you have in mind was actually useful, why would you need to write it now, shouldn't it already exist?
Hmm, well, about twenty years ago, while I was writing software for a local taxi company, I saw one of our cabs doing something unwise -- I didn't see its number. It occurred to me that I had access to the data (GPS) required to find out which cab it was, based on location in time and space. So when I got to the office, that's what I did. No GUI though, if I recall correctly I produced a text file of GPS points for cabs which were in the area at the time which I then loaded into whatever mapping software we were using. As far as I recall, the supervisors had a real-time map of where the cabs were, but no way to see history, or a cab's track. Anyway, some time later I was asked if I could do that for another situation -- I think it was thought that one of our drivers may have been in a position to witness some event and the police asked if we could identify the driver who was seen in the area. I said, sure, I already have a utility for doing that. :) Given a GPS point, a time, and how wide to search, I could identify which cabs were there at that time, and produce tracks on a map.
