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{{quote|'''Computer''': Since I'm such an advanced computer, I can make Pegasus's computer systems look like a really boring video game!|''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
[[File:laptop-skin-cyber-space-164-p_3172.jpg|frame|That's not a laptop skin. It's a WINDOW into CYBERSPACE!]]
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See also: [[Viewer Friendly Interface]], [[The Aesthetics of Technology]], [[Beeping Computers]], [[Billions of Buttons]]
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== Anime and Manga ==
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**** [http://lcarsreader.com/ LCARS Reader for iPad] is available. Seriously, why else would you want an iPad, other than to have a fully functional 24th century PADD?
**** How about a ''fully functional LCARS tricorder app'' for Android? The one concession to Rule of Cool is a somewhat useless mode displaying pictures of the sun and proton/electron output over the past 64 days. (Search for "tricorder" on market.android.com.)
* "[[Lampshade Hanging|Information]]: In the second episode of ''[[
* Parodied in [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/ditch-your-os.php this] ''[[Something Awful]]'' article about "MoFOS" (Movie Fake Operating System).
* Generally any crime drama on TV will show computers with a ludicrous unnecessary graphic interface. ''[[CSI]]'' especially seems to love it.
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** [http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/ Third-party applications] [http://www.piriform.com/defraggler save the day]!
* It's been said on a recent ''Frontline'' special that the computers in one of Bernie Madoff's accounting offices relied on this in order to make clients and SEC officials believe that ''stuff'' was going on, and that the computers were actually doing what they were supposed to be doing. All the while, a much smaller office just below that one did the * real* "accounting" work.
* There was a brief fad for creating [[Extreme Graphical Representation]] user interfaces in the mid-Nineties to replace Windows 95 for new computer users, as it was thought this would be [[Viewers
* Most routers have an activity light to indicate that they are transmitting or receiving something. Many older ones did this simply by wiring an LED into the transmit circuit. The actual 1s and 0s of the bitstream were far too fast to be seen by humans, but were decodable by pointing a high-speed camera at the light, giving a way to tap the wire without being near the wire, and avoiding most of the security systems in existence. Modern routers generally don't have the LED on the actual circuit anymore, but some home models might still do this.
** It was even worse than that. At low data rates, the signal can be decoded by a photocell. Decent equipment can read it from over . Attempts to mask the signal put out by the light by stretching the highs still have recovery rates of up to 80%, more then enough to decode plain text. Of course, there is a simple fix with some tape. Modern equipment, with transmission rates of 10 billion bytes/sec is not capable of this, as the light would only be a dull blur to humans, so an the activity light is faked.
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