Read an interesting article in The Toronto Sun a few days ago, mentioning how unbelievable some of the forensics are in CSI (presumably also refering to CSI:Miami and CSI:NY). I have to say that the producers do stretch the science to incredible lengths on a routine basis. And not just the science, but also the technology.
Don't get me wrong - CSI is one of the very few shows that I like. But in at least two episodes (one in CSI, the other in CSI:Miami) they have used ridiculous-looking IP addresses - something like 4xxx.5xxx.4xxx - not even IPv6. If the producers are worried that someone is going to try and DDoS the on-screen IP address, yet still want to give some air of realism, for goodness sakes use something that at least looks semi-legitimate - use a CIDR/8 that hasn't yet been allocated by ARIN.
Of course, as each series rolls on, it does become harder to come up with new ideas and story-lines to keep the audience interested, but if there's no intention to make even a passing attempt at realism, they may as well set CSI in the 24th century and pretend that all these high-tech research techniques exist in a sci-fi, sorry CSI-fi, world.
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