Movies and TV Shows Portray Unrealistic Computer Capabilities

I was watching the second episode of the new show Fringe on fox, and a scene came on where they were in a time critical situation and were trying to track down a killer.  The conversation between one of the main characters and the person on the computer goes something like this:

Take this photo and check the angle of the bridge against the FBI database. (5 seconds) Ok it's on the 1600 block of road A.

Can you get a satellite image of that area for the last 24 hours? (5 seconds go by) ok got it... now zoom in on that area..ok.  Now fast foward... (5 seconds more) there that car.  It leaves 8 hours later at the same time.

Get Real.  I can't imagine how long it would take to do something like this... but comparing the angles in a photo against a database to triangulate position? In 5 seconds? Maybe in 5 weeks.. by hand... and I doubt that they could get the area within a few miles at best.  Satellite video for a 24 hour period for a specific area zoomed in enough to make out a specific make/model of car? I'm not even sure they can do that unless they know ahead of time they need to survey that area.  I don't think that they can do it after the fact.

These scenarios make for exciting TV, but they give people unrealistic expectations of computers and technology.