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This virus that's being doing the rounds and the kid that's been caught.
Virus writers/hackers.
There is a cliche of computer users, especially those that are "133t" and "haxxor" etc as being fat loners with monitor tans and a sheen of unhealthy perspiration that covers their pasty face.
Think a fat Gollum that likes Star Trek and you're not far off.
Basement dwellers that pick holes in sci-fi movies and are frightened of women, sociopaths that want to strike down people's computers to make up for the fact that they were bullied at school for being...well...nerdlingers with no social grace.
But that's not true is it? I mean, we're not like that so why should these uber-geeks that spend time creating viruses right?
Wrong:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3190799.stm
Sorry to say that one glance at his pic makes me realise just how spot-on our preconceptions of hackers/virus writers are. I can hear him clicking send and chortling “Worst Virus ever”, before his basement door is opened and a shaft of light is thrown down, whereupon he throws his arm across his eyes and hisses “it burns usss” and scuttling under his bed.
Fat Geek causes chaos to make up for being a…well…fat geek.
And I bet you he loves The Darkness.
Virus writers/hackers.
There is a cliche of computer users, especially those that are "133t" and "haxxor" etc as being fat loners with monitor tans and a sheen of unhealthy perspiration that covers their pasty face.
Think a fat Gollum that likes Star Trek and you're not far off.
Basement dwellers that pick holes in sci-fi movies and are frightened of women, sociopaths that want to strike down people's computers to make up for the fact that they were bullied at school for being...well...nerdlingers with no social grace.
But that's not true is it? I mean, we're not like that so why should these uber-geeks that spend time creating viruses right?
Wrong:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3190799.stm
Sorry to say that one glance at his pic makes me realise just how spot-on our preconceptions of hackers/virus writers are. I can hear him clicking send and chortling “Worst Virus ever”, before his basement door is opened and a shaft of light is thrown down, whereupon he throws his arm across his eyes and hisses “it burns usss” and scuttling under his bed.
Fat Geek causes chaos to make up for being a…well…fat geek.
And I bet you he loves The Darkness.
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Goatboy wrote:
> I dont mock him for being a chubber. I mock him for being a geek that
> conforms to every stereotype there is.
What, so he's a violent criminal because hes a negro, he's weak because he's a homosexual and he's weird because he's a Scot.
:-)
> I dont mock him for being a chubber. I mock him for being a geek that
> conforms to every stereotype there is.
What, so he's a violent criminal because hes a negro, he's weak because he's a homosexual and he's weird because he's a Scot.
:-)
Every stereotype? I'm sure he didn't have spots. Come to think of it, did he even have glasses?
Yes it is.
Especially when you are the stereotypical uber-geek.
*points and laughs at the stupid American haxxor*
I dont mock him for being a chubber. I mock him for being a geek that conforms to every stereotype there is.
If he went outside to a gym, or stopped wolfing dingdongs in front of his PC then maybe, just maybe he wouldn't have been nicked for virus-related idiocy.
"Worst Haxxor Evah"
Especially when you are the stereotypical uber-geek.
*points and laughs at the stupid American haxxor*
I dont mock him for being a chubber. I mock him for being a geek that conforms to every stereotype there is.
If he went outside to a gym, or stopped wolfing dingdongs in front of his PC then maybe, just maybe he wouldn't have been nicked for virus-related idiocy.
"Worst Haxxor Evah"
Belldandy wrote:
> On the other hand he modified something that got around the
> programming of the world's premiere operating system.
It doesn't take much to get around windows, this is why so many kids are adept at it.
Agreed about the issues though. I personally blame it on bad parenting. Not necessarily the childs, but perhaps the children he mixed with/got bullied by at school. It's easily possible that you can be a perfect parent and still have your kid turn out like mud because of the people he met at school.
What a lovely world we live in!
> On the other hand he modified something that got around the
> programming of the world's premiere operating system.
It doesn't take much to get around windows, this is why so many kids are adept at it.
Agreed about the issues though. I personally blame it on bad parenting. Not necessarily the childs, but perhaps the children he mixed with/got bullied by at school. It's easily possible that you can be a perfect parent and still have your kid turn out like mud because of the people he met at school.
What a lovely world we live in!
On the other hand he modified something that got around the programming of the world's premiere operating system.
It's tempting to laugh, but people don't just get up one day and think "I'm going to get fat and sit on a PC all day", there's reasons for it and just taking the p isn't really constructive.
Maybe it says something about the world today when so many find sanctuary in front of a PC/TV screen instead of outside...of course it's easier to dismiss them than look at the real issues.
It's tempting to laugh, but people don't just get up one day and think "I'm going to get fat and sit on a PC all day", there's reasons for it and just taking the p isn't really constructive.
Maybe it says something about the world today when so many find sanctuary in front of a PC/TV screen instead of outside...of course it's easier to dismiss them than look at the real issues.
His punishment should be 100 hours of community running and dieting for the next 5 years.
So that's why Rik Waller hasn't been on British TV in a while.
He moved to Minnesota..
:-)
He moved to Minnesota..
:-)
"Mr Parson has been placed under house arrest in Minnesota without access to the internet."
Tuesdays headline:- "BROAD-MAN-BAND HANGS HIMSELF IN LOSS OF INTERNET"
Tuesdays headline:- "BROAD-MAN-BAND HANGS HIMSELF IN LOSS OF INTERNET"
Hello? Is that Domino's
Yes Jeffrey? can I take your order please. We already know the address
It's just me,
Can I have 3 Large pizza's please, 3 Chicken Combo's, 5 Garlic Pizza Breads and 10 Litre of coke please, make sure thats not diet know, y'hear
Jeff, what that sound?
Sorry, I'm dribbling again, can you make sure that you don't send that female delivery woman again, i'm not comfortable with her.
We've got no-one else.
Ok then, could she please post the pizza's through the box then. Cheers.
Yes Jeffrey? can I take your order please. We already know the address
It's just me,
Can I have 3 Large pizza's please, 3 Chicken Combo's, 5 Garlic Pizza Breads and 10 Litre of coke please, make sure thats not diet know, y'hear
Jeff, what that sound?
Sorry, I'm dribbling again, can you make sure that you don't send that female delivery woman again, i'm not comfortable with her.
We've got no-one else.
Ok then, could she please post the pizza's through the box then. Cheers.
I bet he likes cake.
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