Webloggers in 'sky is blue' discovery shocker

[hirez]

Does anyone really, truly believe this is news?

If you do, I suggest the following:

Pelting about the place with handfuls of sharp objects may prove unfortunate in the short term.

If it's raining, you may want to consider donning waterproof clothing before venturing outside.

If your chest hurts and you are tired, try relaxing the muscles in that area. Remember: breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out.


I mean, ever since hard drives have been going wrong, there have been technicians making them work again and then having a quick grovel across the surfaces for anything useful, entertaining or incriminating.

Comments

[sinibar.livejournal.com]

I suspect this "news" might be more aimed at middle America, where they don't have porn and little children grow up naturally with completely white, straight teeth.

[jendama.livejournal.com]

I do not think it is aimed just at the Midwest region. There are applications for the news throughout the States. It is just another thing to make semi-intelligent Americans become even more paranoid.

It is no longer enough to fear global warming, Communism, terrorism, or any other -ism, it is also *gasp* Best Buy!

[sinibar.livejournal.com]

There's a linux using, porn stealing pinko lefty Euro-federalist homosexual Islamic extremist vampire terrorist round every corner, you know... and only Bush (and Brown) can protect us from them.

The Midwest region is undoubtedly the worst, but the term "middle America" to me means not so much a region as a subset of the middle class, Conservative, traditionalist and blinkered they're an easy target for "unAmericanism" scandalmongering.

Fortunately of the many Americans I know very few fall into the category where they are evenly remotely concerned by this sort of thing, which gives me some hope for the future of the nation. :)

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's suprising to you & me, but it's an inevitable part of the consumerisation of computing that punters will come to long for some civilised behaviour on the part of their suppliers and tradesmen.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

The entire enterprise had become deskilled due to rubbish products, shoddy s/w, desperate cost-saving measures and the nice punters being, well, customers.

No-one with any sense is going to waste their time at the sharp end when they could be more gainfully and less painfully employed stabbing themselves in the legs with knitting needles, so you're going to end up with pond-life who'll either grass you up for being Gary Glitter or install some pr0n and then grass you up.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Well, absolutely. But it's still a shoddy state of affairs, and the punters are right to be despairing and offended by it no matter how predictable it is.

Just like dodgy builders and thieving mechanics, really.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Whoah there cowboy.

I don't think employees of "geek squad" warrant the title "technician".

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Probably not. Does 'pustulent oiks' fly for you?

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

Sounds about right!

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

No machine ever leaves my control with an HDD still in it. Anything I want is backed up to another machine on the LAN, and a big hammer is taken to the drive.

There's far too much work taken home, personal documents, and copyrighted data on virtually any machine I own to let drives escape.

I'm aware of at least one manager at another division of $PREVIOUSCOMPANY who used to routinely 'borrow' USB sticks and copy data - sadly nobody ever tried a sting on him.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

The weekly list of stories about stolen HDs and laptops in SANS Newsbytes ought to make anyone who gets paid for this sort of thing stop and pay attention.

Hell, hacking someone's office machine and installing pr0n was the plot hook for some chick-lit I read a few years ago.

[spride.livejournal.com]

What sort of pencil-dicked wanker thinks up this sort of operation anyway?

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Everyone should just store their porn on external HDs or other storage devices--then the pr0n will be safe! Protect the pr0n from exploitation! Oh, wait ... ;-p

This happens at film-processing places too. Probably not so much anymore as things have gone mostly digital. A friend of mine brought home his "book" when he left a camera/film store where he was manager for 5 years. The book was 10 inches thick and had porn and scary sordid stuff. He was quite proud of it.

[bmlg.livejournal.com]

In the olden days, did these people buy used videocassettes at garage sales and scan them for home-made pron in amongst the birthday parties and kids tv shows?
Do they not know how to find it on the internet?
-Barbara

[dfable.livejournal.com]

We don't do news anymore in the US. It's all about Paris Hilton and babies who might have five dads and anything that doesn't make us think or question ourselves. So yeah, there are a lot of anchors who would label this stuff as news. I'll pass on your advice to them. ; )

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't you be studying or something? :)

[dfable.livejournal.com]

I am studying. I'm concentrating real hard on learning the intricacies of procrastination.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

And being a genius, but then we knew that...

[dfable.livejournal.com]

If you knew, why were you keeping it a secret? I could have used that information. Here I was thinking I was an idiot. Maybe we're both right. I'm an idiot savant. ; )