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but no moron would set up a network in this way.

Try to keep an open mind when you talk about stupidity.

Someone has to die to recieve a darwin award,

Wrong.

Someone unusually idiotic must "perminently remove themselves from the evolutionary process," to qualify and, while that usually means the award is posthumous (i.e. they died), it isn't striclty speaking a requirement.

Sterilization will do.

One nominee, for example, qualified by tying a bunch of weather balloons to his lawnchair and rocketing up to 11,000' altitude, where he sustained sufficient injuries (freezing) to lose his gonads but not his life. I believe he was edged out by someone even stupider for that year's Darwin award, but he certainly qualified, despite being very much alive.

Damn, does this guy have too much time on his hands or what?

Or maybe he didn't have enough free time for years which is why he's been working on it for nearly a quarter of a century. Okay, model railroading isn't my personal hobby. But I spend enough time pursuing hobby interests to respect someone's ability to go beyond just puttering and create something on an impressive scale. Having too much free time on your hands often has dramatically different results.

Actually, according to the rules on darwinawards.com, children under the age of 16 are not eligible for Darwin Awards.

I wish that were true, but some people just haven't figured out it's a bad idea yet.

However, it is correct that cameras garner far more hatred. Also, some more amusing moments.

To support your comment, here is a Darwin Award mention of someone who tried to pass $16 bills...

I tried to use Google News to find a registration-free link. No luck. Will this do?

Dumpster-diving bears at greater risk

It's not about bears stealing your identity, though I pity the bear that applies for a Visa card with a FICO as bad as mine! But it is an interesting tale:

Then there are the people: One older woman set out a batch of syrup-slathered pancakes for the bears, and some parents smeared peanut butter on their children's faces so they could photograph cubs licking it.

Where's Darwin when you need him?

Darwin Awards

To make the movie even more enjoyable, everyone should try to act as described in this LOTR Survival Guide. You may even manage to get a Darwin Award!

And why did it have to be a virus. Why not a cute little kitten or something?

Do we have another candidate for the Darwin Awards perhaps?

Unfortuantely this doesnt eliminate societies stupider members, the Darwin Awards do.

You posted as an AC, but kept your signature, I recognized you Anne!!!

I sure hope you just don't know what a Darwin Award is, and that you are not not just trolling (god, I put you in my friends list!). The Darwin Awards is(are) a joke... It is an award, awarded to the guy (or girl) who killed him(her)self in the most stupid way in the course of the year, thus cleaning the gene pool; Darwinism... look here

If I may:
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men. We're trying to teach you to be dangerous -- to the enemy. Dangerous even without a knife. Deadly as long as you still have one hand or one foot and are still alive.
-Heinlein

Ted Kennedy has killed more people with his car that I have with my gun. I have used my car as a weapon against more people than I have used my gun against. Admittedly, I have only caused those people a bit of inconvenience, embarrassment and increased insurance premiums (always have right of way when you hit someone). A gun is simply an escalation, not an absolute. Antagonism and hostility will always exist, and firearms are not a necessary ingredient. I still own one, because to need one and not have it readily available would be a distinction that I do not want.

If that were to happen we would probably need a new subcategory of Darwin award for those folks.

If you are so stupid as to work on your laptop while bathing you should die along with the computer. (Darwin Awards!)

As explained here

wasn't it a coke machine? look at those search results

The Darwin Award is an award for people who remove themselves from the gene pool in hilarious ways, and in the process demonstrate that their genes really shouldn't have been passed on to the next generation anyway.

The Darwin Awards honor those who improve our gene pool... by removing themselves from it. http://www.darwinawards.com/

Sort of like SCO.

The average investor doesn't see this at all. This is why SCO has to do so much blustering. Everyone's heard of Linux, but almost nobody outside the industry knows wtf SCO is anymore.

Here's what happens with joe average
Q: What's Linux?
A: Oh, that's that new operating system Microsoft's scared of
Q: What's SCO?
A: What?
Q: What's SCO?
A: Sorry, I don't understand. What did you say>
Q: What's SCO?
A: Scow? Some kind of boat or dingy. (Right in a sense, if it's really leaky)

...they can beat this guy's record

Maybe this guy can help you find your lost pet. Or maybe this guy.

"...cellphone burst into flame...Perhaps some slashdot readers have had a similar experience?"

Please refer this kind of questions to Darwin Awards

VERY interesting post in the Darwin awards here that involves only a 9v battery.

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires FDA to ensure that the new drugs developed by pharmaceutical companies are safe and effective. It does not give the agency responsibility to develop new drugs itself. So, FDA physicians, scientists and other staff review test results submitted by drug developers. The purpose : To determine whether the drug is safe enough to test in humans and, if so - after all human testing is completed - to decide whether the drug can be sold to the public and what its label should say about directions for use, side-effects, warnings, and the like. FDA first becomes involved when a drug company has completed its testing in animals and is ready to test a drug on humans. (Actually, some animal testing continues after human tests begin to learn whether long-term use of the drug may cause cancer or birth defects. Also, more animal data may be needed if human tests turn up unexpected effects. And new therapeutic uses may be found by continued animal studies). Although FDA usually does not tell drug companies what specific laboratory or animal tests to run, the agency does have regulations and guidelines on the kinds of results FDA expects to see in any request to conduct human testing.

You could equally try to argue that a driver should be absolved of all fault if he hits an adult pedestrian strolling along the side of the Freeway. Just because someone is 'old enough to know better' it does not mean they do, or that the law should not protect them. Hey, if everyone over 18 was sensible there'd be no need for this.
Over here in the UK, it is a well known doctrine in Health & Safety legislation that "A fool must be protected from himself."

Guess that makes them eligible for the Darwin awards.

"I'm telling you, there's a bloke in a lawn chair up here"

No person may operate an unmanned free balloon

You may, however, operate a manned free balloon. See Lawn Chair Larry.

Wayyy off topic but... Jeez, I read that recipe link as www.tripleraunch.com.

I guess www.buffalose.cx can't be far behind... but anyone trying to get *that* sort of picture involving a buffalo is definitely going to get Darwined.

The Darwin Awards have opened a new award category.

He may be the only living winners of a Darwin Award. Read about it here.

He may be the only living winners of a Darwin Award. Read about it here.

Well, if you read this hilariously disgusting urban legend old nominee for the Darwin Awards, then you might not think that to be such good protection anymore.

"the UL protects the idiots from themselves by requiring certian warning labels."

No, those warning labels protect companies from the lawyers of idiots. Those aren't UL warning labels. People are so willing to look like idiots if they get that fat check. Some only get honorable mention

McDonalds learned - Remember, Coffee == HOT. I can almost see the next one: WARNING! French Fries - HOT! For oral use only. We'll have to see how the appeal comes out though. ;)

To go even further off topic, kids who throw rocks at armed soldiers, especially armed soldiers who are known to shoot back, are simply begging for their Darwin Awards. A more basic look at it asks where their parents are. I would tie my kid to my leg if I had to to keep him from throwing rocks at someone with a gun.

I don't think you need to, they seem to be intent on earning their Darwin Awards

No swimming, no diving, no boating, no autos, no flying, no walking, no showers.

Or runways, or re-enactments.

No swimming, no diving, no boating, no autos, no flying, no walking, no showers.

Or runways, or re-enactments.

Just dont eat it in 30 seconds too, thatd be bad news.

You're absolutely right with the whole expansion thing, though- according to some quick and dirty calculations I just did, a scant 10mL of LN2 would expand to about 7.3 liters at body temperature, which certainly might cause problems. For a comparision, the average volume of a human stomach is about 1 liter. Ouch.

I'd like to know more about the whole "it closes the entrance to your stomach" thing though. Elsewhere in this /. discussion I came acorss mention of the 2000 Darwin Awards Personal Account of a college student who required hospitalization after taking a "shot" of LN2. Now, once I again, I can see how this would be a problem- assuming he actually swallowed somewhere around 1 fluid ounce (29mL) of LN2, the end result could be over 20L of ultracold gas in his digestive tract, which would probably have a deleterious effect. In the story, though, it mentions that it's his epiglottis that keeps the gas trapped, but I'm not sure that I buy that- the epiglottis is not some sort of one-way valve- frankly, all three of the normally encountered phases of matter can return up the esophagus if the situation demands it, which becomes clear if you burp, or have occasion to pray to the porcelain deity. I don't doubt that's it's possible that LN2 could cause the digestive tract to seal up at prevent the escape of gas, but I am curious as to the mechanism of how this happens.

See http://www.darwinawards.com/personal/personal2000- 25.html for what claims to be the world's only documented case of cryogenic ingestion.

Have you seen the Darwin awards page where the guy drank liquid nitrogen? One cool dude

One man told such a story to the Darwin Awards folks....

16-way power seats, rear wiper arm, etc.. bla.. bla.. bla... and so on..

It wipes your bum too? How long before this shows up on Darwin Awards?

Make sure to keep the shocker in one hand! You never want to split the ground/voltage between two hands. If you do, the voltage runs through your heart, which is bad.

This thing has Darwin Award written all over it

Really? I'm of the opinion (and I think most reasonable people would agree) that if someone wants to pick and choose what they show, htey have something to hide.

So, what are they hiding?

It's pretty obvious - the fact that they don't have a case. After all, the the code is in fact already in open-source software, it's already public.

I certainly wouldn't want to look at their piece-of-shit code, just like I wouldn't want to look at anything coming from the Beast of Redmond - to avoid future charges of infringement/theft/copying.

End result: Anyone stupid enough to go along with this qualifies for the darwin awards. They've certainly removed themselves effectively from the pool of OSS developers.

The best part is that you get to play these guys. The objective is to get into the concert after you do some bar hopping.

If you try this at home, please document your efforts at this site.