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The True Story of Website Results
Henry V .009 writes: "Salon is running a story on a dot.com called Website Results. Maybe you've heard of them. Viral Spyware makers. My God, these people are sick. Interview question: 'Imagine there's a peasant somewhere halfway across the world. If you could push a button and kill the person without getting caught, would you do it for a million dollars?' 'For them, it was yes, in a heartbeat.'"
No, irony would be if that button killed one of the children you were going to feed with the million dollars.
We had similar buttons for an old alarm system in our office. My cube was near one. An engineer made little sign and posted it underneath the button saying "Eject Executive Wing". Many people would look around a bit, push the button, then look a little disappointed when they opened the door and realized it hadn't worked :-)