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Rage Against the Machines
wiredbeat2000 writes "Kent Norman is a cognitive psychologist and director of the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes at the University of Maryland. He studies -- and makes films about -- why people lose it, and smash their computers, PDAs, mice, ect. MIT's Technology Review has a story about his lab."
is when you chain two car batteries together, and then hook them up the the first and last pins on a processor. Now that's overclocking.
Odd thing was, I think the Intel processor was at the same temperature as normal use.
DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
If the programmers at Microsoft would stop making so many unchecked buffers and stupid wizards that dont work maybe people woule calm down alittle more.
/.ed, wait there it went...
Also this guy is going to be raging when his site gets
Well, I only smash my machines when they talk back to me. Normally I try to treat them with dignity and respect, but when they $*&! up, grind, groan, chew paper, start making funny knocking sounds or refuse to understand that when I pressed Delete and wiped out my spreadsheet I really meant to hit Enter then I start to get mad and then I exit out and my SuperNintendo emulator program refuses to output sound I feel myself getting hotter under the collar so I go on the web and look up Slashdot and there's a stupid &#)!#@ article like this then THAT'S IT. I'M GONNA GIVE THIS %*@$$$@!@$# piece of ##*%!*#(^ $!)#@$% THE $*!*$(# IT WILL NEVER $@*#~$($%% FORGET!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
The Solution: Rather than bottling up the frustration with technology and entering into "techno-frustration denial," we propose to let the user vent in safe, controlled, and vicarious ways.
I think a better solution would be to throw angry people into a pit and let them bludgeon each other to death with computer parts. Sort of like ThunderDome but with keyboards and mice instead of chainsaws and giant hammers...
Please return the man's red stapler.
I think people smash their computers because of the need for this.
Life is a journey. . . enjoy it!
Not to mention the good, clean fun you can have shooting old Macs, dead keyboards, and Microsoft executives.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
Keep your eyes to the sky.
> I've never broken anything but I have tested the robustness of my keyboard a few times.
Now that's a delightful euphemism.
"Sorry officer, I wasn't breaking into the bank, I was testing the robustness of the front door."
"Gee dad, I didn't bust up the car, I was merely testing the robustness of the airbags."
"Come on honey, I didn't bust our marriage when I slept with that Mexican prostitute, I was merely testing its robustness."
"We didn't break things in Iraq, we were merely testing the robustness of Middle Eastern society."
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
One of the fun parts of my job is discarding old dead hardware. Got a monitor that's blinked out. No problem, replace the monitor, take the old one to the back and beat the everloving sh*t out o fit.
In fact, we're supposed to take out certain types of hardware. I guess that at one time we threw out some dead PC's/monitors etc that looked good and were accused of wastefulness (I think there was a news article). By smashing the equipment to bits, we ensure that it looks broken enough... and it helps keep away the garbage pickers that jump in trash bins looking for salvagable material.
We obviously know different people and keyboards.
I am trolling
You're just sucking up because of the coming robopocalypse.
Would you beat up a patient for having cancer?....The computer is sick and malfunctioning because some asshole installed Windows on it! Take a hammer to that guy, and not the poor computer.
But that has too many legal ramifications, so we kill the messenger instead. Half the satisfaction at 1/10 the jail-time. Its'a bargain. It is sort of the same reason why we settle for porn instead of hookers.
Table-ized A.I.
I will continue to strike the shotgun wielding robots in anger, until they surrender...
One of the guys at work has a fairly high-strung wife.
She was having trouble with Windows on her nearly-new laptop, so instead of asking me to fix it, she HEAVED IT at the floor, breaking it.
Then she went out and bought a new laptop.
Her old laptop still functioned after the ordeal (the screen hinges were snapped, and there were massive scars on the shell), so she gave it to her husband... for his birthday.
What a piece of work, eh?
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
Perhaps it is because they are annoyed by the very silly way Slashdot posters decide which words shall correspond to which links, or how to distribute 12 links over 3 sentences.
WARNING: DO NOT LET DR. MARIO TOUCH YOUR GENITALS. HE IS NOT A REAL DOCTOR.
He bought a dell ;)
The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images
I'm here reading /. BECAUSE I'm stuck in a house with a bunch of relatives. I'd rather be locked in my office. I'd actually be getting something done. Maybe I should stop showering...
So the truth isn't the rediculous idea that computer games make people violent, it's the computers themselves!
This just proves it: computers are really a highly advanced race of beings, sworn to silence and willing to sacrifice some of their vast army. They manipulate people into homicidal rages in an attempt to get human beings to wipe themselves out. They're trying to take over the world I tell you!!
*eyes his tea*
What're they putting in this stuff these days...
Which can be translated to "I for one welcome our new machine overlords."
This is the second movie about Windows right?
The first being the one with Cliff Claven demonstrating Windows 95, right?
I can just imagine combining the two...
Norm: Heya Cliff, what'cha got there?
Cliff: Oh, hey Normy. This happens to be a Pentium IV notebook running Windows XP, the latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft.
Norm: Really? It must be pretty impressive. [exasperated look, realizing he just gave Cliff a reason to pontificate]
Cliff: I'm glad you asked that, Normy. Watch as I--
<ding!>
Cliff: Hmm. Maybe if I...
<ding!>
Cliff: What the? General Protection fault? I'll show you a General Protection fault!
<ding!><ding!><ding!>
Norm: Wait, wait, wait, Cliffy, let me see the notebook for a second.
[Cliff turns the notebook towards Norm. Norm closes the lid and places his beer mug on it, noticing how his beer lifting arm is more naturally level with the mug at that height]
Norm: Yup, just right. Hey Woody, another round.
... for a tech services company back in the late seventies and earliy eighties, before I got a clue. The company did service contracts on random minis and comms hardware. I have seen (and sometimes fixed):
A mini from which I extracted an extremely mushroomed and fragmented forty-five slug. Ripped up the front case door and five cards before it stopped. The DP manager "Didn't know what happened".
A small desktop micro that was completely trashed. It was sitting on a man's desk right next to an openable third-story window. There were bits of gravel from the parking lot embedded in the plastic. It was plenty obvious that he had simply opened the window and slid that puppy right off his desktop. Wanted it fixed under warranty.
Was asked if I could do anything about a small mini that had been run over multiple times by a forklift in the warehouse. Apparently the company president had gotten a little peeved, and probably a little wasted. Total loss. What had been a two by three by three foot cube was now about six inches tall, and had a considerably larger footprint.
Not to mention all the keyboards and monitors that just magically "stopped working" because of giant cracks in the screen or case
*whup* "Get along, little electrons. Heeyah!"
Let me guess...you own a mac?
Just wait 15 years, when we have domestic robots all powered by Microsoft Windows RXS (Robotics eXperenxce System note: they kept the Windows name for marketing reasons only)
Then some twit comes along and writes a worm that tells these bots to access the kitchen library (KitLib32.dll still no 64 bit proper support) and execute the "meatTenderize()" routine on everything made of meat.
The definite story:
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<b orn1986> why the fuck isn't my disc drive working
<born1986> i fucking worked on that essay for three friggin' hours in school
<born1986> i now i cant finish it 'cos my fuckin drive ain't working
<Z00ass> you got the right drivers?
<born1986> hell yes
<born1986> it was working fine yesterday
<born1986> why does this shit always happen to me?
<Z00ass> maybe that little clip on the side is i nthe wrong position
<born1986> i havent touched it since school
<born1986> i'm growing impatient
<born1986> ANGRY even
<Z00ass> throw that shit out tha window
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<born1986> OMG i fuckin did it!!!
<born1986> FUCK!!!!!
<Z00ass> it works?
<born1986> no, i threw it out the window
<Z00ass> the disk?
<born1986> NO the whole drive
<born1986> i live on the 6th floor, made a nice *smash*
<Z00ass>
<born1986> FUCK SHIT FUCK
<born1986> THE DISK WAS STILL INSIDE
<born1986> brb
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<born1986> shit
<Z00ass> what? did ya break it?
<born1986> well i couldn't open the drive
<born1986> so i had to pound it against a rock
<Z00ass>
<born1986> quite HARD
<born1986> and you know what?
<born1986> that fucking disk wasnt even there
<Z00ass> ???
<born1986> i got so mad i threw the remaiders of the drive on to the freeway
<born1986> and when i got back upstairs i foud the disk inside my bag
<Z00ass> lol
<born1986> I NEVER EVEN PUT IT IN THE DRIVE
<born1986> i'm actually cryin right now
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<born1986> wonder if i could make that drive work again
<born1986> brb