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Rage Against the Machines

Posted by michael on from the broken-dreams dept.

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."

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  1. People who do that sort of thing... by eno2001 · · Score: 1, Troll

    ..should be locked up for life. Machines are beautiful.

    --
    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  2. SECOND POST by Big+Troller · · Score: -1, Troll

    SECOND POST WAHOO... Lick my ass and suck my balls..... Oh, and to answer why people smash up their puters.. Well it's probably because the don't understand what the fuck is going on...

  3. What do you expect? by mikeophile · · Score: 1, Troll

    We're not that much more evolved from chimpanzees.

    Some less than others.

  4. Re:When I was a teenager.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    do you know how toxic all of those self-test AIDS kits are? If you want to talk about the effects of lifestyle choice, you better come to the party clean.

    queer.