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Creepy Windows XP Halloween mask

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the zomg-so-scawee dept.

An anonymous reader proclaims that "A "Jason"-like hockey mask adorned with a Windows XP sticker and subnet addresses wins IT-related Halloween costume contest. Look out for the scary Data Center Man as well."

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  1. Just one nitpick by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since we are discussing windows, and being halloween, death, shouldn't the mask be painted blue?

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    1. Re:Just one nitpick by TheDreadSlashdotterD · · Score: 2, Funny

      Halloween isn't about death. It's about going house to house, asking for firewood for the pyre, and burning the houses down if they don't give it to you. Ah, memories!

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    2. Re:Just one nitpick by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 5, Funny

      The mask looks like it took maybe 2 minutes to make, and most of that time was spent threading the tape into the label maker.

      Paining it blue would have taken too much time I suspect.

      I bought an iPod yesterday that came with two Apple stickers, armed with those and pretty much nothing else it looks like I could be a serious contender in this thing.

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    3. Re:Just one nitpick by antifoidulus · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dude, a Steve Jobs costume is one of the easiest in the world to make, and at a lot of places can be considered attire safe for work. All you need is a black turtleneck and a pair of blue jeans and voila, you have yourself a Steve Jobs costume. Now getting a cadre of fanatically devoted fans willing to spend money on whatever you release is another matter.(I kid! I kid! I kid because I love!)

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    4. Re:Just one nitpick by Fozzyuw · · Score: 2, Informative

      One more nitpick... That's more of a Mike Meyer's mask than a Jason Mask

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    5. Re:Just one nitpick by Count+of+Montecristo · · Score: 5, Funny

      for a minute there, i thought i-kid was a reference to Steve Jobs offspring.

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  2. News? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful


    This is probably the worst example of non-interesting, irrelevant "news" EVER on slashdot. Some guy makes a mildly amusing mask and it's a freaking main-page story? Holy crap.

    1. Re:News? by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Informative

      Probably because the editors forgot to do the Hallowe'en Poll - AGAIN! This is the third year in a row they've done that.

      BTW - You can still vote in the old Hallowe'en polls - they're not closed - so why not post them in your journal and let people vote?

    2. Re:News? by Adam+J+Stone · · Score: 2, Funny

      Let's be fair. I think this story has real merit by dint of the mask's underlying message. You see, the mask is supposed to be scary because [long explanation of why Windows is bad]. Don't you see how profound and unspoken the message is?

    3. Re:News? by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny
      And to think, my story "I finally got my dog to stop peeing on the rug" was REJECTED.

      -Eric

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  3. slow news day? by taff^2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I not sure what's scarier. That someone submitted this story, or that slashdot posted it

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  4. I get jokes by crerwin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hehe, subnet mask.

  5. WTF by stinerman · · Score: 2, Informative

    "257" is part of no subnet mask that I know of.

  6. 257? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Funny

    257? Ummm, I don't think I'd wanna hire this guy to manage my network...

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    1. Re:257? by TeknoHog · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nigel: "You see, most blokes will be networking at 255. You're on 255, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff... 257. Two louder."

      DiBergi: "Why don't you just make 255 louder and make 255 be the top number, and make that a little louder?"

      Nigel (after taking a moment to let this sink in): "These go to 257."

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  7. Creepy Windows XP Halloweeen Mask by oahazmatt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Creepy Windows XP Halloweeen Mask

    You misspelled "Crappy".

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  8. You are entering a world... by PinkyDead · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your next stop, the 33-bit IP Address Zone!!!!

    Whatever you do, don't open that ICMP packet!!!

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  9. The site... by Bazman · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...has been slash! slash! slash! slash! slash! dotted....

  10. Wrong site - try Digg.com by Random+BedHead+Ed · · Score: 5, Funny

    You seem to have posted this amusing but irrelevant "story" on Slashdot. Please remove it and resubmit at again digg.com. You might want to alter the title from this:

    Creepy Windows XP Halloween mask

    To this:

    CREEPY XP HW mask!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUST SEE!!!!!

    Increase the number of exclamation marks as you see fit, depending on how creepy you feel the mask photo is. You might help your chances of getting the re-submitted post to Digg's main page by using the acronym "OMG" and suggesting that people who don't check out the link are loser's (and yes, you should definitely pluralize it with an apostrophe). Thanks for visiting Slashdot.

    1. Re:Wrong site - try Digg.com by edmicman · · Score: 4, Funny
      Don't forget the important keywords like "Apple", "Ubuntu", or "____ Killer" (fill in whatever hot new tech term you want).
      CREEPY XP HW mask runs UBUNTU!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUST SEE APPLE OSX KILLER!!!!!
    2. Re:Wrong site - try Digg.com by Wayne247 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Seriously, if you want to reach Digg frontpage, you need to add "AMAZING". It's mandatory now.

  11. Question marks!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!!! by BeeBeard · · Score: 2, Funny
    Couldn't they also alternate exclamation marks with question marks depending on whether or not they wanted to solicit comments on just how creepy the mask appears to others, and whether or not they wanted to see it?!?!?! You know, like

    CREEPY XP HW mask!?!?!?!?!?!?! MUST SEE!?!?!


    But I admit, it does lack the confidence of 13 consecutive exclamation marks.
  12. You forget the evil bit. by pavon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously he is using IP4.1 which extends each octet to include the Evil Bit, which can be used to mask off packets intended for the spirit metanet. The occult have long hoped that this will lead to breakthroughs in high speed multi-realm data transfer, which has yet to be realised. However, if you matrix the multinet streams, you can get some awesome spooky surround sound.

  13. Sad...just plain sad. by resignator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    *removes /. from his lists of bookmarks.

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  14. FYI by buckadude · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thats more of a Michael Myers Michael Myers mask (from the Halloween Series), not Jason Voorhees (from the Friday The 13th Series). Sorry to nitpick, I just love Horror movies too much to let that slide. cheers~

  15. Re:I am the Windows XP Man... by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I dunno. I want to somehow get a copy of that mask of that Burger King guy on those commercials on tv.

    That has got to be the CREEPIEST thing I've ever seen....I have to change the channels when those commercials come on...just something really creepy and disconcerning about that thing...

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  16. Re:A typical CmdrTaco story by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps surpassed in traffic but not in quality of readers. Digg seems populated by teenaged morons for the most part, with a large share of right-wing asshats. Many without a sense of humor and certainly not too bright. Say what you want about Slashdot but at least the readers here are the kind of people I'd be happy to see in the neighborhood. With Digg readers I'd have to worry about living next door to Jackass, the Movie.