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Startup Turns Fixing Your Grandma's PC Into a Game

Posted by timothy on from the as-long-as-the-kids-like-grandma dept.

First time accepted submitter thecrazyivan writes "As companies like Reddit and Foursquare have shown, Internet users enjoy earning points in arbitrary social games. So why not apply that competitive motivation to something useful, like cleaning up the world's PCs? A startup called Jumpshot is raising funds to launch a new, friendlier form of computer security. Jumpshot is still in its infancy, but it seems to have excited plenty of users with its potential: The company launched a Kickstarter project and almost immediately raised nearly three times its funding goal."

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  1. Old fun flash game by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www2.b3ta.com/realistic-internet-simulator/

  2. Party like it's 1999 by cultiv8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, I want in! I can create a kickstarter project and give it a cool name. It'll save the world! Enhance productivity! Save kittens! It's a social media internet plugin with synergistic fladoodles to map space age polymers with THE CLOUD for amazing geotargeted ad space and unlimited business opportunities for expansion and growth. And it's written in haskell and assembly, motherfucker, years ahead of it's time. I have my business plan all thought out:

    1. Raise money through kickstarter
    2. Finish writing business plan
    3. ?
    4. Profit!

    --
    sysadmins and parents of newborns get the same amount of sleep.
  3. Re:Better yet by Mattcelt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Almost modded you "flamebait" for that one...

    ...but then I couldn't have written in to say vi, of course.

  4. Re:Better yet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm I bet emacs would enable to use the webcam and include photos of her grandkids in an email using an automated lisp macro.

  5. Re:So, wait, what does it actually do to fix thing by xstonedogx · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot to mention the cute little USB guys.

  6. Re:Worst. Game. Ever. by RicktheBrick · · Score: 1, Funny

    A few night ago I was on my computer using firefox browser. It was late so when I saw a pop up message stating I had a virus and I should download a program called windows web commander to get rid of it, I did. Since I was running microsoft's security essentials, I thought I was protected. But after seting up the program, I soon discovered that the program windows web commander was the virus. It would not let me do anything. I would start a browser up to look up information about the program and it would close my browser before I could get much information. It would tell me to send some money to them and receive a program to esentialy get rid of itself. I just rebooted and went into safe mode where I restored the computer to a date prior to that date so I did not lose much but it is frustrating that microsoft essential did not protect me. It is also frustrating that my spelling checker is not working and that I can not get my firefox browser to use answer.com by right clicking on a word. I guess it because of a new update to firefox but it would be nice if those things would work.

  7. Re:Better yet by LordLimecat · · Score: 3, Funny

    But findstr is no sed replacement - it can't do search and replace as far as I know.

    And as we know, THIS is the reasons most home users prefer linux.