Startup Turns Fixing Your Grandma's PC Into a Game

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Startup Turns Fixing Your Grandma's PC Into a Game

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 21, 2012 @07:45AM 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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Old fun flash game by Joe_Dragon · 2012-07-21 07:53 · Score: 4, Funny

http://www2.b3ta.com/realistic-internet-simulator/
Party like it's 1999 by cultiv8 · 2012-07-21 08:19 · 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!

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Re:Better yet by Mattcelt · 2012-07-21 08:33 · Score: 4, Funny

Almost modded you "flamebait" for that one...
...but then I couldn't have written in to say vi, of course.
Re:Better yet by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-21 08:36 · 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.
Re:So, wait, what does it actually do to fix thing by xstonedogx · 2012-07-21 08:58 · Score: 3, Funny

You forgot to mention the cute little USB guys.
Re:Better yet by LordLimecat · 2012-07-22 11:15 · 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.