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/
Riiighht.... by countach · 2012-07-21 08:01 · Score: 4, Insightful

So people are going to let strangers delete files on their computers. And this is supposed to *improve* security? Ummm, is it only me who sees the extreme irony in this plan?
Re:Better yet by nogginthenog · 2012-07-21 08:17 · Score: 5, Interesting

c:\> findstr /?
Searches for strings in files.

FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file]
[/C:string] [/G:file] [/D:dir list] [/A:color attributes] [/OFF[LINE]]
strings [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]

/B Matches pattern if at the beginning of a line.
/E Matches pattern if at the end of a line.
/L Uses search strings literally.
/R Uses search strings as regular expressions.
Re:Better yet by Billly+Gates · 2012-07-21 08:18 · Score: 5, Insightful

Or even better get her an IPAD.
Sorry, but not everyone wants to compile kernels and dealing with a driver breaking Xorg or the UI of Unity/Gnome-Shell. Asking her to find repositories for xfce defeats the purpose as she would not understand that nor need too.

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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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sysadmins and parents of newborns get the same amount of sleep.
1. Re:Party like it's 1999 by DogDude · 2012-07-21 09:06 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  The beauty of Kickstarter is that you don't even need #2 and #3.
  
  People are really, truly stupid.
  
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  I don't respond to AC's.
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.
So, wait, what does it actually do to fix things? by chazchaz101 · 2012-07-21 08:35 · Score: 5, Insightful

So as far as I can tell, even after reading the so called technical explanation, it reboots the computer into Linux and then downloads magic buzzword driven pixie dust from the cloud, thus allowing it to solve all your computer problems.
Re:Better yet by flimflammer · 2012-07-21 11:57 · Score: 4, Insightful

You don't need to be an apple fanboy to suggest/buy an iPad.