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The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-outside-my-house-right? dept.

harrymcc writes "Over at TIME.com, I rounded up the year's dumbest moments in technology. Yes, the launch of Healthcare.gov is included, as are Edward Snowden's revelations. But so are a bunch of people embarrassing themselves on Twitter, both BlackBerry and Lenovo hiring celebrities to (supposedly) design products, the release of glitchy products ranging from OS X 10.9 Mavericks to the new Yahoo Mail, and much more." I can't think of anything dumber than the NSA's claims that metadata isn't data.

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  1. Mavericks was glitchy? by mveloso · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems fine to me. You must have mistaken it for iOS 7.

  2. Re:Snowden was a dumb moment in tech? by SpaceManFlip · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Snowden is the man. He accomplished what many previous whistleblowers attempted who were told "you don't have any proof, shut up." The shills who froth and scream traitor are on the side of evil, or they simply don't see that others had tried and failed and he did what he had to to expose the truth that needed exposing.

    Big nerd with big balls, Snowden.

  3. Re:The hands down winner by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass

    Apparently your hands are not placed down enough.

    The REAL hands down winner:

    http://beta.slashdot.org/

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  4. hahahahahal0lz!!!!11! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The NSA is spying on us all... and their powerpoint slides are ugly! HAHAAAHAAH!!!1!one!!11

    Look - I'm not going to try and make the argument that we should all stop what we're doing and go on humor strikes until they shut down the NSA. But seriously, if you're so desperate for column inches that you feel the need to spin the Snowden affair as "dumb", then you really need to ask yourself whether you're Part of the Problem.

    Tip for next time: be funnier.

  5. Re:Snowden was a dumb moment in tech? by amRadioHed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually quite often sitting around waiting to be arrested is exactly the point of civil disobedience. You can't really show the injustice of a bad law without demonstrating the consequences of the law. However this doesn't apply to Snowden. He wasn't trying to demonstrate that the laws surrounding classified data are wrong, he was trying to show that the activities the data documented were wrong so really there would be no point in letting himself get arrested. It wouldn't have furthered his cause in any way.

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  6. Re:Snowden was a dumb moment in tech? by TrollstonButterbeans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "What he did was to intentionally NOT face the consequences."

    The consequences decided by who? An out-of-control government where the court system has effectively ruled time-again that government has no limits?

    Yes, he would be detained without trial and rights --- just like what Manning is enduring. Does Manning have any free speech rights? No.

    Okay. Your argument just lost and lost hard.

    Don't judge me, I'm just the messenger.

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