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20071127 Tuesday November 27, 2007
What If Noobs Were Right? Humor

noob"Newbies" have long incurred the wrath of more advanced computer users due to their lack of experience and naive views.  But what if computers and the internet really were as n00bs think it is?  What would the world be like? 

  • Unplugging your computer would be the safest way to shutdown your computer
  • Little elves would scan all email lists for subscription and removal requests - 24 hours a day.
    • Likewise, if you just reply (to all) with "me too" you'll automatically be included.
  • AOL/MySpace/Facebook is the internet.
  • Making a real friend is as easy as clicking on a button.
  • Don't like something?  An internet petition will change it!
  • Cancer would be cured with chain letters.
  • We'd all be rich, thanks to that nice Nigerian fellow.
    • Except Bill Gates, since he gave all of his money away to people who tested his email tracking program.
  • We'd be even richer because we'd won dozens of European lotteries that we didn't even enter.
  • Oxford and Merriam-Webster change the proper spelling of "the" to "teh."
  • LOLCAT would become the official language of the United States and Great Britain.  kthxbai.
  • THE SHIFT KEY WOULD BE MANDATORY.
    • or outlawed and removed from the keyboard.
  • The "ANY KEY" key replaces the BACKSPACE key.
  • All keyboards would be Dorito-proof.
    • OK, that's just for me.  I really just dropped a handful of Doritos on my keyboard.  Now it crunches when I type.
  • It's completely safe to give your PayPal password to the helpful employees who ask for it.
    • Same for your credit card info.
  • We would all know if we were "hot" or "not."
  • "abc" is the most secure password to use.
  • Windows Vista?  The best OS in the world.
  • Everyone's penis would be longer and constantly erect.

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20071119 Monday November 19, 2007
The Internet's Single Point of Failure Computers

tinyurl.com is down today and it's wreaking havoc on services like Twitter and other's who leverage it.

Here's good article from Steve Rubel that I found while searching for the cause the outage.  Not surprisingly, he also used the term "single point of failure" to describe the situation.
 


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