It's sad to read articles like this one with quotes like..
TORONTO (Reuters) - A man who used a cellphone to take nude pictures of his girlfriend and then posted them on the Internet has been jailed for distributing child pornography in what officials say is Canada's first criminal conviction involving camera phones. . . "He was obviously very adept at computers and he would have had a bright future ahead of him had he not chosen to use his talent this way."
I thought the press was a bit better about this by now, I mean this is 2004, not 1995. Ability to post pictures on the Internet doesn't exactly require knowledge of computers, heck my mom can do it.
This is obviously one of the symptoms of the computerstupiditis that occurs in a large portion of adult population. In short, they sit in front of a computer screen and their IQ suddenly drops by half or more. Other symptoms include hiring a 9 year old neighbor to fix their dsl problems and opening executable attachments from strangers under the promise of pretty butterflies on their screen.
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The most amazing computerstupiditis (hmm.. right-click-add-that-word-to-the-spell-checker) I've come across is users not knowing they're using a web browser.
From a recent phone call:
"Mom, open a browser and go to my homepage."
"A what?"
"*Sigh* how do you surf the web?"
"I open Google."
She calls it that because Google is her homepage. She's been using the 'net for years. No wonder MS won the so-called browser war.
Hey, don't be telling all my customers that information! I'd be out of a quick $30 (Canadian) every other night :(
#"Is the internet down tonight?"
#"I dunno, mine is working."
Also, Kasia: "the promise of pretty butterflies on their screen" — so is that what you call it? ;)
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