• Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to El Disposo
    El Disposo:
    People who are still fixated on the name 'iPad' after two days are the kind of folks that Beavis and Butthead were based on. ("Look! It says 'pad'! That's a word which also means a feminine hygiene device! Uhuh huh huh heh heh heh! Oh, hey, I just pooped myself!")
    Interesting, that's exactly the same key demographic that it's being marketed towards.
  • Genitus Prime (unregistered) in reply to caper
    caper:
    That's why we should only buy software from the Apple Store.

    What if I don't like fruits?

  • (cs)
    Tanuki:
    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgtfy&l=1

    ^^I hoped this would have created an infinite loop :-(

    Just gaze at the navel:

    http://live.lmgtfy.com/

  • JTSandvik (unregistered) in reply to Prinny
    Prinny:
    The comments should of said: ...snip...
    Do you mean should have?
  • cklammer (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    El Disposo:
    People who are still fixated on the name 'iPad' after two days are the kind of folks that Beavis and Butthead were based on. ("Look! It says 'pad'! That's a word which also means a feminine hygiene device! Uhuh huh huh heh heh heh! Oh, hey, I just pooped myself!")
    Interesting, that's exactly the same key demographic that it's being marketed towards.

    I always thought that Apple marketing was aimed at tofu-eaters since more than 20 years.

  • The Coward (unregistered)

    Am I the only one thinking this is a load of BS. Any security expert would know the difference. He would read the code and see WTF it does.

  • Chilton Webb (unregistered) in reply to The Coward

    This is awesome!

    I'm the (original) author of this. And it's factually correct. There's a little embellishment, but it appears this story has changed hands a few times since I wrote it. The basic gist of it though is 100% correct. This happened in 1994, and happened in a group of about 10 other people I worked with, in a very large insurance company. I worked in several groups there, and this happened in the automotive group. There was a very high turnover rate there, because the company would pay for your Novell certification, and then you could get a higher paying job outside of the company ;-)

    So the combination of the high turnover, plus no one asking the remaining coworkers what my comments meant, lead this to happening. Keep in mind this was at the height of the virus paranoia, as well. Macs had viruses back then!

    Thinking of all those machines they recalled because they wouldn't trust an actual security guy's opinion (whoever they hired) still cracks me up.

    BTW, the same company tried to switch all of its employees' home phone services to MCI so they could get a cut of that. Good times.

    -Chilton

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