Computer illiterate people who think they know things V5 = I FLICK PSU VOLTAGE SWITCH - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Run&Gun12;22764817][B]It's time to kill a bitch[/B] [url]http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/101-undeniable-reasons-why-mac-is-better-than-pcs/[/url] [B][highlight]REASON #10 -SGDHGFDGKERUNHU34NGKJFDNBVD!!!!!![/highlight][/B][/QUOTE] Bwahahahahha, the whole thing's just hilarious :v:

[QUOTE=YWNJack;22763420]I just wrote a massive long wall of crap and truth to one of their diehard fans, took me forever to type up on my ipod. Also sorry for bad formatting, used copy function on iPod Touch[/QUOTE] Haha, I love when someone does shit like that and you send them a wall of text.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR5wFrvQlBA[/url] He thinks his "Geforce 210" has "2.2 gb" of vram, and that it's an "amazing" video card. Not to mention he has a gateway prebuilt. I'm also gonna mention he uses systemrequirementslab *Can you run it?* to see if he can run a game. Probably the worst PC video I've seen in a while

My dad got a rouge antivirus on his PC. Driverdefender is what I think it was called. He thought it was legit, he was about to use his credit card on it until I saw the program. I told him it was a virus and promptly did the normal thing to do with a rouge infection. Run malawarebytes in safe mode and remove it. After all that was done he said. "I probably got it from Steam over the network from your PC and all its virus infected fake games and whatnot." :v:

Hacking=typing on a keyboard= perfectly legal. often connected to people who do mumbo jumbo through Terminal in linux and cock around with network variables. Hacking, used wrongly, refering to Breaking and Entering to retrieve personal information or data of valuie= illegal=not what those kids are doing (the two, uber leet, hackers). YWNjack. what they're doing is not illegal, hacking is not illegal. Breaking and entering IS. k? stop telling those kids, i'm getting annoyed. at least use proper terms eh? those kids are beyond stupid though and everything else you've said stands... t'was just this detail that poked my eye.

Like emulators, hacking is legal, what you do with them is the shady part. If it was illegal, websites like hackthissite would've received cease and desist orders long ago.

[QUOTE=Bomimo;22770861]Hacking=typing on a keyboard= perfectly legal. often connected to people who do mumbo jumbo through Terminal in linux and cock around with network variables. Hacking, used wrongly, refering to Breaking and Entering to retrieve personal information or data of valuie= illegal=not what those kids are doing (the two, uber leet, hackers). YWNjack. what they're doing is not illegal, hacking is not illegal. Breaking and entering IS. k? stop telling those kids, i'm getting annoyed. at least use proper terms eh? those kids are beyond stupid though and everything else you've said stands... t'was just this detail that poked my eye.[/QUOTE] Hacking is commonly reffered to as people entering areas on computers that they don't have permission to access, which is illegal. :colbert:

[QUOTE=Tools;22771336]Hacking is commonly reffered to as people entering areas on computers that they don't have permission to access, which is illegal. :colbert:[/QUOTE] That's cracking, a type of hacking.

Hacking is an action usually associated with an serial killer and an axe.

[QUOTE=hTux;22771484]That's cracking, a type of hacking.[/QUOTE] I though cracking was a form of bypassing password protected things, such as licenses?

[QUOTE=YWNJack;22757935]Reposting 'dis [url]http://youtube.com/TheTwoHackerz[/url] [url]http://www.thetwohackerz.co.uk[/url][/QUOTE] [quote] A computer hacking module his been included in the CHERUB basic training program since the late 1980s. All agents are taught hacking skills, enabling them to bypass simple passwords and find hidden or deleted data. More secure data, such as encrypted data, can usually be copied onto a portable hard disc drive or memory key and passed on to MI5, where specialists have a strong record of decoding even the most strongly encrypted information. [/quote] this can't actually be serious, right?

[QUOTE=Tools;22771730]I though cracking was a form of bypassing password protected things, such as licenses?[/QUOTE] I think it can refer to breaking into systems illegaly too, not sure though.

My parents are an absolute gold-mine of computer illiteracy. For example, a while back I started showering twice a day with an electric shower. The electricity went up noticeably, and my mum put this down to me downloading things from the net (at the time we an unlimited bandwidth connection, as well). "Mum, how can downloading stuff send the electricity bill up?" "Well, you know, wireless and stuff, it uses electricity, doesn't it?" I had to buy a replacement keyboard shortly thereafter. My dad is even worse. He's never quite been able to get into a digital mindset, and takes analogies of how computers work literally. Such as the email. He's been using a Windows ME for nearly a decade, and I insist it's time to get a new machine (it's got 32M of RAM. 32M!!!) "Okay", he says "But how do I back up the emails?" "Pardon?" "How do I back up emails, in case the computer crashes?" "Well, you could just burn them all to disc, but you don't need to, they're all on a server somewhere." "Yes, but once you download them to the computer and read them, you can't download them again, right?" "Well, you don't need to, they're on your account." "Well then how do I download my account again." I know I'm going to be here for a few hours, so I get comfy. "You just install outlook if it isn't already on the computer, and use you username and password to log in. You can view your emails there." "But I've already downloaded them to the old computer, so how can I possibly download them to the new one?" "Because they're not stored on your computer, they're kept on a server somewhere else in the world. It's not like a letter which can only be sent once; it's more like you get a photocopy of the letter whilst the original is kept at the office." "Oh I see. Hang on, does that mean that anyone can see my emails!?" "No, Dad, only you can, because only you know your password." "Yes, but if they're kept at this server then whoever is working there can view them, surely?" And so it went on.

[QUOTE=QwertySecond;22771880]My parents are an absolute gold-mine of computer illiteracy. For example, a while back I started showering twice a day with an electric shower. The electricity went up noticeably, and my mum put this down to me downloading things from the net (at the time we an unlimited bandwidth connection, as well). "Mum, how can downloading stuff send the electricity bill up?" "Well, you know, wireless and stuff, it uses electricity, doesn't it?" I had to buy a replacement keyboard shortly thereafter. My dad is even worse. He's never quite been able to get into a digital mindset, and takes analogies of how computers work literally. Such as the email. He's been using a Windows ME for nearly a decade, and I insist it's time to get a new machine (it's got 32M of RAM. 32M!!!) "Okay", he says "But how do I back up the emails?" "Pardon?" "How do I back up emails, in case the computer crashes?" "Well, you could just burn them all to disc, but you don't need to, they're all on a server somewhere." "Yes, but once you download them to the computer and read them, you can't download them again, right?" "Well, you don't need to, they're on your account." "Well then how do I download my account again." I know I'm going to be here for a few hours, so I get comfy. "You just install outlook if it isn't already on the computer, and use you username and password to log in. You can view your emails there." "But I've already downloaded them to the old computer, so how can I possibly download them to the new one?" "Because they're not stored on your computer, they're kept on a server somewhere else in the world. It's not like a letter which can only be sent once; it's more like you get a photocopy of the letter whilst the original is kept at the office." "Oh I see. Hang on, does that mean that anyone can see my emails!?" "No, Dad, only you can, because only you know your password." "Yes, but if they're kept at this server then whoever is working there can view them, surely?" And so it went on.[/QUOTE] Well your dad's got a point. If microsoft wanted, they could scan through hotmail's database for a ton of serials. I have atleast 30'ish on my email alone. :ohdear:

[QUOTE=daijitsu;22762528]Yay, my rules are still the standard :v:[/QUOTE] Sucks that you can't enforce them.... DAI FOR SUPER MOD, NO, SUPER-DOOPER MOD.

[QUOTE=Tools;22772249]Well your dad's got a point. If microsoft wanted, they could scan through hotmail's database for a ton of serials. I have atleast 30'ish on my email alone. :ohdear:[/QUOTE] Aha, were those your serials? Thanks bro

[QUOTE=broo20;22772340]Sucks that you can't enforce them.... DAI FOR SUPER MOD, NO, SUPER-DOOPER MOD.[/QUOTE] Hey, I was just about to suggest that, but hey, if that can't work, Mod of Arts and Hardware and Software (That doesn't sound right).

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;22772690]Hey, I was just about to suggest that, but hey, if that can't work, Mod of Arts and Hardware and Software (That doesn't sound right).[/QUOTE] Didn't you know? Arts is part of a computer, it's the real reason why Macs are better for photoshop and video editing.

A few years ago I took a game around my friends house for us to play. I had to change the resolution so it would run properly so I did that and as soon as we finished I changed it back again. My friend was convinced that what I had done would break the system. Goodness knows how many months later he came and told me his parents were demanding that I went back to their house, because (from what I gathered from the shit I was being told) something had fucked up their sound driver and they were blaming me because all those months ago I changed the screen resolution. I tried to explain that what I did but his parents wouldn't have any of it. I didn't go back for a long time but he told me awhile later that they had to pay £200 for someone to "find the sound program that changes the volume because it had got lost somewhere inside the computer".

[QUOTE=Ban Evasion Alt;22773410]Didn't you know? Arts is part of a computer, it's the real reason why Macs are better for photoshop and video editing.[/QUOTE] Hahahaha.

I guess I'm sort of lucky when it come to my parents and computers. My mum works with computers alot and my dad actually can work out how to use programs by himself. The problem mainly starts when the [B]hardware[/B] gets involved. It's mainly little things like working out where a socket goes, but the one thing that really annoys me is that they both say [B]UBS[/B] instead of [B]USB[/B].

[QUOTE=Whomobile;22773926] but the one thing that really annoys me is that they both say [B]UBS[/B] instead of [B]USB[/B].[/QUOTE] oops!

My step-brother has always deleted files on his laptop, because he thinks that if you have more space in the hard drive disk, it runs better. He has 300GB, and doesn't go under 250GB, because he thinks it will slow down the computer.

The original size of his hard drive disk is 300GB. :v:

[QUOTE=Pie_Lord;22757985]They said "Life is like your computer. [b]Our religion is the OS[/b], and things like [b]Linux[/b], Steam and online medical school are [b]tools for sinning.[/b]"[/QUOTE] Are you telling me that JENOVAH'S WITNESSES WORSHIP WINDOWS [editline]04:00PM[/editline] Another story: Me and My family got new phones yesterday. Specifically 2 HTC Heroes and 2 Samsung Moments. Apparently, since they've never had smartphones before, their brains shat themselves because of all the functionality. I decided to download some apps and then I go out for a bit with my phone in my pocket. Well, I live in south Texas, it's summer, and I was wearing black jeans, so by the time I go back inside, my phone has about 25 errors and it won't connect to any networks. (I took the battery out and cooled the phone down, and it works now) My parents decide to take me on a guilt trip with it. They say to me (I didn't make this up), "It must of been the apps you downloaded. The apps must of filled up the hard drive and created a virus." My face is still in pain from the facepalm.

[QUOTE=MrOwn1;22775367] "It must of been the apps you downloaded. The apps must of filled up the hard drive and created a virus." [/QUOTE] Does it bother anyone else when you read "Must of" or "Should of" instead of "Must HAVE" or "Should HAVE". But, I like how some of these posts are people detailing a conversation they had. They reveal that they don't use language efficiently enough to explain simple things to computer illiterate people and then blame the people for being stupid?

[QUOTE=Bomimo;22761197]He's right though.[/QUOTE] Oh I know. But saying it in such a pretentious way such as that is fucking gay

[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=956833[/url] gas this thread now

[QUOTE=Dr Egg;22776893]Oh I know. But saying it in such a pretentious way such as that is fucking gay[/QUOTE] +1 agree.

Whenever I pull out my laptop at school everyone goes "AWWW SHIT HES GUNNA HAXXOAR US AND OUR FOENZ!!" Today I pulled out my wired 360 controller to play some games and its "AWWW SHIT HES GONNA PLAY EKSXBAWKS" (Xbox) Me and a friend played cortex command in split screen. It was very fun actually, he got normal controls and I got 360 controls and it was very easy to manage. I gotta do it again sometime.