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Posted January 18, 2009
I saw this in a google image search a while ago and have only stopped laughing now. It makes the whole Y2K scare seem almost sane by comparison. There's no year on it but I'm guessing pre-millennium, it fits the "evil magic boxes will take our jobs and kill us all!" mentality of the time.
Gotta love how sophisticated the pictured computer is, I didn't even know they made slot loading DVD drives with a drive latch, it's a good idea to stop them slipping out.
I'm also glad they show us a picture of the type of sicko in question, he's a nasty piece of work, you can tell just by looking at him...
ahh I just re-read how email is so powerful it can change the very fabric of reality... this'll keep me laughing for hours...
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Posted January 18, 2009
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Aliasalpha: Gotta love how sophisticated the pictured computer is, I didn't even know they made slot loading DVD drives with a drive latch, it's a good idea to stop them slipping out.

Uhm, I'm pretty sure that's a 5.25" floppy disk drive. Just saying ;-)
So yeah, pre-millennium is a pretty safe bet, I'd say.
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Posted January 18, 2009
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Wishbone: Uhm, I'm pretty sure that's a 5.25" floppy disk drive. Just saying ;-)

Yeah I know, I was just taking the piss at how up to date their graphics department was
Posted January 18, 2009
Ha! looks like something any number of "news"papers over here in the UK could put out.
Lovely example of a computer with only a 5&1/4 inch floppy disk drive... and about a 12" monitor. I think I had something similar around twenty years ago...
Posted January 18, 2009
Uh, I hope you're joking about that DVD drive. Its actually a 5.25 inch floppy disk drive.
Considering that article came from the Weekly World News, it actually could have been written as recently as yesterday. That "newspaper" is famous for printing articles about Elvis being alive, aliens abductions and Bigfoot sightings. Still pretty funny to read, though.
EDIT - Apparently we all missed the joke on the 5.25 drive.
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Posted January 18, 2009
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cogadh: Considering that article came from the Weekly World News, it actually could have been written as recently as yesterday. That "newspaper" is famous for printing articles about Elvis being alive, aliens abductions and Bigfoot sightings. Still pretty funny to read, though.

Right, not being American, I did not know anything about the Weekly World News. A bit of research enlightened me. There is no such thing as the National CyberCrime Prevention Foundation. The entire article is a hoax. Not just in the sense that the information in it is false (I think we all knew that), but in that the people who wrote it did not believe it themselves either. It's a complete fabrication.
Posted January 18, 2009
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Wishbone: It's a complete fabrication.

I see, kind of like The Sun, The Daily Express or The Daily Mail over here in the UK, eh?
(that may have fallen flat for the non-UK people here... or just generally...)
Posted January 18, 2009
Nah, I thought Live Free or Die Hard wasn't a bad movie.
Posted January 18, 2009
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Wishbone: Uhm, I'm pretty sure that's a 5.25" floppy disk drive. Just saying ;-)
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Aliasalpha: Yeah I know, I was just taking the piss at how up to date their graphics department was

I saw this article several years ago. I got curious about how old it was, so i did a search on the "break-ins" the article mentions. It looks like this must have been written in February of the year 2000. The funny thing is that 5.25 inch drives had already been defunct for many years at that time. They probably used that image intentionally to make the article funnier.
Posted January 18, 2009
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Aliasalpha: Yeah I know, I was just taking the piss at how up to date their graphics department was
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MobiusArcher: I saw this article several years ago. I got curious about how old it was, so i did a search on the "break-ins" the article mentions. It looks like this must have been written in February of the year 2000. The funny thing is that 5.25 inch drives had already been defunct for many years at that time. They probably used that image intentionally to make the article funnier.
I think they used the image because the kind of people at the time who would have believed this and had a computer, would have had a computer that used a 5.25 inch drive. I occassionally get people who are still using win95.. and more frequently than that, I get people who use win98.. win2k is rare, but if I do get someone with it, it's usually on a laptop, and they're trying to use wireless, which we don't support, but I have seen people use winME.. and.. god i hate that crap..
Posted January 18, 2009
OMG thanks for the laugh.
Posted January 18, 2009
Ah, Weekly World News. Too bad they stopped printing a while ago. They still update their website as far as I know, but the classic tabloid everyone knows and loves is gone.
Posted January 18, 2009
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TheCheese33: Ah, Weekly World News. Too bad they stopped printing a while ago. They still update their website as far as I know, but the classic tabloid everyone knows and loves is gone.

Really! I had no idea they had stopped printing it. I guess its been a while since I stared absent-mindedly at the magazine rack in the grocery store checkout line. I used to love seeing the hideously doctored "Bat-boy" photos on the front page.
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Posted January 18, 2009
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MobiusArcher: I saw this article several years ago. I got curious about how old it was, so i did a search on the "break-ins" the article mentions. It looks like this must have been written in February of the year 2000. The funny thing is that 5.25 inch drives had already been defunct for many years at that time. They probably used that image intentionally to make the article funnier.
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Weclock: I think they used the image because the kind of people at the time who would have believed this and had a computer, would have had a computer that used a 5.25 inch drive. I occassionally get people who are still using win95.. and more frequently than that, I get people who use win98.. win2k is rare, but if I do get someone with it, it's usually on a laptop, and they're trying to use wireless, which we don't support, but I have seen people use winME.. and.. god i hate that crap..

Good point. I was really just guessing about the reason for the image.
Posted January 18, 2009
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