I think there should be a computer version of the Darwin Awards.

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This ditwit would be a candidate.

Hacker deletes own hard drive

You're going down, man!

By: Paul Hales Wednesday 27 April 2005, 09:31

A CHAT CHANNEL spat ended when a wannabe hacker was duped into deleting his own hard drive.
The 26 year-old German claimed he was the baddest hacker in town and threatened to attack a moderator on #stopHipHop's RC Channel because he thought he'd been thrown out.

He demanded the moderator cough up his IP address and prepare to be hacked.

The moderator sent back a bunch of numbers and there then followed a period in which the moderator assumes all manner of hack tools were unleashed at the IP address.

Finally the hacker declared success."I can see your E: drive disappearing, he gloated, "D: is down 45 percent!" he cried, before disappearing into the ether.

It seems he'd been hot enough to hack his own address. µ

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22838

[Deja Q]

1. And they can be called the Gates Awards.

:D

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2. Good idea.

:D

[lenidog]

7. Better yet how about we call it after the first computer

wasn't it called Eniac?

[Deja Q]

8. Because Eniac was stable whereas Gates' products crash and burn?

Gates seems more apropos to me.

[lenidog]

9. Well Eniac literally did have bugs in it

(that is where the term came from) and it can't sue us.

[kedrys]

3. A friend of mine wrote a whole manifesto on the subject of PC ed

The gist of it was that you need a driver's license to drive a car, so why wouldn't it make sense to have to get a user's licence before being allowed to run a computer? He teaches basic PC skills at a Learning Annex-type place, and I guess he got tired of all the f*cknozzles who think they can use a PC and end up screwing things up 24/7.

[lenidog]

4. LOL Now that is hilarious

Though I don't know it would be tougth to award those (How would we find out)and what would be the requirements. Would only people who supposedly knew about computers be eligible or would it be for everyone. Then we have to come up with a name. It would have to be something like the Gates Award.

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5. It would have to be like a guy I used to live next to.

He was making a lot of money by illegally copying software, (including Windows,) and I warned him that he'd get nailed.

Yup, he lost his ass.

Or another guy I know who had his entire computer setup, (including printer AND scanner) on one unprotected multi-outlet extension cord.

Lost it all in a thunderstorm.

[lenidog]

6. Now that was a true rocket scientist

another guy I know who had his entire computer setup, (including printer AND scanner) on one unprotected multi-outlet extension cord.