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Title: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: Karlos on June 25, 2011, 07:13:29 PM
According to the Daily Fail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2007094/Ryan-Clearys-mother-reveals-hacker-issued-suicide-threat.html), you may be a neer-do-well cyberterrorist if you own anything in the following image...

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/22/article-2007094-0CB0204000000578-735_634x450.jpg)

Sh*t, I am pretty sure I have a desk fan too...

:roflmao:
Title: Re: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on June 25, 2011, 08:05:46 PM
Quote from: Karlos;647042


Sh*t, I am pretty sure I have a desk fan too...

:roflmao:

Let alone a keyboard, mouse and mousepad :D
Title: Re: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: gertsy on June 26, 2011, 02:42:18 AM
A Cat.  A warning to all feline lovers.
 Hang on, maybe there's more than 1 pussy in the picture..?
Title: Re: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: CritAnime on June 26, 2011, 03:30:44 AM
my god I have a pin sentry so best hide that bastard incase i get accused of breaking into the CIA. :D
Title: Re: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: Xanxi on June 26, 2011, 10:10:54 AM
Nice cat.
Title: Re: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: motorollin on June 26, 2011, 11:20:36 AM
This case is a very sad demonstration of how mental health and communication difficulties in childhood can contribute to kids going off the rails :(

I also particularly dislike the description of a fellow arrestee as an "Asperger’s sufferer". Life can be hard for people with autism, but it doesn't have to be and not every body "suffers" with it. Lots of the kids I work with are very happy with who they are, and it's everybody else (who has to do all that strange social interaction stuff) who is suffering ;)
Title: Re: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on June 26, 2011, 12:45:08 PM
Quote from: motorollin;647151
This case is a very sad demonstration of how mental health and communication difficulties in childhood can contribute to kids going off the rails :(

I also particularly dislike the description of a fellow arrestee as an "Asperger’s sufferer". Life can be hard for people with autism, but it doesn't have to be and not every body "suffers" with it. Lots of the kids I work with are very happy with who they are, and it's everybody else (who has to do all that strange social interaction stuff) who is suffering ;)

Yeah, "Asperger's sufferer", while these kids can do stuff many "normal"  people can't. The only thing backward is the culture that doesn't take advantage of the capabilities of all the different "sufferers".
Title: Re: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: motorollin on June 26, 2011, 02:19:05 PM
Quote from: Speelgoedmannetje;647158
Yeah, "Asperger's sufferer", while these kids can do stuff many "normal"  people can't. The only thing backward is the culture that doesn't take advantage of the capabilities of all the different "sufferers".


Exactly! Wendy Lawson has a really interesting take on this very thing. She says it's not being "different" that causes distress to the autistic individual, but they way that others react to them.

I guess people are frightened when people don't interact in the ways they expect, and then they make assumptions about that person's abilities. It's like the "don't walk" scene in Rainman.
Title: Re: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: nicholas on June 26, 2011, 07:09:41 PM
There isn't a coder alive (nor dead!) that doesn't fall somewhere within the bounds of ASD.
Title: Re: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: adz on June 29, 2011, 05:28:55 AM
Me thinks I had better take down the pics of my geek-o-sphere before I land myself on a cyberterrorist watch list... :nervous: :idea:
Title: Re: Better check what you have in your geek room
Post by: motorollin on June 29, 2011, 06:39:59 AM
Quote from: adz;647587
Me thinks I had better take down the pics of my geek-o-sphere before I land myself on a cyberterrorist watch list... :nervous: :idea:


Don't worry, it's just the Daily Mail's Cyberterrorist Watch List, and anyone who has ever been within 5 metres of a person who's not the colour of wallpaper paste is on that.