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Articles / The stupid user

    The stupid user - is this truly an honest label? Are we, who make it our business to know and pioneer computers, such gods that those who bother less are rendered stupefied? We must pose the question: is technology overwhelming the average consumer’s common knowledge, or is the average consumer an illogical buffoon who is senile to the ever changing world of technology which continually relies more and more on the logic and common sense of society. I would choose the latter of the two, and I shall explain why.

"When it says 'click the right mouse button' do they mean MY right or theirs?"

    The first atrocity, whoever has ever asked this question has no excuse for their blatant stupidity. Apparently this person has assumed that the computer is a living entity, and that it matters to the computer for it to have its own perspective. Certainly when developing a computer or its software the designers concentrated their efforts on how the computer sees the user and not how the user sees the computer. Fucking nimrods.

"Why do stars come up when I put in my password?"

    Now we have the simpletons: Why o why does this computer substitute what I type for stars when I enter my password? May someone inform this person that it is supposed to do that and that as long as they type it in right it will work? And then simpleton would become enraged and point out the obvious flaw: that they would not be able to make sure they typed their password in correctly if only stars appear. Arrogant humans love to take the offensive when they think they have attained a strong, unarguable fact. Sadly this fool would then be struck down with the sad truth that if their password appeared as typed, it would then be revealed to enemy onlookers thus destroying the purpose of the password. But fear not, when the simpleton is open to suggestions, u could always tell him to make his password completely out of asterisks [*/the stars that appear when typing a password] so that he will always be sure that he typed it right [being an idiot he will certainly not realize that it will still make an asterisk if he mistypes and asterisk]. But don’t worry, for it will be impossible to mistype his new password as long as you don’t mention that to make an asterisk you not only have to press the */8 key, but that the shift key must be held down as well. The simpleton will then go on with his sad, sad life, and when the time comes, when he needs to give his password to someone, the poor sap he tells to type 5 stars will not realize that in actuality, the password is 88888.

    To be continued…