Idiots on the internet

[MJ4H]

I guess it's really funny if you don't have loved ones that suffer through this stuff in real life.

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/03/epilepsy


Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users.
The nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation (http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/index.cfm), which runs the forum, briefly closed the site Sunday to purge the offending messages and to boost security.

[sterlingice]

With a title like "idiots on the internet", this thread could have gone any number of directions

SI

[Surtt]

Those people should be charged with assault and locked away for a long, long time.

[jeff061]

Hackers?

[jeff061]

When I was in middle there was an epileptic girl. The winners that made up my peers used to drop heavy things in trash cans and knock stuff over around her. Don't believe it ever actually worked, probably just convinced her that she went to school with a lot of clutzes.

[Chief Rum]

With a title like "idiots on the internet", this thread could have gone any number of directions

SI

Yeah! In fact, I'm kinda annoyed that, with all of the massive idiocy we have on the Internet, that this is the topic we use this thread title for. :)

[MJ4H]

We could use this thread as kind of a compendium. Post other examples.