Idiots on the internet

MJ4H · 03-30-2008, 02:31 PM

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/securi...08/03/epilepsy

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Originally Posted by The article

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, which runs the forum, briefly closed the site Sunday to purge the offending messages and to boost security.

sterlingice · 03-30-2008, 02:44 PM

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

SI

Surtt · 03-30-2008, 03:22 PM

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

jeff061 · 03-30-2008, 03:28 PM

Hackers?

jeff061 · 03-30-2008, 03:33 PM

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 · 03-30-2008, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by sterlingice

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 · 03-30-2008, 04:57 PM

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

03-30-2008, 02:44 PM	#2
sterlingice Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Back in Houston!	With a title like "idiots on the internet", this thread could have gone any number of directions SI __________________ Houston Hippopotami, III.3: 20th Anniversary Thread - All former HT players are encouraged to check it out! Janos: "Only America could produce an imbecile of your caliber!" Freakazoid: "That's because we make lots of things better than other people!"

03-30-2008, 03:22 PM	#3
Surtt College Benchwarmer Join Date: Nov 2003	Those people should be charged with assault and locked away for a long, long time. __________________ “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” United States Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

03-30-2008, 03:28 PM	#4
jeff061 Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: MA	Hackers? __________________

03-30-2008, 03:33 PM	#5
jeff061 Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: MA	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. __________________

03-30-2008, 04:57 PM	#7
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	We could use this thread as kind of a compendium. Post other examples.

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