Mystification Of Computing
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Hello fellow *nixers,
This thread is about the prejudices "normal" people (or just retards) have about computing, or as I called it _mystification_ of computing.

Use this thread to discus and/or dump all your mystic materials.
A content is classified as mystic if it deviates from reality, or relate to a urban legend,
or is just completely hilarious because of its stupidity.
The content can vary from quotes to movie extracts. It can be anything.

Rules: You have to name each "case" of mystification and you have to give a little explanation of what you think is going on.

###The "Internet Explorer case" (aka the IE case):
A lot of people are still using this monstrous browser, in fact, I think 70% of the internet runs it.
This gave birth to what is known as the IE case, people *believing* IE is superior and *safer*.
Examples:

###The "Matrix screen case":
There's just too much content around the internet showing terminals with characters falling.
It's obviously a bad cliché, some still believe that someone somewhere is reading those characters.
Example:

###The "A thief is there case":
This one is pretty hard to explain. It's pretty common for people nowadays to think that stealing their accounts is easy.
Well, sometime it's relatively easy but most of the time it is not and there's already multiple ways to prevent anyone
from accessing someone else account or bruteforcing it. Let's be realistic, most of this is about phising and not about someone cracking accounts.
Example:

###The "App case":
A picture is better than a thousand words...

###The "CS case" (aka Computer Science is fun, aka counter strike):

###The "Bill Gate case":
This is about a little quote I hear a lot and that some really believe.
They still think that this guy started everything.

###The "Basement neckbeard case":
This case covers a lot of things.
Let's just stick to the "GF" sub-case.

###The "Unix Command case":
Let's say that this is about the ones that see Unix as something that lays on the dark side of the moon.

###The "Stupid teacher case":
This one is about the stupidest thing some teachers teach their students.

###The "Install Gentoo case":

You can also add more examples to a previous case.
Remember, the more content we have the merrier.

Technology holy wars from people who haven't a clue what they're on about, "Apple is better because it's much faster and never breaks", and of course the obvious "he's using terminal must be a hacker" thing, I've collected quite a few glares.

Reminds me of the time when a buddy changed the color of CMD on one of the netbooks. Teacher accused him of hacking. Hilarious.

The WYSIWYG Case:


The Copy & Paste Case:


Nice thread, venam :)

I want to add an image to The "Copy & Paste case".

(25-09-2013, 07:25 AM)venam Wrote: I want to add an image to The "Copy & Paste case".

For those with an inferior browser, it's an animated GIF.

That would actually be kinda cool to have.

## The "Free Up Space Technique Case"

I've frequently seen the "free up space technique case" around. On Windows™ you never know if deleting a desktop.ini or whatever ~HLHLAF file will break something or not but on *nix you can normally just delete all the stuff in the home dir that won't radically break anything.

The "Afraid-To-Root" Case:

I'm afraid of rooting because for me rooting is the same as using root as the default user on a GNU/Linux OS.

It's really not. It's more like being able to use sudo. You still need to manually grant root access to **apps**

Yeah.. you can also set a password for it.