Sunday, July 31, 2005

Learning about computers

You think you know computers? Not as well as this person.

For instance, did you know that: "Every Hard drive has a unique IP address. An IP address is used by the internet so the governmnet can keep track of you. That way if someone is doing something illegal, such as hacking, the government or police can identify this person by their IP address, simmilar to a cars liscence plate." (sic)

She also discusses HDD Disk Drives (which, as far as I can tell, means "Hard Disk Drive Disk Drive").

I really like her disussion on the CPU, the Central Programming Unit (which is apparantly the same thing as a motherboard).

All that time wasted in my computer science classes.

9 comments:

Sara and Scott said...

Ummmm is she kidding?

Is this some joke that I don't get?

James said...

If it is a joke, I know I don't get it. Did you see the part at the top about how she's going to make a CD to teach people things about computers? Be afraid.

I better not say too much else, the internet is watching me.

Sara and Scott said...

Yeah the government knows your IP address. Be afraid. They might tap into your Central Programming Unit.

For someone who knows so much about computers, it's funny she needs her kids to help her make a CD.

Zutroy said...

bwa ha hhaah hah haha!

Everything this woman has said can be summed up by the ole Gipper.

Scott McCarthy said...

"stealing IP addresses is illegal and I will not be explaining how to do it here."
Awe.. common.. share you're amazing IP hacking skills with us.
No matter, I will get dozens of HDDDD's! Then I will have multiple IP adress and you will never find me. :)

Medieval said...

I don't think this is a joke. 95% of people don't understand computers at all and this will seem like a perfectly reasonable explanation.

The whole HDD disc thing isn't really that silly.. I mean, people often use "oh, this RISC computer.." which is reduced instruction set computer computer :)

I wouldn't much care for IP addresses being attached to the hard drive.. bad idea. Too much illegalities on my hard drive ;)

Zutroy said...

Well to be fair your drive DOES have a serial number. And your network card has a 12hex unique address which can be used to track you. But it doesn't matter this woman is retarded.

Sara and Scott said...

Retarded isn't a very nice word...

but I guess when the shoe fits, what can you do?

I realize a lot of people don't know much about computers, I mean heck, I don't know a lot about computers either... but then again, I'm not some self professed computer expert, selling CD's to the computerly uniformed.

Maybe I'll distribute a CD about my knowledge of Russian history pre-WWI... apparently knowledge on a subject isn't a pre-requisite.

Sara and Scott said...

Oh no! The government must have found Judy's website and hacked her site, even though she didn't share her incredible IP hacking skills.

Or maybe it was some 12 year old kid with more computer knowledge than poor Judy. Slightly more plausible. Either way, she's been hacked.