The week in your words: deep Fryed Vista

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Posted on 12 Dec 2008 at 15:58

In a week that saw Vista reduce Stephen Fry to a blubbering wreck, the public discover what teenagers are really browsing, and a law firm branded bullies, we take a look back to see what our readers made of it all.

Vista triggers Stephen Fry Twitter meltdown

Vista is rubbish. Stephen Fry said so on Twitter, lamenting its inability to connect to a WEP network in the sort of language that makes sailors blush. This makes it official. Copies are now being stripped from the shelves, and its name expunged from Microsoft's records in a Stalinist purge of the company's history. Steve Ballmer was last seen handing out the Kool Aid at Redmond.

"It's okay to slate Vista for real issues but this doesn't sound much like the work of a computer literate," said Timogunt, though whether he's referring to Fry or Vista itself, we're unsure.

"While a little incoherent, it is, if nothing else, honest," said Bubbles15. "I find Vista awkward and intrusive, a bit like the big thug in the playground pushing you around always telling you what to do. Frankly, I can understand why Mr Fry dislikes it so much."

Muck wasn't convinced: "It was quite a sad day to see him behaving like an illiterate adolescent with no idea about technology. How can you take anything he says seriously now when he behaves like my son does when he gets shot by a storm trooper on his console?"

A fifth of teens send naked photos over web

You may be appalled by the story, but substitute the word "teens" for "grandparents" and we guarantee you won't stop crying for a week.

"I'm not actually surprised," said jstairmand, rather worryingly. "Only two weeks ago I was asked to salvage a HDD from an old PC used by the customer's daughter. On it was a large number of really explicit photos of her 16-year-old daughter."

Blimey, let's hope it was the daughter who put them there. cheysuli had an equally sordid tale to tell.

"Reminds me of the time I fixed my wife's friend's PC and found her husband did a lot of late-night surfing for lady boys. Looking them in face has been difficult ever since."

Is it the adam's apple and hairy hands? However, pkubecka had sympathy.

"It is more common than most of us would expect.
They just decided to conduct their social networks differently."

A social network, eh? We like it. We could call it Everything But The Face-book.

File-sharing "bullies" reported to legal watchdog

Which? has reported a law firm chasing alleged file sharers to the legal regulators. Bizzarely, the consumer watchdog claims to have proof that a middle-aged Scottish couple pursued by the firm didn't actually download Race 07 is order to pwn Mr and Mrs McGinty down the road. Asked to comment, the Scottish couple in question offered us a cup of tea and described this as a Law: FAIL. Whatever that means.

Commentators weren't shy about taking sides.

"The ends justify the means eh?" said Tablot Avenger. "No thought as to whether the scheme might be targeting the right people or how effective and well thought out it is. No, the very fact that we're doing something is enough. Fiddly details like legality and ethical considerations, well, let's not worry too much about those."