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Originally Posted by LazyScot
Oh… I was going to explain about the excellence of My Space and why people should look at it for at least 30 minutes a day.
Ouch... Put down the stick, please. This is on-topic. Trust me…. No, you don't need the capital letters Zelda (no, please don't order a few more gross of them.) If I can just explain about MySpace – It's not as if I'm not asking you to like it.
Now let's start back a bit when DTP first came out (sorry, I was a lecturer once…). In those days The Collection didn't have much work to do as computers weren't so widespread (and music was pretty tightly controlled through a small number of record labels), and generally did it by looking at images and hoping for the best – Health and Safety wasn't around. It also meant that their pension plan was very good since almost no-one survived to take it out, or at least survived in any recognisable form.
Then one day an image slipped by, and well, it wasn't too bad but the Bay City Rollers had an unexpected revival. Now eventually they found out what happened. Poor young Joe (name changed to protect the insane) had looked at it, but not suffered so it was assumed to be okay. But Joe had been into SciFi fanzines and had access to some early DTP packages through the Collection – and as always happened in the early days got a little bit carried away with fonts, sizes, alignments, and so on. With the usual result of a page that was best described as challenging to look at. And he'd been doing this continuously for about 4 hours a day, every day for months on end. And basically parts of his visual cortex partially shorted out in self defence. Now it transpires that those parts are exactly the parts most of the visual hack use to take a human 1.0 over. So he'd basically he'd developed a degree of resistance. (Sadly, not enough, it was later to transpire.)
(Actually rumour has it that the music side of the Collection had tried a similar kind of "inoculation", and that's where Eurovision Song Contest came from…)
Now once the web came out, it seemed an excellent idea to try and provide a mechanism that you can play on the computer which basically damages your optical system just enough to prevent most viruses from getting a foothold. And that was how MySpace started (yup, a sort of Eurovision Song Contest for the web). The hope is, that with its incredible popularity with the young, it will provide a high degree of resistance to these hacks, and make the work of the Collection somewhat easier – or at least give them longer to catch and adapt any dangerous images…
See – I told you MySpace was a great thing – bruises up your optical system something chronic to help save your mind. (Whatdya mean, the cure is worse than the disease….)
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I'd recommend some medications, but you'd probably think I was from MoM.
