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Colorado Man Ends Battle With Computer by Shooting it 8 Times

posted by mrcoolbp on Wednesday April 22 2015, @06:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the dagnabbit-stupid-freaking.... dept.

Grishnakh writes:

A 37-year-old Colorado Springs man was cited for discharging a weapon within city limits after shooting his Dell computer 8 times with a 9mm handgun. The police report said that he "was fed up with fighting his computer for the last several months" and shot it in a back alley behind his home. What was not mentioned is exactly why he was so "fed up" with his computer. Could this senseless and violent tragedy have been avoided if his PC were running Linux instead?

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @06:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @06:56AM (#173855)

    But you can only fix the problem yourself if it's free software. (You can use another computer if the last one got caught in a hail of bullets.)

    For the uninitiated https://fsf.org/ [fsf.org]

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Ryuugami on Wednesday April 22 2015, @07:57AM

    by Ryuugami (2925) on Wednesday April 22 2015, @07:57AM (#173874)

    One, free ≠ open source.
    Two, most people can't "fix" an accidentally misplaced Firefox toolbar. Debugging a major application or an OS is not really an option.
    Three, you really think debugging what someone else wrote won't be rage-inducing?

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    If a shit storm's on the horizon, it's good to know far enough ahead you can at least bring along an umbrella. - D.Weber

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by moondrake on Wednesday April 22 2015, @09:03AM

      by moondrake (2658) on Wednesday April 22 2015, @09:03AM (#173887)

      re: most people, true. Yet, I do not think we (as people who can fix things) should be held back by people who cannot do this.

      It is like saying: some people have no idea how to stick food in their mouths, therefore we should all just stop eating and advising people to eat.

      It think such attitude is detrimental to one-selves and does not bring us anything as a society. Either you (i.e. the incompetent one) learn to fix things, help to fix things (debug) or you should shut up and deal with it. The world does not revolve around you and if you cannot use the tools available, than this is just too bad for you. Its not a bad thing. I sometimes try to fix problems I encounter. On other occasions I do not have the time or do not consider it worthwhile. In those cases, I just avoid the software/hardware or simply cope with its problems. There is no reason to be angry about it though.

      Re: debugging rage-inducing:
      not at all. I find it strangely satisfying to find errors in other peoples code. What is rage-inducing is when they refuse to acknowledge it is a bug (yes systemd-devs I am looking at you!).

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @03:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @03:57PM (#174024)

      Three, you really think debugging what someone else wrote won't be rage-inducing?

      Of course it will be rage-inducing. But what you'll want to shoot won't be the computer.