Reportedly a girl earned a phone confiscation from her mother by watching YouTube while the stove caught fire. There were so many opportunities around their house to circumvent being grounded that it only slowed down her access to the source of her addiction, earning some attention around the net:
In her recounting over Twitter DM, Dorothy told me that her mom took away her phone after she "was boiling rice and was too busy on phone and stove burst into flames." She was watching YouTube at the time.
After her phone was confiscated, she began desperately searching for other ways to tweet. "I've been bored all summer and twitter passes the time for me," she said. She also worried that if she stayed off the platform too long, she'd lose her mutuals — internet shorthand for users who follow each other.
In her search for other posting methods, Dorothy came up with increasingly elaborate ways to daisy-chain systems not designed for tweeting. In her first post, she managed to send a tweet from her Nintendo 3DS, a video-game console with a rudimentary camera and web browser. [...]
She also allegedly used a Nintendo Wii U before settling on the family LG Smart Refrigerator.
Whether this is a gag or not, there are several important issues rasied here regarding both addiction and the proliferation of poorly secured comsumer grade devices.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday August 14 2019, @08:09PM (9 children)
This girl needs to know that tweeting from the fridge is a bad idea.
If you're supposed to be paying attention to cooking, then you should be able to tweet from the stove. Thus, whoever created this story as a stealth ad to sell refrigerators could use a variation of it to sell new stoves.
You should also be able to tweet from the thermostat. And children's toys.
Dear Mr. President, take note of the subject line.
Perhaps plumbing fixtures must also be fitted with the technology to tweet.
Clearly this girl needs help with her tweeting problem. A whole new generation of tweet-compatible household appliances would be just the thing.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @08:24PM (4 children)
Factists like you never care about how other people feel. All you care about is being right. Let her tweet.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday August 14 2019, @08:40PM
Wouldn't my suggestion of a Stove that can Tweet be helpful in the way you wish? That way she wouldn't have to tweet from a phone, which caused the fire, which got her electronics taken away, which forced her to tweet from the fridge.
Or, maybe she could just learn that there are some moments in life that can be enjoyed in blessed silence, without tweeting.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday August 14 2019, @08:49PM (1 child)
> Factists like you
Is a Factist opposed to or in favor of facts?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday August 15 2019, @11:17PM
I think they discriminate based on facts. Some people's facts are A-OK, other people's facts make them the spawn of Satan incarnate. People can't choose the facts their born with. This evil bigotry must be stamped out at once!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Friday August 16 2019, @12:03AM
How racist of you to diss the GP solely because of his desire to be right. I bet if he was Left, you would encourage him to be more Left! But Government forbid him from being triple Left, because every knows that's the same as being Right. And let us not speak about the ambidextrous and their inability to choose between Right or Left and decide to bridge the gap. The Left and the Right can't be allowed to overlap! That's down right Evil! Wait... Down Left evil... Ambidextrously evil? um.. Like racist. Yeah morally racist.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Wednesday August 14 2019, @08:40PM
> Perhaps plumbing fixtures must also be fitted with the technology to tweet.
Aren't plumbing fixtures actually the technology that carries the tweets anyway, the internet being a series of tubes or pipes? no ?
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday August 15 2019, @04:34PM
then the security issues when the fridge is hijacked by an ipv6 js spam packet from china and her entire persona becomes a fan of Xi's policies of human organ harvesting and the door starts to open and close randomly, hitting her in the face, giving her a eureka moment that there is an actual liability to putting any device on a network, and so any person who can think is trying to minimize this number in every way possible.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday August 16 2019, @04:20AM (1 child)
This sounds just a bit too weird to be true. What's the bet it's a publicity stunt, viral marketing, or something similar.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 16 2019, @02:24PM
You'll notice that I wrote:
Thus, whoever created this story as a stealth ad to sell refrigerators could use a variation of it to sell new stoves.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday August 14 2019, @08:48PM
"Tweeting in the Fridge"
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by choose another one on Wednesday August 14 2019, @09:08PM (2 children)
In the old (ish) days my kids had access to the internet only from a desktop in the kitchen and only for limited time each day.
All that control was instantly subverted when the first kid moved up to secondary school (US: high school, roughly) and was issued with an iPad, wireless connection required. Yep, that's right, a device that they can take (almost) anywhere, which had no screen-time or other parental controls, required internet access in order to "do homework", issued by the ******* school...
Wasn't long before they all had smartphones as well and I completely gave up trying to control it. Restricted wi-fi available time at the router for a while, but then they'd need to "do homework" as soon as it went off, or they'd just hop onto one of the neighbours open access points (or hack into a closed one) anyway.
Now the only limits are an ISP porn filter on the router and a bit of log checking for vpns etc. - but it's really just theatre. I know they can get round it and find porn, but they have to do a bit of work for it, as they should. Still won't be like in my day when you had to listen to the modem screech for ages, praying it didn't drop, as your jpeg came down and rendered pixel-line by pixel-line, all the while wondering if this image would turn out to be a good one or not.
Still, 'tis progress. Obviously in our day we had to walk miles to school, barefoot, in the snow, and it were uphill both ways, etc. etc.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Wednesday August 14 2019, @09:44PM (1 child)
And of course, what the school is teaching is that EVERYTHING MUST be done on an Apple(R)(TM) iPhad(R)(TM) or similar consumertardastic device that brings in the $$$$$.
Give the little fuckers a pencil and paper, and brutally murder the salesmen selling this retarded shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 15 2019, @02:03PM
> and brutally murder the salesmen selling this retarded shit.
Wish I could but I'd lose my job the instant the superintendents and principals stop getting the newest toys as "incentive" for handing their entire tech budget to Apple while their CompSci labs still languish on computers that chug running Windows 7.
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Wednesday August 14 2019, @09:17PM
Obviously we need a stove and pan with youtube and twitter access, such that no phone is required. Then the pan can twitter to the stove that it is about to catch fire and the appropriate video is displayed - livestreams will be established from the current mayhem and flammatory discomfort both stove and pan are having. Then, with any luck of reality, the smart girl will associate the video with the stove and pan and prevent a burned down house in the process. Then, both stove, pan, fridge and the girl will each twitter their success. If reality fails, everybody in the house dies, including stove, pan and fridge, and a Darwin award submission will be forwarded by the firehoses. Everybody wins!
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday August 15 2019, @04:19PM
Set the password to be pi calculated to 10 decimal places, and give her a calculator. One way or another she will get in, this way her math improves. Rotate the problem every week and see how she does.
(Score: 1) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday August 15 2019, @04:31PM
of difference between intelligence and wisdom.
If we're solving problems that don't need to be solved to needlessly increase the expense of devices, why not tweet from EVERY device in the kitchen?
Who doesn't think of things to announce to the world while waiting 90 seconds for oatmeal to heat up?
Sometimes I think things like this exist to divert intelligence from problems that someone doesn't want solved.