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Y.A.P.P. (Yet Another Pet Peeve)
« on: July 14, 2011, 06:29:05 PM »
Some days a lot of minor things really irritate me (perhaps it has something to do with my recent root canal but that's for another thread).

WinXP went a bit south of me when my 'crss.exe' file got corrupted (by a virus, apparently, and then my AV just removed the file, leaving WinXP a bit at a loss for what to do).  So I started googling CRSS.EXE and found this:

Summary: Average user rating of csrss.exe: 3 based on 375 votes with 9 reviews.
112 users think csrss.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 20 users think it's probably harmless. 86 users think it's neither essential nor dangerous. 69 users suspect danger. 88 users think csrss.exe is dangerous and recommend to remove it. 31 users doesn't grade csrss.exe ("not sure about it").


wtf?  Who cares what Average Joe (or Joanna) think about this?  Like the average user is going to have a clue about what Windows systems files do?  To borrow from an old chess adage, it's like having a bunch of monkeys examine a watch.

Of course, this stuff exists all over in the 'real' world as well.  I mean, do you want your neighbor voting on stuff about which they have neither capacity nor motivation to understand (nuclear plants, pipelines, geothermal drilling, spotted wing drosophila---er, scratch that last one).

Bah!

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Re: Y.A.P.P. (Yet Another Pet Peeve)
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2011, 08:59:00 PM »
The internet has led to a terrible trend: crowdsourcing.

To paraphrase one of the founding principles of the open source community: none of us is as dumb as all of us.
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Re: Y.A.P.P. (Yet Another Pet Peeve)
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2011, 07:11:27 PM »
I feel the same.

It's annoying when people vote, especially for local laws/regulations, without understanding what they are voting for. Only hearing "VOTE FOR PROP X!" and thinking "Oh I've heard of prop X! Must have a lot of support and be good for my interest if they can afford to advertise that much."
I often choose not to vote when electing local officials when I don't know about either. I feel like like a pawn if I vote someone in purely based on name recognition (which I think many people do). Some people get mad and say "Flex your right to Vote! Vote or Die!" but it doesn't make any sense to vote blindly.
      I think a lot of people are stupid, in some ways. It's always bothered me that a person who hasn't researched what he's voting for is equal to someone who knows what he's voting for. I think how a majority who votes blindly can overpower a minority who knows what they're dealing with is wrong. That system is just begging for social control. Just because everyone believes it doesn't mean its the right thing to do. I don't know what that makes me politically, but I wish I did.

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Re: Y.A.P.P. (Yet Another Pet Peeve)
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2011, 02:22:08 AM »
Something tells me that this spamvertisement is not going to be as useful as the poster hopes. Seeing as I don't think any of us speak Russian.
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Re: Y.A.P.P. (Yet Another Pet Peeve)
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2011, 06:05:18 AM »
Going by the picture it's something to do with bad breath or possibly earwax fetishists.

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« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2011, 05:50:42 AM »
Wrong hoopy! I do! But not quite fluently...
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Re: Y.A.P.P. (Yet Another Pet Peeve)
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2011, 04:40:47 AM »
Call back and say, that bored, hang up and go kiss now.

If my googlefu is correct. I found it on dozens of what I guess is the Russian equivalent of mindless social networking pages of slightly odd looking scenekids. My guess is it's some kind of trendy saying going around. >.>