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Has anyone heard a more stupid story than the one below? On how stupid non-technological people can be, when it comes to computers...
I've read a story on some danish homepage, where it goes like this:
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WordPerfect Customer Support
TECH: "Welch Hall computer assistant; may I help you?"
CUST: "Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect."
TECH: "What sort of trouble?"
CUST: "Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away."
TECH: "Went away?"
CUST: "They disappeared."
TECH: "Hmm. So what does your screen look like now?"
CUST: "Nothing."
TECH: "Nothing?"
CUST: "It's blank; it won't accept anything when I type."
TECH: "Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out?"
CUST: "How do I tell?"
TECH: [Uh-oh. Well, let's give it a try anyway.] "Can you see the C:\> prompt on the screen?"
CUST: "What's a sea-prompt?"
TECH: [Uh-huh, thought so. Let's try a different tack.] "Never mind. Can you move the cursor around on the screen?"
CUST: "There isn't any cursor: I told you, it won't accept anything I type."
TECH: [Ah--at least s/he knows what a cursor is. Sounds like a hardware problem. I wonder if s/he's kicked out his/her monitor's power plug.] "Does your monitor have a power indicator?"
CUST: "What's a monitor?"
TECH: "It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on?"
CUST: "I don't know."
TECH: "Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that?"
CUST: [sound of rustling and jostling] [muffled] "Yes, I think so."
TECH: "Great! Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it's plugged into the wall."
CUST: [pause] "Yes, it is."
TECH: [Hmm. Well, that's interesting. I doubt s/he would have accidentally turned it off, and I don't want to send him/her hunting for the power switch because I don't know what kind of monitor s/he has and it's bound to have more than one switch on it. Maybe the video cable is loose or something.]
TECH: "When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one?"
CUST: "No."
TECH: "Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable."
CUST: [muffled] "Okay, here it is."
TECH: "Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged securely into the back of your computer."
CUST: [still muffled] "I can't reach."
TECH: "Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is?"
CUST: [clear again] "No."
TECH: "Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over?"
CUST: "Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle--it's because it's dark."
TECH: "Dark?"
CUST: "Yes--the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window."
TECH: "Well, turn on the office light then."
CUST: "I can't."
TECH: "No? Why not?"
CUST: "Because there's a power outage."
TECH: "A power--!?!" ...[AAAAAAARGH!]
Has any of you, an even dumber situation than this? 
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Ari Rahikkala
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Unreported loss of streaming in atomic read operation
Oct 1999
time: 07:24
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The proper answer to this thread's title is always: "Stupider than the example that you will give implies."
That said, I maintain that there are actually very, very few people in this world who really are truly stupid. I also maintain that there are very, very few people in this world who never act stupidly. The vast majority is quite senseful in most cases but sometimes seem shockingly stupid due to lack of information or human error. There are, however, much more truly stupid people than people who are never stupid.
(as an example of stupidity manifesting itself only in some cases, right now I'm between switching kernels (yes, I do it for fun - and for performance  ) and didn't care to start X when I came to Apolyton. Thus I'm writing this reply in Lynx. Now using Lynx is not quite intuitive, and neither is configuring and compiling a kernel, so I can pretty safely believe I'm not really stupid. However, at least this version of Lynx has a bug which prevents posting to Apolyton without using an ugly workaround (attaching a file). So an empty .txt attachment will come with this post. I could have easily decided to use eLinks instead of Lynx, but... well... I was just being stupid.)
 Attachment: /home/ari/tyhja.txt
This has been downloaded 3 time(s).
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Guynemer
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How stupid can people be?
Have you seen who we Americans elected as President?
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20-12-2002 21:45
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