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  • fcruz1331, on 04/28/2008, -106/+12u beat me by 33 seconds.... one day ill submit xkcd and FINALLY get on the front page!!
    • Kazanoe, on 04/28/2008, -4/+162That'll be the day xkcd doesn't make the front page. I promise.
    • twiztidsinz, on 04/28/2008, -19/+47PLEASE! For the love of everything Digg ever stood for... STOP.
      Digg is not an RSS feed reader -- we dont need the same webpages being posted every time they update.
      • dazparkour, on 04/28/2008, -3/+52I am not here because of XKCD. I went to XKCD for this a long time before it was on the front page.
        I came here because of the comments ABOUT XKCD, which is the point of digg (since most people don't read articles).
        • twiztidsinz, on 04/28/2008, -17/+5oh *****!
          And all this time I thought Digg was a 'Social News' site where one would READ AN ARTICLE then come back and COMMENT ON THE STORY ALONG WITH OTHERS. I didn't realize that NOT RTFA was indended now.

          But it still doesn't change the fact that Digg is not supposed to have the same page posted 3 days a week every week simply for the sake of posting the page. If the comic was relevant or satirical of something current or makes a statement about some 'hot topic' fine... but posting a webcomic thats updated what, 3 times a week? -JUST- for the sake of posting it AND on top of that blatantly rushing to get it 'first' is not what Digg was meant for.
          • qwerter, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3"And all this time I thought Digg was a 'Social News' site where one would READ AN ARTICLE then come back and COMMENT ON THE STORY ALONG WITH OTHERS."

            Er, yeah. That's pretty much what he said.
        • specialK16, on 04/28/2008, -1/+21Too bad most comments on XKCD submissions suck most of the times.
        • saisumimen, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1>suck most of the times
          >most of the times
          >of the times
          >the times
          >times

          You have no idea how right you are.
      • mhuggins, on 04/28/2008, -3/+15I enjoy XKCD, but it's not a website that I think to visit unless I come across it on Digg. As such, I rather enjoy that they make it to the front page frequently.
        • uhhNo, on 04/28/2008, -12/+1Your fortune:

          You will die a horrible death.
    • Subversyve, on 04/28/2008, -2/+12If you keep trying hard enough someday I'm sure you'll win the "Front Page 15,000 Dollar Prize"
  • Kazanoe, on 04/28/2008, -6/+80Actually, it's *auto*config.
    Frankly, I prefer the manual way.
  • sil3ntmac, on 04/28/2008, -52/+26"Ctrl-C? Hah... Deleting partitions..."
  • teexcue, on 04/28/2008, -16/+230Dugg for the description...I tried submitting it before reading it too =]
    • dazparkour, on 04/28/2008, -10/+4You and everyone else.
    • jboyd88, on 04/28/2008, -2/+90You sicken me.
    • ruddy, on 04/28/2008, -1/+4no ones written an auto submit program yet?
      • npsken, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5captcha
        And within the time an average home computer could crack the captcha, another digg user would have submitted it
    • skinrock, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4Dugg for not whining that your's didn't make it.
  • db0255, on 04/28/2008, -27/+8I just XKCDed my pants I'm so excited.
  • afty8, on 04/28/2008, -4/+454dugg for the honest description
  • abstractual, on 04/28/2008, -22/+7*insert comment about how XKCD makes it to the front page. always.*
    • Smashery, on 04/28/2008, -3/+19*insert comment about how it's still better than a whole lot of the other crap that makes it to the front page.*

      Wait... this is starting to feel familiar...
      http://digg.com/comedy/Guy_doing_some_stuff_after_ ...
      • amanilaenvelope, on 04/28/2008, -1/+20*insert comment ho- forget this man, im going to OGC at some pron.
    • TheHayze, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7*insert comment on how certain sites always make the front page of digg regardless if it's funny, or intelligent, or is relevant in any way.*
      *cough*4chan pictures*cough*
  • kalleanka, on 04/28/2008, -9/+47Don't worry guys, I beat there are a bunch of geeks out there who have written scripts for auto posting XKCD as soon as they come out. No way you guys can beat their scripts and MANUALLY submitted the story and be first.
  • redchina, on 04/28/2008, -80/+7Haven't read it yet eh? Don't waste your time. You won't laugh. xkcd is not funny.
    • Fafnir43, on 04/28/2008, -2/+45We found a heretic! May we burn him?
    • greeniemeani, on 04/28/2008, -12/+3XCKD is usually funny, but this one was not.
      • Danar, on 04/28/2008, -1/+4Thats what people have been saying the last 10 xkcd's that have been on the front page.
        • greeniemeani, on 04/28/2008, -3/+2Which is also basically true...
    • LRE13, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4BOOOOO YOU MALADJUSTED HARPIE!!!!!!!!!!
    • tech42er, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1XKCD is generally only funny if you get it. Read the disclaimer under the comic.
  • hazard99, on 04/28/2008, -25/+8I never understand these comics.
  • amanilaenvelope, on 04/28/2008, -16/+5*sigh* im still not feeling the ol' xkcd in this one.another hit and miss i guess
  • Flashman, on 04/28/2008, -24/+8CTRL-C? I don't get it.
    • Xanrez, on 04/28/2008, -3/+25In old school systems (as in terminal access), CTRL-C == break (stop and get the fsck out!)
      • fatrandy13, on 04/28/2008, -0/+22or modern day *nix systems...
        • Jektal, on 04/28/2008, -2/+10Or in the Windows command prompt (terminal; yes - old school; ...well damnit... you got me...)
      • blagoaw, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3I'm probably not the only one who initially thought you were literally talking about outdated school computer systems, because oldschool was separated by a space. It didn't become clear to me until I read Jektal's comment. And yes, the command line lives on.
      • jimthenglishman, on 04/28/2008, -3/+1dugg for "fsck"
        • jimthenglishman, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1i guess you guys who dugg me down don't get *nix puns?
    • consoneo, on 04/28/2008, -1/+17Ctrl-C is a terminator key combo in most command prompt systems.
    • Orion682, on 04/28/2008, -14/+1Ctrl +C ALSO closes Windows in most GUI applications. It's basically a shortcut for either close or break.
      • daok, on 04/28/2008, -3/+14Ctrl+C is for Copy in most Gui application.... not close... Ctrl+C break in console...
        • HumbleDialog, on 04/28/2008, -5/+12Ctrl+C is for Copy in most Gui application.... not close... Ctrl+C break in console...
        • NavS, on 04/28/2008, -4/+13Ctrl+C is for Copy in most Gui application.... not close... Ctrl+C break in console...
          • ArmandoM, on 04/28/2008, -4/+4Ctrl+V is for Paste in most Gui applkcation....
            Ctrl+V is for Paste in most Gui applkcation....
            Ctrl+V is for Paste in most Gui applkcation....
            Ctrl+V is for Paste in most Gui applkcation....
        • mhuggins, on 04/28/2008, -2/+2+5 diggs
          by daok 3 hours ago
          Ctrl+C is for Copy in most Gui application.... not close... Ctrl+C break in console...
          Hide 2 replies to this comment (most popular has 4 diggs)

          +5 diggs
          by HumbleDialog 3 hours ago
          Ctrl+C is for Copy in most Gui application.... not close... Ctrl+C break in console...

          +5 diggs
          by NavS 3 hours ago
          Ctrl+C is for Copy in most Gui application.... not close... Ctrl+C break in console...
          • blagoaw, on 04/28/2008, -2/+0I played a part in that. What can I say, it just felt right. Would you prefer 5, 5, 3? I didn't think so.
      • jncro, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5Epic Fail
      • Orion682, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Wow... I have CLEARLY lost my mind @_@
    • blagoaw, on 04/28/2008, -2/+0These comments are making me feel old.
      • legendxx, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Digg used to be a technology site. Now it's a up and coming youtube/myspace/facebook site as far as the user demographics.
      • tech42er, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1How so? THey should simply make you feel smart.Rest assured we still use the command line all the time.
    • AronT, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3Aw, don't digg the guy down - at least he didn't say "Shouldn't it be Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V?"
  • jamezracer, on 04/28/2008, -8/+208ctrl-c is used to end or stop a script. normally used if something goes horrible wrong while coding and you get stuck in a loop or can't wait for it to timeout.
    • noseeme, on 04/28/2008, -20/+117Thanks Professor. Now let me teach you the wonders of the reply button.
      • daizaru, on 04/28/2008, -1/+39Not everyone is a terminal user, it helps to give context to the people who are thinking control-c is to copy stuff to the clipboard and not getting the joke. Shame on him for trying to share some knowledge, I don't see evidence that he was trying to reply.
      • driftwood07, on 04/28/2008, -1/+20i agree . to most digg users ctrl c is probably nothing more than 'copy' and the joke made no sense
      • pero69, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1or the fun the accidental "reply all" can bring.
      • stev31h, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3I didnt see any of the comments dugg down confused about ctrl-c, so a "reply" would have been unwarranted.
    • asskicker32, on 04/28/2008, -3/+39Oh, well let me tell you about a reply button. Back in my day, we didnt have reply buttons. If you wanted to reply to something, you had to start a new thread with the subject of "Regarding what that guy was talking about, my appropriate rebuttal is below:" and send 14 telegrams (We called them Liberty Letters) to the Major news outlets across the country. In 12 days, or when President Roosevelt (Teddy, not that young punk who ran us into war) decided it was ready, you were able to submit your rebuttal to the original poster. Once your original thread was replied to (Usually 8 weeks, since our teletype secretary was pretty backed up), you could read what you posted. This whole process was stared with a big wooden handle, which we called the "answering handle". Of course, back then, it wasnt really a handle at all, more of a wooden bar that splintered into your hand when you pulled it. Not that anyone pulled it, because anytime anyone had anything to say, they would usually just say it. That was our way back then; much more peaceful times...
      • Pritchard, on 04/28/2008, -0/+8I remember those days. Things were better back then.
        • daverave999, on 04/28/2008, -0/+9Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
      • bosssmiley, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2"I only like things that are old"
    • SQLserver, on 04/28/2008, -2/+7Was it sad that I wondered how one could not possibly know that?
    • iiBeLiEvE, on 04/28/2008, -0/+10I thought it meant copy =(
      • Asheis, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1Me too :( non-techies ftw. ;)
      • ryanwarnersteel, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1no *****, me 3. i never laugh at these...
  • kevman459, on 04/28/2008, -24/+166"I'd add an apt description, but in the rush to post it on Digg, I haven't actually read it yet."
    So in an effort to be the first person to submit this you:
    * Didn't add a description
    * Used a misworded vague title
    * Didn't upload a thumbnail of the actual comic
    Awesome.
  • rivalius13, on 04/28/2008, -3/+64Alt title: I hear this an option in the latest Ubuntu release
    • MacTyler, on 04/28/2008, -4/+7wait what!? how did you find that?
      • t0x2c, on 04/28/2008, -3/+8Wooosh.
        • MacTyler, on 04/28/2008, -1/+12Actually I was just kidding...

          So yeah, wooosh
      • smrekar, on 04/28/2008, -2/+5don't worry i just discovered it last month. i posted it and got buried. some people dont know this. what diggers fail to realize is that there are new people joining digg everyday and so the XKCD cartoons are new to some people all of the time.
      • xz9925, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3if no one has given you the answer its the alt img txt.. either hover your mouse over the img for a sec or too and you should see it.. if in firefox and it looks incomplete, the only way i've found to read the full alt txt is to right click the img and view the properties and highlight the alt txt and it should scroll so you can read it all..
    • seanc6610, on 04/28/2008, -0/+11oh man if you're not being sarcastic, you have hours of reading xkcd alt titles ahead of you.
  • smacksaw, on 04/28/2008, -1/+77Often the race to post this first is funnier than the comic itself.

    Someone should start keeping score for the people who submit this as it's turned into some sort of contest. Whoever gets the most submissions loses.
    • surKaz, on 04/28/2008, -0/+8We need a 'Race to submit and all related fights' section?
      • smacksaw, on 04/28/2008, -0/+8A subset of the xkcd section.
      • DivinoAG, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Not really, Zero Punctuation would go there as well.
    • DivinoAG, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Not really, Zero Punctuation would go there as well.
      • DivinoAG, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Ok, this one went to the wrong place. Sorry about that.
    • bosssmiley, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1And then xkcd.com could do a comic on it...
  • techkyle, on 04/28/2008, -8/+51apt-get remove GLaDOS
    • loneBoat, on 04/28/2008, -3/+3Awww, cmon guys, that was funny. At least he didn't sing the cake song...
    • stargatesteve, on 04/28/2008, -2/+5You would be better removing the conf files, so:

      sudo dpkg --purge GLaDOS
      • theaceoffire, on 04/28/2008, -4/+7?: sudo apt-get install cake triumph
        ?: triumph -note "HUGE SUCCESS"
        ?: triumph -satisfaction understate
        • stargatesteve, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2~ vim /etc/GLaDOS.conf
          "What are you doing with that thing?^c"
          ~ dpkg --purge GLaDOS
          "What do you think you are doing?"
          ~ halt
          "That's it. You just wait while I warm up the neurotoxin."
          ~ kill -9
          "Noooooo!"

          Syncing partitions [done]
          Unmounting hda1 [done]
          Sending kill signal [done]
          Halting...
    • Pritchard, on 04/28/2008, -0/+11Not even with Sudo, because GLaDOS loves you so much, she took the liberty to reconfigure your command set for you. Surely, an MD5 hash in replace of Sudo is far safer and less prone to error...

      Please submit all of your complaints with -cake.
  • FizzanoMatrix, on 04/28/2008, -11/+3More of a neo-X gen satire than a laissez faire component.
  • 3rdDay, on 04/28/2008, -5/+35Why not just write a script for Digg to autopost every new xkcd/Cracked top 10 list/Ars Technica post on linux/Firefox beta release announcement and ban any new submissions?
    • Jektal, on 04/28/2008, -0/+9Seriously. Just pull the headline from the sources' RSS feeds so we get an accurate thumbnail and title from the author.
    • whitemage, on 04/28/2008, -0/+16forgot about zero punctuation
    • smacksaw, on 04/28/2008, -0/+23Not only that, but to randomly submit it between the names of zaibatsu, msaleem and MrBabyMan. That way we'd have the "funny" of the comic and then the "funny" of people bitching about them. Also, it could randomly give 39 Diggs from unsuspecting users so it goes FP.

      It would be

      "Front page and 39 Diggs?" -21 diggs
      "Figures zaibatsu would post it!" +120 diggs
      "Ha, I get it. Sharp is like plus, plus" +255 diggs
    • daizaru, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5Stop crying about how digg has gone to hell and move on. It happens.

      Myspace becomes facebook becomes twitter... people move on. Find/make a less corrupted site to stick to tech news and so forth but digg has been a site of the masses for a long time now.
    • celkin, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2You forgot Scientology, the RIAA, Creative, Obama, Clinton, and Bush!
  • naich, on 04/28/2008, -7/+42I don't normally dig these xkcd posts, but this one is actually quite funny.
  • polishdude06, on 04/28/2008, -11/+10xkcd...hmmm, that sounds awful familiar, where have I heard this before...
    • nolemonplease, on 04/28/2008, -2/+8I think it was on Digg a couple weeks ago...
  • noseeme, on 04/28/2008, -4/+28Whew, it's a good thing I saw xkcd on the front page today, otherwise I would have had to go to the site myself!
    This xkcd race on digg is ridiculous.
  • Croaton, on 04/28/2008, -3/+82When xkcd does a comic about how Obama and Ron Paul have debated evolution Diggs gonna implode...
    • vertexoflife, on 04/28/2008, -0/+22We have to get Mac Windows and Linux in there somehow.
      • culbeda, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Don't forget Hardy Heron and anything Wii-related.

        /Likes Obama and the Wii, but not Obama's Wii...
    • MassMopar, on 04/28/2008, -1/+7Don't forget to imply a support of legalization of pot, and the mass of diggs will overcome the electron degeneracy pressure supporting the servers. Supernova!
    • SQLserver, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1And how much Hillary sucks.
    • barfnugget, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4And add something about hating the RIAA, religion, and fox news. Maybe throw some support in for relative truth/morals
      Also add in the description the following words: Epic Fail, OM NOM NOM NOM, i see what u did there, i can haz ______, a rick roll, and a "older than the internets"
  • Akraz, on 04/28/2008, -7/+4Im not the xkcd fanboy like most of the diggers are and i generally dont care for them but this one got me lol
  • jbenson2, on 04/28/2008, -11/+3These so-called comics are really lame. Whenever they show up, I bury it. It's too bad that DIGG does not offer a way to block anything with the letters xkcd.
    • loneBoat, on 04/28/2008, -5/+9Your so-called comments are really lame. Whenever they show up, I bury it. It's too bad that DIGG does not offer a way to block anything with the letters jbenson2.
      • mikesbaker, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5it does - you can block users
        • tech42er, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Yes, but then you can't bury them. It's a tradeoff.
    • Loonacy, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Chances are since you don't get xkcd you don't know how to write a greasemonkey script. So you're probably just SOL.
      • jbenson2, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1A very appropriate name Loonacy:
        I use greasemonkey with my Firefox, but that does not mean the xkcd crap is funny.
        • jimthenglishman, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2then use it to:
          1. block xkcd from digg
          2. block yourself from digg
        • tech42er, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Ah, but can you actually write greasemonkey scripts or just use other peoples' scripts?
      • formido, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0Ironic, isn't it?
  • twiztidsinz, on 04/28/2008, -12/+7@Digg Staff: Can we have a xkdc section?
    That way I can uncheck it from being displayed.
    It would be the first time I use that setting.
    • dazparkour, on 04/28/2008, -3/+2Digg staff can I have a "I don't want to see this" button, so when I visit comments to read about a given subject, I don't have to read the 80% of the comments from people whining they do not want to read about it?!
      (Statistic made up)
      • mikesbaker, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1i think a better idea would be if kevin rose just submitted all of the xkcds that way we don't end up with "I'd add an apt description, but in the rush to post it on Digg, I haven't actually read it yet."
      • twiztidsinz, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1But he shouldnt need to...

        From xkcd.com itself:

        RSS Feed - Atom Feed
        Livejournal Comic Feed: [info]xkcd_rss
        Livejournal Blag Feed: [info]xkcd_blag

        Even if it didnt, all you would have to do is check it (daily / when you know the usual updates occur) its not like they update it on a whim or that its a 'breaking comic' which needs to be read a.s.a.p., its your typical webcomic -- updated on a semi-regular, scheduled basis.
    • MacTyler, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3Hey twizt,
      This is the Digg.com staff here, we have put two web engineers on the product, so expect it to be completed by this wednesday. We will send you an email once it is completed. Can't believe we hadn't thought of that yet!
      Thanks,
      The Digg Team
      • tech42er, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1You say it'll be done by Wednesday? So I gues that means we can expect it in August or so?
    • tylerni7, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Here's the new xkcd Digg section http://xkcd.com
      (there are even some bonus xkcd strips there that haven't been on Digg!)
      Enjoy!
  • picpak, on 04/28/2008, -14/+9Saw it in Google Reader.
    Came to Digg and dugg it.
    Realized I hadn't even read it yet.
    • dazparkour, on 04/28/2008, -1/+7Just like you came to post your witty comment about how you also didn't read the comic without reading the comments section and realizing everyone else posted the same comment?
    • Neoanarchist, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5Oh the joys of the internet.
    • blagoaw, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4I think it's becoming safe to call ourselves a post-information age society.
    • picpak, on 04/28/2008, -1/+2If I could I'd take my digg back, it wasn't that funny.
      • blagoaw, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5I think you can undigg it in your profile.
        • picpak, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Ah, brilliant. Thank you, my good man.

          xkcd: be more funny.
  • tzilla12, on 04/28/2008, -3/+1i want to try this next time i need to check digg
  • Slices, on 04/28/2008, -1/+9I just wish they'd arrange some permanent space in the FP for the lastest XKCD comic, and get it over with.
  • Bornhuetter, on 04/28/2008, -3/+12I'd like to add a funny comment, but in the rush to get on the front comments page I can't think of anything
    • MonkeyHugger, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Me thinks you should get out more.
  • jboyd88, on 04/28/2008, -11/+3Am I the only one that doesn't get XKCD comics? And even when I do get them (like this one) I realise they aren't funny anyway?
    • loconet, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5Yes you are
    • stargatesteve, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3yes, you are. That's not a question?
    • mikesbaker, on 04/28/2008, -3/+5thats not the point of xkcd - the point is to get it on the front page first
    • Danar, on 04/28/2008, -5/+0yea, mikesbaker is correct, none of them are funny(are they supposed to be?) Its just the stupid race.
    • alphashade, on 04/28/2008, -4/+1You are not alone. I get a large majority of his comics but find them very unfunny. Mostly because he is trying to play off being a hardcore nerd and all I imagine is other techys going "Hey he uses programming language and techy phrases in his stick figure comics! I CAN RELATE TO THAT!"
    • blagoaw, on 04/28/2008, -2/+0When people first started pointing it out to me, I thought it was severely overrated.. but then again it's got a certain niche and it's a comfortable thing to come back to from time to time.. so it has a place. Sometimes it's got good ideas that it implements badly, other times it has a not-so-good idea that hits a homerun with certain people, and other times it's sort of interesting but isn't really funny. A successful comic doesn't necessarily have to be a clown as long as it's comfortable as a routine.
    • nebion, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3While I'm a reasonably big xkcd fan, you almost certainly aren't the only one. It's obviously not for everyone.

      Some people aren't going to understand all of them (you have to know quite a bit about computers/math/science or people related to these fields for some of them), and some people aren't going to appreciate the type of humor involved.

      Personally, when I first found xkcd, I liked it so much that I Immediately read all of them published so far (which took quite a while), and appreciating xkcd is a pretty good predictor of the kind of person I'm likely to get along with well. Still, even I find some of them kind of pointless (perhaps 5-10%).
    • smrekar, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3What was your college major? perhaps you are not the target audience.
    • formido, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0If you didn't find this one funny, then it seems really, really unlikely that you "got" it. Honestly, did you know what ctl-c does when you read it?
  • AQUANETA, on 04/28/2008, -10/+2Oh wait a minute. WEP is always crackable! Well, as long as there is one client connected. Really! I've done it...
    • glinsvad, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1I think that's the 'zealous' part of the joke...
      • formido, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0No, it's not.
        • formido, on 04/28/2008, -0/+0You can digg me down all you want, but if you think that's what zealous is referring to, you're quite wrong.
  • Niubai, on 04/28/2008, -8/+2I didn't get, seriously. Am I not geek enough ?
    • mikesbaker, on 04/28/2008, -7/+1no its just not funny - there is a moronic following of xkcd on digg as evidenced by the poster's description and also the comments on this thread. ***** mouth breathers
    • Extracheese, on 04/28/2008, -0/+5The joke is that the autoconfig does whatever is necessary to tap that secure wifi connection, including kidnapping the children of the family that owns the wifi connection, to use them as leverage. It's meant to poke fun at how usually when you try to connect through wifi, you get messages like "repairing connection" and so on.
    • blagoaw, on 04/28/2008, -1/+2When setting up a computer with networking for the first time, it's not uncommon to connect to a neighbor's unsecured wifi at first either out of convenience or accident. On one occasion I almost changed the password on my neighbor's router before it dawned on me that the router I was connected to might not be mine (since it was a similar model and they apparently hadn't changed the default password). When it comes to wifi, a badly thought-out autoconfig could really do some things that it shouldn't.
    • formido, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Probably not yet. It's funny because of the unlikely extremes to which autoconfig is going to to connect. It's funny because he starts to get a little doubtful when he sees it trying to break a secured router's encryption. And it's really funny because he tries to abort a script (by pressing ctl-c) when he realizes that it's actually committing criminal acts to connect his wifi. As a bonus, the "script" involves automating apparently human "agents" to complete the process.

      This comic has several of the components Scott Adams has identified are necessary for humor. Technically, if you didn't find it hilarious, you didn't get it.
    • formido, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1It's funny because of the extreme lengths to which autoconfig is willing to go to make a connections. It's funny because of his growing concern when it says it's trying to break the encryption on his neighbor's secuired network. It's funny because, once he realizes it's going to criminal lengths to secure a wifi connection, he tries to abort it by pressing ctl-c. This last is even funnier because autoconfig has employed apparently human "agents" to complete its task.

      This comic has several of the necessary elements that Scott Adams has identified are necessary for humor. Technically, it was hilarious. If you didn't get it, then yes, you probably aren't (yet?) geek enough.
  • nico623, on 04/28/2008, -8/+1L
    A
    O

    was always way better than OGC
  • arzthaus, on 04/28/2008, -5/+11*insert comment about how xkcd is always on the front page whenever a new one comes out, even though these comments are more annoying than the fact that xkcd is always dugg*
    • simpleid, on 04/28/2008, -2/+4no kidding, that on top of the fact that people make these claims about how it's 'so not funny' when *reads current* 571 people disagree with them. anyway, i wish people would focus on and have fun with the message/joke instead of bitching so much.
  • TheKarmaPolice, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5i just found out that the guy who does these comics went to my college a few years ago. it's too bad we never overlapped.
    • jaybird1905, on 04/28/2008, -0/+11You guys probably wouldn't have worked out anyway.
    • nebion, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5While I understand what you mean, "overlapped" sounds hilariously like a euphemism...

    • smrekar, on 04/28/2008, -0/+6Google>Define: overlap
      The process of puting your laptop on your neighbors lap and leaning over to type.

      Beware of the double over-lap.
    • TheKarmaPolice, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2geez, you know what i meant. i wish i could have worked directly under him on some project.

      i dare you to find another way to take that.
  • Kamael, on 04/28/2008, -11/+5Ok, some of the xkcd comics are great, but some of them are total crap, and this is a perfect example.
    • blagoaw, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1Some work for me and some don't. It's hit and miss. This one appealed to me a bit because I'm a little sheepish from connecting to other peoples' wifi under various circumstances, and I have a habit of thinking about the vulnerability of things and how far it can go.. but there are also a lot of others that don't appeal to me. Just the way it goes..

      Actually, the "field agent" bit threw me off for a second and damaged the humor (like a joke being explained). At first I was thinking that these field agents were like FBI agents, as if the configuration had contacted the authorities about the illegal actions that it had taken in the user's name, but then I realized that these were agents who worked for the software. xkcd doesn't seem to be very good at running the strip by test readers to work out those kinks.. though you could say that's some of its charm.
      • smrekar, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1i made the same mistake, but by the last panel i had figured it out on my own. This was a good one for me. Some of the programming ones are over my head.
  • andrew606, on 04/28/2008, -14/+5bury this unfunny *****
  • givemereplay, on 04/28/2008, -12/+3This isn't even funny. Stop fooling yourselves, pretending that XKCD is witty or funny.
    But I know that won't happen. Just go put on your sports jacket and go to starbucks with your other pseudo-intellectual friends and discuss Nietzsche. You're almost as cool as XKCD, really.
    • PhoenixAvatar2, on 04/28/2008, -1/+6I'm sorry, I was too busy discussing Nietzsche with my friends at starbucks while I put on my sports jacket to hear what you said. Could you say it again?
      • tech42er, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1He's just a conservative pseudo-anti-intellectual.
    • smrekar, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Nietzsche was a mook! I prefer the comical stylings of Flavius Josephus & Polycarp.
    • mikeyellenlee, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2holy crap dude, it's just a comic strip. if you don't like it, bury it.
    • CrushThemTorg, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1I think givemereplay is just cranky because he doesn't get the comics. Perhaps he should go watch some Carlos Menica. He does make funny noises.
      (Actually, I didn't get this one either, but I had gone through a bottle of Thunderbird before I read it. Now that I read it again, it made me giggle. Not the best one ever.)
  • thedude13, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4great comic, only one real issue: WEP is a vulnerability all by itself. I inadvertently cracked my company's WEP AP (didn't know it was ours at the time and in my defense I was bored) in < 10 minutes using aireplay-ng and aircrack-ptw.
    • 4d669, on 04/28/2008, -6/+4Randall doesn't really know much about computers. WEP keys get cracked in 90 seconds or less nowadays. He had a comic in which the alt-text said that when Windows died and Linux or Mac took over, we would miss viruses because they would not exist anymore. Also on his l33t series he calls torrents and ipods l33t. That's just ***** up.
      • tech42er, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Or maybe he just takes some liberties with reality to make funny comics?
  • cgomez, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Normal people just subscribe to mobile broadband service...
  • TheDudeDiggs, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2They should turn this into a movie and call it Hostage 2. Maybe they could even get Bruce Willis to return in the sequel?
    • kaleesh, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3nah man. it's the next season's plotline of 24. now lets commence with the angry mob fr kaleesh (:
  • aMammoth, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3That was one of the best in a while.
  • Anthonym1987, on 04/28/2008, -6/+5"I'd add an apt description, but in the rush to post it on Digg, I haven't actually read it yet"

    What a douche baggy thing to do.
  • linuxpenguin, on 04/28/2008, -0/+14(Dave presses Ctrl+C repeatedly)
    "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
  • nerite, on 04/28/2008, -1/+0Wifi >>> Bluetooth Phone... Feels good stealing free internet instead of paying for it.. **** the RIAA! I'm not paying for music too!
  • cockmonger69, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1looks like he needs to sudo apt-get remove wifi autoconfig haha.
  • spencemitch05, on 04/28/2008, -2/+1You put things on digg without even reading them... these comics are rarely even a little good
  • FranksValli, on 04/28/2008, -0/+3Buried (xkcd spam)
  • aserer511, on 04/28/2008, -2/+2here's my gripe with xkcd: the comics aren't bad, and the fact that they're uncontrollably nerdy doesn't bother me, but they're RIDICULOUSLY subtle and layered. none of them deliver that instant grin I look for in a comic, and as political cartoons teach us, you don't sacrifice sophistication by being brief
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