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Biggest BSOD of All Time? (Pic)

gizmodo.com — At one of Toronto's locations of The Bay department store, four giant screens have suffered from the infamous Blue Screen of Death for days. You'd think that someone would, I dunno, turn off the freakin' screens…

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  • nakile, on 11/14/2007, -18/+312Maybe it's some type of clever advertising for OS X or Linux.
  • slipkn0tz23, on 11/12/2007, -25/+203It's impossible to add a picture to Digg without the masses screaming "PHOTOSHOPED LOL THE PIXLZ R WAI OFF"
  • GothAlice, on 11/14/2007, -26/+199Win.
  • ragingradish, on 11/12/2007, -3/+122I work a block away from this place, at Bay and Richmond. It's been showing the BSOD all week. I giggle every time I walk by.
  • yokes, on 11/12/2007, -6/+101I'm the photographer of this image. If you'd like the shot as wallpaper (some have asked me for it), here ya go: http://tinyurl.com/2cwbxw . More of my shots are at http://www.smlg.ca. :-)
  • SRSco, on 11/11/2007, -0/+72Not a BSOD...but this in Piccadilly Circus was epic: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1277/1264479643_426 ...
  • cl2yp71c, on 11/12/2007, -5/+74Poor pedestrians go outside to get away from the BSOD.....but it follows them.
  • affanjam, on 11/11/2007, -2/+62Happend before in times square too http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/images/blue_ ...
  • colto, on 11/12/2007, -8/+67Bay and Richmond? I think I may have had sex with your sister.
  • skinrock, on 11/12/2007, -9/+67I built a custom computer and I haven't gotten any BSODs....ever. I do have these cool blue lights in my case window though, because it's a custom computer.
  • MutatedNantuko, on 11/11/2007, -9/+60funnily enough, that could be considered art. And good art, too.
  • idiotwithastick, on 11/11/2007, -4/+50goatse?
  • CLShortFuse, on 11/12/2007, -2/+45It's an 0x24 error with NTFS.sys
    that means there's something wrong with the hard drive physically or the IDE/SATA/SCSI connection.
  • furo, on 11/12/2007, -13/+55New Apple ad?
  • randysouth, on 11/12/2007, -13/+54Would you rather see this? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Wait ...
  • chingy1788, on 11/11/2007, -3/+38show me an OS that is bug free and ill give you two whole dollars
  • inactive, on 11/12/2007, -3/+37i told them to upgrade from win98 to nt4 but they wouldn't because they couldn't run their creative web cam.
  • WolverineBlue, on 11/11/2007, -3/+37Name something that can't be considered art.
  • Magnj, on 11/11/2007, -6/+39a custom computer. cool.
  • yokes, on 11/12/2007, -5/+38As the photographer of this image, I can very much state that it is not shopped.
  • BM5k, on 11/13/2007, -13/+45Anyone who says OS X never crashes is a lying piece of *****.
  • Zipp425, on 11/11/2007, -3/+35Wow, way to stand up to the man. You are so cool and obviously super intelligent.
  • mattewood, on 11/11/2007, -3/+32I'm not in Toronto, so I can't verify, but here's quotes of some users claiming or implying they've seen it:

    BY PEEBERT AT 02:27 PM
    I saw this the first day it happened and immediately thought of posting it here, but then I saw something shiny or thought about Portal or something. Anyway, what I really wanted to say was this: It's kind of hard to see in the photo, but these really aren't 'screens' as such. They're more like really loose pixelboards, just strings of controllable lights. The resolution on the actual field of lights is really low, as the lights are SO far apart. So much so that you can't really even read the BSOD text, you can just sort of make out that there are lines of 'something' there. Anyway, yay Toronto. :)

    BY TRI-POD AT 02:48 PM
    I walked by this the other day and didn't even realize it was a BSOD. Someone just sent me a link to this posting. I thought it was some crazy art. It wasn't easy to tell that there was text as the previous poster mentioned.

    BY ANOEL AT 03:44 PM
    @Peebert:
    I think it's an LED array.
    Similar to the kind NIN uses on stage.


    Seems people are claiming to have seen it first hand.
  • inactive, on 11/12/2007, -6/+35P-shopped or not, us old farts LOVE this...
  • Xerces, on 11/12/2007, -1/+30i dont have a computer :(
  • BryanJK, on 11/12/2007, -2/+30Unlike you, I have 3 Computers. Yes thats right, not 1, 3 computers. You have 0, I have 3.
  • toxicityj, on 11/11/2007, -2/+30hopefully you can your money back for the POS hardware you bought for that custom computer.
  • highPhone, on 11/12/2007, -5/+33Right on! Toronto in the news!!

    dugg for _quality_photography_ you don't usually see from random bsod pics
  • theone3, on 11/12/2007, -0/+26I type all my comments and mail them in.
  • ChromaVita, on 11/12/2007, -2/+28I happen to feel that goatse does an amazing job showing off the true insides of an amazing artist... quite literally.
  • yokes, on 11/12/2007, -4/+29well played you rogue
  • randysouth, on 11/11/2007, -1/+23(Steve Gibson reading a letter on a future Security Now) Dear Steve, I'm the manager for a large Canadian department store. For two or three days the computer that drives our large outdoor screens was suffering from the infamous BSOD. Out of desperation I bought a copy of SpinRite.....
  • EvaMonkey01, on 11/11/2007, -0/+21Wait... I love this, does that mean I'm old?
    I'M ONLY 25, I had so much to live for... *jewel in hand starts to flash* No, not yet, NOT YET!!
  • tdous, on 11/13/2007, -7/+28Yeah, that's weird. Imagine you being there yesterday.
  • sjons, on 11/11/2007, -4/+25no, someone did.
  • inactive, on 11/12/2007, -10/+30Littlest BSOD:
    http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6508/leoparddes ...
  • plbland, on 11/12/2007, -2/+21If you only 'think' you've had sex then you haven't... sorry.
  • EvaMonkey01, on 11/12/2007, -2/+21I just fill my basement with Chinese immigrants and have them remember numbers.
  • john2kx, on 11/12/2007, -0/+18plus I have this cake.
  • artanis, on 11/12/2007, -1/+18me either
  • albertpike248, on 11/13/2007, -4/+20What's weirder is I imagined you being there yesterday :)
  • cnot3, on 11/12/2007, -3/+18cuz teh macz nevar crash...
  • inactive, on 11/11/2007, -9/+24As the Shooper of that image i can safely say its a shooped
  • ragingradish, on 11/12/2007, -0/+15Odd. I don't recall ever having a sister. Perhaps you're confused and meant your own sister?
  • JonForTheWin, on 11/12/2007, -0/+14Nor do I
  • mathmanjeffy, on 11/11/2007, -4/+17Bah - I've run Windows XP for 6 years across multiple computers and have yet to see a BSOD.

    See? I can do it too. What you and I just did is a logical fallacy :P (Relativist Fallacy)
  • etherjackolope, on 11/11/2007, -6/+18honestly wtf how did this ***** get 4 diggs... unless 4 diggers were there yesterday and were like "oh yeah i totally agree. dugg."
  • JonForTheWin, on 11/12/2007, -1/+13What if it's the sister..
  • drgmdp, on 11/12/2007, -12/+24i'd say gayest BSOD
  • stoanhart, on 11/11/2007, -0/+11dows.
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