The title is correct. I would kill somebody if they put this on my computer.

You know, some practical jokes aren’t so much funny as sick, cruel and indicative of a serious personality disorder.

Lighten up Francine. A friend of mine works at a large firm where the IT dept pranks all newbie support staff with upside down screens, reverse typing text, demonic cursor movement etc. Give them an hour or so and see how they deal with it. Evil? Yes but serious personality disorders are a job requirement for IT or so I’m told.

I’m all for PC pranks. An easy one is setting the keyboard to Dvorak. Did that once and the loser IT guy actually wanted to replace the motherboard in the pc because he couldn’t figure out what was causing it.

This is neat, but I’d prefer a software implementation rather than having to leave this sticking out of the USB port. This is to easy to find/remedy.

Wow. I’m just loads of fun. Maybe it’s the sinus congestion talking, I dunno. I think it would matter whether it was my work computer (which I don’t pay to have fixed) and my home computer (which I would have to, yes).

No, computer’s are very *personal*, even work ones (although not in the legal sense).  I would not take well to anyone f’ing w/ mine.

I’d draw a sharp distinction between a newbie first day initiation prank (on a computer new to you anyways) and doing the same thing a different (later) time when the computer has become *yours*. 

Veering off topic a bit but even in personal relationships (married, whatever) I believe in being respectful of personal things and privacy (computers, mobiles, etc.). I wouldn’t want anything to do with an “I need/am entitled to know/see everything”.  Now if you happen to run across your partner’s online presence featuring ebullient expressions of their looner fetish, well that’s another matter.

an “I need/am entitled to know/see everything” person.

BTW, in most N.A. jurisdictions there is no legal right or expectation of privacy in relation to work place computers, email etc (as to an employee in relation to their employer).

a coworker once installed code on my computer that told the cd tray to open in decreasing time intervals. I laughed like crazy, but then I don’t have good sense.

Veering off topic a bit but even in personal relationships (married, whatever) I believe in being respectful of personal things and privacy (computers, mobiles, etc.). I wouldn’t want anything to do with an “I need/am entitled to know/see everything”.

I read all of Spazmo’s emails, and respond in his name, so if you email Spazmo and pretend to be a girl, you’ll get a letter back saying that Spazmo is so busy, between treating his assortment of crotch diseases and going to gay Christian rehab, he doesn’t have time to respond at length.

No, for reals, I don’t look at his email, but God, I write my mom and my dad responds. What if I want to write my mom ABOUT my dad? Not an option. I tried to explain why this was wrong, this reading each other’s email accounts, but they didn’t get it.