The 87 Lamest Moments In Tech, 2000-2009

harrymcc writes "The last ten years have been an amazing era for tech — and full of amazingly dumb moments. I rounded up scads of them. I suspect you'll be able to figure out which company is most frequently represented, but Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Sony, and many others are all present and accounted for, too."

The very lamest moment?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't that be the "first post" ?? :)

Playstation 3 backwards compatibility and price

[assemblerex]

"If anything it's too cheap" That didn't go over too well did it now.

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[Mononoke]

Yeah, how /do/ people pronounce this decade?

The naughties.

Re:Yay, another weirdly huge list.

[Anonymous Coward]

Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.

That was 14 right there.

I see a lot of Apple hate...

[carlhaagen]

...among the /. comments. Despite Apple's blunders in this list being few and not really noteworthy, it naturally does not discourage the "grannies of /." to leap out from under their stones with their tag-sticks.

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[Ren Hoak]

decade = 2001-2010

You aren't a coder, are you? If so, I envision many off-by-one errors in your work.

#88

[jolyonr]

Slashdot Idle

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[asylumx]

Seems like this problem would have been solved a hundred years ago...

Google's Malware Blacklist

[Arancaytar]

Marissa Mayer explains that someone accidentally added a slash mark to the list of risky sites, prompting the search engine to mistakenly believe the entire Web is hazardous.

Wait, that was a mistake?

Re:First Paragraph

[kaychoro]

Ah the memories... A friend of mine shut off the circuit breaker at her parents’ house as the clock struck Midnight. Not a bug, but an excellent chance for a practical joke.

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[Anonymous Coward]

So I guess the first decade ran from -1 to 0, and the second decade was from 1 to 10?

These decades go to 11.

Re:sony rootkit

[bytethese]

I live on the planet where I actually USE an Apple product daily. My wife's Macbook Pro is running fine, my new one is about 95%. Sure I get the spinning beach ball, but I know it's because I put a third party hard disk in it and I'll deal with my own decision because everything else is PHENOMENAL! :)

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[MyLongNickName]

You lead a very full life there, Ari!

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[Anonymous Coward]

Au contraire, a cold winter's night is the perfect time to have sheep around.

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[ari_j]

Hey, I have to do something with all the time I am refusing to think of the children!