Startup Turns Fixing Your Grandma's PC Into a Game 113
First time accepted submitter thecrazyivan writes "As companies like Reddit and Foursquare have shown, Internet users enjoy earning points in arbitrary social games. So why not apply that competitive motivation to something useful, like cleaning up the world's PCs? A startup called Jumpshot is raising funds to launch a new, friendlier form of computer security. Jumpshot is still in its infancy, but it seems to have excited plenty of users with its potential: The company launched a Kickstarter project and almost immediately raised nearly three times its funding goal."
Old fun flash game (Score:5, Funny)
http://www2.b3ta.com/realistic-internet-simulator/ [b3ta.com]
Party like it's 1999 (Score:5, Funny)
1. Raise money through kickstarter
2. Finish writing business plan
3. ?
4. Profit!
Re:Better yet (Score:5, Funny)
Almost modded you "flamebait" for that one...
Re:Better yet (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm I bet emacs would enable to use the webcam and include photos of her grandkids in an email using an automated lisp macro.
Re:So, wait, what does it actually do to fix thing (Score:4, Funny)
You forgot to mention the cute little USB guys.
Re:Worst. Game. Ever. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Better yet (Score:4, Funny)
But findstr is no sed replacement - it can't do search and replace as far as I know.
And as we know, THIS is the reasons most home users prefer linux.