Admittedly, I was playing Devil's Advocate. I figured it was a parody, and enjoyed it regardless, but also understood why people would be confused. Thought I'd just give an explanation as to why.
>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^Abel_Prisc:
Well when viewing a video that starts with a message stating "Actual phone call to apple tech support", we're led to believe that, yes, it is going to be a real phone call. Thus ultimately making a lot of people disappointed when it becomes clear that this is not the case. It would've been funnier had it just put it's actual validity out there from the beginning, or had they just not said anything at all.>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Um, did you even think it might have been real?>> ^marinara:
yeah if it was real i might have given upvote



Hello! Parody channel! Do I need to put "Parody" in the f'ing title?
Happy Harroween!!

But there never would have been an actual tech support call like this from Apple. The first few replies should have told you that.>> ^Abel_Prisc:

Well when viewing a video that starts with a message stating "Actual phone call to apple tech support", we're led to believe that, yes, it is going to be a real phone call. Thus ultimately making a lot of people disappointed when it becomes clear that this is not the case. It would've been funnier had it just put it's actual validity out there from the beginning, or had they just not said anything at all.>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Um, did you even think it might have been real?>> ^marinara:
yeah if it was real i might have given upvote

>> ^Abel_Prisc:

Well when viewing a video that starts with a message stating "Actual phone call to apple tech support", we're led to believe that, yes, it is going to be a real phone call. Thus ultimately making a lot of people disappointed when it becomes clear that this is not the case. It would've been funnier had it just put it's actual validity out there from the beginning, or had they just not said anything at all.>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Um, did you even think it might have been real?>> ^marinara:
yeah if it was real i might have given upvote




Hello! Parody channel! Do I need to put "Parody" in the f'ing title?

Happy Harroween!!

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Well when viewing a video that starts with a message stating "Actual phone call to apple tech support", we're led to believe that, yes, it is going to be a real phone call. Thus ultimately making a lot of people disappointed when it becomes clear that this is not the case. It would've been funnier had it just put it's actual validity out there from the beginning, or had they just not said anything at all.>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

Um, did you even think it might have been real?>> ^marinara:
yeah if it was real i might have given upvote

Um, did you even think it might have been real?>> ^marinara:

yeah if it was real i might have given upvote

While very amusing, I gotta call fake. And if it's not fake, that's the worst tech support person ever...

Oh man, I couldn't even listen to the whole thing. It was just bringing back too many horrifying memories from when I worked tech support for an ISP. Man. Worst four months of my life. That's not even an exaggeration.

Dear Google,

Stop doing clever shit with the homepage. It confuses stupid people.

Yours,

Tech support people everywhere

Tags for this video have been changed from 'old, internet, pac man, google' to 'old, internet, pac man, google, tech support, pacman, tabs, red x, i would assume' - edited by lucky760

@blankfist, let me try to explain the point of net neutrality by way of metaphor.

Transport yourself to a golden libertarian universe, where everything is private, and the government doesn't exist.

Now, let's say you wanted to print and distribute a newspaper. You buy yourself a high-volume printer, and start circulating some copies. To get the copies around town, you need to use the private roads that connect the location housing your printer, to the people who buy your paper. Due to infrastructure costs and physical constraints, there are only a handful of road service providers in your area. Let's call them AR&R (American Road & Rail), Roadcast, and Horizon.

You sign up with, say, AR&R, and start distributing your paper around town. Your circulation starts growing, and everything is going great.

Then one day, you decide to write an article that's critical of AR&R, telling people that they've got a reckless disregard for people's safety, and have been intentionally cutting corners with traffic lights when designing intersections.

The next day, your couriers find that they can't go more than 5mph on the roads, and are of course unable to make all their deliveries. You call AR&R to find out what's going on, but they just tell you to contact tech support, who just runs you through tedious and repetitive diagnostics, and never see a problem.

Eventually, you just decide to drop AR&R, and switch carriers to Roadcast. Unfortunately, you find that Roadcast is just as slow with your newspaper deliveries (but oddly, everything else is fine). So you try out Horizon. Horizon lets you deliver your papers at full speed again.

After all this, you write another article, critical of AR&R and Roadcast, and raise the question of whether road service providers might be censoring the distribution of newspapers that are critical of their business practices.

Immediately, you find your Horizon road service slowing to a crawl. You're effectively censored, as there are no other providers to turn to (and you don't have the resources or knowledge to start your own road service!).

You find yourself wishing there was some higher entity you could appeal to, that could tell the road service providers that they can't deny or limit access to people on the basis of the content of their vehicles, a sort of Road Neutrality, to coin a phrase.

But no, everyone knows that nothing is more evil than forcing people to do something they don't voluntarily choose to do...

In all my years of tech support, I've never once been on TV

Stone age might be a bit far for me, perhaps a Medieval lifestyle with Medieval Tech Support?

>> ^xxovercastxx:
I've sniffed on open wireless connections before. I've never done anything with information that's been revealed that way, but I've still looked out of curiosity. Except for this one situation...
This was this crazy girl who got hold of my friend's email account and proceeded to sabotage everything she could; everything from myspace to attempting to access her bank account. Crazy girl's father has ties with local politicians so the police wouldn't act. Once I was certain of crazy girl's identity I parked down the street from her house and harvested as much information and evidence as I could. After that I made sure she knew that someone else was playing her game and they were much better at it. She stopped all her shit after that.
It turned out she was harassing several girls, all of whom had dated her boyfriend at some point in the past.
Anyway, my point was that all the shit he talks about, while not really common, is not as uncommon as most people assume. Where I live, I'd say open wifi is probably not going to cause you any problems. If you're in a city, open wifi is a huge risk.
>> ^westy:
this guy is a Twat ,
I mean what a fucking dick making out stuff is dangerous , not letting the other woman speak , and not actually being realistic or clear.
What a fucking nob
Its not to hard to emgin that a noob who is used to using a laptop in Coffey shops or free open wifi that is 100% legit did not reolise the difference between that and using a open wifi at home.
Also he totally exaggerates the risks.


I know most the risks and the reality of stuff happening I have done alot of network security and almost started a bissiness bassed around securing wifi,

The person at more risk is the guy with the open wifi and Evan then its not HUGE . sum one at random steeling internet from an open wifi is at minimal risk. the same sort of risk level as people who don't use a fire wall or old copies of windows. probably far less risk than sum one that downloads of dodgy sites , maby evan less risk than sum-one that downloaded pirate stuff regulary.


The issue i have is that leo's tone of voice and the way he interrupts what she is saying rather than just been clear and going over the facts.

for example using a pc without a fire wall is not advisable and opens you up to possable atack and varouse negative things.

but its not the case that if u don't have a fire wall your pc will catch on fire and you credit information will be stolen immediately.

Its just about been balanced and clearly explaing things.

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Beautiful.

*promote

Thanks, Sheriff Chien!