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Prankster[^]
I have just bought one, because I have an evil streak!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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If somebody played that 'prank' on me the next several hours would be spent doing a complete re-install.
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I do have a little child for messing up the computer. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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I have learnt to do a full b/up of the girls' machines at least every week and never allow them near mine.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: never allow them near mine
Are you able to accomplish that? What is your secret? 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Electrified keyboard, dead mouse with buttons, that sort of thing!
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That might work with your cats, but my daughters have brains.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: my daughters have braaains.
Oh dear. I didn't realise the recent womiting was a sign of the zombie apocalypse. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Beat me to it! 
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Total Lock Down
There are accounts for Mrs Wife and I; both passworded. I am set up as admin on ALL the machines and installs etc are disabled for their accounts.
speramus in juniperus
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Same here.
However:
- the 8 years old tries to guess my password every time I'm typing it.
- The 4 years old sometimes switches OFF the power, sometimes makes the keyboard go out of order (don't ask my how, I simply don't know).
So I believe that Griff's approach is the only effective.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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They're dismissed from the room before I'll enter a password - Vilmos no Stupid.
speramus in juniperus
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Unpractical for me. Now searching for the electrified keyboard...
Veni, vidi, vici.
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In another age and time, such as Thee be burned at the stake with much rejoicin' in the hearths.
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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I know where I'd insert it, if I found it on one of my machines -- and I'd use a broom handle, to make sure it was inserted correctly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Why bother?
Best ever was the RBG [Random Beep Generator] installed as a service it would generate a beep at intervals between 30 seconds and four hours. We had such fun putting that on the boss's machine.
speramus in juniperus
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There was an app for that? I wrote one in VB!
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I confess to doing one in VB, but earlier than that as a TSR process in C under DOS which was loaded by autoexec.bat.
speramus in juniperus
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When I was being taught about TSR at uni doing that was one of the assignments!
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I've also got one. It's so much fun... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Amazon wrote: Prank unsuspecting friends and colleagues!
Especially when connected to laptop as on picture #2... 
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Judging by your spreadsheets, your boss installed one of these on your computer years ago.
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Harsh!
My spreadsheets are works of art.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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So are unmade beds, and half a shark...
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