Creepy Windows XP Halloween mask

An anonymous reader proclaims that "A "Jason"-like hockey mask adorned with a Windows XP sticker and subnet addresses wins IT-related Halloween costume contest. Look out for the scary Data Center Man as well."

Just one nitpick

[antifoidulus]

Since we are discussing windows, and being halloween, death, shouldn't the mask be painted blue?

Re:Just one nitpick

[TheDreadSlashdotterD]

Halloween isn't about death. It's about going house to house, asking for firewood for the pyre, and burning the houses down if they don't give it to you. Ah, memories!

Re:Just one nitpick

[Hijacked Public]

The mask looks like it took maybe 2 minutes to make, and most of that time was spent threading the tape into the label maker.

Paining it blue would have taken too much time I suspect.

I bought an iPod yesterday that came with two Apple stickers, armed with those and pretty much nothing else it looks like I could be a serious contender in this thing.

I get jokes

[crerwin]

Hehe, subnet mask.

Re:Just one nitpick

[antifoidulus]

Dude, a Steve Jobs costume is one of the easiest in the world to make, and at a lot of places can be considered attire safe for work. All you need is a black turtleneck and a pair of blue jeans and voila, you have yourself a Steve Jobs costume. Now getting a cadre of fanatically devoted fans willing to spend money on whatever you release is another matter.(I kid! I kid! I kid because I love!)

257?

[gEvil (beta)]

257? Ummm, I don't think I'd wanna hire this guy to manage my network...

Creepy Windows XP Halloweeen Mask

[oahazmatt]

Creepy Windows XP Halloweeen Mask

You misspelled "Crappy".

You are entering a world...

[PinkyDead]

Your next stop, the 33-bit IP Address Zone!!!!

Whatever you do, don't open that ICMP packet!!!

The site...

[Bazman]

...has been slash! slash! slash! slash! slash! dotted....

Re:News?

[Adam J Stone]

Let's be fair. I think this story has real merit by dint of the mask's underlying message. You see, the mask is supposed to be scary because [long explanation of why Windows is bad]. Don't you see how profound and unspoken the message is?

Wrong site - try Digg.com

[Random BedHead Ed]

You seem to have posted this amusing but irrelevant "story" on Slashdot. Please remove it and resubmit at again digg.com. You might want to alter the title from this:

Creepy Windows XP Halloween mask

To this:

CREEPY XP HW mask!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUST SEE!!!!!

Increase the number of exclamation marks as you see fit, depending on how creepy you feel the mask photo is. You might help your chances of getting the re-submitted post to Digg's main page by using the acronym "OMG" and suggesting that people who don't check out the link are loser's (and yes, you should definitely pluralize it with an apostrophe). Thanks for visiting Slashdot.

Re:News?

[elrous0]

And to think, my story "I finally got my dog to stop peeing on the rug" was REJECTED.

-Eric

Re:Wrong site - try Digg.com

[edmicman]

Don't forget the important keywords like "Apple", "Ubuntu", or "____ Killer" (fill in whatever hot new tech term you want).

CREEPY XP HW mask runs UBUNTU!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUST SEE APPLE OSX KILLER!!!!!

Question marks!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!!!

[BeeBeard]

Couldn't they also alternate exclamation marks with question marks depending on whether or not they wanted to solicit comments on just how creepy the mask appears to others, and whether or not they wanted to see it?!?!?! You know, like

CREEPY XP HW mask!?!?!?!?!?!?! MUST SEE!?!?!

But I admit, it does lack the confidence of 13 consecutive exclamation marks.

You forget the evil bit.

[pavon]

Obviously he is using IP4.1 which extends each octet to include the Evil Bit, which can be used to mask off packets intended for the spirit metanet. The occult have long hoped that this will lead to breakthroughs in high speed multi-realm data transfer, which has yet to be realised. However, if you matrix the multinet streams, you can get some awesome spooky surround sound.

Re:257?

[TeknoHog]

Nigel: "You see, most blokes will be networking at 255. You're on 255, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What we do, is if we need that extra push over the cliff... 257. Two louder."

DiBergi: "Why don't you just make 255 louder and make 255 be the top number, and make that a little louder?"

Nigel (after taking a moment to let this sink in): "These go to 257."

Re:Wrong site - try Digg.com

[Wayne247]

Seriously, if you want to reach Digg frontpage, you need to add "AMAZING". It's mandatory now.

Re:Just one nitpick

[Count of Montecristo]

for a minute there, i thought i-kid was a reference to Steve Jobs offspring.