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."

Re:I am the Windows XP Man...

[cayenne8]

I dunno. I want to somehow get a copy of that mask of that Burger King guy on those commercials on tv.

That has got to be the CREEPIEST thing I've ever seen....I have to change the channels when those commercials come on...just something really creepy and disconcerning about that thing...

Re:

[sYn pHrEAk]

http://www.bkmasks.com/ [bkmasks.com]

Three words...

[Poromenos1]

Guy Fawkes mask.

Just one nitpick

[antifoidulus]

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

Re:

[qrwe]

Then it wouldn't be scary at all, just normal..

Re:

[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.

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!)

Re:Just one nitpick

[Count of Montecristo]

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

Re:

[kisielk]

It is

iKid! iKid! iKid because iLove!

It makes perfect sense.... you make iLove and get an iKid.

After you have an iWedding of course: http://iwedding.co.kr/ [iwedding.co.kr]

Re:

[Fozzyuw]

One more nitpick... That's more of a Mike Meyer's mask than a Jason Mask

Re:

[LouisZepher]

Not even that. It's more like some retarded Mime. Any Carpenter fan would know that the original Michael mask was a William Shatner mask painted white with black hair. What's funny (in my mind) is that although the prop-mask for Jason in the films has changed very little over the past 26 years, goalie masks in hockey (that I've seen) no longer resemble the ones worn in the films, yet characters still refer to it as a "hockey mask"...

Re:

[gramji]

and how about the words "Abort, Retry, Ignore"? I was hoping to see those on the mask too.

News?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is probably the worst example of non-interesting, irrelevant "news" EVER on slashdot. Some guy makes a mildly amusing mask and it's a freaking main-page story? Holy crap.

Re:

[tomhudson]

Probably because the editors forgot to do the Hallowe'en [slashdot.org] Poll [slashdot.org] - AGAIN! This is the third year in a row they've done that.

BTW - You can still vote in the old Hallowe'en polls - they're not closed - so why not post them in your journal and let people vote?

Re:

[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?

Re:

[elrous0]

Oh great, now we have to resort to allegory to find any content!

Come on /., get with the program! How you gonna bitch-slap Digg with stories about Halloween masks?

-Eric

Re:

[governorx]

YOu guys only get to see this post 'cause you havent payed for the new premium service yet. Until the new "full page / uber-intrusive" advertising scheme is deployed this is how ... ???! /.'ed

Re:News?

[elrous0]

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

-Eric

Re:

[Howserx]

Did you put your XP sticker on the dog first? Do that then repost...

Re:

[maxvalery]

You guys are forgetting what Slashdot really is - a small, 3-person sausagefest in a craphole town of Dexter, Michigan. I, for one, welcome their lame posts on a slow business day.

Re:

[root_42]

So now you complain about dupes AND crappy articles? Where do you think they should take those high quality stories from?? ;)

A typical CmdrTaco story

[Overly Critical Guy]

This is the kind of stuff CmdrTaco loves to post. Anyone remember his twelve-paragraph essay whining about the fact he had to change his name in World of Warcraft [slashdot.org]? Even worse, the article attempts to argue that he should have been able to keep his name solely because he's CmdrTaco of Slashdot, and he's been using the name a long time.

That story was posted to the front page. The front page of what was once the #1 tech news site (since surpassed in traffic by Digg).

Re:

[Walt Dismal]

Perhaps surpassed in traffic but not in quality of readers. Digg seems populated by teenaged morons for the most part, with a large share of right-wing asshats. Many without a sense of humor and certainly not too bright. Say what you want about Slashdot but at least the readers here are the kind of people I'd be happy to see in the neighborhood. With Digg readers I'd have to worry about living next door to Jackass, the Movie.

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[ForCripeSake]

This story made me doubletake my URL to make sure I was on slashdot, and not digg.

slow news day?

[taff^2]

I not sure what's scarier. That someone submitted this story, or that slashdot posted it

Re:

[Neil Hodges]

Doesn't that mask say that already?

I'd personally like to see another article where someone goes around in a big Tux suit.

Re:

[Rithiur]

I think it's the main page story on Slashdot that makes the server admins scream in terror.

Re:

[AdamGott]

I agree, this has to be one of the most dissapointing things that I have seen on the /. mainpage in a long long time.

I get jokes

[crerwin]

Hehe, subnet mask.

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[BetterThanCaesar]

255's and 240's everywhere! It was horrible! And I think I saw a 257!

Oblig. Futurama

[hesiod]

"Bender, you know there's no such thing as two."

(two, two-fifty-seven... similar context)

Some more

[jackharrer]

Check those ridiculous ones:

http://www.jokesunlimited.com/funny_halloween_cost umes/toilet_halloween_costume.php [jokesunlimited.com]

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[pepeperes]

OMG!!! er... THINGS!!! worst.costumes.ever. etc.

Leave it to Gabe and Tycho.

[Lethyos]

Funny, but I think Penny-Arcade got it right [penny-arcade.com] a while back. Their style, in this instance, ought to be emulated.

WTF

[stinerman]

"257" is part of no subnet mask that I know of.

Re:

[Aladrin]

It's not a hockey-mask, either. Just roll with the joke a bit ;) Maybe the '257' is some exploit we just haven't found yet.

Re:

[Actuator Man]

Still running IPv4, are you?

Re:

[stinky wizzleteats]

What, your network only has 8 bit octets? Ours go to 11.

Re:

[BigASS]

ignignokt: you and your 8 bit octets
frylock: what about it?
ignignokt: it's cute we have 11
err: th-thousand
ignignokt: yes eleven thousand
err: don't question it
frylock: well i only see 2
ignignokt: well that sounds like a personal problem

You are entering a world...

[PinkyDead]

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

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

Re:

[SEG7]

My be IPv6 denotation ;) Or some "memes" network!

Re:

[Random BedHead Ed]

257 in binary is 100000001. Sadly, not a valid mask.

Re:

[anothy]

IPv4.5?

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.

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[drdxDaFJ]

Yeah, just don't cross the multinet streams.

Re:

[db32]

Come on...so its an Invalid Subnet Mask.

Re:

[Lars T.]

Psst. That's supposed to be the scary part.

Re:

[HTH NE1]

It reminds me of the character Hexadecimal [uoregon.edu].

And that would be a fun woman's costume if you could find a way to stow the masks hidden somewhere in the costume (good luck) and was an expert in slight-of-hand at replacing them for mood changes (maybe held in place magnetically).

257?

[gEvil (beta)]

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

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[AP2k]

I'm thinking thats the point...

Re:

[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."

how bout this

[Treacharous]

someone should have just worn a t-shirt with tons of holes in it and windows vista logo on the front.

Creepy Windows XP Halloweeen Mask

[oahazmatt]

Creepy Windows XP Halloweeen Mask

You misspelled "Crappy".

the Slashdotter

[Mini-Geek]

How about you go as....the Slashdotter! It causes any computer system to....stop

USE THE MIRROR!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's /.'ed already, just use the mirror [mirrordot.org].

Posting AC because I don't care about karma.

Re:

[danamania]

In case the image doesn't work for some, Yet Another Mirror at subnet mask [danamania.com]

Dana

The site...

[Bazman]

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

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: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!!!!!

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[Andrewkov]

Halloween Mask 2.0

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.

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[Mike89]

And now that the site has been Slashdotted (or "dugg to death", as 'they' call it), it's time for the obligatory mirror post. http://duggmirror.com/ [duggmirror.com] Sure, I know it's not going to work, but I just wanted to try it ;)

Re:

[Wayne247]

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

Re:

[kisielk]

Or

TOP 20 SCARY HALLOWEEN MASKS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN!!!!

OMGWTFLOLPONIESORGASM!@$!%@%

Hm, slashdot lameness filter seems to hate my comment... proof Digg is lame ;)

Who didn't get the joke?

[zero1101]

Looks like about 85% of you. I am pointing and laughing at you.

Slow news day?

[Klaidas]

No, editors, seriously...
You'd better post something about Ubuntu 6.10 being released or something...

reason

[kevin.fowler]

if i wanted to make a creepy windows mask, i'd make a windows ME mask.

anyone else get the chills?

Re:

[gEvil (beta)]

I'd be pretty terrified of a Microsoft Bob or a Clippy mask.

That Sucked.

[nbritton]

That sucked, reformat the mask with Inferno running on FreeBSD host, and put a stick of Glenda and Beastie on it.

freaky

[Scanner-Darkly-IRE]

Aaaaaahhh make it stop, make it stoooop.

So let's get this straight

[clickclickdrone]

I log 7 stories including stuff like Sony forcing games mega hard/software site lik-sang offline, a team developing a cloak of invisibility etc. and they all get rejected. And this gets accepted. WTF!?!?!?!?!

Re:

[niXcamiC]

could you link some of those for me? the actualy sound interesting and i need some reading material.

Re:

[clickclickdrone]

Lik-Sang's own site (www.lik-sang.com) for one and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6064620.stm [bbc.co.uk] for the invisibility cloak (it's no as exciting as it sounds alas).

Sad...just plain sad.

[resignator]

*removes /. from his lists of bookmarks.

IP Addresses?

[Java Ape]

Anyone else notice that his IP fragments include 257? Must be those new routers. ;-)

Monthly Slashdot Comment

[dswensen]

Uh... imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?

FYI

[buckadude]

Thats more of a Michael Myers Michael Myers [wikipedia.org] mask (from the Halloween Series), not Jason Voorhees [wikipedia.org] (from the Friday The 13th Series). Sorry to nitpick, I just love Horror movies too much to let that slide. cheers~

Well that article

[thorkyl]

was a waste of 1.8 minutes

What's really scary is

[Lars T.]

that the scariest costume they came up with was the old, fat Klingon.

Windows stickers are a lot of fun.

[SloWave]

Another excellent use for windows stickers. My personal
favorite was taking the "Made for Windows XP" stickers
off the laptops and sticking them on the toilets in the
restrooms. A little drop of superglue made sure they
would stay there even when the janitors cleaned.

Sure, make fun of SlashDot's news judgment, but...

[alphadogg]

100s of thousands of people have checked out the pictures. So Slashdot editors couldnt be too wrong about this...and it looks like more and even better (or lamer) pics are to come. BB