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This is the French version of the FBI warning
that plays for a few seconds before a DVD movie.
It states quite clearly what will happen if you pirate the movie:

Damn, those French are tough!

Uh, could I just have that in days, please?

Uh, could I just have that in years, please?

Videophiles: Please use the proper rate when flaming somebody

And thus the invention of 'minus time' — when you
actually get younger as the process continues!

Microsoft: Both efficient and polite!

The Web can be instructive! Read the following ad carefully as a 10-year-old might:

From this ad, impressionable young children might learn:

1. Computer-generated aquariums are actually living
2. So are computer-generated butterflies
3. So are computer-generated waterfalls
4. Computer-generated volcanoes, however, appear to be deader than dirt

Humor in computer programs is pretty rare, but every now and then something cute slips through. If DVD Decrypter is ripping a disc and you tell it to abort, it takes a few seconds for it to actually stop the process. But if you get impatient and click on the 'Abort' button again…

Hey, wait! I see a word!

Self-fulfilling prophesy

Giving the term 'digital feedback' new meaning

One gig, then and now

"Houston, we have a prob-, oh, shit!"

Memory Lane Dept.

The oddest computer message I've ever seen was when removing a program from the old Office 2000 Suite back in the Windows 95 days. Lights would flash, bells would ring, then suddenly it said:

Checking for disk space before deleting files

Marvelous, isn't it? I presume that what they meant is that it was checking the size of the Recycle Bin, in case someone was using a tiny partition or had manually decreased the size of the Recycle Bin and there wasn't enough room for the deleted files. Then, in theory, it would note these files would be "permanently" deleted and couldn't be recovered. But even that doesn't make sense, in that you can't highlight all the relevant files in the Recycle Bin, 'restore' them and expect a program to run. So, for 'bizarre computer messages', the above will always rank #1 in my book.

A fun quirk about Windows, itself, is the start/finish routine. As you know, it's a slight anomaly that you have to click a button named 'Start' to finish up your Windows session and shut down the computer. Back in the pre-Vista days, there was a flip side to this.

If you wanted to use the Add/Remove program in Control Panel to install a program, you first went through a whole bunch of panels setting up where you wanted it installed and going through a handful of disclaimers and such. When it finally got ready to actually install the program, the button said 'Finish'. When you clicked the button, the program started to install.

In other words, you clicked the Finish button to start, and the Start button to finish.

Presenting: The Amazing Triple Coincidence 9/11 Premonition on a twenty dollar bill!

First, fold an old-style $20 bill in half: