"Dumpster Drive" Shares Your Digital Trash With the Internet

[itf cho]

One of the lamest ideas I've seen ... But I agree with the previous poster - it's just gonna be filled with porn.

 

[Ewyx]

I like the idea. It's more interesting from a technological and conceptual standpoint than practical, but damnit I love interesting concepts.

 

[Ralen-Sharr]

even if it was for windows...

DO NOT WANT

 

[M_aureus]

This isa nifty idea if you can limit who can access your trash files.


Like say you want to send a file to your friend, you just delete it and they get it. It's a cool idea, but can go wrong very badly.

 

[Plurralbles]

so this'll be the place to go for a bunch of disgusting porn.

 

[yanipheonu]

...WHY?

 

[Ajna]

lolwut? Who would want my glitched and unusable New Vegas folders, unwanted game mods and the odd corrupted movie?

We don't really have viruses on macs tho

Yes, you do. Just because Apple doesn't want to admit it doesn't mean you don't have them. Don't be naive.

First of all wow that is unnecessarily insulting. Second of all, I'm not quoting anyone, I own both. I used to have viruses on the PC (not really anymore) but I don't have any sort of protection on my mac and never had an issue. And I don't know anyone who had a virus on a mac. Same for linux.

Mac OS X I'll give you. I think there are only about nine recognized viruses that can affect OS X at the moment. But please be aware that the reason Mac/Linux don't get viruses has nothing to do with the OS itself. It's all about market share. People making viruses are thinking "how can I infect the maximum amount of computers?", and that means PC (90% market share, I believe). Mac OS 9 is actually (relatively) unsecure, and has about a hundred (I believe) viruses that exist for it.

The reason linux/unix is so secure is because there are so many variants of it/them (and each of them has less than a .01% market share. Hell, you could probably tack another two or three zeros on there and it would still be accurate). Beyond that, the people using linux tend to be better with computers than other people (BOCTAOE), so they're even less likely to get a virus.

[joke]I use OS/2 warp though, so I'm 100% secure.[/joke]

OT: Cool idea, but even if I had a Mac (I don't, just don't like the OS much (personal preference)) I wouldn't use it. It's one of those things that sounds better on paper than it is in reality. Sorta like [insert political ideal I disagree with here].

 

[The Random One]

That's a really tortuous way to create a service that provides a random pornographic file.

 

[Fireshot25]

What happens if you throw the dumpster dive software into the dumpster dive and someone downloads it?

 

[AngryFrenchCanadian]

What happens if you throw the dumpster dive software into the dumpster dive and someone downloads it?

WE NEED TO GO DEEPER!

 

[Logic 0]

That just means people have to be more careful when sifting through dumpsters.

 

[RoboPenguin]

lolwut? Who would want my glitched and unusable New Vegas folders, unwanted game mods and the odd corrupted movie?

We don't really have viruses on macs tho

Yes, you do. Just because Apple doesn't want to admit it doesn't mean you don't have them. Don't be naive.

First of all wow that is unnecessarily insulting. Second of all, I'm not quoting anyone, I own both. I used to have viruses on the PC (not really anymore) but I don't have any sort of protection on my mac and never had an issue. And I don't know anyone who had a virus on a mac. Same for linux.

I work at Geek Squad. Macs get viruses. Not as many and it's generally "easier" to remove them, but they get them.

 

[fulano]

Another way of finding porn! YAY!

 

[Bags159]

In before this is used for sharing music and such illegally.

 

[Hachura]

It'd all just be temp files and porn!

 

[KefkaCultist]

What happens if you throw the dumpster dive software into the dumpster dive and someone downloads it?

Dumpster Driveception? *shrugs* best answer that I have.

Anyway, this is a terrible idea unless you're some narcissistic geek who enjoys infecting his/her computer with virus infested porn for the challenge of removing it with as little damage possible...

 

[Deleted]

Do they monitor who throws out and picks up the files? If not, seems like there's a lot of potential for underhanded practices. I need to get a mac.

If I had a mac I would totally label disturbing porn images with titles of movies. Its not like mac users read file extensions anyways.

I kid, I kid.

 

[Rensenhito]

Ye Gods, it's gonna be just FULL of the most disturbing porn known to man. I give it about 3 weeks before it takes an express elevator straight to the belly of HELL.

 

[loodmoney]

There comes a time in every computer user's life when he (or she) needs to get rid of a file.

I hate to be that guy, but "(or she)" is terribly jarring. To the reader, it comes across as if you only just realised that women use computers, and decided to point out this out to everyone. "He or she" works fine, and "they" is generally accepted. "She" can be used if you want to mess with 'gender-neutral' pronouns, and "he" would have worked as a rhetorical point: "There comes a time when a man must...". "He (or she)", on the other hand, never works.

On-topic: When I want something, I keep it. When I don't want something, I delete all traces of its existence. Dumpster Drive is the middle ground that no-one wanted.

 

[John Funk]

There comes a time in every computer user's life when he (or she) needs to get rid of a file.

I hate to be that guy, but "(or she)" is terribly jarring. To the reader, it comes across as if you only just realised that women use computers, and decided to point out this out to everyone. "He or she" works fine, and "they" is generally accepted. "She" can be used if you want to mess with 'gender-neutral' pronouns, and "he" would have worked as a rhetorical point: "There comes a time when a man must...". "He (or she)", on the other hand, never works.

On-topic: When I want something, I keep it. When I don't want something, I delete all traces of its existence. Dumpster Drive is the middle ground that no-one wanted.

We try not to use singular "they," or Susan bites off our heads.