worst invention ever?

[Neodymium]

No, I'd have to say the worst invention ever was the SQL injection attack.

Hijacking threads? You have no idea. Wait until some script kiddie or h4x0r manages to punch a request that would normally have to be validated through an input that doesn't generally require validation in the database.

Watch in utter helplessness as the forum 'admins' go berserk and proceed to hijack threads, lock threads, delete threads, delete members, ban members, delete whole forums, deface the whole board and wrappers, oh, god. The memories... the memories...

[Lockeownzj00]

Haha. I've never witnessed it personally, but seen it on the sidelines before. Friend told me of a recent occurence on the Gamespy Forums.

SQL Injection is pretty crazy stuff, but definitely scary.

[Neodymium]

Planet Battlefield was hit not too long ago by someone who managed to completely obliterate at least one or two forums from the site. (Since then, it seems like some posts from those forums were recovered and merged into existing forums, but some have definitely been lost).

What purpose does it serve? It might be hilarious if done without malicious intent (just goofing), but man-oh-man was there a SNAFU after that happened.

[bolevar321]

The atomic bomb and the H-bomb.
I gotta say, I really pity oppenheimer. At first, he wanted to create the atomic bomb, to create something magnificent, and unprecedented.
Kinda like Victor Frankenstein, no?
Anyway, once he saw it's true destructive power, he had this to say:
"We knew the world could not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."
Anyway, once he started getting too "left wing" for the atom bomb project, they pretty much stole it from him, restricting his previous clearance. So, him, Albert Einstein, and a bunch of other guys band up, and they try looking for a use for atomic fusion; to produce energy in much the same way a star does.
Well, the same damn military guys got a hold of the idea, and came up with a fusion bomb, the H-bomb, and it was, I think 650 times as strong as the atom bomb.
And so, depressed, Oppenheimer went to a beach somewhere where he died of throat cancer.
BTW- anyone else ever seen the play "love stories during the armageddon of a citrus fruit?"

[Neodymium]

It's been said earlier Bolevar... an object of seething hatred teh n00ks may be, they are responsible for helping to prevent utter annihilation of the planet and are also (at least partially) responsible for helping to end WWII.

Therefore, they are very, very important.

A world without nukes = no deterrent = we'd be on WWXXXVIIII by now.

[Kaelus]

Worst invention? Let's see...

I don't know, probably monotheist religions with a almighty male god as a core and XBox. Or something.

[Fenris]

I cannot believe that this has not been stated.

[bolevar321]

Originally Posted by Neodymium

It's been said earlier Bolevar... an object of seething hatred teh n00ks may be, they are responsible for helping to prevent utter annihilation of the planet and are also (at least partially) responsible for helping to end WWII.

Therefore, they are very, very important.

A world without nukes = no deterrent = we'd be on WWXXXVIIII by now.

On the topic of teh n00ks, I believe it was Einstein who said "I know not what WWIII will be fought with, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones." These deterrants just mean that when the war does come, it will hit far harder.

[Neodymium]

That... thing.... should not even be acknowledged as extant. Therefore, I don't think it counts as an invention.

It doesn't really have any use... I'd open fire with whichever firearm I could get out of the cabinet first (hopefully not the ten-gauge) before I let 'her' padlock that on.

[The Wizard Who Did It]

Originally Posted by FenrisWolf

I cannot believe that this has not been stated.

An invention is something created. That... thing was discovered. From the bottom of Hell. But that's another topic.

Worst invention, probably guns.

"Hey, we're going to teach you to kill people easily, without any training! And we're going to mass produce them and give them to the public! Who, of course, aren't trained to resist urges of violence!"

Either that or democracy. Worst. Idea. Ever. To sum it up, anything that gives power to the person with the most charisma has got to be bad. There is a good example I'm sure you all know of, which I will not state or else I automatically lose this debate.