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back in 2012 there was a girl who asked me if I could see a file she uploaded online. I asked her for a link to which she replied "c://users/hername/documents/p
by dvngnt_ 5y ago
back in 2012 there was a girl who asked me if I could see a file she uploaded online. I asked her for a link to which she replied "c://users/hername/documents/photo.jpg"
I was in shocked especially considering she went to a private school costing over 20k in one of the wealthiest places in America
- karmakaze 5y agoDid she use the forward slashes? Makes it look valid: protocol 'c', host 'users' and whatever default port protocol 'c' uses. ;-)
- reincarnate0x14 5y agoMany Windows tools will convert to / if they're presenting a URL, I'd imagine there is some special case code that treats unqualified path-lookalikes as file:// minus the protocol specifier. In fact chrome produces exactly that result when I did it just now, and only if you expand the full address bar do you see a file:// preceding /c:/what/ever/path
- barbazoo 5y agoI'm not sure how the amount of money one pays for education is in any way I dicarive of their knowledge of how computers work.
- dvngnt_ 5y agoI don't think dicarive is a word? And it absolutely can. School with less funding often don't have the same access to technology. This school required a laptop purchase from each student, and there's probably a correlation between income and computer literacy.