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![[0714] The Only Question That Matters](/comics/2015-08-31-0714-the-only-question-that-matters.png "[0714] The Only Question That Matters")
I have posted the winners of this year’s artwork contest!
- Sandra: You. Sent. A. Naked. Pic. Of. Yourself. To. 50. Million. People. In. The. United. States?
- Larisa: Don’t forget the 10 million in Canada and Mexico.
- Sandra: This is… I really don’t know what to say.
- Larisa: Do you think my parents will find out?
- Sandra: I’d assume so.
- Larisa: Rats.
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Huh. Should be interesting, assuming they find out, to see their reactions.
I… honestly have no idea what to expect.
Oh man, Larisa truly is a miracle of the universe. Sixty million people? Zero care, they burn well.
Larisa: …Do you think I could claim that it was an art project of some sort?
Sandra: I honestly have no idea.
Larisa: I’ll file that under “possible” then! ‘:-)
>:=)>
“No. No rats. Rats are yucky.”
Nah, I would not register in snap pic even for Larisa naked pictures… And I’m not lolicon anyway…
On the other note, what will happen in the school?
A Simple “Are you sure?” confirmation would have stopped this. Damn you bad app makers!
Who on earth would tell her parents and risk getting a WARM welcome from Larisa
Yeah, I expect this to make national news by tomorrow.
50 million people? Wow. There’ s screwing up, and there’s… this.
@ abowden:
Not 50 million, 60 million!
Larisa looks way too happy about this.
@ Ahchi:
Well… Teachers… Or parents might actually be using snap pic too…
ooooh where can I get Snappic?
why does she keep reacting to this as if she spilled some water on a good t-shirt?
She sure is taking it well. Then again, it is Larisa. 60 million people though…and who knows how many more if (or when) it makes headlines…sheesh…
@ Ahchi:
Her parents might be among those 50 million in North America…
I’m having a hard time believing this was actually an accident because Larisa’s reaction to everything is a bit to understated. She said oopsie when she pressed the button, which doesn’t sound like the normal reaction to something like this. It sounds like something you’d say in an exaggerated, sarcastic way.
And this misconfigured, unofficial update, what was it supposed to do, other than add the send to all button, assuming that’s what it did?
No problem. Just have Sondra take a picture of Larissa in full flamethrower mode and click the ‘send to all button’ again. “Yeah, I’m cute and naked. I’m also a demon from Hell!”
Really, at this point, they’d best hope the company sees this, panic, and erases every instance of that e-mail.
@ User:
When has Larisa ever been unsure about anything, though?
She seems pretty much ok with 60 million people seeing her naked body.
Bold girl. I’m worried she might actually *like* it, and take it as a habit.
That’s nothing, wait until LANDON’S parents see it!
I’m guessing Woo will have some insight on it… or just confusion as to why it’s such a big deal.
@ LupisLight:
I imagine Landon is in BSOD at the moment, the question is did his circuits totally fry before the shutdown? And if he hasn’t rebooted and is frozen with that pic on his screen, that’s the time to worry about his mom checking on him for supper.
@ Petah-Petah:
Have you even seen a rex dumbo rat? They are precious cinnamon rolls too cute for this world.
You can go two ways about this. Sandra’s reaction is one, Larissa’s is probably the more sound way to handle it, though it may dawn on her later on exactly What she did.
And everyone with a smart phone is arrested for possession of child pornography. Larissa is arrested for distribution.
Man, you managed to send a message to 60 million people just like that? The telemarketers must really envy you.
I’m not sure if this has been brought up since the arc started, but I just realized we’re all basing our conversations assuming one thing: the picture was sent out because she pressed the ‘send all’ button.
But that’s not what happens. Pics fail to send all the time, as does text messages, emails from mobile devices, etc. She might hit the button then ASSUMED it went through to everyone with the app. But did she check the history/sent files?
She might in effect dodged a huge bullet if the pic failed to send and she just guessed otherwise.
Also she might decide to do the right thing and own up to it with her folks, and MAYBE Landon’s, then find out after the fact it didn’t send and she didn’t have to say anything at all.
There’s a moral in there, I think.
But this is just my guess. We’ll know more soon I hope!
Yeah, those people at ABC, NBC and CNN are the Biggest Tattletales.
Some of them would put their own Mothers on the spot for a chance at the National Spotlight..
@ LupisLight:
THAT is exactly what I was thinking. Landon’s parents are going to go ballistic in the very traditional sense.
BTW: Does Larissa know about Woo’s speaking abilities? I don’t recall that being made clear.
It’s funny how they used the US, Mexico, and Canada even in the German version. Why not use places in Germany?
@ Carefreewill:
Larisa’s reaction seems very much like I’d expect Larisa to react, even to a mistake like this. To be honest, if it wasn’t for the US legal system working as it does, her reaction would be reasonable.
What I want to know is: if Larisa isn’t even sure whether it’s a misconfiguration or a bug, how does she know, specifically, that the picture was sent to every user in North America? I mean, either there’s documentation in the app that says “this button sends to every user in North America”, or there isn’t, and she doesn’t know exactly who it sent to.
I guess there could be a feature that shows who you sent your pictures to, but there could just as easily be a bug in that feature. Maybe it shows it sent to everyone in North America when it really didn’t. Does she have external confirmation that anyone else actually got the pictures? Maybe Sandra should check her account so they can make sure.
Why have I not received my copy?
C wrote:
The concept make for good humor and a good story premise but actually, if you think about it, the whole premise is ridiculous:
“Reply to all” is normal and reasonable (although not without its own disasters as was mentioned above for a company message sent to 10000 employees).
“Send to all” doesn’t make much sense, even if it was limited to one’s contact list.
“Send to all subscribers” is off the chart. For “Send to All” to go to all subscribers would take some very specific coding to implement. It would have to be intentional (which would be absolutely stupid for such a prominent button – or any button, for that matter). What advertiser wouldn’t love to have that button and press it at least once a minute? Or politician? Or someone with a rant? “I just got screwed by Company X. Boycott them!” If just 10% of the subscribers pressed that button the system would be swamped to a standstill within seconds as well as all the support phones lighting up with complaints.
So yeah, funny but I don’t think it’s gonna happen.
I kind of expect Sondra’s father to have to ‘geek to the rescue’ and find a way to delete it from the entire ‘Net. Of course, this being a comic there will be devastating collateral damage to all systems worldwide. But it will be funny!
@ Jerry:
Especially CNN. Those jerks.
And Woo was like, “Hi… Hmm…”
sun tzu wrote:
Unless I’m confusing this with a different app, Snapic is all about the images being short lived in the first place, and that unless you make an effort the image delets itself very shortly.
Now you know this might be Larisa first hint she has the typical child’s need for parental approval. She typically goes out of her way to show she pretends their opion of her matters no more than anyone else.
I’m with those who are pointing out how unrealistic this is. Telemarketers would love to have such a function.
The idea that the picture was somehow never sent sounds more realistic to me.
But of course, as we all know, S&W doesn’t always do “realistic.”
I’ll bet Woo is here to ask why Larisa is sending him/the missus pictures of herself without her out fur.
@ artemi:
*outer fur
Oh, so NOW she’s anxious.
I have no idea how SnapPic works, and I know it’s work of fiction so this kind of things might not matter, but “Send to all” button with such large number of users could not ever work.
Assume that only 0.1% of all users both downloaded that update and either by accident or on purpose used that feature. That gives 60 000 unique photos. Assuming they all did it over course of same day (24h), that means each user recieved average of 41.6 photos per minute.
Let’s assume that 64kB is enough for average quality photo. This means Larisa alone generated 3.5 TB of data, and everyone recieved 3.6 GB of data. Now sure what kind of smartphones they all have but many certainly would not have enough free space on them for all that.
Not to mention that recieving new picture every 1.44 second would make it impossible for everyone to use their phones.
And if only 10 people (out of 60 million) decided to take their time to ‘terrorize’ network, they could have easly spam bigger pictures every 20-60 seconds, and break whatever server was resending those pics to everyone.
So most logical explanation to what really happened would be that she did not send it to anyone.
But that would not be fun at all, would it?
Gotta wonder: how many of these people will be arrested for possession of child pornography?
Garrett Williams wrote:
Long time no Woo. I was missing him.
I’m surprised the question wasn’t “Is Cloud on Snappic?”
@ 1OldBear:
That’s a good way to kill Sandra.
@ Theskulker:
Well, it is an unofficial add-on. Maybe it’s based on some huge hacker group who decide to let people spam the app until no one uses it anymore?
The only question that matters is why Larisa isn’t confused when she sees Woo walking in and even opening the door human-like 🙂