Technology 22 Jun 2009 08:07 pm
Click Hijacking
…When I’m about to click on something, when the “press down now” signal from my brain is already en route to my finger, but an instant before the actual click takes place a dialog box from some other program pops up on top of the window and steals my click. I then have no idea what I just clicked on, because the dialog has immediately gone away and was only onscreen for part of a second. Perhaps it was a box that said:
: “Would you like to format your hard drive now? [ Yes ] [ No ]“
All I know is that that just happened, and that now my hard drive is making lots of noise. Hmm…