{"id":39933,"date":"2004-04-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/04\/01\/the-martial-arts-logon-picture\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:48:47","slug":"20040401-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040401-00\/?p=39933","title":{"rendered":"The martial arts logon picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along the lines of <a title=\"Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20030825-00\/?p=42803\"> Windows as Rorschach test<\/a>, here&#8217;s an example of someone attributing malicious behavior to randomness.<\/p>\n<p>Among the logon pictures that come with Windows XP is a martial arts kick. I remember one bug we got that went something like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Windows XP is racist. It put a picture of a kung fu fighter next to my name &#8211; just because my name is Chinese. This is an insult!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The initial user picture is chosen at random from among the pictures in the &#8220;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\User Account Pictures\\Default Pictures&#8221; directory. It just so happened that the random number generator picked the martial arts kick out of the 21 available pictures.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also frustrated by people who find quirks in spellcheckers and attribute malicious intent to them. You know what I&#8217;m talking about. &#8220;Go to Word and type in &lt;some name that&#8217;s not in the dictionary&gt; and tell it to spellcheck. Word will flag the word and recommend &lt;some other word that is somehow opposite to the first word in meaning&gt; instead. This is an insult! Microsoft intentionally taught the spellchecker to suggest &lt;that word&gt; when you type &lt;this word&gt;. This is clear proof of &lt;some bad thing&gt;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More on spell checking tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>[Raymond is currently on vacation; this message was pre-recorded.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, really, it&#8217;s randomly selected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-39933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>No, really, it&#8217;s randomly selected.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}