This is a really old story I read when I first discovered the internet
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/new89/satan.773.html

Just remember it today and thought I'd look it up.

I have heard a similar story from Penn Jillette (from Penn & Teller), except he deliberately wears anti-religious clothes from cafepress and goes to takeaway stores in Nevada.

Yeah I'm pretty sure first day of primary school they sat us down and told us this story.

That hurts.

Jackass did this like 10 years ago and I didn't have to read anything to find it amusing.

What OS is mentioned the story?

BSD Unix which hasn't been around since 1995.

http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/jpg/bsd43.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computer_software)

In Unix and other computer multitasking operating systems, a daemon (pronounced /ˈdiːmən/ or /ˈdeɪmən/)[1] is a computer program that runs in the background, rather than under the direct control of a user; they are usually initiated as background processes. Typically daemons have names that end with the letter "d": for example, syslogd, the daemon that handles the system log, or sshd, which handles incoming SSH connections.

In a Unix environment, the parent process of a daemon is often (but not always) the init process (PID=1). Processes usually become daemons by forking a child process and then having their parent process immediately exit, thus causing init to adopt the child process. This is a somewhat simplified view of the process as other operations are generally performed, such as disassociating the daemon process from any controlling tty. Convenience routines such as daemon(3) exist in some UNIX systems for that purpose.

Systems often start (or "launch") daemons at boot time: they often serve the function of responding to network requests, hardware activity, or other programs by performing some task. Daemons can also configure hardware (like devfsd on some Linux systems), run scheduled tasks (like cron), and perform a variety of other tasks.

That's great... thanks