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Wil Wheaton recently did a very funny short interview over at BBSpot.

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Wil Wheaton recently did a very funny short interview over at BBSpot.

john

You know they actually feel sorry about their name choice now. Details here. BBSpot also has a pretty funny story about it.

You know they actually feel sorry about their name choice now. Details here. BBSpot also has a pretty funny story about it.

No doubt, Microsoft is at it again.

More technical info about AOL can be found here.

Think God will listen to their case?

I imagine God would have to recuse Himself on the grounds of conflict of interest, considering that Microsoft owns his primary competitor.

each and every pixel is assigned a function.

That seems like it would be complicated, at least until there are special keyboard keys for each function, ala the Windows and Properties keys. Compaq has already taken the first steps toward this.

This just in.

Where am I supposed to send the faulty keyboard that came with the laptop?

I'm surprised to see that this hole didn't make the list.

Now I can have a battery to power ringzilla. Happy Happy Joy Joy.

This was funny when I read it on bbspot last month, now it is even more so.
http://bbspot.com/News/2001/08/encrypt.html

I think the competing NoAudio standard well be more effective in controlling pirates than this scheme.

Speaking of Monty Python, featured on
BBSpot's daily spot, is a Monty Python Lego movie in quicktime. Windows media version is here.
Anybody who likes Monthy Python and Lego, check it out. Hmm I guess that's everybody here...

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I was reading the link I suggested, and went on a rabbit trail regarding then Chief Justice
Marshall's involvement with habeas corpus ... the name stuck, I foobar'd ... like the times I use they're when I should use their ... comes from spending too much time writing crap like
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$c=142;if((@a= unx"C*",$_)
[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8, ch r($_^$a[--$h+84])}
@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=unxV,xb25,$_;$b=73;$e=256|( or d$b[4])>8^($f=($t=255)&($d>>12^$d>> 4^$d^$d/8))>8^($t&
($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q>=8)+=$f+(~$g &$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g; eval for a living.

Taco would've know about this months ago. It was annouced here.

Should I be impressed? I've seen teenage overclocker sites devote that many pages to a review of a fan. Including a table, with entries like Noise: Yes.

Obligatory BBSpot link: Video Card Review Sets Page Record

Nah... I think his leadership role is far great than his jumping/ape capabilities. He really knows how to rally those MS troops.

...are just for lucky guys like this Linux developer.

Microsoft's research into hydroponics. It's the only explanation for this.

Microsoft's research into hydroponics. It's the only explanation for this.

Am I the only one who finds it funny that Ximian's army of good monkeys are fighting Microsoft's army of evil monkeys?

Actually, you'll notice that he's just a BBspot fan in general, without gravitating to any one OS. (Of course, there is only one way, one truth, one OS, but he didn't say which one it is. Hint: the (installation) path is narrow ;-)

Apparently Jesus uses either DR-DOS or OS/2.

Most of what I'm going to say, somebody else said first. That's because I'm a journalist at heart. There is very little fact checking here, because I fancy myself a tech journalist. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." (Hassan i Sabbah?) I didn't even know that applied to journalism as much as it does to politics and religion, but after working a bit in the field and doing a bunch of reading I found that journalism is exactly like reality. It is flawed, fuzzy, and hard to define.

When was the last time you read a story online where there were more than two sources? It has been awhile hasn't it? That is becase 90% of the stories you read are press releases anyway. No need to check facts, it's a press release. If there is a story with some hard-hitting quote, the quote usually comes from an anonymous source. Is it because the sources are cowards, or the writers and editors are weak? It is probably the latter.

Slashdot is a journalistic endeavor. It brings information to its readers. The only differences are that its readers can respond instantly to what they read, and the rag divulges its sources to complete the story. Slashdot must stick to the same standards as print journalists: accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!

It's a crappy job. Be accurate, but be aware that there is no truth. That's why we drink so much. That is also why they teach us in school to get 10 sources for every story, and back up every fact with two sources. How many "tech journalists" went to school to ply their trade, I wonder.

What troubles me most about tech journalism is that the writing just sucks. It consists of bad spelling, poor editing, rampant use of the passive voice, and the deliberate mis-use of grammar in an attempt so make a point. It fails. Click to view a satirical portrayal of what I describe.

This is much more important. If you want to understand a journalist's mentality in the face of a crumbling infrastructure, read The rum diary By Hunter S. Thompson (who by the way would make a great tech journalist: paranoid, incoherent, greedy). ISBN: 0684856476

Journalists have low self esteem. We hide it by trying to become pundits. But really all we have is good words and no real aim to apply them. Otherwise we'd be politicians.

We're the pilot fish scavenging the scraps of big business. They throw us parties because they know we'll come. We come because we know there will be booze, and maybe girls. The writing is just the price we have to pay to get the goods.

Anyway I'm supposed to be writing a book right now, but it's all fact and no fabrication (and no parties). Needless to say bombarding /. with rubbish is much more fun.

or has some major safety problems.

Like this?

Now if we could only get high school students to understand Perl and MySQL we'd be all set.

They're working hard at being mediocre, and that's good enough for me.

shiftless keyboard

blank CDs

here.

Did anyone else think the title said AMD Duron 'Moron' at first glance?

Right, but you'll send thousands of your closest friends over to check it out. Way to stand by your principles.

On a less serious note, is Linux 4 TV anything like AOLTV?

It worked with the Linux kernel..

OT: Seems to me like this is where you get all your material.

Blowing karma for originality.

Until the specs support this kind of functionality.

Talked about his experience as a worm. In the interview here. It has some advice for newer worms and viruses.

As long as they don't stop production on their flagship processor....

Congress has already passed legislation to remedy the situation.

Loves that company and so does Hitler!!

to do with anything? Ballmer is now Hitler? - "I love this company!!!"

Microsoft is using a Beta version of the new IIS software for their hotmail servers that come with the worm already bundled with it.

... I've some Karma to burn, so here it goes anyways: More informative than Slashdot

chips from AMD like the Athlon Extreme OC and the Moron They hit the best price point for me.

chips from AMD like the Athlon Extreme OC and the Moron They hit the best price point for me.

I think the answer is obvious: we all need to supposrt the Free Speech Protection Act.

Talk about an assault on free speech. That takes the cake.