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The Artificial Kid's drone camera entourage has entered the building.

Weeve is not a brave kind of guy, he's a griefer and a fool; smart, but makes bad decisions. A lot of hackers do. By choosing that list of people, he's trying to scare government agents from doing it again to him. He doesn't understand the world well enough to understand how to get what he wants. Threatening violence against the government is not going to help, but he thinks it will because it's helped against other people in the past.

...A plane just isn't going to survive those forces yet.

William Gibson suggested mounting it in a blimp. Who cares about the blimp?

chiba.

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/burning_chrome/

Rudy Rucker wrote on this topic, http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/hacker_and_the_ants.html

We've come a long way from when hackers tried reduce the size of programs, however we've lost a lot along the way. Hell, to be a hacker as those in MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club was to be along the best programmers. Now a hacker is someone who's looked at a criminal.

Better checking for null in one common place and let the process fail gracefully than to check for nulls in the multitude of places that call this function.

That's a hacker routine, reducing the number of lines a program takes up. However that's not "fast and loose" programming.

Falcon

"The U.S. Government's assertion that Microsoft has a monopoly in the OS market might be the most patently absurd claim ever advanced by the legal mind. Linux, a technically superior operating system, is being given away for free, and BeOS is available at a nominal price. This is simply a fact, which has to be accepted whether or not you like Microsoft.

Microsoft is really big and rich, and if some of the government's witnesses are to be believed, they are not nice guys. But the accusation of a monopoly simply does not make any sense."

Neil Stephenson (a bit dated, but so is the monopoly case)

I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude.

Zip Zap Zingle:

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/johnny_mnemonic/

Am I the only one that's reminded once again of a Neal Stephenson work?

This looks like it lept off the page of The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. I just got done reading it last week. I recommend it highly. Review of The Diamond Age @ The Cyberpunk Database Page

Amazon.com - The Diamond Age

Bruce is pretty hardcore into cyberpunk. Check out the links, including a LEGAL digital copy of his "The Hacker Crackdown" at http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/library.html

-Charles

...I think Hiro Protagonist (http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/snowcrash.html) would approve.
What next, the Metaverse? (please???)

Even geeks such as Bill Joy and Ray Kurzweil have been decrying the scary nature of nanotechnology, especially where it dovetails with artificial intellenge and genetic engineering, for over five years. But the interesting part here is, how many geeks are going to be the ones to buy these pants? I mean, we're the ones who bought a prius, not just because it was envionmentally friendly, but because it was a gadget and a Good Idea. For those of us who live at (or at least are not afraid of) the command line, a pair of khakis that sheds coffee stains sounds like a dream come true.

You've been reading Diamond Age again, haven't you...

Or like the one that William Gibson wrote -- Kill Switch.

That, Chinga and others were stand-alone episodes but quite wonderful in their own right. While the Alien invasion arc was good, they stopped making such episodes after a while. Which is a sad thing :-/

Looks like A Diamond Age isn't far away...

Mercifully, the whole thing is starting to fade, to become an episode. When I do still catch the odd glimpse, it's peripheral; mere fragments of mad-doctor chrome, confining themselves to the corner of the eye. There was that flying-wing liner over San Francisco last week, but it was almost translucent. And the shark-fin roadsters have gotten scarcer, and freeways discreetly avoid unfolding themselves into the gleaming eighty lane monsters I was forced to drive last month in my rented Toyota. And I know that none of it will follow me to New York; my vision is narrowing to a single wavelength of probability. I've worked hard for that. Television helped a lot.

Mercifully, the whole thing is starting to fade, to become an episode. When I do still catch the odd glimpse, it's peripheral; mere fragments of mad-doctor chrome, confining themselves to the corner of the eye. There was that flying-wing liner over San Francisco last week, but it was almost translucent. And the shark-fin roadsters have gotten scarcer, and freeways discreetly avoid unfolding themselves into the gleaming eighty lane monsters I was forced to drive last month in my rented Toyota. And I know that none of it will follow me to New York; my vision is narrowing to a single wavelength of probability. I've worked hard for that. Television helped a lot.

chris cunningham of music video directing fame is working on a movie adaptation of neuromancer

Yeah, Johnny Mnemonic certainly wasn't a story written by William Gibson.

How do you envision the world changing if energy costs became a trivial part of economic equations?

Somebody will undoubtedly declare war on somebody else. ;)

Go read Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

It was William Gibson

O.K., Neuromancer the movie (in case you didn't know) has been in the planning stages for a loooong time. Here is a Link. That provides a lot of good information.

And for those of you who have not read the actual William Gibson book, NEUROMANCER, here is a link to an online version of it, go here.

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