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Bruce Sterling on Geeks and Spooks

apsmith writes: "Bruce Sterling's latest Viridian piece is a written version of a talk on why we're in such a mess with crypto, why the computer industry is going nowhere for the next few years, and what Lawrence Lessig, the NSA, Echelon, Oliver North and Abdullah Catli have in common. Thought-provoking stuff, even if you might not agree with quite everything ("Why don't you geeks just sit down with your cheap, crappy plastic boxes, and shut up? Here in the TV biz, our boxes look nicer anyway!")." This is a lunch-time talk, and it's meant to be entertaining, and it is. :)

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  1. FSTFUKP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    STFU Katz!


    Oh, wait, we like Bruce, don't we?

  2. fast moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    that is some of the fastest moderation i've ever seen. the jew loving moderaters are awefully quick tonight.

    a little something for you to think about... why is it that on slashdot you can criticise microsoft (run by whites and christians) but when you say anything bad about linux (developed by jews and homosexualists) your words are immediately censored? and isn't "Malda" a jewish name?
    it all adds up the more you think about it

    1. Re:fast moderation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      damn jews! first they take our jobs away from us and now this!

  3. Re:Is this a....WARNING THAT COULD SAVE YO LIFE!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Important Information For Slashdot Users

    Because Chirstmas is on the horizon, I thought I would share to you a tale of what happened to me last Christmas. This is so you, the reader may be able to avoid the terror I have been through this upcoming holiday season.

    Last Christmas, while visiting family, I spent a few nights in a Best Western hotel. It was comfortable yet affordable and I really enjoyed and appreciated their friendly knowledgeable staff. Why didn't I stay with my family in their house you ask? Well, there were children present and as children often do are a nuisance and I assumed would inturrupt my morning and nightly rituals. On my first night at the Best Western, I proceded to...oh, I think a song would better illustrate this...

    Bite my lip and close my eyes
    Take me away to paradise
    I'm so damn bored I'm going blind
    And I smell like shit


    Oh, sorry, wrong song...

    Exit light
    Enter night
    Take my hand
    Off to never never land


    Yeah... uh, thats right.

    As I drifted off to sleep, I was startled by noises. It seems the residents in the next room were making a downright lot amount of noise. I was about to bang on the wall again but was curious at what was being discused so I pressed my ear up against the wall and listened. Here are the words that have been forever burnt into my previously virgin mind:

    CmdrTaco:
    Nowadays everybody wanna talk
    But nothing comes out
    When they move the lips
    Its just a bunch of jibberish
    And motherfuckers act like CmdrTaco aint' gay
    Everybody forgot
    What happened?
    What up Linus

    Linus Torvalds: Yeah

    CmdrTaco:
    It's all about Linus
    It's all about Linus

    Linus Torvalds: Linus is in the house

    CmdrTaco: Yeah, thats right Linus is in the house

    Linus Torvalds: Come here pull down your panites you little bitch

    CmdrTaco: Aiight, hold up dawg go easy on me and shit you ripped my asshole last time

    Linus Torvalds: Come get some of this Monolithic Kernel

    CmdrTaco: Let me take off this white shirt so you can see my bird chest

    Linus Torvalds: You wanna be famous?

    CmdrTaco: Uh huh

    Linus Torvalds: Spread that bitch ass

    CmdrTaco: It's all about Linus

    Linus Torvalds: Yeah, Linus

    CmdrTaco: Uh, dawg, your hurting me dawg

    Linus Torvalds: Your the loosest Slashdot editor you little bitch

    CmdrTaco: Your ripping my asshole dawg, hold on a sec, wait don't bust

    Linus Torvalds: Yeah

    CmdrTaco: Hold on a sec, don't bust

    Linus Torvalds: Come here

    CmdrTaco: Wait, uh wait, uh, hold on don't bust

    Linus Torvalds: Take all of this Monolithic Kernel

    CmdrTaco: Hold on don't bust, do it on my lip like a milk ad

    Linus Torvalds: Linus is in that ass

    CmdrTaco:
    It's all about Linus
    It's all about Linus, ahh ahh

    Linus Torvalds: You wanna be famous you little bitch

    CmdrTaco: Man don't tell CowboyNeal dawg please, it's all about Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds: Aiight, now get the fuck out of here

    CmdrTaco: Aww shit


    I constantly wonder why God has allowed me to hear this horror. Maybe it is because I am the chosen one and the Time of Purification is at hand. Or maybe God has simply punished me for my lifetime of sins. Or perhaps the devil was involved in this brillant scheme. You may ask me why I have shared such an awful tale. It because I feed off the horror others experience from my story and it gives me the strength to continue living. Now that I haved shared this with you, you are going straight to hell with me, that is if you don't murder yourself in a bloody orgy of hatred for me and these two homosexuals who are the star of my timeless tale.