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Design Hardware/Software for Global Civil Society

Posted by michael on from the sten-gun dept.

-cman- writes "White box builders and Gnome hackers take note! With the announcement of various oxymoronic "trusted computing" initiatives in recent week, Bruce Sterling, self-appointed Pope-Emperor of the Viridian Design Movement has announced a new design contest to design a '...genuinely trustable, cheap, well-designed, rugged, sexy, accessible computer system that is owned, manufactured and operated for, well, Global Civil Society.'" I'll buy one.

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  1. In related news... by selderrr · · Score: 3, Funny

    ".Net builders and XP hackers take note! With the announcement of various oxymoronic "trusted computing" initiatives in recent week, Bill gates, self-appointed Pope-Emperor of the Republican Innovation Movement has announced a new design contest to design a '...genuinely trustable, cheap, well-designed, rugged, sexy, accessible computer system that is owned, manufactured and operated for, well, Global Civil Dominance.'"
    I'll pirate one.

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  2. Que Lingue? by jhampson · · Score: 2, Funny

    What language would be the Universal Language??? Esperanto? How about a universal geek language? Klingon!
    Grok et Spock baby!

  3. Re:i think by theRhinoceros · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the Viridian FAQ: The contests are opportunities for graphic or conceptual creativity. Logos, posters, teapots, lamps, that sort of thing. We do this to amuse ourselves, and to give some coherent form to our ideas. Images and symbols are every bit as important to the Viridian Movement as our constant outflow of rants.

    Not to flame them or anything, but you'd think a site that cares as much about design as they claim would have, well, a better design themselves.

  4. SUBMISSION #42 by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Abacus

  5. Re:in- and ex-ternals of such a beast by Louis_Wu · · Score: 3, Funny
    Reminds me of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9. The crew of DS9 was on some backwater planet, and being chased by Gem'hadar. The conniving alien who controlled the Gem'hadar was proposing an aliance/end of hostilities, using his technical gear as leverage. He said something like, "I have this great technology here, and you have one of those famous StarFleet Engineers, who can create a warp drive with a roll of duct tape, three paperclips, and a tin can. Together we can get off of this horrible little rock we're stranded on."

    The computer you want sounds like something not even Geordi + Data + Cheif O'Brien could make. But I do want one. :)