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All We Want Is Whatever's On Your Machine

kubla2000 writes: "A breathless story about how the best defense against [fill in the blank: piracy, virii, hacking] is a good offense at CNet. What struck me most though is that in the midst of the rant from Timothy Mullen (no stranger to hacking the hack as this story from computerworld magazine shows, was a throw-away line justifying the RIAA and MPAA's appeal to Congress to make it legal to do this! It seems the bandwagons have started rolling. Who's next to jump on?"

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  1. Re:Hack THIS! by DEBEDb · · Score: 4, Funny
    I've started hacking in the early 80s when I aquired an old 80486 compute

    Prior to that, you acquired a time machine, I believe...

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    Considered harmful.
  2. Nothing beats faux-intellectual pluralization... by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 3, Funny

    Surely, you mean "ninjii", don't you?

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    You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
  3. Re:Good or Bad worm? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >if any of you fuckheads had ever had to grow up hacking unix for a living you'd be kissing ass for a GUI

    Heh.

    Most of us "fuckheads" grew up learning how to hack code on a command line with a piece of shit commodore 64 keyboard.

    When I first experienced the keyboard on a dumb terminal, I so very much wanted to take it home.

    We learned the TUI. We like the CLI. What do you get when you put them together?

    CLIT for U and I.

    What could be better than that?

  4. Re:Vigilante justice is not the solution by pommiekiwifruit · · Score: 2, Funny
    What are the laws like in Sweden regarding the use of force against someone who has broken into your home?

    Apparently, you can have sex with them, but only if they are good-looking and a camera is rolling. According to a friend who knows these things.

    </cheapjibe>

  5. Al Quaeda Records by TheSync · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Hi, I'm from Al Quaeda records, and I'm here to hack your computer!"

    Enough said.