0wnz0red

Robotech_Master writes "Salon Magazine is running an interesting and thought-provoking short story/novella by Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the b0ing b0ing weblog. This story, 0wnz0red, features programmer/geek terms and references, Descartes, "trustworthy computing," and what happens when programmers gain the ability to hack their own autonomic functions. A really fun read...like Stephenson's works, it feels like it's aimed squarely at the geeks' demographic."

Comments

Geek Demographic

[Stephen VanDahm]

"it feels like it's aimed squarely at the geeks' demographic"

Nothing with word "demographic" in it could truly appeal to the geek demographic.

Wait a minute....

Steve

There goes my work day

[tomzyk]

How dare you post a short story first thing in the morning. And a FRIDAY at that too! I might as well just go home now; I'm not getting anything worthwhile done at work today.

Re:There goes my work day

[richie2000]

You need to take speed-reading classes. But as a personal favour, here's the Reader's Digest version of the story:

Boy meets boy. Boys code code. Boy dies (supposedly) of AIDS. Boy gets depressed and gets cognitive documentation therapy. Boy comes back from the dead (mostly). Boy was cyB0rged by the Feds but ran away. Boys code body functions. Feds catch boys and 0wnz them. Boy turns Fed. Boy gets out and goes to Africa to spread some rad warez. The End.

Re:Webster's dictionary anyone?

[kzinti]

Somebody owes me 15 minutes added back to my life timer for suggesting this was a worthwhile read.

Sorry, but the most credit I can give you on refund is five minutes. After that long, you should be smart enough to bail out on your own. So let's see, five minutes, um... carry the one... so I'll be seeing you at 4:33 PM next Thurs... oh! er, never mind. Wasn't 'sposed to say that. Have a nice day!

-- G. Reaper, Esq.

Erk

[zapfie]

What are you doing? You can't post an article that actually requires people to read it before they respond.. it's against the Slashdot Code of Ethics! Next you'll expect us not to pull comments out of our asses.. yeah, right.

You're not alone

[wirefarm]

As someone who's 'website' evolved into an interactive weblog, I happily await the day when the term 'blog' falls into the same pit of disused linguistics as 'cyber', 'breaker, breaker, good buddy' and 'where's the beef'.
As for 'Wiki', the very word gives me the heebie-jeebies and makes me wonder if I should give up computers completely.

(As for your sig, I'd say the only reason to use Netscape 7.x instead of Mozilla is if you're still hanging onto those shares of NSCP, just in case...)

Cheers,
Jim

Do not meddle in the affairs of cyborgs ...

[wiredog]

for you are conductive and can support 110 volts.

31337

[XMunkki]

yeah, and 'elite' is written like '31173' or '31337' just to hide the fact that we are really talking about lamers ;)

Re:What happens?

[Futaba-chan]

What happens when I open slashdot
and I don't know what the hell
you are talking about?

No, no, no! Always
five-seven-five, and never
nine-five-six. Baka!

Re:intersting, but one bigass plot hole

[Dread_ed]

Are you sure that he didn't plan to just eat a few of the Somalians each day?

He could just program himself to have them all taste like ice cream!

Vincit que se vincit.