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0wnz0red

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-friday-reading dept.

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."

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  1. pr0n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    on that boingboing webpage, the author says that "pr0n" is a synonym for "porn" due to common typing errors, i was under the impression that "pr0n" was used to hide your porn from sysops on multi user systems using find / -name *porn* or something like that.

    whos right, me or him ?

  2. Well, duh by tswinzig · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...like Stephenson's works, it feels like it's aimed squarely at the geeks' demographic.

    Maybe this is a different type of "slashdot effect." Where a content publisher puts up articles knowing they will get linked from slashdot.

    Just for CmdrTaco, I would like to differentiate this type by calling it the "slashdot affect."

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