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AP Article On Cyborg Steve Mann

Posted by timothy on from the one-man-hardware-store dept.

Vellmont writes "Slashdots favorite Cyborg, University of Toronto Engineering Professor Steve Mann has an AP article about him out. You can read the article on Salon or Yahoo (as well as many other places). The article is well done, and I particularly love Prof. Mann's way of dealing with stores who prohibit videotaping. Slashdot ran a previous story about Prof. Mann's troubles with Airport Security in March 2002."

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  1. Frosty Piss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP GNAA bitchez

  2. YOUR HELP NEEDED! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am Mr. Darl McBride, the CEO of SCO corporation.

    I am in charge of this firm which is fast sinking due to the fact no one will pay my Linux toll. The litigation sector has a peculiar nature in my country as it concerns financial transactions; anything is possible for you to stay afloat with the enormous compensation therein to the right scummy lawyers.

    Unfortunatly, my own lawyers have failed me and so I need to get what little money the company has left out of the corporate accounts before the company tanks and the shareholders try to take what is left. I have $37 million I was recently given by Microsoft who is trying to prop up my attempt to destroy linux. I fear they will want it back if things fail and I feel it is time to get out before the end.

    Taking into cognizance the foregoing, I am in a position to make all necessary arrangement to portray you as my "lawyer" so that I can pretend to have payed all the money to a real lawyer should Microsoft or the sharewolders come looking for it. I only ask that you help me set up an account to funnel the money into. I will let you keep half of this $37 million for yourself. That will leave us both with more than enough money to flee to Brazil and live it up for the rest of our lives should the true nature of this scheme come to light.

    Call me so that we can discuss further at 1-800-726-8649.

    Thank you!

    Darl McBride

  3. He's a techno-roadie ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He's no cyborg - he's just lugging gear around looking for a gig !

  4. Re:First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    According to that page, TheSpoogeAwards is whack. If I were you, I'd implement a special case for that.

  5. Real world vs. fanboy fantasies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.

    I know how to tell facts from marketing fluff. Now, here are the facts as they're found by SEVERAL INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INSTITUTES:

    Expenses for file-server workloads under Windows, compared to LinuxOS:
    • Staffing expenses were 33.5% better.
    • Training costs were 32.3% better.


    They compared Microsofts IIS to the Linux 7.0 webserver. For Windows, the cost was only:
    • $40.25 per megabit of throughput per second.
    • $1.79 per peak request per second.


    Application development and support costs for Windows compared to an opensores solution like J2EE:
    • 28.2% less for large enterprises.
    • 25.0% less for medium organizations.


    A full Windows installation, compared to installing Linux, on an Enterprise Server boxen:
    • Is nearly three hours faster.
    • Requires 77% fewer steps.


    Compared to the best known opensores webserver "Red Hat", Microsoft IIS:
    • Has 276% better peak performance for static transactions.
    • Has 63% better peak performance for dynamic content.


    These are hard numbers and 100% FACTS! There are several more where these came from.

    Who do you think we professionals trust more?
    Reliable companies with tried and tested products, or that bedroom coder Thorwalds who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???

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