CodeCon, Placebos, Fear, Yoyo-hacking, Dune, etc.

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CodeCon, Placebos, Fear, Yoyo-hacking, Dune, etc.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 1, 2004 @12:37AM from the these-are-no-ordinary-yo-yos dept.

doom writes "Annalee Newitz rambles about CodeCon, placebos, random numbers, fear, yoyo-hacking, Dune and more. This is what it means to be a geek: Techsploitation."

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No... by Wiser87 · 2004-03-01 00:41 · Score: 4, Funny

A true geek would've also taken the time to personally post their article on slashdot.
1. Re:No... by Gil2796 · 2004-03-01 00:45 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I think the author is trying to /. a foe's website. A clever ploy! By the end of the day, his webserver will be no more than a pile of steaming slag!
  
  Good tactic, fitting of a true geek!
yo-yo hacking? by DanThe1Man · 2004-03-01 00:43 · Score: 4, Funny

Is yo-you hacking like cracking severs while lissening to Vanilla Ice?
1. Re:yo-yo hacking? by plover · 2004-03-01 02:10 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  I think it's more like hacking while listening to the cello being played really, really well.
  
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Ahhhhhhh.... by Ratface · 2004-03-01 00:43 · Score: 4, Funny

*sighs contentedly*

Takes me back to the days when internet connections were text-based and being a hacker meant being a proud explorer of a new frontier.

Where has all the magic gone eh? Thank goodness there are people out there who are keeping the magic alive!

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A little planning goes a long way...
What do these have in common? by arcanumas · 2004-03-01 00:44 · Score: 5, Funny

For those wondering what placebos, yoyos , random numbers, fear , CodeCon and Dune have in common:
Only on slashdot have these been combined in a single sentence.

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1. Re:What do these have in common? by onyxruby · 2004-03-01 00:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And only on slashdot would they have a good chunk of the readers never bat an eye at such a combo.
2. Re:What do these have in common? by Gil2796 · 2004-03-01 01:00 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  That's usually because we don't read the article before we set out on our karma gathering expeditions! :)
  
  People like me should be given karma points for not posting!
  
  Ok ok, I'll metamoderate! Please don't hurt me anymore :(
Yo Yo hacking by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-01 00:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Is that when you hack a server to bring it down, wait for it to come back up again then down, up, down...
Ignore the FA by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-01 00:46 · Score: 4, Funny

There's a link to "Nude Beaches" on the same page, which has got to be a lot more inteersting than guys modifying yo-yos :-)
I was going to read that article but... by Zakabog · 2004-03-01 00:56 · Score: 4, Funny

... as soon as the site loaded I couldn't help from clicking the "Nude Beaches" link.
Yo-yo hacking by FraggedSquid · 2004-03-01 01:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Using glue, you can install Linux on your yoyo.

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Ken Schalk better watch out... by coolguy81 · 2004-03-01 01:33 · Score: 3, Funny

...good thing the FBI wasn't around. With the DMCA, he could of gotten into big time trouble with that yoyo.
1. Re:Ken Schalk better watch out... by prat393 · 2004-03-01 01:44 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I'm sorry, but the operation of YoYo's is a trade secret. We're awaiting a ruling from Danish courts, but in the meantime, the YYIA is suing you for everything you've got!
Since when is this +5 insightful? by Vintermann · 2004-03-01 01:45 · Score: 5, Funny

"Is it such a slow day at Slashdot? Why is this dump of mental diarrhea "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"? Someone is at some geek conference, throws a bunch of sci-fi references with a couple of buzzwords and some piece about a software that doesn't work but "will do soon" and suddenly we have a truly wondrous article about how good it is to be a geek."

Not every article on slashdot is revolutionary brilliant. Neither are all replies. Get over it. I for one can't see what's so insightful about your whining.

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Not a hack.... by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · 2004-03-01 01:50 · Score: 2, Funny

This is just my XP box, up...down....up....down
Hey! by asr_man · 2004-03-01 02:10 · Score: 2, Funny

You broke my googlewhack!
Re:What the hell was that? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-01 02:22 · Score: 0, Funny

Shhh, I think the Slashdot editors are looking for their first offical Slashdot writer. We all know the quailty of the editing.

Runns and hides.
Dune by damiena · 2004-03-01 04:07 · Score: 5, Funny

it reminds me of that cool scene in the movie Dune, when Paul sticks his hand in the pain box for a really long time and you hear that spooky voice-over intoning, "I will not fear; fear is the mind-killer."

Yeah, it was a great movie... Now if only someone would write one of those novelized adaptations. That would be great!
Re:Placebos: The ultimate drug by mrogers · 2004-03-01 09:56 · Score: 2, Funny

Nah, people will just imagine the side effects too.
I was wondering the other night why placebos aren't used more widely (at least when all other treatments have failed). And then I realised: they probably are. Doctors just don't talk about it because placebos would stop working if people knew about them. At last, a benign conspiracy theory!