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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. What do these have in common? by arcanumas · · 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 · · 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. Yo Yo hacking by Anonymous Coward · · 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...

  3. Yo-yo hacking by FraggedSquid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using glue, you can install Linux on your yoyo.

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  4. Since when is this +5 insightful? by Vintermann · · 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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  5. Dune by damiena · · 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!