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RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today
In anonymous reader writes "RMS will be moving his office to the new William H. Gates building at MIT's Stata Center starting today. This marks the end of MIT's use of building NE43, which housed the LCS and AI labs (now combined into CSAIL).
On a strangely unrelated note, shortly after Harvard, in a laudable attempt to retain solidarity with the Open Source community, dedicated the Maxwell Dworkin building (named after Gates' and Ballmer's mothers respectively), Gates' credit card was hacked. After all, they did have his mother's maiden name... "
... is the 'w' in 'Dworkin' silent?
Typical - you fund a shiny new building but no sooner is it in use than some bearded hippy moves in and lowers the property values.
Hoarders may pay to fund new buildings,
that is true, hackers, that is true.
But they cannot choose their neighbours.
That's not good, hackers, that's not good.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
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There's MIT, Stanford... anywhere else that Billy has seen fit to leave his mark?
The DOJ in Washington, DC?"Abandon all hope ye who use Outlook Express"
Hmmm... maybe it's a typo because I read it as "Harvard, in a laughable attempt..." :)
Scientia est Potentia
I saw him pissing on the side of the Supreme Court Building in DC a few weeks back...
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
I just can't imagine Bill Gates having a credit card. It seems so... ordinary. I always imagined that billionaires had payment methods beyond mere credit cards - like an assistant with a suitcase full of diamonds or something.
I have a window cube looking out in the direction of the building, and it never ceases to amaze me how ungodly ugly the building is.
And the worst part is my only other option is to look at my computer and do work, using this ungodly awful Windows system.
Unless I go fooz, I can't get away from looking at Gates' handiwork. Ugh
I work at Harvard and was talking to one of the deans about the Maxwell Dworkin building. He mentioned that they used the [assembly] code for DOS (they went into the archives from when Bill G was at H) as an abstract pattern for a wall mural. I asked him whether anyone had checked the code to see if there where any buffer overflow vulnerabilities. It could make the building susceptible to a worm attack. He didn't get it. Conversation ended abruptly.
This would be akin to you noticing your neighbor left the keys in his car and you decided to take it for a ride before telling him about it.
Oh shit! That's illegal?!
Hmmm... Clearly some testing is required.
Maybe if somebody could forward it, I could test it out by buying something that will prove that it is actually Gates' card.
I'm thinking that South Dakota should be adequate for this task.
myke
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Even their mothers have buildings named after them! This is insane.
That's because they can't name the buildings after their fathers. It wouldn't look good to name the building "UPS-Man and Pool-Boy Building."
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Rumor has it they caught him because of a VERY suspicious charge:
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He ordered several boxed Linux distros
dude this is slashdot we dont use any types of punctuation marks because we are too busy coding where do you think you are elementary school
You're worshipping at the FSF's altar and you ask them to define RMS?
Let me guess... you're new here?
---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
The Gates of Hell?
That's at Stanford.
This Like That - fun with words!
Well, you can't spell "Hey" for starts.
Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch.
Query: does the Bill Gates Building have....Windows?
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.