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RMS to Move Into Bill Gates Building Today

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the checking-out-the-new-digs dept.

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... "

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  1. Dworkin? by mhocker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, does that mean that Ballmer is actually a 'Dwork'?

  2. Mother's maiden name by bug-eyed+monster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First, what a trollish summary... According to the article, Gates' CC was hacked because the alleged culprits broke into a database, not because they knew his mother's maiden name.

    Anyway... if some non-governmental org asks you for your mother's maiden name, most likely they just want to use it as a password. So just do that: give them a made-up name (but something you'll remember later).

  3. Re:Bill Gates: An American Hero by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, what is your opinion of the offshoring of US jobs?