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Steve Jobs Dead At 56
SoCalChris writes "Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was found dead in his Cupertino home this morning. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him — even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon."
Sad new about Jobs. But I sure as hell didn't need ABC to break into the middle of the Double Jeopardy round and give me a fucking seven-minute retrospective of his career, hailing him as the god of all modern technology. If they had to interrupt the great Alex Trebek and one of the only TV shows that matters they could have just mentioned Jobs' death, asked us to tune in for more later, and given me my program back. Dear ABC, you can't felate a dead man, though your efforts were impressive.
...and now NBC has seen CNN and the ABC report and catches up, 30 minutes later.
Damn, I knew I should have moved to the West coast, for the TV schedule of course.
This is a hacked account, for which the owner can not be held responsible.
He put his SOUL into that product... Literally
All the world's a CPU, and all the men and women merely AI agents
I noticed and I don't find it funny at all. And I have been around long enough to recognize the lame and tired meme.
Many Slashdot users looked up to Steve Jobs and came (and more still coming) here to pay a little respect, and to comment about it with fellow nerds and tech-oriented people. I think it's disrespectful to them to present the story that way.
And honestrly, I can't even tell if Soulskill posted this submission on purpose, or if he/she was succesfully trolled, which says a lot about this post-CmdrTaco Slashdot.