12:00 AM Jan 1, 2000. The power is still on - Not suprising, we'd watched rollovers around the world.
12:20 AM. The power clicks off as I'm sending a New Year's email to a friend. I hear "This is it, guys" from my dad, who decides that now would be good time to give me a quick refresher on how to reload the guns. (Why? Looters I guess..) Police cars roll slowly down the street with lights on. I'm the only one in the house who doesn't think this will last.
12:40 AM. As dad stands by the door with a.38 in his pocket, the power comes back and the local news say some idiot hit a power box on our street. Gloating and Crow consuming ensued.
OK, so if the original 'hackers' were just people who enjoyed seeing how things worked and tinkering with them, let's borrow from some Star Wars books and call them 'Slicers'.
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What can we say? Motors are EVIL.
Kinda like the tags...
"Out, out, you demons of stupidity!"
-Dogbert, partron saint of technology
Interesting view... perhaps we should hire some of the, um, less horizontally gifted Slashdotters as personal bodyguards for Linus.
"Here, borrow my phaser." - Garbage man from "Dilbert"
True story..
.38 in his pocket, the power comes back and the local news say some idiot hit a power box on our street. Gloating and Crow consuming ensued.
12:00 AM Jan 1, 2000. The power is still on - Not suprising, we'd watched rollovers around the world.
12:20 AM. The power clicks off as I'm sending a New Year's email to a friend. I hear "This is it, guys" from my dad, who decides that now would be good time to give me a quick refresher on how to reload the guns. (Why? Looters I guess..) Police cars roll slowly down the street with lights on. I'm the only one in the house who doesn't think this will last.
12:40 AM. As dad stands by the door with a
A recent survey shows that 43.3 percent of statistics are meaningless. Judge for yourself.
OK, so if the original 'hackers' were just people who enjoyed seeing how things worked and tinkering with them, let's borrow from some Star Wars books and call them 'Slicers'.
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