May 6, 2002

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For every 1337 h4X0r out there, finally a world where h4X0rz rule. Some people photoshopped images to put 1337 sp34k on them, and well the results are hillarious. (use email: m3000@hotmail.com and password: foobar) My personal favorites? The Hacker God's 10 commandments and "Sex May Never happen in your lifetime but if it does, L1n3x has no holes"

I finally saw Breakfast at Tiffney's tonight for the first time. Very good movie. Audrey Hepburn is simply maaaaaaarvalous :)

Regular readers have probably heard me mention the DMCA quite a few times, and now the Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an excellent summary of DMCA consequences that it has had in the 3 years that it has been law. From supressing scientific research, censorship, elimating certain fair-use rights, and hurting innovation, it's little wonder so few people (outside of the major media companies of course) like the law. Someday maybe we'll be free of the DMCA.... someday.

Yay for Microtel! They produce super cheap OS-free computers for sale in Wal-Mart, which gets rid of the "Microsoft tax" by not making new PC owners buy Windows with the computer. Instead they can put on free operating systems like Linux or FreeBSD. Anyways, the problem was that the modems shipped with these computers didn't work on Linux well, but after an article pointed out the problem and people at Slashdot and other places complained, Microtel fixed the problem and they are now shipping with Linux-friendly modems. It's nice to see a company listen to people and fix something wrong with their product.

"You know you're an engineer when you have no life and can prove it mathmatically"

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