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Virginia Data Ransom
posted by rik at 2009-05-08 16:15

rik: "On Thursday, April 30, the secure site for the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) was replaced with a $US10M ransom demand"

Sikh police want ballistic turban
posted by rik at 2009-05-08 14:37

rik: "Sikh police want bulletproof turbans to be developed so they can serve as firearms officers and deal with public order, a newly-formed body says."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
posted by seti at 2009-05-08 13:39

seti: apparently works in Facebook.

Debian forks GlibC over Drepper
posted by seti at 2009-05-08 02:09

surrael: aka "this embedded crap"
surrael: patient zero
kandinski: "Even Redhat has a glibc that's heavily forked from the mainline, and they pay him."
surrael: eglibc is similar to uclibc, to which debian has already been ported successfully, but is less mature, making it the obvious candidate for debian
kandinski: -- http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1224639&cid=27852789
surrael: and that's exactly why redhate sucksss....... but don't tell them
surrael: source for the "famously good architectures like x86" quote which seems made up
surrael: to which is replied: "This could be the most obscure string of geek jokes ever written. It makes GNUphone seem comprehensible to outsiders."
    
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