20. June, 2003 - More MacHack
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Here's a scene from last night. Just before Scott Knaster’s keynote, the pizza arrived. Look at the geek feeding frenzy. Mmmm. Pizza! Here are two quotes from Scott’s keynote:
At the time I thought I was walking into the future, I thought the future was kinda screwed up.
(talking about seeing the Lisa under NDA in Palo Alto in 1983) and At Apple, it has to be cool. At Microsoft it has to win.
(explaining why people who work for Microsoft don’t think the Dance-Monkey-Boy video of Steve Ballmer isn't that bad.
- Genetic engineers decaffeinate coffee. No word on what the hell they were thinking at the time (sorry–it’s MacHack, and decaf just seems so incredibly wrong). [fark!]
- Cat slobber is everywhere because people who just wuv their widdle sweetums who spend all day licking themselves and then shedding on their owners, who drag the hair and cat-spit everywhere they go. [boing boing]
- At Age 4,600-Plus, Methuselah Pine Tree Begets New Offspring. Wow, that’s one old mommy.
- Google Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites. It sounds like Dave’s Picks would fall into the
maybe we’ll allow that
camp. [scripting]
- Those Intriguing Nanotubes Create the Toughest Fibers Known. They’re four times stronger than spider silk, which is five times stronger than steel. That’s some pretty strong string.
- U.S. Gays Who Marry in Canada Face Hurdles, because the federal government won’t recognize their marriage, nor will 37 of the 50 states, but there’s a pretty strong legal argument that such marriages should be recognized. Someone’s just going to have to be the test-case.
- SCO's criticizing Linus now, because he doesn’t care and doesn’t want to know about intellectual property issues for the code in Linux.
- SCO Revokes I.B.M.'s License for Operating System Software, so if you’ve got AIX installed on a machine, that’s now illegal and you’re supposed to delete your OS. SCO’s not trying to make many friends at the moment, but if they do win against IBM, they’ll have a big enough war-chest to be a real pain in the ass to the Unix world.
- Whose Data Is That, Anyway? Your personal financial data, credit history, etc., are all very appealing to a number of big companies. Well, maybe there’s some privacy laws on the way.
- False Terrorism Tips to F.B.I. Uproot the Lives of Suspects. So if you want to ruin someone’s life, just call them a terrorist, and let the FBI screw 'em 'til they bleed.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:29:52.
