The latest BOFH, or Bastard Operator From Hell. If you read
The Register you're familiar with him... It's the story of an abusive IT guy basically doing whatever he wants to users and getting away with it.
It's been going on for about 10 years,
all of which is archived, so if that one doesn't tease your fancy, maybe some of those will. If you're not familiar with basic IT stuff some of it may be foreign to you, but once I started reading I couldn't stop. Try a couple years back, 2002 is a good vintage. >clickety<
posted by BlackLeotardFront
on Mar 21, 2005 -
48 comments
Do no evil... it looks like Orkut would like to 0wn your data. And although the piece is heated, everyone did get incensed over Microsoft's near-identical passport policy. And I know you
invited types like Orkut...
posted by bonaldi
on Feb 5, 2004 -
28 comments
42 days to a Googlewash. The Register comes out all guns firing at the blogging community's apparent "redefinition" of a term, calling it Orwellian doublespeak. Is it true that a small coterie of A-list bloggers is able to change the way we (for we: read Google users) define a phrase? Or is there really
something bigger going on?
posted by cbrody
on Apr 3, 2003 -
65 comments
Debate over brain scans Over at the Register, one of their writers has gotten into a fantastic pissing contest with InfoSeek's founder over the issue of brain scans and airport security. What are your thoughts?
posted by xochi
on Oct 10, 2001 -
7 comments
Scott Adams helps to design the ultimate cubicle. Oh, the irony. According to
The Register,
"So has Adams sold out, or what?
On closer inspection, this whimsical parlay could well be a physical extension of the Dilbert strip. How else to account for the 'sun indicators', or as the blurb says:-'Regardless of the weather outside, sunlight travels across your space, glowing and fading with the rhythm of the day.' Yes, to remind you of the futility of your miserable, rabbit hutch existence, of course."
posted by jetgrrl
on Aug 30, 2001 -
9 comments
Anti-rip CD system bypassed. heh. nice try, boyos. i've never understood how people can believe something digitized can possibly be protected in such a manner as to be foolproof. what one process can scramble, another can undo. [via
/.]
posted by fuzzygeek
on Aug 1, 2001 -
5 comments
Do you use Hotmail for email? If so, it looks like
Microsoft owns all your messages and can reprint or repurpose them however they like. I'd assume
the ToS could be extended to cover any content on a passport-using website as well. Scary stuff, considering all the Hailstorm services on the way...
posted by mathowie
on Apr 3, 2001 -
12 comments
This story of a whiz kid who vanished raises all kinds of questions. Sufiah, a 15-year-old student at Oxford University, disappears; then, her father receives an e-mail, supposedly from her.
The e-mail claims that she ran away from her father's abusive high-pressure learning techniques;
the father claims that she must have been kidnapped and brainwashed. The police aren't sure how to handle this situation, as there's no way to
prove that the mail is really from the daughter. Finally, the father has called in the media to present
his side of the story, since Sufiah has threatened to go to the media with hers.
posted by harmful
on Jul 6, 2000 -
11 comments
