Community Matters

I found this hilarious article today and thought I should share it. Here are some gem quotes:

If your son has requested a new “processor” from a company called “AMD”, this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, “knock-off” copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking.

Umm, maybe I shouldn’t link to this from my work blog :-)

Or how about this important piece of information:

BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called “xenix”, which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people’s computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people’s stereos to steal their music, using the “mp3″ program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as “telnet”, which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.

I love the Internet. Tons of amusing stuff coming through the tubes this morning.

Yeah right. And pigs fly.

Or so I would have said until very very recently. And here I am, posting comments on Intel’s Opinion Center on /.. Crazy. And in a weird way, fun.

So far the comments are actually closer to a conversation than to a flame-fest. And with some heavy guidance the geeks have managed to get the marketing folks to take it easy. It’s early and I reserve the right to adjust my view on this after some more experience, but maybe this isn’t all bad (hey, I’m trying to keep my enthusiasm at bay here…) :-)

Take a look and let me know what you think!