Militant Geek: Rapid Fire - Post Presents, Pre Depression Edition
If you happened to be one of those well adjusted folks who took time off for your self (or were snowed in at the Denver airport) here is the latest in tech foibles from the last week:
- New papers leaked show that Facebook’s founders turned down a $1.6 billion offer from - you guessed it - Yahoo. While we question Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s common sense we have to give props to the man’s moxy. The article mentions he used to pass out business cards that said “I’m CEO . . . bitch”. - TimesOnline.co.uk
- Peter Gutmann, a computer science professor at the University of Auckland (New Zealand), declares the Windows Vista security specification the longest suicide note in history. Sure, the security model is incredibly anti-consumer and enterprising hackers have already figured out how to permanently bypass Vista
calling home to the mothershipactivation. I just want to know how many suicide notes Gutmann has studied. What was the previous record? Is there a benchmark for long goodbyes? Or is this more pandering by another so-called suicide note expert? 
Gizmodo declares that everyone hates the PS3. We ask what took so long? Given that even gas stations in rural Minnesota have gotten into the act its probably time to jump off that wagon. It’s a shame; Sony seems determined to make that ride of corporate blundering into hardware obscurity damn entertaining.- Joel Spolsky, software commentator grand-pu-ba, took it upon himself to figure out just what the heck Steve Gillmor is talking about in a recent post. Three hours and several decoder rings later Joel comes to the conclusion that Steve is blowing smoke. He then promptly unsubscribed from the RSS feed.
- Wikiasari, a search engine from the guys who did Wikipedia, is announced and promptly proclaimed as a ‘killer app’ by CNet. It’s kind of funny - I seem to remember the folks at Google being banned from talking to CNet reporters for a year. Could CNet be practicing some journalistic spite?
