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Old April 9th, 2004, 12:02 PM   #1
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Welcome to our H-E-double L, Mac users!

A day that will live in infamy:

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63000,00.html


Mac trojan horse. Let the platform war thread start! (just kidding, please don't start a platform war...)
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Old April 9th, 2004, 12:58 PM   #2
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Yeah!!! Someone besides Apple is writing new software for the Mac!!! Can you say "Market Share"?

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Old April 9th, 2004, 04:35 PM   #3
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This belongs in the rumor forum, man! :)
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Old April 9th, 2004, 05:30 PM   #4
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They've updated the story since I first posted it!

Looks like now it really should be in the Area 51 forum...
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Old April 9th, 2004, 08:41 PM   #5
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I've talked to several security experts about this today and this is a non-issue at this time.
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Old April 10th, 2004, 02:26 AM   #6
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While I disagree with any anti mac sentiment I feel obligated to give a shout out to a fellow dawg, sic em....
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Old April 10th, 2004, 10:20 PM   #7
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Hey Nick.. congrats on being one of the lucky artistic locals who broke free of the small-town, cheap-beer chains. You ever run into fellow ex-pat Dick Fausset out in Cali?

Just to clarify -- I'm not anti-Mac, I just wanted to welcome Mac users to the daily hell that is being a Windows user. Just a gift-basket to the new neighbors and all :)

Of course, that was before the story was debunked.

Still, I think it's only time before some eager beaver script kiddie tries to tackle the Mac. Unless... it's Steve Jobs behind all these Windows viruses! Now that's a rumor for Area 51! :)
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Old April 11th, 2004, 12:20 AM   #8
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Yo! Yo! Yo! Waaazzzzuuuuppp!!! Waaazzzzuuupppp!!! Master emcee bling bling ebonics king in da DV-Info hizhouse!!! What it is phiggidy G-dawg. This be H-Dawg just giving a shouthizzle to my homies and sistah's in this fasheezi crib. How it be illin Ya'll! Jus up in herr-a gettin my post on if ya naw what I'm sayin' NAAWWW MEAAANNN? Phiggidy Whiggidy Whack! Ya'll This is where it all be dat. Jus' chillin' playin' on da phat stax full of trax that bumpin n grindin the party til its 2 in tha mornin and it don't stop jumpin up loud in dis party. this be the phat cold dope mad house of noize it be mad crazy up in here. Fashizzle my little fizzle tizzles aint dat Jeffthizzle I be scannin in tha texts phool? Yo I give a shout out to ya'll and I must give mad phiggidy PHAT props to my main bruthah of soul John Britt of da Irish House of Pain Clan jumpin around in this house for steppin it to da man upstate. You aight, Fashizzle. We all be lookin out here for ya while drinkin some Krystal for ya, don't let Colonel Sanders get you down. Aight.
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Old April 11th, 2004, 03:02 AM   #9
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Just to stay on topic, my cam was buzzing so I squirted WD-40 at it and it started smoking and made the air all stinky. Then I saw a flying saucer with the apple logo on it. So that's it.
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Old April 11th, 2004, 03:57 AM   #10
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<<<-- Originally posted by Ted Springer : Nick-

Yo! Yo! Yo! Waaazzzzuuuuppp!!! Waaazzzzuuupppp!!! Master emcee bling bling ebonics king in da DV-Info hizhouse!!! What it is phiggidy G-dawg. This be H-Dawg just giving a shouthizzle to my homies and sistah's in this fasheezi crib. How it be illin Ya'll! Jus up in herr-a gettin my post on if ya naw what I'm sayin' NAAWWW MEAAANNN? Phiggidy Whiggidy Whack! Ya'll This is where it all be dat. Jus' chillin' playin' on da phat stax full of trax that bumpin n grindin the party til its 2 in tha mornin and it don't stop jumpin up loud in dis party. this be the phat cold dope mad house of noize it be mad crazy up in here. Fashizzle my little fizzle tizzles aint dat Jeffthizzle I be scannin in tha texts phool? Yo I give a shout out to ya'll and I must give mad phiggidy PHAT props to my main bruthah of soul John Britt of da Irish House of Pain Clan jumpin around in this house for steppin it to da man upstate. You aight, Fashizzle. We all be lookin out here for ya while drinkin some Krystal for ya, don't let Colonel Sanders get you down. Aight. -->>>

that's the funnest thing i've read all week.

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Old April 12th, 2004, 10:40 AM   #11
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Ted while that is in fact how I usually converse with my "homiees" in this particular instance I was referring to John's location, Athens GA, which is the home of the University of Georgia (where I went to college) our mascot is the Bulldog, which people call "dawg" spelled that way (perhaps do to years and years of drinking by the alumni) But I appreciate the ebonics "humor" as it reminds me why I left Glendale.
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