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- MikeyJW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34No, it only counts as whacking.
- BeachSide, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24"COME ON! Thats the gayest ***** i ever heard."
Because that is so much more mature... : | - thunderhammer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22Sure.
As part of a secret government program a guy learns how to program his own body. In the middle of this there is a rant about how Microsoft wants to control what you can do with your computer. Anyway, he hacks his body, makes himself skinny, smarter, healthier, all that. Then he ditches the government, shows his friend how do the same thing to himself. Then the government captures them both. Then somehow they persuade the government to let them go. Then they go to Africa to solve the world's problems.
Oh, but more interesting than I made it sound. - MarvinMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I feel like Cory's telling me this story as if it were a conversation between me and him.
It's like he is talking about something interesting and I am trying to tune him out so I could see/hear something more interesting than Katamari Damacy birthday cakes. He notices what I am doing, so he talks louder and I'm concentrating harder and it goes on and on and on until he is yelling directly into my ears about his short stories and I am concentrating so hard I get nosebleeds and my circulatory system fails and then without warning I pitch backward into my chair and into darkness
When I wake up in the ER, he's in the room with me. He's also found a way to associate my sudden blackout with DRM. - ogEmmet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Better link (story on one page, not eight):
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/print.html
BTW, good digg. - dotdan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Can someone sum this up for those of us without much patience? :)
- thomble, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Please, people. Cory, Xeni, and the rest of those BoingBoing shills do absolutely nothing but self-promote and release tripe in the form of novels, blogs, and what is perhaps the only uninsightful radio show on NPR.
They promote themselves and their advertisers, edit their own Wikipedia pages, disallow comments on their site, all while bitching about DRM that none of us are ACTUALLY forced to use. Don't promote this kinda junk to the front page. For the record:
http://corysucks.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cory_Doctorow
http://xenisucks.com/
Digg that. - riverfr0zen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7man, his writing sucks. is there at least a summary of the concepts somewhere, so you don't have to wade through that tripe?
- thomble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4MarvinMan: Sometimes I wish that a single comment could be magically promoted to the front page.
- systemghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Decent idea, crappy execution.
- TheWriteGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Re: Boingboing. I've always liked Mark's entries and highly enjoyed the novels he has recommended. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for Cory's recommendations. I won't name the novel in question that Cory praised, which I dropped $25 on, but ugh. I've tried to read Cory's own novels but his narrative voice to me comes across like a person with severe ADD who has ingested way too much caffeine and smoked too many cigarettes. It's very erratic to say the least.
Unbelievably, reading his anti-DRM entries annoys me as well, and I am totally against all forms of DRM. He comes across as shrill and shrieking and that's not helping the cause for consumer rights, I'm afraid. - arusso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How many programmers do you know speak l337sp34k?
Of all my colleagues, the only ones that speak are those who play games, and they leave it where it belongs, in the games. - emosewami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Besides, I've had the idea for a story of "hacking your own body" (or the rest of the objects in our world) since I saw The Matrix. The Matrix almost did it, but it became something pretty different. My friend and I used to joke about how walking was just a function of incrementing the position of each foot to a new location. So if you could mod the function, you could make yourself walk 25x times as fast. This guy owes me royalties.
Joking aside, this story isn't written very well. - Jadael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can already do THAT, you're only limited by the physical capabilities of the hardware.
- Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Very well written!
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Cory Doctorow just can't cut it as a writer compared to the likes of William Gibson or Neal Stephenson. Neither his ideas nor his writing style are anything special.
- MarvinMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do you write fanfiction?
- Jadael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because heaven forbid they read a story then comment about it in the comment section.
- thefold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I read this a good few years back and have never been able to find it again, so good digg! :-D
- Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Personally, I thought it was a great story, but I see that I am in the minority.
- dinkumator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i love how people who already have opinions on subjects on digg take time out to bash it in the comments instead of just moving on to the next article... If you don't like Doctorow, shut up and move on!
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Same, after reading the first two pages I really liked the characters and subject. Really cool, also neat insight in to what some of the most hardcore-programmers lives could be like.
Neat. - spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Man I thought this was like, going to be a funny movie of a guy named "Cory Doctorow" lighting someone on fire or something else "0wnerish"..
Just what I was looking for as a good bed-time story
/dropbook
/.pdb
/hotsync
/digg. - arusso, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Incredible... This story is awesome... I hope this get's expanded into a full story...
- macgregorx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Common is this guy for real, Hack your own body ?? ... man, eat well, exercise and please stop writing .... The saddest thing is that you will see this book in the self improvement section of your local bookstore in a couple of months "HOW TO HACK YOUR BODY IN 21 DAYS" LOL ..... Cory keep the good work, soon you will be the next great motivational Guru LOL.
- devilmachine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This article does seem to fall into the TLDR category, no matter how good the content is...
- ollj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0H3 sh0uld h4v3 b33n m0r3 c0ns3qu3nt 4nd wr1t3 th3 3nt1r3 b00k in 1337sp34k !!!111oneloloroflownedsoisoisoisoi
Th3 st0ry s0unds pr3tty stup1d 4nd reads b4d for m3. M4yb3 1m just sp01led by 4s1m0v-st1l3 4nd qu4l1ty st0r13s.
M0r3 1337sp34k w0uld h4v3 g1v3n 1t 4t l34st 4 l1ttl3 un1qu3 st1l3.
(I'm kinda sorry for this post style, just proving a point) - nosferatu, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Cory Doctorow is the man... He's an awesome author and his political stuff is pretty sweet too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Hell no am I reading all of that. Summery anyone?
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Digg doesn't have a category for "mid-list science fiction stories." If you want to post fiction, at least make sure it is written by a good author like William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, JG Ballard, or even China Mieville. And don't submit it under Tech Industry News.
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5who says "gayest *****"??????? thats the most noob thing i ever heard
- TEK14, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5this was so boring i started to read the stupid google ads. Jesus 8 pages and i couldn't get past the firs page
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1gayer than 'pwned' replacing 'ownd'?
worst. internet tragedy. ever. - gardnert1, on 10/12/2007, -38/+10why do things like this make the front page???? "Ownz0red"????? COME ON! Thats the gayest ***** i ever heard.
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