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McEs, A Hacker Life

Monday, March 27, 2006

Computer Illiterate Officials

I'm sure everybody has read about the Oklahoma city threatens to call FBI over 'renegade' Linux maker story from last week. It's fabulously sad... Full email communication here and follow-up story here.

That made me understand that it's not just Iranian officials who can be extremely funny when commenting about computers. There was this other news three weeks back about User-friendly computers developed in Iran, weirdly named 'Colonizer'. The English news item is not funny, but the detailed Persian item was, full of quotes, like a cleric commenting on the developed technology and all... A good part of it was about how with the new computer, students could send a message to someone and have it delivered in a few minutes. Yay!

Update: Another classic is the Attach of the Repo Men. Weird.

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