Comment Daemon (Score 1) 101
I knew someone would eventually try to build Matthew Sobol's house. The question is, will this datacenter mansion be guarded by an AutoM8 and sprinkler system that sprays accelerant?
Comment So I see... (Score 1) 620
...that it must be a slow news day.
Daemon 395
stoolpigeon writes "Have you ever been reading a book or watching a film and as the plot moves to involve some use of technology you begin to brace yourself, and the cringe as you are ripped out of the story by what is an obviously ignorant treatment of matters you know well? Do you find the idea of creating a "gui interface using visual basic" to see about tracking an ip address as more fit for a sitcom rather than crime drama? And if so, have you ever wondered what it would be like if one of us, a geek, wrote a techno-thriller? What if someone who grokked our culture and understood our tech wrote something? Would it be great, or would it just get bogged down in the techno babble?" Keep reading for the rest of JR's review.
