The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:09:23 +0000
> <10093816.krrM5JuciM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> End-Time for the Internet
>>
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>> | Spam, spyware, and viruses can already get in the way of good,
>> | clean computing fun. But what happens when malicious code
>> | becomes apocalyptic? According to Jonathan Zittrain, professor
>> | of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University,
>> | these software saboteurs will drive smart users to dumber
>> | appliances like BlackBerrys, iPods, and Xboxes.
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>>
>> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=15
>>
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> FEATURE: Mobile Linux: Why it will become the dominant mobile OS
>>
>> http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/feature-mobile-linux-why-it-will-become-the-dominant-mobile-os/2007-01-03
>
> iPods? IPODS! That reporter needs to know about the
> many many fine benefits of Orange phones and Zunes! :-)
> Next thing one knows he'll be using TiVo as a verb,
> when he should be using "Ultimate TV" instead. (Granted,
> "I tivoed that wacky 70's show" works a little better in
> contemporary English than any variant of "Ultimate TV"
> I can come up with. How does one conjugate the latter?)
"I encumbered that wacky 70's show"?
"I bluescreened that wacky 70's show"?
Or more likely:
"I was denied access to that wacky 70's show"
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