Tuesday, 19 February 2008

freetards at mit destroying perfectly



Freetards at MIT destroying perfectly good iPods

If you've ever wondered why nothing useful has ever come out of

Nicholas Negroponte's MIT Media Lab, see this video. Twenty years of

letting wannabes and posers play at being computer geeks, all

subsidized by U.S. tax dollars. Now their big project is installing

some crapware on iPods that breaks the DRM code -- or, as one freetard

puts it, "reconfigures the power relationship between you and your

technology." Wow. Maybe you didn't realize you had a power

relationship with your iPod. You just thought it was for playing music

on the way to work. Who knew? Well, thanks, there, you

Foucault-reading, latte-gulping graduate student, for saving the world

from the tyranny of Apple. Let's go get ice cream cones at Toscanini's

and you can tell us about Jeremy Bentham and the panopticon, and how

the iPod is training us to imprison ourselves. But then shouldn't you

be getting back to your schoolwork? Hilarious.

Best part of the video comes near the end. The little fruitcake leader

of the group is describing this "event" where they invited people to

bring in their iPods and get the freedom software installed. He's

like, "Yeah it was a great success except for one disappointment which

was that two people actually went out and bought new iPods for this

event, which wasn't really the idea, we wanted to liberate people's

iPods, not create an incentive for people to buy more iPods. So in the

future we'll need to be a little more clear on that."

D'oh! Friggin freetarded MIT graduate students! How the hell did you

morons ever get into MIT in the first place? Oh that's right. It's the

Media Lab. Not the real MIT. By the way, kids -- when you put that


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