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I’ve been a slashdot reader pretty much forever (my userid is barely over 6 digits) but I must have been on vacation the week that hit because I don’t know how on earth I missed this:

You’ve probably read this classic boner of an iPod quote at some point:

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.It’s from the Slashdot article on the introduction of the original Apple iPod back in 2001. I had always assumed this particular quote was written by a random Slashdot user in the comments. But in fact, that quote is part of the body of the news entry, and it came directly from Rob Malda, the founder of Slashdot.

Rob’s pithy dismissal of the iPod at its introduction has become virtually synonymous with how out of touch the Slashdot crowd is with the rest of the world.

Obviously, this being an overgeneralization, this does hold some truth, and there are quite a few questionable posters (okay, who am I kidding… there are a LOT of ridiculous comments) but the content on slashdot is still great. Unless, of course you’re not an open source enthusiast and you’re going to certainly be the minority of its readers.

From Coding Horror

• ReducedMass.com - Science blog for the casually curious. » How computers calculate (and plot our demise)
  I want this contraption… on my desk… NOW!
  (tags: sweet youtube video binaryaddition math)

So for a short while now, we’ve been able to get free WiFi at Starbucks on our iPhones. This of course, made sense with AT&T being in bed with Steve Jobs.

Strangely, you can’t do this anymore. This was very short-lived.

Then, I remembered a post on Lifehacker a few days ago, detailing how to get this WiFi for free on your laptop, by having firefox report a false user agent.

I’ve got $5 that says someone over at AT&T saw that and decided they needed some better way to validate that the WiFi device was actually an iPhone. Can’t they just look at the MAC address that’s connected? I thought MAC addresses have a portion of it which is static and represents the a company/model ID.

I’d love to have this theory confirmed/denied. Anyone?