Pranksters infiltrate live Macworld feed As unfounded as they may be, reports of Steve Jobs's demise have spread to a live feed of Macworld Expo provided by Apple gossip site MacRumors after griefers managed to breach the website's security. The micro-blogging feed at Macrumorslive.com appeared banal enough through the first 23 minutes of Monday's Macworld Expo …
That which has never lived cannot die - this demon shade, this blackened talon of the devil himself, carries not the blessing of life as breathed into mankind by The Creator but instead was given the curse of unlife by the rank, foetid, sulfurous, exhalations of The Fallen.
Simultaneously fueling, and feeding upon, mankind's commission of the deadly sins, Steve Jobs is the single most evil creature on the face of the planet - but alive, he is not.
Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride. From Lisa to iPhone, Apple has been the relentless sea that erodes the soft, soapstone, souls of the weak and degenerate. The soul of the righteous is an indomitable granite pillar built on utilitarian commodity hardware, and Windows Vista (Service Pack 2 Beta).
Evil wears silk, and offers forbidden corporeal pleasures. Good wears hair shirts and promises only that your faith will be tested. Daily.
Seriously? Whoops.
I thought it was hilarious. Figured it was a joke, then a second message came up... and then a "sponsorship message" from 4chan. Couldn't stop laughing.
Gotta feel sorry for the guys involved – and it inconvenienced me, as I was following that page via my phone because it's low-bandwidth – but Anonymous (if 'twas really he) delivered truly epic lulz.
I don't approve of maliciously interfering with computers that don't belong to you.
And it wasn't even funny.
Now, if a video feed of Steve Jobs had him turning into Nehemiah Scudder, the First Prophet, who then denounced Steve Jobs as not being his true anointed successor... well, while that wouldn't win points for *originality*, at least it would be a nice homage.
They could have tried to be a bit more creative couldn't they? If it was me I would have announced something like the new iphone shuffle for when you need to phone someone but are not bothered who.
Or that the new macbook is so thin its almost invisible.
Or the iGetALife package for those who spend all their free time defending how using a mac gives them so much free time.
For me, it would be the only interesting thing to happen around macrumors.com ever, were it interesting. But they seem to have an audience, so who am I to judge? It just seems to be "there's a new processor; maybe Apple will use it one day" and "here's some wacky patent that Apple have filed, but you know: it is America!" every day to me. Though their running commentary on how long it's been since Apple updated various products is occasionally helpful.
To sum up: I appear to be conflicted and self contradictory. I shall offer to write the feed entirely on my own for next time.
It always amuses me when that gang that thinks they are always immune to hacks/cracks/virus/malware and alike get stuffed over in a big and public way. Most would change the way they think, but not the maccites, they will have forgotten this tomorrow.
For once I appreciate them boys from the darkside making a mockery of the Apple shindig.
Glad to see the taciturn faces of a few people taking it too seriously. Of course it was funny. It only wouldn't be funny if Mr Jobs had taken it seriously himself and cried himself to sleep afterwards, and I seriously doubt he did that.
After all, if Steve Jobs got upset everytime some nameless anonytard on the internet said something bad about him, he'd have worried himself sick years ago!
Oh wait... :P
Nah, no need. Every time this happens for real they just wait until he rises from the dead three days later.
The reason he's absent this year is 'cos he's currently taking a lie down in a rock-hewn tomb outside Cupertino with a big stone over the entrance.
This also explains the dearth of really cool stuff alluded to. Apple insiders have now learned the sacred lesson that nobody should say anything important while Jobs is busily being dead.
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