RTFA: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hHhxB87PnN_KTu7…

The Yellowstone Club, an exclusive mountain retreat for the ultra-rich, said it filed for bankruptcy Monday after failing to secure new financing - underscoring that even the elite can’t escape the country’s current economic troubles.

Spokesman Bill Keegan said the club filed for Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court in Montana. The move came just two months after the club announced an ambitious expansion plan through a partnership with the Arizona-based Discovery Land Company.

The gated, millionaires-only club on 13,400 acres in Montana’s Gallatin Mountains boasts a private ski hill and golf course. Opened in 1999, it counts former Vice President Dan Quayle and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates among its 340 members.

In a statement to The Associated Press, the club said it had been unable to secure financing arrangements with its creditors and bondholders. It plans to reorganize its finances and emerge from bankruptcy “as soon as possible,” the statement said.

…not sure what to make of this one, but I don’t think this is as it seems.

RTFA: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jan/07/person…

Clarkson, 47, writing in his column in the Sunday Times, decried the furore last year after CDs disappeared containing the banking details of 7 million families. The loss led to fears of mass identity theft with people’s bank accounts open to internet scams. At the time he wrote: “I have never known such a palaver about nothing. The fact is we happily hand over cheques to all sorts of unsavoury people all day long without a moment’s thought. We have nothing to fear.” However, yesterday he told readers he had opened his bank statement to find a direct debit had been set up in his name and £500 taken out of his account. “The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again,” he said. “I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake.” He added: “Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy.”

Oh, the irony.

Regarding privacy, If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about, right?

Perhaps the point is that it’s not about what you’ve done - it’s what someone else can do with information that they would not otherwise have access to.

RTFA: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33853/113

Los Angeles (CA) The inventor of the KillaCycle electric motorcycle almost killed himself during a demonstration at the Wired NextFest conference. Bill Dube, a government scientist during the day and electric bike builder at night, did a burn out in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center, but accidentally accelerated too much and crashed into a Minivan.

Freaky video. It’s totally shocking how quickly this motorcycle accelerates. I’m glad the guy was conscious and talking at the end of it, but shit. The worst part is that I can see this happening to myself - killed by my own invention… classic.

RTFA: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RgriTO8UHvs

Bill Gates is giving a news broadcast for the functionality of the “new” Windows 98 OS, and he gets the blue screen of death (BSOD) during the presentation!!!

To be completely clear, this video models the behavior of a computer, generally, during some sort of crash.

RTFA: http://www.miguelcarrasco.net/miguelcarrasco/2006/…

Nos. 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10 do not show any kind of crash. Those are normal messages. Note a couple of them are too blurry to read, so they might even be BSD or even OSX in diagnostics mode.

#1 looks like SVGAlib crashed, implying bad third-party software, but that’s not what a kernel panic (linux itself crashing) looks like.

#3 again, looks like some third-party software crashed. Linux is doing exactly what it ought to, prompting to launch a recovery (”diagnostics”) console

#7 isn’t even Linux. That’s what Windows looks like when it crashes, my friend.

As for those listed at the beginning of this comment…

#9 and #10 are perfectly normal. That’s what DS Linux looks like after a successful boot, and #10 shows LILO saying it successfully loaded the kernel.

# 2, 4, 5, 6 are too blurry to read. They appear to be normal kernel messages during boot. I can’t even confirm whether 5 is Linux.

#7 displays an inability to access the drive it’s configured to access. Either bad configuration - which is user error - or hardware problems, which is not a problem. Either way, it does not show a single fatal error - the picture shows a successful boot.

The bonus crash image looks like some kid was trying to demo his software and it segfaulted. His fault (bad code), not a Linux crash.

About a year late to the lulz, but this is a totally hilarious collection of “linux crash” images. The comic gold is really in the comments, most of which are just like the one above. As I’m currently battling to build a heavily patched 2.6.18 kernel on potentially unstable, poor-selling 2003-era server hardware, I would have some real pictures to share…