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I thought you guys were boycotting this week. At least bring some facts to your discussion http://www.twst.com/update/388...

Dice doesn't care: they think that /. isn't worth anything to them: http://www.twst.com/update/388...

For the lazy: http://slashdot.org/firehose.p...

Filter for the highest ranked stories: every one of them is about beta. Not that it matters to Dice: they've written down the value of /. to 0 so we're just fucked. http://www.twst.com/update/388...

Slashdot is officially being actively destroyed because it doesn't make enough advertising revenue anymore

From the report:

Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.

Slashdot is officially being actively destroyed because it doesn't make enough advertising revenue anymore

From the report:

How profitable would Dice be if they had not sunk ("literally") the money they did into the purchase of /.???

Perhaps "adventures" like /. should remain someone's late night hacking project that they share/run with their friends. In that mode it might have been "self-sustaining", but definitely not a replacement for a good "day job".

So, Slashbeta...please drop off the face of the earth or fall into a crevass in the earth's surface...or better yet, start exploring space and get sucked into a black hole. Any of those horrible endings for you would be better than the torture imposed upon your wacky, fanatical, and kinda loyal community.

Slashdot is officially being actively destroyed because it doesn't make enough advertising revenue anymore

From the report:

Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.

http://www.twst.com/update/388...

"Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero."

Secure Computing:
In the early 1970s the National Security Agency engaged a division of Honeywell's Air Space Defense Group to build what became the first firewall. From that beginning, the company spun off from Honeywell as a stand-alone organization in 1989, moved into the commercial firewall space in 1992,and went public in 1995.
Secure Computing's history

NSA:
"The ability to understand the secret communications of our foreign adversaries while protecting our own communications--a capability in which the United States leads the world --gives our nation a unique advantage."
--NSA Mission Statement.

China:
"As a country, you really have to be in control of your own destiny," Keller says. "They don't want a sole source situation, especially when that sole source is coming from another country.They want to localize the product. And of course, there are issues of security. If you don't have control of the source code,there are security issues to be concerned about. It's a very important decision for them. Linux allows them the freedom to address all those issues."
Upside article on Red Flag Linux

Does anybody make any non-tech assosciations? It can't be this obvious right?
I mean, while everyone's talking why not bsd, how this is good or bad, contracts, business, bla bla bla........IS EVERYONE BLIND OR SOMETHING....or maybe it's just so obvious, that there's no way it could be......but i can ***guarantee*** that in the event of a real national security threat (like china bombing taiwan--as oppossed to ouzama bin laden), the NSA **will** be in charge.......the NSA is the guarantor of the US's existence. Whether conspiratorial or not, the effect is the same. These people live to destroy any real or perceived threat to national security, even if that threat takes the shape of a global community of programmers. This is about control, and both China and the NSA are steering in their own directions.