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Slashback: Profanity, Synching, Flicks
Even Richard Feynman could have figured this out! Logos writes: "It seems that EPIC has decided to end their relationship with Amazon. Here is a link to the letter that I received on their mailing list. The final straw was Amazon's announcement that they are no longer able to ensure the privacy of their Customer Info."
How apropos! Servius writes: "Doublespeak is a wonderful thing. CNN has this story about EPIC dropping out of the Amazon affiliate program because of Amazon's recent relaxation of their rules for the use of personal data. Quote: 'The new policy is actually stricter than the previous one because it spells out the conditions under which personal information can be transferred.' I hope that makes you feel a lot safer."
Potty mouth, potty mouth, Milkman Dan! Domain shoppers everywhere, your time to mourn has come. After placing the domain f*ckedcompany.com for sale on everyone's favorite auction site site owner Philip Kaplan pulled the auction.
h0ngk0ngph00ey writes:
"After a quick check back at eBay today to see how high the bidding went for f*ckedcompany.com, I was somewhat surprised to see that the auction was ended. A look at the bid history seems to indicate that either eBay pulled it for being offensive, or the seller just got too many responses from people who weren't at all serious. /.'ed to death it seems."lee@lvcm.com has a different perspective:
"Well without warning the owner pulled the auction from ebay. I was one of the serious high bidders and was never contacted by the owner. CNNfn contacted me and asked me questions (along with several other news organizations) and they were all under the assumption that he really wanted to sell the domain. I guess it was all a publicity stunt."
Will the Geeks in Space have to play Apollo 13? rak3 writes: "The Sync, home for the broadcasts of Geeks in Space and JenniShow (of JenniCam fame), seems to have run into some troubles. The company was going to be acquired, but this has fallen through and they might have to shut down the site. Read more about it here."
It's sad, since the folks behind The Sync have served to support everyone from local artists to aforementioned Geeks in Space. Hopefully, they can pull through this. If not, smart companies everywhere will start mailing them job offers right about now!
Soon I will watch Carlito Brigante kick ass with penguin supervision. cyber-vandal writes: "Two days after the Ask Slashdot on Intervideo's LinDVD, the announcement has been made here. No sign of the actual player being available, but this is a good sign that it wasn't merely MPAA-inspired vapourware. At last I can look forward to fragging my Win9x partition."
And here's another tibdit to add to the DeCSS gallery, for anyone else who admires the technical possibilities of the DVD format but not the politics attached thereto, GeekLife.com writes: "[H]ere's the DVD Logo rendered in beautiful shades of gray using the DECSS code as ink. "
What the hell do I have to do with any of this??
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
Timmothy, you choad. If it was stillborn that would mean the auction never got underway - which it did. It just got yanked.
The $3 mil bid was from a guy in Chicago whose previous 5 eBay purchases were auto parts for $16.50 and under. Most likely a joke, like all the other multi-million-dollar bids. Read the story here. I wrote it. He told me he was feeling sentimental about the site. XXX
"Dada is the signboard of abstraction; advertising and business are also elements of poetry." -Tristan Tzara
Thats pretty cool.
Id sell my nick but noone would want it even though everyone posts as me.
Damn cheapass ingrates! Pay me for my nick!
That's right, folks! This old-timer has nothing better to do anymore than troll slapmeat, since the karma cap has taken all the fun out of things.
Besides, this place sucks. Taco needs a new server, a new sysadmin or a new hosting center... But I guess he blew his Andover/VA stock wad on Mindstorms and cheap-ass ten dollar keyboards instead.
Yeah, not much unlike my choice. ;>
Retard. "Down" doesn't inherently imply rebooted.
I assume you don't understand the concept of "uptime", do you?
And where the hell do you assholes get off harassing Senior Taco, huh? Don't make me come down there and kick your cracker-eating, club-footed, honkey-asses.
hypo.
It doesn't seem that ebay took the auction down.
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Do ya feel happy-go-lucky, punk?
The owner of the site pulled the auction, not ebay. Says so right on the site.
I never been so broke that I couldn't leave town.
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dos:> tracert slashdot.org .. and it made it quite a few steps along the way. I could still get news.com, yahoo.com, metafilter.com.
--Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
I've always wanted johan, never seen it used, but it was taken when I joined.
Not that i'd pay anything for it. It'd just make one less user name I have to remember
It's not that tough. Click on the link, EPIC stands for Electronic Privacy Information Centre. Amazon has done something ridiculously stupid regarding the privacy of their customers. WHY would a website devoted to privacy want anything to do with Amazon?
You might find http://www.hollan.org/steg.txt interesting.
- RSH
You could've hired me.
Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.
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Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
If a mainstream newspaper has this policy why can't slashdot, censoring words is lame.
swearwords
We are more liberal than any other newspaper, using words such as cunt and fuck that most of our competitors would not use, even in direct quotes
The editor's guidelines are straightforward:
First, remember the reader, and respect demands that we should not casually use words that are likely to offend
Second, use such words only when absolutely necessary to the facts of a piece, or to portray a character in an article; there is almost never a case in which we need to use a swearword outside direct quotes
Third, the stronger the swearword, the harder we ought to think about using it
Finally, never use asterisks, which are just a copout
or am I the only one who actually went to view it?
I know you're just making a little joke, but your snide comment is still inappropriate. Richard Feynman did more to advance the art of Quantum Electricity Dynamics than anyone this century, as recognized by his 1963 Nobel prize in Physics (bringing his total number of Nobel prizes to 3, more than even Linus Pauling's). If it weren't for him, would people even know where Tuvan is on the map? That the Challenger's O2 rings caused its fatal explosion? Please, people. You wouldn't even have slashdot, if it weren't for scientists like him from the 60's. Please, read his many books and inform yourself about a great man and a great scientist.
My old Sparc 20 at home at the end of a $49 UPS has been up for nearly a year...
Somebody oughtta quit their day job. ;>
I found this the other day and thought it was kinda neat.
"Please, how about a little less love and a little more common decency?" - Kurt Vonnegut jr.
Well, I made sure to pick fuckedcompany.com as one of my companies. Did you?
sulli
RTFJ.
was slashdot down, or was it a pice of network somewhere? "...jumping to conclusions often lands you with shit on your face."
VoodooBïrd
Whaddaya want?
The second coming is here.
No, actually you need a PhD in physics before I can even attempt to explain it. Sorry.
Your choice... $1500, or an UltraSparc 5 :)
guess this would constitute whoring for karma, but anyways....
cancel bid rules here
cancle auction rules here.
-Jae
Heh, saw that link on bluesnews this morning and have made it my sig. That is just so great!
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
'The new policy is actually stricter than the previous one because it spells out the conditions under which personal information can be transferred.'
Or, in other words,
'The new policy is worse because it tied us to several conditions whenever we wanted to transfer personal information, instead of letting us do it whenever we felt like it'.
Servius has a point there. That's deffinitely something to think about. So apparently to them it's a bad thing to clearly delimit what a company can do with your personal info.
Marketroids (kudos to whoever came up with this word first), gotta love 'em!
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Learning to fly, Pink Floyd.
Interesting thought, but I think you have to at least intend to sell something in order to get hosted by them. What would be cooler is if they used Napster to distribute GiS. Rob actually brought this up last episode; Napster would be a great form of distribution. What do you say, guys? Prove there's a legitimate use for filesharing!
Here's my DeCSS mirror, where's yours?
CNN said it rhymes with truck
how creative.
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
i think the fckd.co. auction actually got pulled because of stoopid bids... i visited in the morning and someone had bid $44,150 or some such reasonable number that looked like a real bid, but when i went back in the afternoon, the high bid was "$10,000,000.00".
yeah, right...
"Luck is the residue of design" --Branch Rickey
Jeez, what kind of uncreative moron would use his own name, for God's sake!
This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander
You can't do anything serious on e-bay. E-bay is for selling trash to fools, and silly publicitly stunts. Ooh and scamming people's paypal. Did I miss anything?
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Do you think the MPAA will sue them for DeCSS or because the DVD logo is trademarked? Is anybody working on those stupid G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC17 logos?
maybe nobody bothered to notice- the webmaster, right on his very own front page, noted that anybody interested (seriously) in buying the domain, just needs to contact him. Too many jokers started bidding out of control. You people should do your homework before posting this crap.
"There is no spoon"
Dick's dead, man.
Pope
Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
I pity the foo', who don't watch they language.
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Moderators: I've got tons of accounts, do your worst.
1) In this modern era of SDL, why oh why are they writing the LinDVD player to specifically support certain chipsets?
2) If the show was over on 09/09 as their page suggests, then why did none mention it on slashdot? Did anyone go to the Linux World (Taipei) show and see this thing?
Palin...
"I hate you, Milkman Dan!"
redmeat is hillarious! I'm sad to say that that reference was the most gratifying thing I've seen here for days.
Foo! Maybe his Kharma is negative! I ain't gettin on no plane!
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Moderators: I've got tons of accounts, do your worst.
Foo', check the web-site. You crazy fool, he says right there, he ain't sellin it on no e-bay. Stay in school!
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Moderators: I've got tons of accounts, do your worst.
Thats waaay behind livid and co, which apparently fun fine on a dxr2 or dxr3 decoder, but its too jittery in software mode on my P600. Oh dear, I've got a few "illegal" lines of code on my computer. Being an average linux newbie, I am not a master programmer and, although I can get by in perl, tcl and bash scripting, I wouldnt have a clue where to start to use this "illegal" code. To be honest, if the only illegal thing on my computer is a few k of C, then all the anti-piracy stuff should be greatful I am no longer costing Microsoft millions with an illegal copy of windows/office etc. When you look at the warez scene on the internet, which Joe public can download full copies of complete games that normaly sell for £30, then compare it to a few lines of code that only a real geek knows where to use it, you can see which does more harm to the IP industry as a whole.
Uuh, what are you talking about, Beavis?
This is a copy of an email I sent to someone about this issue:
I saw your post on Slashdot, and noticed that you thought the FC auction was a stunt - I checked in at the bidding, too, saw it was up to 5 million, and the high bidder's name was gad-something. After the auction was pulled, I saw several independent news stories that pointed out that they actually interviewed several of the last high bidders, and they turned out to be college students playing jokes & the like (they are subsequently getting their eBay accounts revoked, I think). Anyhow, I suspect Pud just lost track of which bids were legitimate & which weren't & didn't feel like tracking them all down. He was quoted on cnet.com (I think it was cnet) as saying, "I thought it'd be easier to just do it through eBay instead of spending hours in talks" - apparently, he thought that all the bids would be legitimate and the number of fake bids blew his tolerance.
I suggest that if you are seriously interested in buying the website, go to the FC home page, and click on the "this website for sale" link. He has more info there.
"If not, smart companies everywhere will start mailing them job offers right about now!"
Any ass can make a website that serves high-bandwidth content. What makes these guys different is that they ran out of money doing it.
Why will "smart companies" want to hire these geeks, again?
Hands in my pocket
Why don't you have MP3.com handle Geeks In Space?
While I'm sure eBay would like to offer as many auctions as they can (= more $), they certainly wouldn't want to piss off NSI -- after all, NSI could always revoke ebay.com and auction it off! We need a better place where web users can sell^H^H^H^H exchange the priviledges of domain names without harassment from the registars -- there's probably a huge untapped market for "used" domain names. (Have a popular site that you don't want anymore? Sell the domain name to a dotcom upstart and let them coast off your popularity!) After all, if people are willing to buy used cars...
Wait a minute! Shouldn't they post this before every customer transaction?
Personally, I don't think domains peroid should be purchased simply for the fact of selling, now with this *company.com one, that wasn't the case so thas good. however, still, I think that the person was just out for a hayday. but isn't there something in EBay's agreement saying you have to LEGALLY sell? The high bidder could take this to court.
Because specific chipsets have specific DVD acceleration support, and it's usually not exposed by X (not X's fault, the companies in question want to avoid legal trouble with DVD-CCA so they won't document anything they don't have to).
Would you pull from anything that would give you $3,000,000 in your hand?? ($3,000,000 was the bid I last saw it going for)
...the website talks about pulling fc.com from ebay:
"...Took the auction off of Ebay -- interested parties, contact me and tell me who you are. "
why doesn't a company just make a dvd-rom drive that has a flash ROM you could download the DeCSS code into? I'm sure it wouldn't be THAT freaking hard. *There should be a DeCSS marathon on slashdot, everybody contributes a line of code to the cause*
"Took the auction off of Ebay -- interested parties, contact me and tell me who you are. Click here for more information"
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Why don't they understand that? They're property, they can have whatever they want in it, because of freedom of speech, and what if your company name, has profanity in it? It could happen, and would you have to censor your own domain name for it? I always hate the goverment for those things, because they don't have any good judges who are, nerds. They don't know what they're really talking about, and odds are, none of them own a dns entry.
Could someone please explain that Richard Feynman comment to me?
Silly signature limit . . .
This /. nick is up for auction. It's funny and crazy, but also completely serious--don't bid if you don't intend to pay. Check the sig for a link.
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Linux MAPI Server!
http://www.openone.com/software/MailOne/
Linux MAPI Server!
http://www.openone.com/software/MailOne/
(Exchange Migration HOWTO coming soon)
Heh heh heh. forget it d00d. U R N07 31337!
I was reading since more or less the beginning (2 months after it was /.) and I don't think I created a login for myself until at least 8 months later, probably a year but I don't really remember. Either way, that was years ago and I still don't really think my /. username is absolutely necessary. yeah, I configure it to be My Slashdot, but hell, that's what My Yahoo is for. :)
But I do agree, low user IDs are not cool
nerdfarm.org
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Taped to a pillar near the fly rail in the main theater at UC Irvine was a list of the "Ten Rules of the Theater". One of the more memorable was this: "Never underestimate the power of the artistically pretentious." Ten points to sp0re for his story on ecompany.com and the gratuitous use of the word "schadenfreude".
Oh, go on, check out my job.
according to the website, Kaplan is still looking for a buyer.... he's asked interested parties to email him.
I'm still waiting for him to do a monologue about the MPAA and/or the RIAA. :)
-David T. C.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Intervideo demo'ed LinDVD at the "Linux World tradeshow in Taipei (Sep 7-9, 2000)" - how appropriate - a conference I'm certain no one went to,and so no one can verify that this is still just vaporware.
Joseph Elwell.
Not interested... :-)
Seriously, I have no idea how I managed to grab #17, that time I by chance logged on using a 14.000 baud modem, connecting from across the atlantic.
I wasn't even trying to fill out the registration form quickly. I remember that form clearly. In those days it asked for a name instead of a nick. You can still see that a lot of people with low user ids use their real name instead of a nick.
(And no, I'm not selling mine.)
- Rolf W.
I'm not as low as you guys, but I did use my nick. :)
/. I do still enjoy it.
I've been wondering for the past week (since actually noticing my #) just how long I've been reading
dana
Now for this one they SHOULD get sued... for misusing a trademark!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Fucked
Fucked
Fucked
(What? Saying fuck doesn't get you moderated up? It worked for this one!)
I'd sell mine except for the fact that in some giddy drunken euphoria of open, identified dialogue, I used my full name as my user id.
Oh well.
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
That would be incorrect. ;>
I block doubleclick. For that matter, I block images.slashdot.org. Oh no, now I can't see the "Censored" guy that looks suspiciously like my boss.
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Ok, well the auction's completely down now, but when I looked yesterday, it said it had been cancelled but serious buyers could still email the guy who owns the site.
Its anyone's guess as to why he suddenly opted for a more discreet way to take bids.
wisconsin does not exist.
3) eBay, as it always mentioned in it's policies, has the right to refuse to actually auction anything it doesn't want to. Normally, there is a list of things that don't stand a chance (human body parts, guns, etc.), but they still reserve the right to refuse service. Whether or not this is the actual case or not doesn't matter. I didn't expect the auction to last that long anyways.
It wasn't pulled by eBay - it was pulled by the seller, which is totally OK. And if you go to the site, you'll see they're still accepting legitimate offers by e-mail.
Why is there only one Monopolies commission?
Sigh. This is not a troll. I would just like "Slashback" to be factual. Or maybe even funny, why not? Unfortunately it's too often neither. I emphasized below the parts of the article that give you some idea of what they're about. The rest (more than 50%) is worse than useless, in my opinion. Why post it then? I really don't know.
/. does this:
Extra, extra -- Read more about it! Yes, that means another round of Slashback, bearing this time: The stillborn auction of [expletive deleted]company.com's domain name; why EPIC has decided to stop sailing with Amazon; and another tantalizing glimpse of a world so advanced we can watch instruction videos on personal computers. More, too.
Oh, and would a few hyperlinks in the lead be too much to ask? Currently if I want to know about corrections or updates to Slashdot stories, I *have* to click on the article. This bugs me.
OK, here's my theories why
- Too kind: you want to give people who make submissions full credit, so you include their full submission in the body of the article.
- Too greedy: you want that extra hit count of everybody having to click to get the information.
- Too dumb: you truly think Slashback is really well-written, really funny, really the best way to present the stories.
I dunno, you tell me.
I see the dilemma, if fuckedcompany were to sell fuckedcompany, they would have to list themselves as being fucked! I guess they tried to become unfuckedcompany.com. &*)
kick some CAD
i personally think it was all a publicity stunt to see how many different ways the media would dance around the name of the site:
f*uckedcompany.com
(expletive)edcompany.com
fuckedcompany.com...for media with balls
a company with a bad 'f'word followed by edcompany.com
it's kinda funny how many times i've read people dancing around it.
"I hope I don't make a mistake and manage to remain a virgin." - Britney Spears
"...Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language and there are seven of them you can't say on television.
What a ratio that is. 399,993 - - - to 7.
They must really be bad.
They'd have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large.
`All of you over here, you seven. Baad words!'
That's what they told us they were, remember? `That's a bad word!'
No bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And words... "
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Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
The "fucked" in "fuckedcompany.com" is not an expletive; it's an adjective (a "profane" one, perhaps, but a mere adjective nonetheless).
"Fucking" in "That fucking company!", on the other hand, is an expletive.
Since when does Slashdot censor "profane" or "offensive" language anyway?
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The asterisk is really pointless, since you linked to the site. After all, the courts have determined that linking to a site is much, much worse than listing the URL.
My mom is not a Karma whore!
How often are you reading? I read fairly often...and I haven't had major problems in a year.
Talk to Microsoft...oh, wait, you're a Microsoft troll, aren't you?
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
Shit, that beats the hell out of the new kidneys I bought, and the brain. The new brain works almost as good as the old one, but I'm having some troble with my logic/reasoning. Oh well, a couple more years, and cracking open my old logic book, and I'll be right as rain *tic*
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
Anyway, for those who can afford the card, the beta player is available for download right from Sigma Designs. It's primitive so far, and only supports piping out to a TV set, not direct on-monitor play, and I haven't actually had the chance to get it working so I can't say much about whether it actually does--but it is a true licensed Linux DVD solution.
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Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
What? Jenni of Jennicam has her own SHOW? Oh what will they think of next?
broadcasts of Geeks in Space and JenniShow (of JenniCam fame),
Not for the Hitler page (that's kinda funny) but for the Deez Nuts Tribes page.
:^)
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Shazbot!
Dammit!
Hi.
No.
Going offense.
Yes.
Woo-hoo!
I don't know.
Yoo-hoo!
Ah crap!
Defending our base.
No.
Attack!
Ya gotta love Tribes.
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
Thad
Thad
You've been reading for years but never got a user ID? Bullshit.
Less than six months after I started reading /. I realised that it was almost 100% necessary to create a user account if you wanted to be able to do any of the interesting little odds and ends the site allowed then (and that it has increasingly offered since then).
Okay, I suppose there's an outside chance you were too dumb to realise that a user account would be useful - in that case, you're too dumb to have one with a 'cool' low number (and what the hell difference does the account number make dimwit? The functionality remains the same whether you're #2963 or #987654321).
But anyway, my theory is, you're full of shit :) You've been reading the site for less than a year, and you've bought into all this 'low user IDs are cool' crap that has sprung up in that time...
Regards,
Denny
# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK
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Well, I've got a couple of accounts under 1k. I could sell you one for $500. Interested?
Are you adequate?
Couldn't VA buy the Sync? I'm sure you guys could suggest it to somebody :)
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I'd sell my acount no sweat, but yeah, I have the same problem. And I could probably ask 10 times as much money as you did, with my user number ;).
In any case, anybody out there also called Luis Casillas, who would like to have a nice, user #276 /. account?
Some people are born bastards. But you, sir, are a self made man.
1) Nice to know that the Intervideo LinDVD player is actually being produced. I have friends who were waiting for it. Wonder if and how this will affect the 2600 appeal?
2) Amazon has the most peculiar views on privacy... of course, Amazon has also decided to refund their 'price-gouging' from their dynamic pricing scheme.
3) eBay, as it always mentioned in it's policies, has the right to refuse to actually auction anything it doesn't want to. Normally, there is a list of things that don't stand a chance (human body parts, guns, etc.), but they still reserve the right to refuse service. Whether or not this is the actual case or not doesn't matter. I didn't expect the auction to last that long anyways.
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
foo,
-l