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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. "
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
It doesn't seem that ebay took the auction down.
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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?
Well, I made sure to pick fuckedcompany.com as one of my companies. Did you?
sulli
RTFJ.
Your choice... $1500, or an UltraSparc 5 :)
'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!
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Learning to fly, Pink Floyd.
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
Dick's dead, man.
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Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
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...
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...
That's really interesting. You should make sure it's on the CMU professor's gallery.
sulli
RTFJ.
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. "
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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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
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Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
according to the website, Kaplan is still looking for a buyer.... he's asked interested parties to email him.
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.
Fucked
Fucked
Fucked
(What? Saying fuck doesn't get you moderated up? It worked for this one!)
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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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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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!
No, because in the US, there are no laws guaranteeing privacy unless otherwise disclaimed.
There OUGHT to be, but there aren't.
This is what is meant when people talk about passing consumer privacy laws.
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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broadcasts of Geeks in Space and JenniShow (of JenniCam fame),
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Couldn't VA buy the Sync? I'm sure you guys could suggest it to somebody :)
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