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Commercialization Of The Internet
Anonymous Coward writes "For those anti-corporate tech-heads out there, Excite is running an article about how companies are taking over the net through the use of the courts, trademarks and deep pockets.
From the article, 'Big corporations have a significant and growing presence on the Internet. In March, just 14 companies controlled 60 percent of users' online time, down from 110 companies two years earlier, Jupiter Media Metrix found.'
A final thought from the article,
'This is the last remaining communications medium that allows the small person to participate,' said Barbara Simons, past president of the Association for Computing Machinery. 'To lose that would be a great tragedy.'"
They say sex is a virus that infects every other endeavor.
Sounds like there's another.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Anticorporate techheads? On slashdot? Surely you jest.
>> Anonymous Coward writes...
Wow, the Anonymous Cowards have personal webpages now? That surely helps them stay anonymous.
because all you anti-commercial idiots keep linking people away from your site.
I am anonymous.
I, like you, have allowed this to come to pass.
A world where information is all subscription -
And where fees and iron bars are the norm.
This, our world, we live in now.
Tell me, oh muse, what we have done?
Have we sunk so low, to forsake this now?
My voice is unheard through the rumble of the waterfall.
The crashing sound of water falling far -
Far from the heights of the Lodor peaks.
Where high above beyond gods and men of honor,
Sit the new kings of the land,
Sending out the water for us to drink
The lamb to eat
And the words to read.
So it is, like you, I stand a fool.
Oh muse, please tell us now, what we may do.
Now that we have so far lost this cause?
Upright your poles of liberty,
Upon them place the flags of tomorrow,
Beacons of communication between your brother and sisters across the lands.
Yours will be a rough journey
And you shall be anonymous always.
For it is never the one who builds it,
But the people who seek to achieve what is so rightfully theirs.
Oh muse, what is it that should be our right?
We have so lost ourselves that our call has been mangled.
Taken with the new lords.
Liberty, freedom, and anonymity, my friend, are above none other.
The love of your fellow. The warmth of thy family.
Throughout these times endure, but do not lose your fortitude.
Or thy shall become the coward of the annals of history
Who chose the worst form of anonymity.
because our survival is dependent on sex.
dated, but still interresting
While I think your careful misspellings and self-conscious appeals to your own aesthetic superiority are a kitschy put-on--the tech folks you despise would call you a "troll", your ramblings about hypocrisy cry out for rebuttal.
As someone who remembers what it was like to surf the Internet when it was actually about something other than hawking the zeitgeist's itch (on a Powerbook 100 sometime in 93, I was a late bloomer), I can safely say you are full of shit. You "artistic" types discovered a whole new market for your retread images, and became "consultants" (who knew HTML stood for a mode that could be used in Frontpage97, if you were wanting to rough it), adept at convincing suits that information needed an "interface" over and above the inherent value it has to educate. Not coincidentally, I lost interest in the Internet right about 1995, as I witnessed you creeps create your own gold rush all the while disparaging the simple presentation the web excelled at as "primitive" and "ineffectual." You probably don't even know what gopher is, but you can certainly lecture us on how 15 years of "digerati" has given you the wisdom to be blind to your own self-interested self-justifications about how the web is better as a banner-driven channel of the Gap Network; so blind, in fact, that you have the temerity to call "mainstream hackers" (whatever the fuck *they* are) hypocrites.
It's alright, though, you can *have* the Internet. As long places like this exist, I know I'll be able to network without living your "lifestyle".
It was announced that hell was actually "quite warm", even "uncomfortably hot". J Random Condemned was heard to say "There is often talk about hell freezing over, but that's not likeley. [Hell] is really hot!". Satan was not available for comment.
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Slashdot definitely sucks monkey testicles lately.
A new release of WindowMaker??!?! Wowwy Zowie! Who fuckin' cares?!?!?! IT SUCKS!
Some companies don't care about Web defacement!!!! What a fuckin' news flash! Unless it's your own company, who gives a flyin' cow shit? And if it is your own company, and your site sucks, maybe it'll get people to visit the fuckin' pit.
The commercialization of the Internet??!?! Fuckin' christ! When did that happen?! Holy shit, this is news to me! I could have sworn it happened about ten fuckin' years ago shortly after the birth of the WWW, but what the fuck do I know?!
No more sweaty mouse hands?!?!?! Cool! Just when I thought that I was a complete fuckin' degenerate playing games 'til my hands sweat and cramp, when I should be working or something, now I know that others share my problem, and life seem so much fucking better now.
thank you.