The True Story of Website Results

Henry V .009 writes: "Salon is running a story on a dot.com called Website Results. Maybe you've heard of them. Viral Spyware makers. My God, these people are sick. Interview question: 'Imagine there's a peasant somewhere halfway across the world. If you could push a button and kill the person without getting caught, would you do it for a million dollars?' 'For them, it was yes, in a heartbeat.'"

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twilight zone

[redtoade]

"If you could push a button and kill the person without getting caught, would you do it for a million dollars?' 'For them, it was yes, in a heartbeat.'"

Isn't this a Twilight Zone episode:

BUTTON, BUTTON

Doesn't TV teach us anything?

Re:Forget the damn button already.

[Scratch-O-Matic]

The post is an intro to the article linked. The poster mentioned one of the more shocking statements in the article, a statement which has little bearing on the rest of the article. It is quite obvious that most respondents simply read the intro and skipped the article, and as a result an entire thread has been built out of one tiny detail from a much larger subject. Sometimes this works here on slashdot if the linked article is on a well known subject, but in this case the great majority of posters seem to have missed the point.

The discussion here could have been about spyware, search engine use and abuse, appalling business ethics, and greed in the tech bubble. Instead it's turned into an inane collection of tripe about a hypothetical question asked at an interview for the company in question.

If we want to discuss a one-paragraph intro from a slashdotter, we may as well leave off the links.