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Total Commercialization Awareness
jjohnston writes "Salon just posted its technology and business predictions for 2003: Total Commercialization Awareness. Includes: Al-Qaida online, Slashdot sells out, and pets: the new white meat. Cute ..." That's so 1999.
Slashdot sells out to Al Qauida?? OMG!!
The Master Of Muppets,
CAPTAIN: TAKE OFF EVERY "SIG"!!
Commercialization gives welth for a countrys citizens!
A suggest salon visit a communist country and check out how life is there.
JonKatz must be back.
They don't make predictions about Salon's fate in 2003.
Will they sell out?
Will they bite the dust and go 404?
I've read so much about their financial problems that I'm surprised to hera they're still around.
http://www.somebaudy.com
Is it me or is that picture of Jack Nicholson a bit disturbing for first thing in the morning?
****--- A fortune cookie once told me the meaning of life...so I ate it. ---****
michael writes: ..." That's so 1999.
jjohnston writes "Salon just posted its technology and business predictions for 2003: Total Commercialization Awareness. Includes: Al-Qaida online, Slashdot sells out, and pets: the new white meat. Cute
The "that's so 1999" Slash article you linked to is about Slash going IPO. The Salon blub reads:
The popular discussion site for fans of open source software will disclose that it's perilously close to bankruptcy and needs to make all Slash code proprietary in order to survive. Slashdot regulars will rebel, and some will attempt to set up alternative discussion sites -- but Slashdot's founder, Rob Malda, will sue under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent any copycat sites. When readers accuse the site of "monopolizing" all the vital discussions of the various ways of cooling your computer with liquid nitrogen, Justice Department officials will threaten prosecution of Sherman antitrust violations. But Slashdot will prevail, after hiring David Boies, litigator to the stars.
Which, while satire, is quite a bit different, don't you think?
My
Limekiller
So does Fluffy really taste like chicken?
When millions disappear from earth, it's not aliens, it's the rapture.
Nice try putting this in the "It's Funny, Laugh" section! Salon uncovers your scheme and you guys try to play it off as a farce!
Uh, yeah.
Mildly amusing, but even with over 300 mg of caffeine in my system, it's still not that interesting.
I much preferred Dave Barry's recap of 2002.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - G.B. Shaw
Slashdot sells out
Yet another example of why Salon is failing to make any money after the dot.com bubble has burst.
If they actually bothered to readSlashdot, they would know that this had already occurred several years ago.
Just how much more *out* do they suppose there is left to sell?
2002. CmdrTaco married.
2003. Slashdot publishes 1,000,000th rumor passed off as actual story. The story generates 480 comments, 263 of which agree with the article, and 107 of which point out it's a rumor and are modded down as redundant. The remaining comments are all "first posts."
2003. Slashdot parent corporation VA Research^W Linux^W Software stock worth 35 cents. Rumors that AOL, Microsoft, or even Jimmy the hobo who lives under the Longfellow Bridge may buy it. 2004. VA Software bought by Microsoft for a cup of coffee and a donut. All Microsoft-critical articles mysteriously disappear from Slashdot. Bill Gates as Borg logo replaced with Bill Gates as God.
2004. CmdrTaco loses virginity.
2004. The WIPO Troll returns again, showering Slashdot in 45,000 copies of the same post: "Lick my crotch hairs." Slashdot, despite running on 18 redundant IIS/8.0 servers, buckles under the load. The term "Slashdotted" is replaced with "WIPO-Trolled."
2004. Slashdot officially shut down. Millions of screaming, unwashed geeks invade Redmond campus and lynch Bill Gates.
2005. Linus Torvalds and Anal Cox found dead along with six penguins, a tub of crisco and several used condoms.
2005. CmdrTaco rumored to have had sex again.
2006. CowboiKneel found dead in hotel room with 56 pizza boxes covering his bloated corpse. Three suffocated gay prostitutes are extracted from beneath his body as police remove it with a backhoe.
2007. CmdrTaco actually has sex again. With a woman.
2007. BSD is still officially "dying." No word on when its demise will take place.
2007. CmdrTaco starts new weblog to replace Slashdot, creatively named Dotslash. Remainder of Linux users flock to the site and immediate WIPO-Troll it out of existence.
2008. CmdrTaco has sex with his wife for the first time.
That's so 1999.
Ya that's abut the time that slashdot soldout...
Slashdot selling out in 2003? You mean Microsoft banners weren't selling out enough? What does it take to sell out- sending spam, advertising for Microsoft, selling moderator points while simultaneously raping our loved ones?
The only reason slashdot was mentioned in the article was so it WOULD get posted here knowing full well that it would get dismissed as drivel.
Katharine Mieszkowski: "No one is going to read this crap."
Farhad Manjoo: "You know your right. But how can we get more publicity from it?"
Katharine Mieszkowski: "I know, lets metion slashdot!"
Farhad Manjoo: "Hey, and I know. Go grabs Salon's 2003 plan and replace all mentions of Salon with Slashdot."
Katharine Mieszkowski: "We are going to be famous!"
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
The popular discussion site for fans of open source software will disclose that it's perilously close to bankruptcy and needs to make money in order to survive. While the bulk of Slashdot's readership and staff claims to be anti-closed source, Slashdot quickly realizes that open source software makes no money and, therefore, cannot pay for ads on Slashdot. Microsft, however, pays to get .NET advertisements on Slashdot. Slashdot then tells its readership to pay a subscription fee, or they will be subjected to countless MS adverts
Its funny, because it will never happen. Oh, wait.
Who ever wrote this was smoking crack!
People will find a way around this! They will either find some tech way around it, or they will simply stop visiting sites that make you do that.
I run a web site that rely's on ad revenue, but if these annoying forms of advertising don't come to an end, it could be the end of the Internet for everyone except big business. I know that there are VERY few sites that I would tolorate if they had annoying ads that "made" me do something.
Honestly, I think that the person that wrote this was just looking to get a rise out of people. (He got one out of me) Hopefully he will wake people up about this BEFORE this kind of thing becomes reality. What happened to simple, NON-POP-UP banners? Yes, they didn't work well, but they got sites exposure! I make it a point NOT to visit sites with annoying ads
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Salon just posted its technology and business predictions for 2003...Slashdot sells out
Are you sure these were predictions for 2003, and not some sort of recap ?
*ducks*
Everyone is trying to make a buck.
Hey when you are done slashdotting, come visit our website Pajonet.com!
Quickly becoming the number 1 website in the world!
The author of the article got it wrong. It should read The popular discussion site for fans of open source software will disclose that it's perilously close to bankruptcy and will rewrite and abstract SlashCode into .NET components using Visual Basic which it will license and monitor through Microsoft Passort ...
healyourchurchwebsite.com - WWJB?
Where's my goddamn Flying Car that I was promised in 2000?
Trolling is a art,
Bah, go and get your morning coffee, and laugh. Its not like 02 January is any excuse anyway.
This is funnier than the Salon article!
God is real unless declared integer.
Total Information Awareness, the Defense Department's system to record and monitor everything Americans do, will fail to detect coming attacks on the United States -- but TIA will find new life as an invaluable opposition-research tool for political campaigns. For example, Democrats will aim the system at Trent Lott in an effort to discover "patterns" of Republicans with questionable histories on race relations -- and TIA will attempt to predict the next time one of them will make a racist gaffe. This will cause Republicans to call for TIA to be immediately dismantled, but Democrats will accuse them of being soft on terrorism.
;-)
Ok, so, I can buy the democrats using the Republicans' own tool against them, but HONESTLY, you think that they'll really use REPUBLICAN party cries that we should have more big brother monitoring, more warfare, more so forth? For them to make that statement would require a change in platform that is distinctly toward the right. They'll use the tool, they'll maybe make predictions, they won't dare tell their constituents that we need more wiretaps... if they did that they might as well change their party mascot to the elephant
300 mg of caffeine in my system
:)
What? That's like three strong cups of coffee. When you look at a paper clip and think "I have more caffeine in my system that *that*", come back and see me.
sPh
Duh, it's humor
But they can't search for duplicate articles from a week ago? :-D
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
I do believe Michael was making the joke that Slashdot already "sold out."
"And like that
From the article:
It's called English, it's not hard.
... to Al-Qaeda?
Most slashbots are terrorist wannabes, only they don't have the guts to actually carry out their wishes.
No sale is required.
Attacking /. gives Salon much needed banner hits.
No artist tolerates reality. -- Nietzsche
Slashdot is supported by Microsoft ad dollars and the user base is mostly Windows users. It is certainly not the place I go for trustworthy open source news.
at least about the AAA. Once again, I learn something every day. Though the BWC needs a better server.
They'd get a Score: -1, Troll
Joe
http://www.joegrossberg.com
.. after reading this extremely funny article.
Good job Katharine Mieszkowski and Farhad Manjoo!
-Mark
Many people are forced to use windows at work. Also many people need to use software that runs under windows.
/. while using Linux.
I very rarely visit
-Derick
Unless, of course, you were referring to the ancient grain...
Don't read this!
The TCA story was a calculated research article supposedly aimed at accurately finding out the percentage of geeks understanding humour, while in actuality it was a veiled (burqa clad) method to bring some geeks nearer to the aims and objects of TIA, while sorting out the rest in several groups: terrorists, provocateurs, anti-something lunatics, etc.
t nG =Google+Glossary+Search
The method is said to be based on monitoring who laughs, for how long and on which sentences.
The feedback technology used to compile the results is said to be working on SELinux.
burqa=http://labs.google.com/glossary?q=burqa&b
So is ESR's humility any less facescious and more genuine since he is no longer a multi-trillionare?
did he get his stock sold off in time, or is he holding 250,000 shares at 96 cents (at writing).
Granted $240,000 for writing a configuration editor for fetchmail and flapping his fat jowls isn't a bad deal, I suppose.
Scoop on Freshmeat
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Spelt is an acceptable UK version of the past-tense of 'spell', ya soft-headed git. There's more to the English language than the American dialect.
But AlterSlash was threated by no other than legal genius Jeff "Hemos" Bates for violating Slashdot's copyright by accessing the site with scripts. It's more real than you think...
--sdem
How about none? Slash is open source. People are encouraged to use it. If they find a better alternative they can switch whenever they want to. No one forces them one way or the other. CmdrTaco or VA can't charge them for use of slash, Scoop is not written in C, it's perl, just as slash, and you're a well known troll who, incredibly, gets moderated up rather frequently.
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Overcaffeinated. Angry geeks.
The motivations for those actions are right or left.
Everyone wants war. War is good for the politicians, the economy (which helps the politicians), and patriotism (which helps the politicians).
What will happen is that the liberal politicians will wait until the war is turning out to be a win or over, and then start their speal about how they fixed it.
Right and left have nothing to do with actions, and everything to do with motivations (or justifications). Both communism and facism both control production. The fact that business owners exist in facism is merely a power brokering facade of the facist government. Instead of being a party member in good standing, and getting your toilet paper first, you are a business owner, and can pay to get your toilet paper first. The toilet paper is still in short supply, because the government dictates all resources directed toward vodka production in either place.
Dude, just cause Lott bought a dozen white pillow cases, two large logs, Birth of a Nation, and a few gallons of tar doesn't mean he's a racist. His wife was surely redecorating all the bedrooms and wanted them to match her antique porclin geese. Now that he's going to have more free time than the senator from Die Hard 2, he figured he'd chop his own fire wood to save money and get an inexpensive cardio workout. He likes old movies. And he has a few driveway cracks to repair, but the home depot near him only had the 10 gallon buckets or 30 gallon drums.
Just because someone has a first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin signed by Strom Thurmond people automatically go jumping to all kinds of crazy unfounded conclusions. What about the stuff you don't see about him? Like he owns two copies of Michael Jackson's Invincible CD [BMG], and nearly everything Simon and Garfunkle did. He collects basketball memorabilia, a sport dominated by african americans. He has signed Larry Bird, and John Stockton jearsys as well as an old Washington Senators uniform.
Who's Mr. Lott's favorite actor? Mr. Cuba Gooding Jr. That's right. He has Chill Factor, the Superbit version of Snow Dogs, AND As Good As It Gets. How can you possibly say such a person isn't a friend to african americans?
So what if he thinks America would be a better place with segregation. I've seen Far From Heaven, and who's to say. If it was set in the 90's that little girl would have been shot for wearing the wrong color shoes, so you can't say the 50's were worse.
they promised it to in 1947. They're handing them out in order of invoice number.Better go get a lawn chair and a Porta-Potty(tm), you've got a loooooooooong wait ahead of you.
KFG
Unlike what VA thinks of the SourceForge software (that it has value as a comercial product, yeah right) They should be aware that the /. sourcode isn't really worth anything. I mean, there's lots of blog+comment sofware out there, and a lot of it's better too.
/. is the userbase, and nothing more.
The only thing closing the slash sorce would do would be to antagonize the userbase. Not they seem to mind doing that, but I doubt they would do it for no value.
Anyway, the value in
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
So James Watt is making a comeback?
Al Qaeda already has a website. Since I'm an American I'm not allowed to link to it.
The World is Yours.
People actually start forking over money to read the drivel we puke up here at Salon!
The slashdot mention seems like a pretty transparent attempt by Salon to get slashdotted. This article isn't particularly amuzing or funny, so I guess they needed some kind of gimmick to boost their hit-rate.
Sod off! :-)
Don't read this!
Slashdot counter attacks by hosing them down with thousands of connections using ad blocker features. Good move, slashdot.
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Why essentially the same post from registered user gets +3 Funny while from Anonymous Coward -1 Troll?
Answer yourself (and don't forget to give this -1 too, of course).
Life is the slowest way to death.
Maybe before moderating a post the moderator should read the story first. The article states about Slashdot, and I quote "The popular discussion site for fans of open source software".
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Actually, it was Disney World, and last month, so I got my prognostications about the future taken care of early instead of my usual procrastination.
Must...obey....Big.....Mouse......
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Is it just me or does that name sound awfully close to MAN JUICE?
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. There are many examples
of outsiders who eventually overthrew entrenched scientific orthodoxies,
but they prevailed with irrefutable data. More often, egregious findings
that contradict well-established research turn out to be artifacts. I have
argued that accepting psychic powers, reincarnation, "cosmic conciousness,"
and the like, would entail fundamental revisions of the foundations of
neuroscience. Before abandoning materialist theories of mind that have paid
handsome dividends, we should insist on better evidence for psi phenomena
than presently exists, especially when neurology and psychology themselves
offer more plausible alternatives.
-- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Conciousness:
Implications for Psi Phenomena".
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