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Yahoo and Google to Merge?
asgeirn writes "From reliable sources, I've been informed that Yahoo! and Google will announce a merger later this day.
"-The new service, named YaGoohoo!gle, will give great synergies in search results and customer value," says an unnamed representative from one of the companies.
It has yet to be decided where the new company's headquarters will reside."
It's actually kinda useful.
noFunny!
Is April Fools over yet?
"False hope is why we'll never run out of natural resources!" - Lewis Black
Stop posting so many damn stories! 10 minutes? SHEESH!!!
Your Rights Online: Privacy Violation in Italian Media Giant
Privacy
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the be-very-afraid dept.
orzetto writes "Italian newspaper La Repubblica is reporting that Silvio Berlusconi's company, Mediaset (that owns three of the six main TV stations in Italy), has been tagging employees with Rfid chips since last December (for English version, ask the fish). The chips would allegedly be able to track the movements of any worker, even if Mediaset spokesmen say it's only to automatically open some doors to authorized personnel only and such things. Trade unionists from CGIL have reported the company's behaviour to the authorities, as it would be in violation of the Italian workers' charter (again, fish). This would probably be small news (yet another bad employer) if Silvio Berlusconi were not the Italian Prime Minister, violating the same laws he should enforce."
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Star Wars Holiday Special Released on DVD
Star Wars Prequels
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the bringing-back-an-old-friend dept.
Crow T. Trollbot writes "LucasFilm has finally released the long-delayed and never-awaited Star Wars Holiday Special (aka A Very Wookiee Christmas) on a special "Platinum Edition" DVD. Long maligned as the worst project ever associated with the Star Wars universe, the LucasFilm DVD includes all the original special (complete with Bea Arthur, Art Carney, Harvey Korman, and The Jefferson Starship), plus a short documentary, The Highway to Life Day: My Search for the Star Wars Holiday Special. The reviewer isn't impressed. "If you want to hang onto any fond childhood memories George Lucas hasn't already managed to destroy, avoid The Star Wars Holiday Special like the Crimson Plague.""
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IT: New Spam-Scanning Technology Finds Spam
Spam
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.
Anjonika writes "Eridani Star System claims they've got a new technology that'll allow them to find where the highest spam concentrations are on Earth." If the photos are any indication, they really are on the right track with this one.
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Science: Apollo Bacteria Destroying the Moon
Moon
Posted by Zonk in The Mysterious Future!
from the war-of-the-worlds dept.
Rob Carr writes "According to the online version of the journal Nature, the moon is being rapidly destroyed by bacteria left behind during the Apollo missions. According to the article: 'There really is less Moon up there than there used to be. If the process continues, he adds, the Moon could eventually crumble away to nothing. Researchers are not yet certain what is causing the erosion. Kawalkowizc suggests that bacteria left behind by the Apollo Moon landings of the 1960s and 1970s may be responsible.' Satellite images show cracks in the moon - the image in the article shows the amazing amount of devastation. The Moon is slowly outgassing and will be destroyed in our lifetime. Speculation is that the ultraviolet radiation mutated the bacteria into it's present ravenous and destructive form. The article does not deal with several important topics. Will a ring system form around Earth? Will this bacteria destroy satellites and quarantine humanity to Earth? Can this bacteria survive entry into Earth's atmosphere, dooming our planet as well?"
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Science: New Alarm Clock Pills
Biotech
Posted by CmdrTaco in The Mysterious Future!
from the lot-easier-than-pressing-a-button dept.
Joe Schill wrote in to say "Check out the Snooz
Seriously? This is unbelievable. How do I get an invite?
Peter: I got an idea, an idea so smart my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about.
And yet the article has the Google logo beside, some partnership!
Pat
I, for one, welcome our new search engine overloads
I think they should drop the ! from the name. Makes it look too much like a joke company.
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
How the heck is that name even pronounced? But, pretty cool anyway, frames...
A non-joke post...and in ESZT there's still over 6 hours left to suffer from fake news, but this one helped save the day.
Make your computer faster: rm -rf
Stupid April 1st joke
yeah and i live in an area often called Kentuckiana. i prefer Indiyucky. april fools
nature loves variety::society hates it get your variety at http://www.monkeypantz.net
I love it, i might start using this one, nice spot guys!
Not very funny.
April fools day jokes start to get old after you've seen the tenth one.
Actually, scratch that - they're old to start off with.
I call Bullshit!
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
SHEEEEEESHH !!!
MicroApple has just formed...
That's really funny! Wait, no it isn't. How fscking sad.
Actually kinda handy to be able to search my two favorite engines at once.
Even if it is just a joke page.
...like Wikipedia acquisition by Britannica, to form Wikipaedia :D
Alì Salam Alè Palem Colà Ulim Dalam
But wouldn't it be a good move if they merged?
It has yet to be decided where the new company's headquarters will reside.
Fantasy island?
Starsucks
Just how many more failed at attempts at April Fool's Day humour will we have to endure today?
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
AOL buys Time Warner
Exxon and Mobil merged. HP and Compaq merged. This really would not surprise me.
If it were not April Fool's Day, I would now be expecting Intel to merge with AMD.Please, make this stop! It's not funny anymore. It's just an excuse for everyone to think they're a comedian.
--- witty signature
You might want to register the domain with a bit more belieavable contact info.
The website is pretty funny though.
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
nuf said
yagoohoogle.com Registrant: Asgeir Nilsen (contact@asgeirnilsen.com) Edelgranveien 84 Bekkestua, Akershus N-1356 NO +4799478992
The people you are trying to fool? Or the fools who think April Fools jokes on the internet are funny and keep writing these dumb stories?
Bwahahahahahahahhahaha!!!!!!!!
In unrelated news, Yahoo finally opened Yahoo 360 today.
First impressions: Better then Orkut. It actually works with my other Yahoo stuff.
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
It's the sound of a dead horse being flogged - again and again and again.
It has yet to be decided where the new company's headquarters will reside.
I know: the Moon!
It was announced today that Hammond and Xerox plan to merge. The new company, tentatively called Hamhox, will manufacture reproductive organs.
Unknown host pong.
I think Yahoogle woulda been better..
then we coulda made yahooligans.yahoogle.com! - why this matters.. I don't know.
I will endure to the end.
...Slashdot.org's gross miscalculation in the actual comedic value of their April Fool's Day posts have led to a spur in the productivity of technology companies, IT support staff, and universities across the globe.
and now back to the fallout shelter...
don't forget to turn all your web connections off after you read this... it's Internet Spring Cleaning Day again. all your data could disappear.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/cleaning.htm
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
The new website has frames: it's bound for doom.
Pat
Any newling interested in my slashdot#?
You get if for free.
While the quantity of the articles is sky-high , the quality of slashdot is rock-bottom now.
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
You'd think with a joke like this they'd at least mention something about what happens with the stocks of each company.
The site's actually kind of neat, though. I just hope Asgeir Nilsen (the registrant, courtesy of WHOIS) doesn't get any cease-and-desist orders.
Hahaha. Bullshit.
The amount of bad jokes is ridiculous. It's only funny once or twice, not 20 times. People come here to see interesting news, not crap like this. It hasn't been funny anymore for several hours.
Just try to be funny next time.
On a side note China has decided to let Taiwan sucede. Also Israel has decided to open up the government to Palestinians.
Congrats Commander Whacko-Penis-Jerking-Taco, you've just posted the most mentally retarded April Fool's Joke ever. You know, you retarded assclowns, it's the fools that are supposed to be fooled, not the fools trying to fool everyone else. I've seen eggplants more capable of pulling off a prank than you. Even my dog is funnier than this, and all he does is lick his testicles and eat his own excrement. Why, when there's a natural disaster, do people like CmdrTwinko get saved? It's quite clear there's no god, or at least the Creator of Everything has the intelligence of a run-down dildo.
As if it's not enough you see the Google logo on every web search, this site starts to become more and more like Googledot or something. I bet someone of the editors bought a lot of Google stock over the last year.
Hello, my name is Achew22, and I have been a life-long dildo hugger.
Next time I open up my gmail, I'll hear, "Yahoooo've got mail!"?
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
As if this would make it out of beta testing so fast.
someone plz make them stop those jokes... I fear to open slashdot page.... transmission out...
-- All Gods were immortal.
-- S. Lem
Instead of ten lame jokes, with no thought put into any one of them, come up with one good one.
Seriously. Not trying to troll here. One good one really is a lot more fun. Today's crapfest is just plain sad.
That thing's pretty useful, ironically enough.
However, please just stop the d@mned April Fools jokes! They all get old within a second of reading them!
Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Bugs are good for building character in the user.
Some years ago there was talk of Netscape and Yahoo merging and moving the head office to Israel. The merged company would be called Net'n'Yahoo.
Today's vices may be tomorrow's virtues.