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Goatse.cx Is For Sale
fm6 writes "The domain goatse.cx is being auctioned. Bidding, at the time of posting, has reached $15K after 109 bids (with 6 days to go). Some of you will recall that this site used to be linked in a lot of Slashdot articles, despite having only a few pages. Boing Boing, with their usual creativity, has managed to depict Goatse's most commonly linked photo while still remaining within the bounds of good taste."
You could put google adds on it but I shudder to think what it would advertise. Probably make a lot of money, though.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Like it or not, it's internets history. It's especially relevant to /. for the reason you stated (trolling).
Sadly goatse is part of the history of the internet.
You mad
Unfortunately, it appears the the goatse.cx site is down. Fortunately, there's a mirror available at goatse.ch and goatse.cz.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Clearly, seeing as he doesn't even know the difference between moderator and, *cough*, editor.
How we know is more important than what we know.
$30000050...even the number is funny. 30000000 to get attention, 50 being what it is actually worth. Probably somebody from around here :)
http://michaelsmith.id.au
No. If it was done that way there would be 6000 articles in the queue like on digg and it would be impossible to get anything decent posted.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Anyone else finds it pretty unfair that the registrar took the domain back from its owner, then allows someone else to buy it for hundreds of dollars? Pretty close to stealing if you ask me.
God, root, what is difference ?
Sadly goatse is part of the history of the internet.
You'll be surprised how many people, making millions on the Internet, have no clue what it is. The people familiar in details with all the shock sites are a certain subculture, and certainly doesn't make up the history of the Internet.
What, you think this is Kuro5hin? No, there's still people who are paid to read submissions and decide what best "represents Slashdot".. and yeah, they never read the site themselves, so they have no idea what is on Slashdot.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I wonder what that other famous site would cost.
Wow, you needed to look at the vote pattern to infer that the $20M bidders can't possibly be serious? :-)
God, root, what is difference ?
I hope they did it anonymously. Puts me in mind of the episode where Homer Simpson donated $10 MUSD to a telethon.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
i was surfing about.com's list of religious symbols awhile back and found out, much to my shock and amusement, that the goatse.cx guy is an ancient celtic god
(link is pretty safe for work)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
That would be true if high schools didn't have computer labs. I know many who don't know the name, but it will be a cold day in hell before they will every be able to remove that particular image from their brain.
You mad
I can't see a large opening for sites with names like this.
AT&ROFLMAO
Is that the entrance to one of the series of tubes?
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Awww, it's awright, I bwoughted your butt-medicine for you! Here, you take a liddel sip and then you go sleepy-byes!
Goatse was a culturally significant internet meme and the domain was suspended (revoked) because some kook at the registrar found the content tasteless. There's plenty of content I find tasteless online, Goatse was nowhere near as offensive to me as the GWB presidency yet I'm not about to start pressuring ICANN to withdraw the domains registered by pro-bush news sites.
Dot cx (now CIIA) set a dangerous precedent in revoking the goatse domain, content regulation via DNS is nothing more than an abuse of power. cx domains are worthless, the registry has established it will pull domains if they don't like the content. Avoid.
Tubgirl is so much better than Goatse.
And by "better", I mean "more thoroughly disgusting". The latter makes me laugh; the former turns my stomach.
it's bad enough when someone does a first post to goatse.cx, why the heck is this making news? internet shock sites should not be posted on popular forums, it's stupid, why do we get a news article about shock sites
Methinks thou doth protest too much. That's really your ass in the picture, isn't it?
i always thought the /. community of moderators were a little more mature.
That's a joke, right?
Did you really have to say "open goatse"? You're only making this worse!
Remember, open source is free as in speech, not free as in bear.
So much for that deal with Satan specifying he could take me the day a post with a goatse link on Slashdot was modded +5...
You don't sound like you're too up on your internets history, friend.
As I understand it, back in the early days of the internet, the kind of enthusiasts who make up today's subculture were a significant proportion of the userbase. Just by being there, they were a target market, and helped the whole thing to grow. Just because AOL came along and reduced them to a subculture doesn't mean they aren't part of the internet's history.
And besides, who cares about the internet's ability to concentrate even more wealth into even fewer hands? I can guarantee that in 300 years, the history teachers won't be telling their classes about how the internet was really profitable and made a select few very rich. They'll tell of how it connected the world and got us all communicating at an unprecedented level (assuming they even mention it at all).
Sure, the signal-to-noise ratio sucks, and half the time all we're communicating is a picture of a guy stretching his ass with his hands, but at least that's more interesting than some dotcom's record quarterly report.
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Yes you do. They are very serious about that. They will track you down. If you don't have the money you can expect serious trouble.
Good luck.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
Anyhow, there's a good moral lesson here. The
Besides, it's not as if there didn't exist plenty of sick sites out there. I don't like those, but who am I to judge? As long as it's nothing criminal, let it be...
"You'll be surprised how many people, making millions on the Internet, have no clue what it is.
Check out this set of pictures (or here) of people finding out exactly what goatse.cx is, while some nice person photographs the expression on their face.
Those Boing Boing links are hilarious.
I've recently noticed that the Toastmasters (safe link) logo has more than a passing resemblance.
Life is like a web application. Sometime you need cookies just to get by.
Clearly, friend, you've failed in your attempts to stretch your sphincter as wide as the goatse.cx gentleman and are lashing out at us because of it.
On one hand, it should be obvious that his link directs to some kind of shock image. On the other hand, he just posted a Tubgirl picture to Slashdot and got modded interesting. Indeed.
$5.02402e+11 ought to be enough for anybody. It's $1e+12 now. Why do they even allow bids that big? It can't be serious.
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And the circle of life continues to spin, occasionally wobbling on its axis thanks to the weighty presence of dumb.
You'll be surprised how many people, making millions on the Internet, have no clue what it is.
The people "making millions on the Internet" right now tend to be pornographers, spammers, scammers, and botnet owners. They probably don't know anything about Vint Cerf, ARPAnet, the IETF, or BBN either...
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"Open Goatse" sounds like some sort of FOSS operating system, probably based on BSD.
And the circle of life continues to spin, occasionally wobbling on its axis thanks to the weighty presence of dumb.
As for the auction, I hope they choke on it.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Living in this house for the rest of your life on Earth. After you die, well you know...
Now the true significance of the BSD demon mascot is finally, terrifyingly revealed! His reign shall be merciless, and pointy! There shall be much wailing and frantic pressing of "Back" buttons, but it shall avail them naught, for even should they close one window will two more appear, and more, and more, until their screens shall be covered in it, such that all the lab may see. And they will laugh, or call campus security, or file a lawsuit. Yea, these are dark times.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
They'll do what they always do when someone can't pay the entire sum that he owes. They'll get as large a portion as they can, by arranging personal bankrupcy, confiscation of assets with executory auction, confiscation of future income, and so on.
Debt is a serious matter.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
If you click the 'Place Bid' button without logging in to the site you are instructed:
"Please login to your accunt first."
Worst. Signature. Ever.
Theo, I herd u liek mudkips. If not, please make yourself an hero.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Well, there's also the people who notice the guy has a wedding ring. Anyhow, examining the goatse picture closely enough to find remarkable details, well, I confess I haven't got to that stage yet...
from now on you can explain your grandchildren that there was a time when the internet did not have many ads, websites were made only of HTML and tubgirl was not mainstream.
What if one were to buy all of them? Are they cheaper holesale?
$1e+12 now...
Wow... I am glad it does exponents...
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For once, I wouldn't blame anyone for not RTFAing.
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