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Rick Rubin Discloses Sony Rootkit Called Home

caffeinemessiah writes "Rick Rubin, the legendary music producer, recently signed on as co-head of Columbia Records, which is owned by Sony BMG. In a recent New York Times interview (on pg. 4 of the online version), he discloses, possibly accidentally: 'It was the highest debut of Neil [Diamond]'s career, off to a great start. But Columbia — it was some kind of corporate thing — had put spyware on the CD. That kept people from copying it, but it also somehow recorded information about whoever bought the record...' Seems like the rootkit might have been a little more than your vanilla invade-your-rights-DRM scheme."

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  1. root kit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    A few years ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I had to take a piss. As I entered the john a big beautiful all-American football hero type, about twenty-five, came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was "straight" and married - and in any case I was sure I wouldn't have a chance with him.

    As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy young ass. I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd - a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's wrist.

    I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating ass and not an end in itself. Of course I'd had jerk-off fantasies of devouring great loads of it (what rimmer hasn't), but I had never done it. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of the world's handsomest young stud.

    Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract?

    I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled. I've found since then that shit nearly almost does.

    I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock, beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was the donor of this feast wasn't there to wash it down with his piss.

    I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit.

    Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom.

    I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have had six orgasms in the process.

    I often think of that lovely young guy dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful shiteater.

    1. Re:root kit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Too long, didn't read.

    2. Re:root kit? by jollyreaper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The thing that scares me in this world is that something like this probably wasn't written just to shock people, it was most likely stroke material for poo fetishits. Things like this make me think that people like Osama are right. But then I consider that Osama's own society is full of sex freaks and I realize he doesn't have a leg to stand on, either.

      And who the fuck has so little time on their hands that they hang around waiting for articles to post so they can drop a frist pr0st in that will be immediately downmodded?

      --
      Kwisatz Haderach
      Sell the spice to CHOAM
      This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
    3. Re:root kit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's sick, but it's not sick enough by itself to be interesting. Better luck next time.

    4. Re:root kit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      A guy walking into a public restroom, spotting an unflushed turd and eating it isn't sick enough? What is?

    5. Re:root kit? by jollyreaper · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Well, aren't you just a festive little ball of hate. Have fun with your trolling.

      --
      Kwisatz Haderach
      Sell the spice to CHOAM
      This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
    6. Re:root kit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      it doesn't have a hook or special interest to *really* get to you. It's lemonparty compared to tubgirl - it just doesn't make me go "omg must get clean". It's sick, I'll give it that, but it's boring.

      As it stands it's just an anecdote, give it a backstory, some characters, maybe a little stalking and some other form of conflict. Not something shallow like just plugging in some famous names or a just so story about why the main character likes to eat shit.

    7. Re:root kit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      This is how Fred Phelps achieves erections.

  2. Misleading Title by Dr+Kool,+PhD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For those of you who don't already know, Sony will shortly be releasing a virtual reality MMO called Home for their PS3 console. Home is a revolutionary game that will turn the console world upside down with its innovative features. On top of that, Home is totally free for PS3 owners!!

    When I read the title, I thought the article was about Home being a rootkit. That is clearly not the case. I just wanted to clarify that.

  3. Ahem. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dupe-ity doo dah, dupe-ity ay. My oh my, what a dupe-ity day.

    Dupe-ity!

  4. Re:PLEASE REPLY TO THIS COMMENT WITH YOUR BEST TRO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For sale : French WW II era rifle, never used, only dropped once.


    Also, note the Canadians have a worse crime problem then the US and so should stop acting so superior.

  5. Re:PLEASE REPLY TO THIS COMMENT WITH YOUR BEST TRO by Winckle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck, you got me. That really is the best troll.

  6. Re:Quit with the PR nonsense... by Dr+Kool,+PhD · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We're getting off-topic here, but I'm part of the Home beta and I love it. You can launch your games without Home if you'd like, but it's much more fun to meet up with "virtual people" that you are about to pwn at Warhawk. Anyway you're entitled to your own opinion, but Home is free (and coming out in October) so at least try it out before deciding it sucks.

  7. Re:PLEASE REPLY TO THIS COMMENT WITH YOUR BEST TRO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jesus was a leprechaun - with a dick out to here!!

  8. Re:A simpler solution by neildiamond · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually the irony here is that Neil Diamond got sued for singing about "E.T. phoning home" a la the song Heartlight in ~1982.

  9. Dick Rubin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    hahahah

    /moving along now