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Inside the Billion-Dollar Hacker Club
An anonymous reader writes "Here's an inside look at the personal successes of the elite hacking group "w00w00". From the article: 'For this group of old friends, assembled for an impromptu reunion, the venue would feel familiar: an online chat room running on a secure private server. Each were former members of the elite hacking group "w00w00" and they had reconvened that afternoon to celebrate and share in the success of one of their own. In some ways it was just like old times. But rather than success being the discovery of a new software exploit or penetration of a computer network, this was something more extraordinary. One of the group's former members had just sold their company for $19 billion dollars."
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The link in the summary is broken.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/...
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
Only like the criminals the news likes to call hackers.
Fuck these grey beards - don't they know the internet belongs to facebook and twitter now?
One of the group's former members had just sold their company for $19 billion dollars.
I like that plan, maybe I'll have to fit it a shot.
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I think the article must have gotten it wrong.. I've heard several other places that WhatsApp sold for 16 billion.
I know it may not seem like much.. but, personally, I consider a $3 billion discrepancy to be something.
You're too young (at least here)...
"One of the group's former members had just sold their company for $19 billion dollars." :-P
Orly? Which one was it?
Are these the dicks who are constantly filling my weblog with:
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140224 042320 69.174.245.163 - 69.174.245.163
140226 084433 64.15.159.21 - 64.15.159.21
140226 210354 122.49.0.220 - 122.49.0.220
140301 232858 46.105.100.220 - ns382685.ovh.net
140217 122758 122.49.0.220 - 122.49.0.220
140217 124326 67.215.248.8 - 67.215.248.8
140218 081257 111.207.191.92 - 111.207.191.92
I think one of the most intriguing thing in the article is the mention of an "attention economy" startup, Belua. The name does fit belua (not bellua), ae, f a beast, wild beast, monster: fera: saeva, H.: Lernae, the Hydra, V.: in usu beluarum: quantum natura hominis pecudes reliquaque belua, lower animals. Hobbes' Leviathan comes to mind.
They haven't been in the press enough recently...
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
I hate it when highly speculative and non liquid asset classes are reported in the media as cash. It shows genuine lack of good faith to do this.
By this metric, anyone can be a *illionaire. Just form your own company, then come up with ridiculous IP and have your company bond the IP (with UCC statement) to a "value" that you and your company agree upon! You can be a billionaire or whatever you like. What's that you say? Such shenanigans is acting in bad faith and nobody in their right mind would give you that amount in trade for your worthless UCC statement, so it is not fair to report its TRUE value as $1 Billion (CASH)? Ok, now you see my point --- the same is true with all these speculative asset classes that are backed by nothing.
Inside the Billion Dollar Kindergarten - One of the kindergartens former students recently sold their company for $19B. ...
Inside the Billion Dollar High School - A former student recently sold their company for $19B.
Inside the Billion Dollar Kindergarten - One of the kindergartens former students recently sold their company for $19B. ...
Inside the Billion Dollar High School - A former student recently sold their company for $19B.
Nobody who made a billion dollars ever completed Kindergarten. They all drop out and start their own firms early. If you're in Kindergarten you're doing it wrong.
I feel kinda bad for getting this.
I'm just going to imagine that you mean that the guys are big fat slobs with saggy manmaries, and Angelina is a fit young woman with perky breasts. Yes that's it.
That's part of it, but it was also a shitty, obnoxious 'joke' about Jolie's preventive double mastectomy.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
"THE" billion dollar hacker club? Seems to me there are several of those.
Two instances just from the public record: First there's the Homebrew Computer Club, founded in '73, which includes a number of leading lights in the Silicon Valley part of the industry, including Jobs and Woz. (Apple alone has WhatsApp beat by a factor of neary 25, as of today's close.) Then there's the (invitation-only) Hackers Conference, Founded by in '84, whose membership may not have as high a percentage of people who made billions in high tech, but does have more than one just among those whose membership is publicly known.
I could go on for a while, and I'm SURE I don't know anywhere near all such organizations.
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Thousands of hacker wannabes from the 90s haven't done much of anything with their lives, and are working in boring ass jobs with normal lives.
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