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Cuban Talks Trash At Intel Extreme Masters, Drops $30K of F-Bombs For Charity (hothardware.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the sticks-and-stones-and-fines dept.

MojoKid writes: Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban isn't known for holding his tongue, even when their are fines involved. If you thought that might change in the eSports arena, you'd be mistaken. The billionaire trash talker dropped a couple of f-bombs at the Intel Extreme Masters tournament in San Jose this past weekend, and he'll have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for doing so. Not that he minds. In fact, after being informed on stage during a post-match interview that he was was being fined $15,000 for dropping an f-bomb, and that the funds would go to charity, he promptly asked if he'd be hit with another one if he did it again. His intentional outburst meant that he'd be on the hook for $30,000, all of which will go to the Cybersmile Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides expert help and advice for cyberbullying victims and their families. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich also squared off on opposing teams in a game of League of Legends.

53 comments

  1. Stuff that matters? by ishmaelflood · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Inane

    1. Re:Stuff that matters? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 2

      It is also inane to call an organization that advises social media users a "charity". They really couldn't find a more worthy cause? A million children will die of malaria this year, and they are giving money to a group that informs people that they can avoid on-line abuse by closing their browser tab.

  2. This is the new Slashdot.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The new Slashdot wants to be TMZ.

  3. What? by 110010001000 · · Score: 0

    What is Intel Extreme Masters? Who is Cuban? Why not just say "fuck"? This is the Interwebs.

    1. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is when you call fork() in a loop so that both your original process and each fork will keep spawning new forks, eventually causing your system to crash.

    2. Re: What? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

      It's eSports. Don't you remember those mutherfuckin' jocks back in high school? They figured out how to operate game controllers.

    3. Re:What? by KGIII · · Score: 1

      It took me a minute to figure out that I know who Mark Cuban is. At first, I thought it was some sort of way to swear a bunch and donate to a Cuban charity. I was set to unleash a torrent of profanity in an effort to lend assistance but, having read the summary (and not the article) and some comments, I've concluded that this charity is not likely to be something that I wish to render assistance to.

      I'm all for being polite and all for using respectable speech. I am all for doing so of my own volition. I'd rather not have someone telling me that I must do so, shaming for failing to do so, or telling you that you are not allowed to do so. I'm free to censor my own speech. I'm not entitled to censor your speech. I'd not feel comfortable supporting a group that had a goal of censorship even if it was limited to peer pressuring folks into compliance.

      Now, if talking trash and swearing meant that I'd be supporting a group that was pro-speech then I might consider it. If it were for a group that was advocating freedom of speech in Cuba then, by all means, I'd be interested. Cuba is a lovely place and full of nice people. I'm quite fond of the place and will surely be visiting again though I'm not entirely sure when it will fit into my schedule.

      As an aside; I need to check out the new regulations concerning a travel visa. It has been a while since I last visited and I understand that the regulations have drastically changed. I do anticipate being in Florida in the very near future (probably in DC by the end of this week - post holiday) and it's a short flight to Cuba from there. I'll be certain to look into it when I get down that way - I should probably do so sooner as I don't know how much lead-time will be required. Every other time it has actually been easier than one might expect. I simply flew from Canada the first time and Mexico the second time.

      --
      "So long and thanks for all the fish."
    4. Re:What? by TeknoHog · · Score: 1

      Thanks. I thought "fork bomb" was short enough already, while being much more descriptive. Might as well call it "fb" if you want to describe it as something that completely ruins computing and networks for a lot of people.

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      Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
    5. Re:What? by Jax+Omen · · Score: 1

      Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) is a videogame tournament. In this particular case, they're referring to the "League of Legends" portion of the tournament.

      Mark Cuban is a rich guy who owns a sports team and is on some TV show called Shark Tank or something. He participated in the event by playing a showmatch with four popular League of Legends players on his team, vs Brian Krzanich (Intel CEO) and four more popular LoL players.

      "fuck" is usually banned from broadcasts. In this case, there's no legal reason for it, but it is likely ESL (tournament host) policy to keep the broadcast clean.

      As an aside, the showmatch was a huge letdown. Cuban clearly had no idea what was going on, but wanted to play well and was trying his best, following instruction from the pros with him. Brian K clearly had never played a videogame before and didn't try to learn.

    6. Re:What? by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 1

      It's what happens when there's a build up gases from fracking.

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      Your ad here. Ask me how!
    7. Re:What? by Obfuscant · · Score: 1

      I'm not entitled to censor your speech.

      Private organizations have the right to censor the speech of those who participate in activities they organize. It is undoubtedly true that Cuban was getting an appearance fee, but even if he was not, he was there representing the organization.

    8. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Absolutely. While I was speaking of it at a larger level and thought that the implication was clear, I do agree that they're free to do so as a part of their group so long as I'm free to ignore them (and I am) or ridicule them (and I am). It appears that the group he's speaking on behalf of wishes to censor speech on a wider scale under the guise of harming people's feelings. It's a seemingly noble goal but not much different than the Puritans. The participants seem to also be members of the group of people who advocate shaming others into obedience and attempting to control the dialogue. That's at a smaller scale, if not clear. I don't tend to agree with the practices of either but they're free to do so inasmuch as I'm free to respond in kind.

      Posted AC as I'm probably nearing the point where I'm soon bumping into the 50 posts per day threshold. It seems silly to disallow more posts even when you've maxed out your karma. It's fairly easy to bypass and I'm not sure why the arbitrary limit is even in place? But, yay! I can remove the ads...

      Anyhow, my concern is that those who would censor speech are gaining in popularity. I've seen similar trends before and I know that the pendulum will swing both ways so long as someone speaks out against such ideas. As a group, they're free to censor themselves as much or as little as they want. When they advocate for greater censorship, as they appear to do, is when I worry. I'm not okay with that. As a minority, I'm okay with hate speech so long as it doesn't incite. As someone who has been subjected to ridicule, I'm okay with that - so long as it doesn't incite anyone to violence. If you want to call me a fag, I'm okay with that. I put on my man-panties this morning.

      LOL Sorry for posting AC but, well, I'll try to check back. If it's dreadfully important, throw the response up-thread below a comment made while I was logged in. I'll figure it out. I'm certainly not in disagreement with you but I may not have articulated it well. It's when they seek to censor those not in their group or try to make their group's behavior mandatory that I've got problems. I do see a potential issue with the rise in popularity but I think that will subside much like all the other trendy things. Well, so long as people speak out against it. Which, well, I'm doing.

      Err... It's obviously me. Nobody else types this much inane gibberish and nobody else is this verbose.

  4. Editing in the summary . . . by thecombatwombat · · Score: 1

    Even when _there_ are fines involved. I'm not one to correct grammar in comments, but it would be nice to fix the summary.

    1. Re: Editing in the summary . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If only they were fined around here for the editing.

  5. Princess Di is Wearing a New Dress by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 2

    Read the lyrics.

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    Bruce Perens.
    1. Re:Princess Di is Wearing a New Dress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly. And of all the folks that tech-minded individuals shouldn't be fawning over, it's him.

      http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...

      Fuck you Mr. Cuban. And for that please donate another $15k in my name, "Anonymous Peon".

    2. Re:Princess Di is Wearing a New Dress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Did someone break into her tomb and put a new dress on her?

      That truly is news.

      (:

    3. Re:Princess Di is Wearing a New Dress by KGIII · · Score: 1

      Entirely off-topic but I just re-watched Revolution OS (link for those who are new and/or unaware of it). It had popped up in the recommended videos as the next one that it would play and I'd not seen it for a number of years so I figured I'd let it play through. It is amusing with how much things change and stay the same - like the lyrics to the linked song.

      With all the pressing issues, well, we get this. Throw us a fish to fight over so that we're distracted from more important things. For everything that changes, it's really much the same. I liken it to our use of the "cloud" and how, even with all these wasted compute cycles sitting in our pockets, we're returning to the age of the dumb terminal.

      I don't have anything pertinent to say except that it was interesting to revisit the documentary after all these years. It's high time to make a second version with updated content that also revisits the first.

      --
      "So long and thanks for all the fish."
    4. Re:Princess Di is Wearing a New Dress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      OMG HOSTSSSSSSSSSSS FILELEEEEEEE SOO-POOOOOO GOOODOODDDL.......APK

      YOU CAN'T JUST OPEN IT IN NOTEPAD AND EDIT IT YOU NEED MY VIRUS-RIDDEN .NET (OF COURSE I COULD WRITE IT FOR LINUX i just don';t because linux is not important ,lol BURNEDD cohen22 eat MY nutssssss) cuz NOTEPAD with the NADMIN you said that the DNS TRAFFIC OVERLORD probably cohenn22work for the mega pope!!

      cuz see these people I'm quoting:

      marko123: i love hosts file apk is the coolest person ever

      KGill: super host file mega sex time party now

      SO eat your werdss cohenn22 on the 64-bit no virus total.com mega upload kim dot com super sexmart

      so try that megaman..... APK

    5. Re:Princess Di is Wearing a New Dress by barbariccow · · Score: 1

      ^ ^ This, and more this.

    6. Re:Princess Di is Wearing a New Dress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LOL I actually chuckled out loud - loud enough for the missus to come peek over my shoulder. APK was doing okay but I think he may finally have flipped a bit and gone over the edge. It's too bad, too. I've been hoping he'd write a Linux version - I'd test it, why not? As it doesn't actually interact with the system (or doesn't need to hook into it) he should be able to do so without even needing to release the source - it'd be nice if he did.

      Also, I think you forgot a PS, a PSS and a => sign. I'm not sure how I got involved with him. I spoke with him a few times, well typed, and agreed that the hosts file is a good idea but that I didn't make use of it any more because I have enough resources to simply use an ad blocker and would rather spend my time doing things other than maintaining a hosts file like I used to. I'd even go so far as to say that he may be right - with the advent of HTML5, we may need to use the hosts file to block ads all over again. (They may, depending on how they're implemented, become extremely difficult to block in the near future.)

      Either way, I'm not entirely sure how I got involved with the spat between him, Coren22, and MyAlternateID. Fortunately, my page down button is handy so I'm able to skip most of the crazy posts. I do, seriously, fear for his sanity. I've a sibling who is mentally and physically very ill (more sane now than she has been in a long time) and I've seen the struggles they go through. I'd not wish that on anyone. I wouldn't even wish that on my stalker. (Actually, I kind of like my stalker but something must have happened as now they're only getting three mod points and they're not getting them very often. I don't know but I think meta moderation may have something to do with it.)

  6. Where was the f-bomb detector? by marko123 · · Score: 1

    Oh, OK. They were using ADE651s.

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    http://pcblues.com - Digits and Wood
  7. Lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Phony charity

  8. What Does Cybersmile Do That's Worth $30K? by Kunedog · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's worse than inane. From what I can see, Cybersmile peddles the anti-gamer "abuse and harrassment" narrative and supports an end to online anonymity. They were also one of the orgs lined up for the $300M Intel forked out in PR protection money a while back. Hopefully Cybersmile's not actually run by known harrassers and doxxers like Crash Override and the Online Abuse Prevention Initiative, which were also (both) embarrassingly promoted by Slashdot.

    I can't blame Cuban for falling for this, since he was just told "It's for charity" rather than for propaganda and activism.

    1. Re:What Does Cybersmile Do That's Worth $30K? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's worse than inane. From what I can see, Cybersmile peddles the anti-gamer "abuse and harrassment" narrative...

      And what better way to represent an organization against abuse by dropping obscenities across a large audience instead of you know, just writing a check.

      It was practically staged to establish fines towards the "charity" and then bring in a loud-mouthed offensive asshole as your spokes-tard and assume he wouldn't "donate" in some way.

      I grow very tired of narcissitic attention whore being used as a job title or business MO.

  9. Fined by whom? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sure, he's obviously willing to go along. But fined by whom? Did he sign something before being allowed on stage as a guest?

  10. Mark Cuban is for cows. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOO! MOOOO! Moo cows MOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU MAVERICK COWS!!

  11. Fuck Cybersmile, Mark Cuban, and Slashdot by O('_')O_Bush · · Score: 1

    Mark Cuban needs to drop a few hundred Gs on Unicef, and Cybersmile needs to go fuck it's pretentious agenda.

    And Slashdot, shame on you most of all. News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.

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    while(1) attack(People.Sandy);
    1. Re:Fuck Cybersmile, Mark Cuban, and Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mark Cuban needs to drop a few hundred Gs on Unicef, and Cybersmile needs to go fuck it's pretentious agenda. .

      http://www.insidephilanthropy....

  12. WTF headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cuban talks? Intel masters? Bombs dropped???

    Did WWIII just start?

    1. Re:WTF headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      *heads towards f-bomb shelter*

  13. Well isn't he precious... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well isn't he precious...

  14. Fuckin' Americans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Fines for swearing are crazy. Funny how people don't have anything better to do.

    1. Re:Fuckin' Americans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Those fuckers get offended if someone swears or shows nudity, but they are completely ok with carrying guns and getting randomly killed by police.

  15. cuban talks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I have absolutely no idea what that headline intends to convey but whatever it was, it was not conveyed.

  16. What? by alantus · · Score: 3, Funny

    What the fuck is an f-bomb???

  17. So this is the thanks we get... by shizzle · · Score: 1

    for normalizing relations with Castro's dictatorship, You'd think they'd be a little more polite.

    Oh, wait... never mind.

  18. Great news there, buddy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    >non-profit organization that provides expert help and advice for cyberbullying victims and their families

    Zoe Quinn is back with a new scam^H^H^H^H helpful totally legit organization? Or is it Randi "Die In A Fire" Harper's doing?

  19. What a marketing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    So essentialy he bought his name on the frontpage of Slashdot for 30.000 USD. Why is this news?

    1. Re:What a marketing! by GuB-42 · · Score: 1

      Because it is fucking smart maketing.

    2. Re:What a marketing! by geekmux · · Score: 1

      Because it is fucking smart maketing.

      "Hi, my name is Mark Cuban. I'm an arrogant asshole who sponsors an organization that teaches you how to avoid abuse by acting like an arrogant asshole spewing vulgarities."

      That's pretty much the gist of this. Oddly enough, this won't make me open my wallet any more than the average person, so I fail to see how this is "fucking smart marketing".

      And it's hardly even relevant for Slashdot content, so it pretty much means fuck-all to us here, validating the parents point.

  20. Ahhh the allmighty god of money. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you're rich enough to afford it, then you don't suffer consequences from your own lack of social etiquette. In fact, it winds up being a charity donation making your lack of class an act of noble heroism.

    Fuck I hate American culture and money-worship.

  21. When is Mark Cuban news? by gavron · · Score: 2

    Mark Cuban once started off rich. Then he invested in RealPlayer and ended up super rich.
    Good for him - that's what how the Land of Opportunity is supposed to be. You start out
    with loads of money, and make even more from that. Awesome.

    Lately though, he's been involved in failure. HDnet (anyone remember that?), the Dallas
    Mavericks (anyone remember them), etc.

    To be known for being foul-mouthed and poor-sportsmanship is not a golden chalice of
    virtue.

    If Mr. Cuban wanted to contribute to charity he could easily do so -- and a lot more than
    a measly $30K -- without resorting to foul-mouthed expressions.

    He's a kid who never grew up, and there's nothing Peter Pan or cutesy about it.

    Ehud
    Tucson AZ

    1. Re:When is Mark Cuban news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >

      If Mr. Cuban wanted to contribute to charity he could easily do so -- and a lot more than a measly $30K -- without resorting to foul-mouthed expressions.

      http://www.insidephilanthropy....

    2. Re:When is Mark Cuban news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the Dallas Mavericks (anyone remember them)

      Cuban bought the Dallas Mavericks in 2000 for $284 million. The Dallas Mavericks are now worth $1,150 million. Seems like that investment worked out pretty well for him.

      Don't mistake a teams current prospects for their value. The Dallas Cowboys remain one of the most valuable sports franchises in the world in spite of the last 20 years.

    3. Re:When is Mark Cuban news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To be fair to Peter Pan... man, have you read the book? There's nothing "Peter Pan" or cutesy about Peter Pan. He's at worst an abuser and at best a damaging addiction.

  22. Mark Cuban is still partly a child. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "He's a kid who never grew up..."

    Agreed.

  23. A fine for F-Bombs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's very useful when you run out of toilet paper.

  24. Hah! by sabbede · · Score: 1

    I think I just found my new favorite way to raise money for charity.

  25. Never heard of him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Looked him up on wikipedia, he sounds like a total cunt, and looks like a failed rapist.

  26. f-bomb? by Cederic · · Score: 1

    What sort of cunt uses the term f-bomb?

  27. Stupid Laws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Good we're not having such laws in europe.