That's basically how the whining sounds. Waaaah, the stock didn't skyrocket like Googles! Waaaaah!. All those rich greedy bastards aren't even richer greedy bastards. So they sue.
So I say what's good for the goose... and turn it around. The 99% should SUE the 1% for 156 Trillion dollars, or approximately the value of all derivatives and credit default swaps.
Seriously, let's take 'em to court because we've not gotten our American Dream.
Really? Doesn't a VP at SAP make enough money to afford his lifestyle? Is he so greedy that he's gotta do this kind of crap? And where does he find the TIME to post 2000 items to eBay?
Clearly, things at SAP must be doing badly because #1) he's not making enough and #2) He's got plenty of time to sit at work posting shit to eBay.
I don't have time to clean out the junk in my house and post crap to eBay. I barely have time to write this post.
That's if you believe the media, who can only count people from the "Forbes" listings. The problem with understanding a person's total valuation is that there's a number of people who's value can't be counted, either because they refuse to reveal how much money they have, or that the valuation simply can't be tabulated for some other reason (i.e. too many swiss bank accounts).
For example, there's a bunch of Saudi princes, and the money magazines have NO IDEA what these guys are worth, but it's clearly multiple billions and money is no object to these characters, who buy jet aircraft and diamond-studded cell-phones on a monthly basis.
So, point is: Zuckerberg may be 29th of the known list of billionaires, but he's still not the 29th richest in the world, although clearly, he's now part of the 1% of the 1%.
But, on the bright side, he still dresses like he's in college.
And his filament didn't even work all that well. It was the work of another inventor, a practically unknown black man named Louis Latimer, I believe, who finally invented a better filament for the light bulb.
Seriously. Can you even think of ONE decent car ad from GM in the last decade?
I sure can't, and the really, really, gut wrenching part of it all is that CHRYSLER has hit the ball out of the park with TWO stunning Superbowl ads over the last two years. And neither one were about their cars, but about their brand.
GM is unfocused because their "brand" is actually a number of brands, probably each one with their own ad agency, and each one with a different VP in charge of hiring ad agencies, so you can enevr get it under "one roof" so to speak.
GM is top-heavy with useless middle management, and each "brand" being -internally- in competition with each other. It's a problem, but the problem can be solved EASILY if the CEO had some balls and vision to make some sweeping changes to the way that GM does business.
But he won't because the CEO of GM is an empty suit collecting a massive payday, and he knows that even if he does nothing and GM fails miserably, the government will step in the bail out his incompetence, and he still gets a massive payday.
In short, GM is run by incompetent suits who are there to collect large checks and do as little as possible.
Corporate waste is immeasurable. $40 million blown on facebook ads? bah, that's nothing. They blow money like that all the time on things that don't work out. And then you wonder why you're paying $30,000 for a car built almost entirely of cheap plastic?
That's because in the USA they were still using the higher sulfur diesel. It had nothing to do with the engines, and everything to do with the TYPE of diesel fuel being sold in the usa. Wanker.
If Forbes is using STOCK PRICE as a barometer of how good the CEO is, well, then every company on the S&P500 is the worst CEO of all time.
For the last decade, the S&P500 has remained essentially flat, while CEO compensation has gone up 500% -- Companies may be getting more profitable, but that value is going right into someone's pocket, it's not going to share value, it's not going to re-investment, and it's not going to jobs.
Forbes is drinking the kool-aid, and is missing the big picture. In fact, this article is probably fluff to distract us from the *REAL* story, that the market itself is failing.
Take Friday's big relevation that a certain big bank lost $2 billion is a bad trade. Do any of you actually believe that hogwash? We're talking about a company big enough to manipulate the market in their favor, every time. We're talking a bank, an organization that can't lose money because of the way the entire game is rigged -- only an idiot could lose money at a bank.
No, that money's not lost, it's in someone's pocket.We're just being told it's lost so no one goes looking for it because we're the ones who were robbed.
Steal $100 and go to jail. Steal a billion and cover it up properly, and you retire in Bolivia.
Because to repair an item, you would have to first reverse engineer the item to understand how it works. This is specifically prohibited by the DMCA, and you could face a civil lawsuit, criminal penalties and jail time/fines.
In the USA it is ILLEGAL to understand how a product works. You're not allowed to fix stuff, only to consume, and obey.
Remember what country you live in folks, we're just trying to protect you. Now, please strip naked so you can board the subway.
People are being denied entry into the USA for silly reasons. People are being denied entry into the UK for islly reasons. Once you get on Homeland Security's "no fly" list it's almost impossible to get off.
I'm beginning to see what what's going on here. Pretty soon we'll be prisoners in our own homes, unable to even walk the streets. Travel of any type will be so restricted "for our own safety", that there will be a 6-month waiting list to go to the supermarket.
Computer Science. Interesting game. The only winning move is not to play.
If ever there was a model for how the 1% differ from the 99%, this is it. This jackass can LIE on his resume to become CEO of a major corporation, and you bet he's getting paid more per month than I make in a year. Furthermore, even when he's "let go", he'll walk away with the GDP of small nations. Enough to live comfortably for the rest of his days. FOR LYING.
The rest of us would be tossed out on the street, with a warning that we're lucky we're not in jail.
Seriously, what a fucked up world we are living in.
If, in the 70's they pulled Esquire Magazine for carrying the article "Secrets of the Little Blue Box", an article that described phone phreaking.
This inspired Steve Jobs to convince friend Woz to design and build Blue boxes, which eventually lead to the founding of Apple... now the biggest company in the world...
Apple started from hacker/phreaker roots, and inspired by an article published in a magazine. Just imagine the damage they've done to the future by pulling this Magazine.
Actually, porn would be news that matters to nerds.
This explains why Taco left...
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Chances are, this was discussed in the boardroom, and Rob Malda suddenly came to realize what 'selling out' really meant.
Slashdot is owned by a conglomerate that just wants to make money -- and for a while, Rob had some creative freedom, but that time has long past.
I notice that all these changes (slashdot TV, for example) came *after* Taco left, but something tells me these plans were on the whiteboard well before the retirement happened.
Slashdot is just a name now. In the early days of the web (1995 to 2002), slashdot was a big deal, but the unfortunate reality is, they are losing money compared to say Chezbuger.org or whoever owns lolcats.
The sad reality is that pictures of fat people in walmart generates more ad revenue than a "news for nerds" website.
And this is why Taco left. Facebook is king, and Slashdot isn't. The web has changed. It's not the place it used to be. Now it's about Facebook and Google. They make the rules. And now you have to play by those rules or die.
For me, more and more every day, the internet is over. It's become corrupted by corporate greed. Time to find something new to play with.
From Wikipedia: "and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 ft"
All they've put up at the site is a couple of girders marked 1271 ft. -- That is NOT "tallest in NYC" if those girders aren't any more habitable than the radio antenna atop Empire State.
This 'news' is total "feel good" PR bullcrap.
And, the Empire State Building has stood for more than 70 years. Top that, newbies.
Your 747 will be accidentally shot down before landing at Heathrow. Yeah, that won't cause a problem. I suggest no one attend the Olympics. For security purposes, of course.
People, we need to take a lesson from this great American. Not only has he figured out how to stick to the MPAA, he figured out how to do it while looking like a fucking HERO. No jury in America would convict this dude.
Bravo!
It brings a tear to my eye. It's so beautiful in its utter simplicity. Why the hell didn't *I* think of this?
Soldiers of freedom: We must follow his example. I want the troops FLOODED with bootleg DVDs. They must never be without the latest movie or TV show.
Yes, yes.. please walk this way to the gas chamber. Oh, and because I have a plastic badge, I'm allowed to have sex with your wife and daughter. Just follow the rules.
You know, once upon a time, it was "the rules" that I could OWN another human being because of the color of their skin.
In some countries, it's "the rules" that women can't go outside without a male escort, are arrested for trying to drive a car, and may be stoned to death for wanting an education.
So please, continue to follow "the rules" which may change at any moment, requiring you to give up more and more of what you once called freedoms, and may eventually require you to give up basic human rights.
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because they aren't rich too.
That's basically how the whining sounds. Waaaah, the stock didn't skyrocket like Googles! Waaaaah!. All those rich greedy bastards aren't even richer greedy bastards. So they sue.
So I say what's good for the goose... and turn it around. The 99% should SUE the 1% for 156 Trillion dollars, or approximately the value of all derivatives and credit default swaps.
Seriously, let's take 'em to court because we've not gotten our American Dream.
Really? Doesn't a VP at SAP make enough money to afford his lifestyle? Is he so greedy that he's gotta do this kind of crap? And where does he find the TIME to post 2000 items to eBay?
Clearly, things at SAP must be doing badly because #1) he's not making enough and #2) He's got plenty of time to sit at work posting shit to eBay.
I don't have time to clean out the junk in my house and post crap to eBay. I barely have time to write this post.
That's if you believe the media, who can only count people from the "Forbes" listings. The problem with understanding a person's total valuation is that there's a number of people who's value can't be counted, either because they refuse to reveal how much money they have, or that the valuation simply can't be tabulated for some other reason (i.e. too many swiss bank accounts).
For example, there's a bunch of Saudi princes, and the money magazines have NO IDEA what these guys are worth, but it's clearly multiple billions and money is no object to these characters, who buy jet aircraft and diamond-studded cell-phones on a monthly basis.
So, point is: Zuckerberg may be 29th of the known list of billionaires, but he's still not the 29th richest in the world, although clearly, he's now part of the 1% of the 1%.
But, on the bright side, he still dresses like he's in college.
And his filament didn't even work all that well. It was the work of another inventor, a practically unknown black man named Louis Latimer, I believe, who finally invented a better filament for the light bulb.
And Edison takes all the credit. As usual.
I cannot wait until these chips start doing high frequency trading in the financial markets....
Is this the launch that carried one of the cast of Big Bang Theory into orbit??? I could swear I watched this last week.
Because they are as dumb as a bag of hammers.
Seriously. Can you even think of ONE decent car ad from GM in the last decade?
I sure can't, and the really, really, gut wrenching part of it all is that CHRYSLER has hit the ball out of the park with TWO stunning Superbowl ads over the last two years. And neither one were about their cars, but about their brand.
GM is unfocused because their "brand" is actually a number of brands, probably each one with their own ad agency, and each one with a different VP in charge of hiring ad agencies, so you can enevr get it under "one roof" so to speak.
GM is top-heavy with useless middle management, and each "brand" being -internally- in competition with each other. It's a problem, but the problem can be solved EASILY if the CEO had some balls and vision to make some sweeping changes to the way that GM does business.
But he won't because the CEO of GM is an empty suit collecting a massive payday, and he knows that even if he does nothing and GM fails miserably, the government will step in the bail out his incompetence, and he still gets a massive payday.
In short, GM is run by incompetent suits who are there to collect large checks and do as little as possible.
Corporate waste is immeasurable. $40 million blown on facebook ads? bah, that's nothing. They blow money like that all the time on things that don't work out. And then you wonder why you're paying $30,000 for a car built almost entirely of cheap plastic?
That's because in the USA they were still using the higher sulfur diesel. It had nothing to do with the engines, and everything to do with the TYPE of diesel fuel being sold in the usa. Wanker.
If Forbes is using STOCK PRICE as a barometer of how good the CEO is, well, then every company on the S&P500 is the worst CEO of all time.
For the last decade, the S&P500 has remained essentially flat, while CEO compensation has gone up 500% -- Companies may be getting more profitable, but that value is going right into someone's pocket, it's not going to share value, it's not going to re-investment, and it's not going to jobs.
Forbes is drinking the kool-aid, and is missing the big picture. In fact, this article is probably fluff to distract us from the *REAL* story, that the market itself is failing.
Take Friday's big relevation that a certain big bank lost $2 billion is a bad trade. Do any of you actually believe that hogwash? We're talking about a company big enough to manipulate the market in their favor, every time. We're talking a bank, an organization that can't lose money because of the way the entire game is rigged -- only an idiot could lose money at a bank.
No, that money's not lost, it's in someone's pocket.We're just being told it's lost so no one goes looking for it because we're the ones who were robbed.
Steal $100 and go to jail. Steal a billion and cover it up properly, and you retire in Bolivia.
meant being Irish?
I don't remember this much hoopla being lavished on ... say... the Guildford Four.
Because to repair an item, you would have to first reverse engineer the item to understand how it works. This is specifically prohibited by the DMCA, and you could face a civil lawsuit, criminal penalties and jail time/fines.
In the USA it is ILLEGAL to understand how a product works. You're not allowed to fix stuff, only to consume, and obey.
Remember what country you live in folks, we're just trying to protect you. Now, please strip naked so you can board the subway.
People are being denied entry into the USA for silly reasons. People are being denied entry into the UK for islly reasons. Once you get on Homeland Security's "no fly" list it's almost impossible to get off.
I'm beginning to see what what's going on here. Pretty soon we'll be prisoners in our own homes, unable to even walk the streets. Travel of any type will be so restricted "for our own safety", that there will be a 6-month waiting list to go to the supermarket.
Holy crap, we are well on our way to Skynet and Cylons. Too bad we all can't escape to the 13th colony because we're already on it.
Hey, I can spy on my neighbors to make sure they aren't terrorists either. But at some point, it's concluded that I'm a peeping tom, and I go to jail.
Who is watching our watchers to make sure this isn't some very expensive kiddie porn ring, paid for with our tax dollars?
How long before nude sunbathers show up on 4chan, posted videos from drones?
Computer Science. Interesting game. The only winning move is not to play.
If ever there was a model for how the 1% differ from the 99%, this is it. This jackass can LIE on his resume to become CEO of a major corporation, and you bet he's getting paid more per month than I make in a year. Furthermore, even when he's "let go", he'll walk away with the GDP of small nations. Enough to live comfortably for the rest of his days. FOR LYING.
The rest of us would be tossed out on the street, with a warning that we're lucky we're not in jail.
Seriously, what a fucked up world we are living in.
People with brains, and a sharp sense of reality.
If, in the 70's they pulled Esquire Magazine for carrying the article "Secrets of the Little Blue Box", an article that described phone phreaking.
This inspired Steve Jobs to convince friend Woz to design and build Blue boxes, which eventually lead to the founding of Apple... now the biggest company in the world...
Apple started from hacker/phreaker roots, and inspired by an article published in a magazine. Just imagine the damage they've done to the future by pulling this Magazine.
I suggest Linux Format Magazine picks up the pace. They should feature a "hacking" article EVERY ISSUE.
In fact, I'm thinking about going into publishing a HACKING magazine right now. With Blackjack and Hookers....
2600 magazine rules that niche, but maybe with something like "HACKING" right on the cover, they'd give me lots of free publicity by pulling it.
BTW: How is it that they carry MAKE magazine? Technically, that's hacking as well...
Step1) Announce loudly and on the internet that you're going to blow up a (bridge. building, airplane, whatever)
Step2) Wait for "terrorist group" (which is actually the FBI) to contact you.
Step3) Tell them you need a bomb/truck/airplane/money, whatever...
Step4) Wait for them to deliver items.
Step5) Sell bomb/truck/airplane on eBay and/or keep the money.
Step6) Profit! Then of course, call "60 Minutes" and report the FBI as a terrorist organization that YOU foiled.
Actually, porn would be news that matters to nerds.
Chances are, this was discussed in the boardroom, and Rob Malda suddenly came to realize what 'selling out' really meant.
Slashdot is owned by a conglomerate that just wants to make money -- and for a while, Rob had some creative freedom, but that time has long past.
I notice that all these changes (slashdot TV, for example) came *after* Taco left, but something tells me these plans were on the whiteboard well before the retirement happened.
Slashdot is just a name now. In the early days of the web (1995 to 2002), slashdot was a big deal, but the unfortunate reality is, they are losing money compared to say Chezbuger.org or whoever owns lolcats.
The sad reality is that pictures of fat people in walmart generates more ad revenue than a "news for nerds" website.
And this is why Taco left. Facebook is king, and Slashdot isn't. The web has changed. It's not the place it used to be. Now it's about Facebook and Google. They make the rules. And now you have to play by those rules or die.
For me, more and more every day, the internet is over. It's become corrupted by corporate greed. Time to find something new to play with.
From Wikipedia:
"and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 ft"
All they've put up at the site is a couple of girders marked 1271 ft. -- That is NOT "tallest in NYC" if those girders aren't any more habitable than the radio antenna atop Empire State.
This 'news' is total "feel good" PR bullcrap.
And, the Empire State Building has stood for more than 70 years. Top that, newbies.
Your 747 will be accidentally shot down before landing at Heathrow. Yeah, that won't cause a problem. I suggest no one attend the Olympics. For security purposes, of course.
...I have ever heard in my life.
People, we need to take a lesson from this great American. Not only has he figured out how to stick to the MPAA, he figured out how to do it while looking like a fucking HERO. No jury in America would convict this dude.
Bravo!
It brings a tear to my eye. It's so beautiful in its utter simplicity. Why the hell didn't *I* think of this?
Soldiers of freedom: We must follow his example. I want the troops FLOODED with bootleg DVDs. They must never be without the latest movie or TV show.
Yes, yes.. please walk this way to the gas chamber. Oh, and because I have a plastic badge, I'm allowed to have sex with your wife and daughter. Just follow the rules.
You know, once upon a time, it was "the rules" that I could OWN another human being because of the color of their skin.
In some countries, it's "the rules" that women can't go outside without a male escort, are arrested for trying to drive a car, and may be stoned to death for wanting an education.
So please, continue to follow "the rules" which may change at any moment, requiring you to give up more and more of what you once called freedoms, and may eventually require you to give up basic human rights.