Undoubtedly the people who subscribe to this service are like the MCSE weenies where I work. They have this belief that if something costs a lot of money, it must be good. Mmmm... yeah. Can you say peoplesoft?
I will be mirroring bugtraq soon and selling subscriptions for $10k/yr, no matter how big the organization is. Pass this on to any of those MCSE types you know. Thanks.
but our studies show that 63% of our customers are interested in our newsletters, based on their responses on the order form:
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My company, Ybos, is pretty new. We need some serious publicity or we'll fold, but right now we only have a $10,000 advertising budget. Please *ahem* buy yourself something nice with this *cough* donation to slashdot. Thanks.
Bill: mp3s are lame. We're gonna hop in bed with the RIAA and make sure we get rid of this substandard encoding technology. But let's push our proprietary wav format. OK gang?
hacker: The XP port of lame will be out shortly. Lame indeed.
I've had nothing but trouble with those bastards at earthweb. I first ordered TPJ last year, along with all the back issues. I had to contact them twice to complain about not having received anything (but of course they took my money the same day I ordered from 'em). How long has it been since they published one? Fall 2000? Quarterly Journal. Bah!
"At each stage - kidney, heart, liver and so forth - ethical
considerations have been considered, especially with the heart,
which was a major, major problem for many people and scientists.
"And the brain, because of its uniqueness poses a major, major
ethical issue as far as the public and even the profession is
concerned."
Fortunately it was major, major fun, so we did it anyway. My whole research staff was major, major impressed. Lots of other people were ultra, ultra pissed off but they were totally major, major animal rights people. So we totally, totally didn't give a rat's ass.
Here's an excerpt from the modernized version of Edgar Allen Poe's classic, The Cask of Amontillado:
I had scarcely laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low pitched buzzing from the depth of the recess. It was not the beep of a healthy server.
There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier,
and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations
of a thrashing disk. The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that
I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my
labours and sat down upon the bones. When at last the clicking and whirring
subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption
the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier. The wall was now nearly
upon a level with my breast. I again paused, and holding the flambeaux
over the mason-work, threw a few feeble rays upon the box within.
A succession of loud and shrill beeps, bursting suddenly from
the throat of the box, seemed to thrust me violently back.
For a brief moment I hesitated, I trembled. Unsheathing my rapier, I
began to grope with it about the recess; but the thought of an instant
reassured me. I placed my hand upon the solid fabric of the catacombs,
and felt satisfied. I reapproached the wall; I replied to the beeps of
it which clamoured. I re-echoed, I aided, I surpassed them in volume
and in strength. I did this, and the clamourer grew still.
(Associated Press) Boston, MA -- James Kilts, CEO of The Gillette Company, announced today at a press conference the aggressive rollout of a new line of razors to succeed the popular Mach 3 series.
"We at Gillette want our products to be cutting edge," Kilts said, "Absolutely at the bleeding edge of technology."
The product name has yet to be announced, but Kilts claims, "They will have 5 or more blades."
Why should we even worry about archiving data for the future? Since when has humanity ever consciously decided to preserve every little bit of information? The important scraps stay, the irrelevant ones are forgotten, some stuff will stick around and make historians feel warm and fuzzy inside, some will rot. This is how it should be.
It doesn't matter what medium we store our precious little scraps of nostalgia on. If you have something you want to save you just move it to a new medium when you feel the need to do so. The storage medium is irrelevant. We don't need some new storage device that will last for 20000 years, we need people to keep what they like and forget the rest. As it stands we're pretty damn good at that.
As many of you know, his persistent pattern of bizarre and disruptive trespasses onto our site after repeated bannings became more than
reasonable people would tolerate. We assembled an outstanding research team that gathered overwhelmimg evidence of his wrongful behavior
Now if only we could find an "outstanding research team" to figure out who that bloody goatse.cx posting bastard is.
I just received word from them. It turns out that they're conserving power and have the box turned off. The machine will be up again when the script runs at 02:00 eastern time, and all links will be fixed (until 13:00 eastern tomorrow).
but under MN law (as well as CA, DC, WI, NM, SD, ND and ME) indirect sellers (like MS) can be sued.
Ok. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but we shouldn't band together to attack Mississippi.
It's a fine state with a colorful history. Perhaps their support would be beneficial to the cause too.
Slashdot Mirror
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Is it just me, or does that make it sound like it's hard to hear? I suppose they could make nifty greeting cards that play music. Imagine!
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Most people don't realize this, but it's NOT a dancing monkey on their logo. It's a closeup of a nose with a spider crammed inside the left nostril.
And you guessed it! The spider's name is "Ximian".
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villager: "We need more poooorn."
whisper: "Pooooooooooooorrrrrrnnn"
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On the other hand, that makes things easy when you're working in a cold room wearing mittens.
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georgewashingtonhs.edu
georgewashingtonhs-springfield.edu
georgewashingtonhs-springfield-oh.edu
georgewashingtonhs-springfield-il.edu
etc. etc.
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What is the world coming to?
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hacker: The XP port of lame will be out shortly. Lame indeed.
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"Hi! It looks like you're writing a resume. Need some help?"
dog food, milk, gum,
"Hi! It looks like you're writing a letter. Can I be of assistance."
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No, no. It's more like this:
Internet Fulfillment, LLC $20.00
or
EPay Solutions, Inc. $20.00
or
Priviweb Corp. $20.00
In any case, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what it is. Now if only Amazon would start selling one-click subscriptions to pr0n sites.
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"And the brain, because of its uniqueness poses a major, major ethical issue as far as the public and even the profession is concerned."
Fortunately it was major, major fun, so we did it anyway. My whole research staff was major, major impressed. Lots of other people were ultra, ultra pissed off but they were totally major, major animal rights people. So we totally, totally didn't give a rat's ass.
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I had scarcely laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low pitched buzzing from the depth of the recess. It was not the beep of a healthy server. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations of a thrashing disk. The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones. When at last the clicking and whirring subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier. The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast. I again paused, and holding the flambeaux over the mason-work, threw a few feeble rays upon the box within.
A succession of loud and shrill beeps, bursting suddenly from the throat of the box, seemed to thrust me violently back. For a brief moment I hesitated, I trembled. Unsheathing my rapier, I began to grope with it about the recess; but the thought of an instant reassured me. I placed my hand upon the solid fabric of the catacombs, and felt satisfied. I reapproached the wall; I replied to the beeps of it which clamoured. I re-echoed, I aided, I surpassed them in volume and in strength. I did this, and the clamourer grew still.
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"We at Gillette want our products to be cutting edge," Kilts said, "Absolutely at the bleeding edge of technology."
The product name has yet to be announced, but Kilts claims, "They will have 5 or more blades."
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Why should we even worry about archiving data for the future? Since when has humanity ever consciously decided to preserve every little bit of information? The important scraps stay, the irrelevant ones are forgotten, some stuff will stick around and make historians feel warm and fuzzy inside, some will rot. This is how it should be.
It doesn't matter what medium we store our precious little scraps of nostalgia on. If you have something you want to save you just move it to a new medium when you feel the need to do so. The storage medium is irrelevant. We don't need some new storage device that will last for 20000 years, we need people to keep what they like and forget the rest. As it stands we're pretty damn good at that.
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Now if only we could find an "outstanding research team" to figure out who that bloody goatse.cx posting bastard is.
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Ok. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but we shouldn't band together to attack Mississippi. It's a fine state with a colorful history. Perhaps their support would be beneficial to the cause too.
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