do you know why in the bukkake videos I've seen on the net the cocks are always blurred out? I find that a little odd. Not that it's a big deal or anything
I can't believe that a comic with so many nerdy, linux-related jokes was actually in a real newspaper (the national post, in canada) for a while. I'm sure 99% of the population didn't have a clue what any of the stuff they were talking about was. It didn't last long, of course. One more thing... didn't userfriendly have a GOAT in it? I wonder where they got the idea for that from.
I just found this [slashdot.org] [slashdot.org] at the Slashdot Privacy Watch [slashdot.org] [slashdot.org] page. This article (and the others posted by Slashdot Privacy Watch) present some seriously scary possibilities. I'm posting this in order to have your comments, CmdrTaco.
What is the Slashdot Customer Profile?
Slashdot is owned by VA Linux, and VA Linux is a for-profit Corporation. This means that, like other corporations, Slashdot must maintain a customer profile for every user (yes, even you Anonymous Cowards!). These customer profiles are kept in Slashdot's master MySQL database, which is archived on a frequent basis to preserve VA Linux's valuable Intellectual Property rights to its' customer information. The Customer Profile contains many fields, such as the email address you used to register your Slashdot account. In addition, it contains these fields [slashdot.org] [slashdot.org] which are accessed in users.pl [slashcode.com] [slashcode.com], line 1898.
They're Tracking WHAT?
You may have noticed that the Customer Profile contains a field called $iplist. You're not dreaming, this is a list of every IP address anyone has used to access Slasdot - ever. Slashdot has a perfectly legitimate reason [slashdot.org] [slashdot.org] for maintaining these detailed records on every customer. However, while every Slashdot user understands that the privacy of each Slashdot user is paramount to the current management of Slashdot, we must also understand that Slashdot is property, and that it has been bought - and sold - before. Therefore we must not consider the implication of the existence of Slashdot Customer Profiling under the existing management, but rather the implications under any future management.
Who Would Want my IP?
Let's assume, for the sake of argument only, that VA Linux decides to sell Slashdot to DoubleClick [doubleclick.com] [doubleclick.com] in order to boost its' short-term cash supply. Doubeclick would be looking at Slashdot mainly as an Intellectual Property asset, and its' customer database as the primary portion of that asset (because Slaschode is GPL'd). How, then, can VA Linux maximize the resale value of Slashdot's Intellectual Property assets? By tracking every possible piece of information. The list of IP addresses used by every Slashdot user, reverse-correlated by email, would provide a very lucrative marketing tool to a would-be buyer of Slashdot. Doubleclick could use this Intellectual Property to:
Correlate web hits to member sites by IP address, sending an email to every Slashdot user who visits a target site.
Correlate web hits by IP address and present customized content to each Slashdot user who visits a target site, for instance: "Welcome to Superdomains.com, Slashdot user Jamie!"
It is easy to see why recording the IP profiles of every Slashdot customer maximizes the value of the Slashdot Customer Database. The question is, should you be given the option to opt-out?
Last time I posted this, I was immediately censored. Please distribute this and other Slashdot Privacy Watch publications extensively until CmdrTaco responds satisfactorily.
how much you want to bet the person who did this is a linux and open-source zealot? They will do anything to bring microsoft down, just as bad as terrorists!
Then how come everyone tries to rip off MS's gui work? Evere heard of KDE? total ms rip-off... Open-source developers try and copy ms's formula, and never quite make it.
"First Anal Felchings" comments are one of those odd little memetic hiccups that come out of nowhere and run amok. Basically, people with altogether far too much spare time sit and reload Slashdot, hoping that they will get the "First Anal Felching" in a discussion. This is one of those things that the moderation system was designed to fuck hard, and for the most part, it works. "First Anal Felching" comments usually get moderated up as +5 funny almost instantly. Also, I would like to say that I am the first male to have 4 cocks shoved up his ass simultaneously.
Oh yeah right, I'm sure they spent the whole BILLION on linux... Might aswell throw the money out of an airplane flying over a large city. LNUX (linux) stock tells the story right there.
Slashdot Mirror
do you know why in the bukkake videos I've seen on the net the cocks are always blurred out? I find that a little odd. Not that it's a big deal or anything
you don't need to mirror cisco.com
it's like having to mirror microsoft.com or yahoo.com.. might as well mirror google.com while you're at it.
this is funny.. too bad the mods are all 'funny' on 3$ crack
I can't believe they actually took down everyone's favorite site. Oh well, it had to happen eventually.
most home user hear words like 'Emacs' and run away screaming
I'm just lucky, faggot
That jon katz is no longer the one reviewing movies! thank god
probably, just look at what happened to quake1 after it was open-sourced. Cheatmania... Games are better closed source.
I can't believe that a comic with so many nerdy, linux-related jokes was actually in a real newspaper (the national post, in canada) for a while. I'm sure 99% of the population didn't have a clue what any of the stuff they were talking about was. It didn't last long, of course. One more thing... didn't userfriendly have a GOAT in it? I wonder where they got the idea for that from.
I blame this first post on my oversized canadian cock! oi vey
Last time I posted this, I was immediately censored. Please distribute this and other Slashdot Privacy Watch publications extensively until CmdrTaco responds satisfactorily.
My dinghie is bigger than your dinghie
how much you want to bet the person who did this is a linux and open-source zealot? They will do anything to bring microsoft down, just as bad as terrorists!
if you give me your address I'll mail you a rope to hang yourself
Then how come everyone tries to rip off MS's gui work? Evere heard of KDE? total ms rip-off... Open-source developers try and copy ms's formula, and never quite make it.
This is a pretty bad FP, faggot
"First Anal Felchings" comments are one of those odd little memetic hiccups that come out of nowhere and run amok. Basically, people with altogether far too much spare time sit and reload Slashdot, hoping that they will get the "First Anal Felching" in a discussion. This is one of those things that the moderation system was designed to fuck hard, and for the most part, it works. "First Anal Felching" comments usually get moderated up as +5 funny almost instantly. Also, I would like to say that I am the first male to have 4 cocks shoved up his ass simultaneously.
-CmdrTaco
fucking yourself is what most of the people here do, except for CmdrTaco, he has his staff for that
love the sig
I blame this first post on my oversized canadian cock
I blame this first post on my excessively large canadian penis
jews are great, I just hate eskimo's
Oh yeah right, I'm sure they spent the whole BILLION on linux... Might aswell throw the money out of an airplane flying over a large city. LNUX (linux) stock tells the story right there.
what are you? some sophisticated faggot?
I thought it was a great site, maybe you should pull your head out of your ass