He's too slow then. YouTwitFace Holdings has already set up FarmVille kiosks (24hrs of unlimited play for 50 Facebook credits!), OLED celebrity tweet billboards (brought to you by Sony), and cute 1-inch-wide plastic Like and follow buttons on every geological feature (all connected via WiFi).
Don't bogart the bosons, maaan!
They're smarter than they let on. Y'see, if you can't figure out that the group needs an IT professional, or how to contact them about it, you need not apply.
It's a job posting disguised as a job board. Genius!
(On a side note, can someone explain the flag icons on the comments? Are Slashdot staff trying to usurp the moderators' job? Do mods simply suck at it that much that they need outside help? Is it generic DMCA/"intellectual property" "protection" bureaucracy crap?)
Word. Their ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to their newsletter.
Of course this ruling was really only a question about forcing them to pay another tax, but the concept of applying broadcaster requirements to the Internet quickly becomes amusing. ("Your computer must now play the national anthem at least once every 24 hours...")
It gets worse--the content guys would sue if the anthem sounded too much like one of their versions (something about losing revenue from commemorative CDs and such crap), so it has to be played in MIDI.
'If the rocket blows up, we're all dead,' Sergey overheard a Russian guard say.
A fellow guard responded, "Yeah, if it doesn't fall down on us, Putin will. Reality that doesn't agree with his propaganda of sending rockets to Proxima Centauri and winning 99% of the vote for it? Gulagistan for the both of us!" The guard recounted his story on condition of anonymity to avoid the ex-KGBer's customary punishment of death by judo.
If you do that again, I swear I'll try to remove you from the public offering but use the wrong page and just hide you from it instead!
--Mark Zuckerberg, a.k.a BiZ MARKie
Plus, they were probably using Windows Notepad, which almost never seems to be deterred by that sort of thing when it opens a file. It's like it has...connections...
Damn. Well. Looks like law enforcement got mrclisdue before he could even sign the comment!
I fear they recognize more than license plates now...
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