I hear it’s wild tia-poon season over there about this time of the year.

Posted at 9:04 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Mic

I feel sorry for the guys having scantaly clad young ladies grinding against them! How unfourtunate indeed! (sarcastic alert for the trolls)

I think yahoo should have been called yeehaa then i would use it.

ohh and i have nothing useful to say!

Posted at 9:05 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by grovenstien

Why was yahoo forced to make an apology? Stripers are legal and it was in Taiwan not puritan land US

Posted at 9:12 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Hackius

yahoo rule

Posted at 9:19 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by babble

What?
No “see video after the break”?

Posted at 9:26 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by lol

Jesus christ, not just any strippers, but CLASSY tai strippers! Probably not appropriate @ a family company level, but I guess you guys know what to get me for Christmas :D

Posted at 9:26 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Skitchin

Best hack ever.

Posted at 9:32 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Mr. Sandman

“Wow, we’re suddenly feeling the urge to use yahoo for all of our services.”

or should that be…

Wow, we’re suddenly feeling the urge to use yahoo to get serviced.

Posted at 9:38 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by sly

I didn’t know Yahoo owned Craigslist..? ;)

Posted at 9:44 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Boudico

@sly,
nice.

Posted at 9:47 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Caleb Kraft

OH THE POOR GUYS! HOW WILL THEY EVER LIVE

Posted at 9:51 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by supaduck

After reading a bunch of geek-feminism blogs I understand this is a pretty sexist.

Why the heck are there strippers at this event anyway? It’d be like going to a UN summit and whoops let’s break out the S&M gimps; sure some of ya’ll are into this.

Posted at 10:07 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by shazzner

@shazzner,
I completely agree. They should have also hired male strippers.

Posted at 10:09 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Caleb Kraft

Being Tai strippers they were probably shemales anyway. not sexest just equal opportunity

Posted at 10:31 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Steveo

Where is this Yahoo that you speak of? The closest thing to his in the Federation is the Ferengi parlors and holosuites.

Perhaps this Yahoo is being run by undercover Ferengi posing as humans in the early twenty-first century.

I’ll be sure to “investigate” this matter and report to Starfleet.

Posted at 10:31 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by captain

As a faithful female reader, I’m not exactly sure why this belongs on hack-a-day.

Posted at 10:34 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by sparx

as a faithful male reader, i’m exactly sure why this belongs on hack-a-day.

Posted at 10:38 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by charliex

@sparx,
It would have been posted even if it were male strippers.

Posted at 10:42 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Caleb Kraft

as a faithful guy reader, i’m going to the next hack day in taiwan. Remember, what happens in taiwan stays in taiwan, except herpes.

Posted at 10:43 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by fooquestionmark

@shazzner Have you ever been to a big lan party in asia or Europe? Strippers are common at big organised events like that

Posted at 10:46 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by Hackius

Is there an echo in here?

Posted at 10:51 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by VIPER!

I’m sure all the guys at this event were totally horrified at this action by the guys at Yahoo, I mean how incosiderate..

On a serious note, Why does this matter!? “Oh were sorry we got some lapdancers in to spice an event up”

What will it be next?

Posted at 11:21 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by VV

@Hackius no, but that doesn’t make it any less inappropriate or ostracizing

Posted at 11:36 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by shazzner

bout time to see a real hack hahahaha

Posted at 11:36 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by totally a hack

I wonder kind of music the strippers dance to. Maybe it’s the Yahoo jingle from the tv commercial:

Yah–hoooo—ooooo!!

Posted at 11:40 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by pookie

@ Skitchin and Steveo

You make me sad. People from Taiwan are called Taiwanese, not Thai. Thai people are from Thailand. And it’s spelled Thai, not tai.

Seriously , people.

Posted at 11:40 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by branno

@branno people who cannot differentiate between being a rugged edgy non-conformist with lazy manchild sexism would really know obscure details like the difference between Thailand and Taiwan, eh?

Posted at 11:49 am on Oct 21st, 2009 by shazzner

What the hell!?

Posted at 12:14 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by mars

I guess this will teach hackers not to bring their wives / girlfriends to these events and spoil it for everyone…

ESPECIALLY the female hackers who would have been laughing hard at some socially retarded nerd getting a lapdance trying not to soil his trousers..

Posted at 12:56 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by TJ

so like next year they will bring some chippendales?

Posted at 1:12 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by tinker monkey

Reminds me of

Posted at 1:30 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by svofski

@ branno: You must be a pretty sad person if you get all butt hurt over two guys on the internet abbreviating words. I said Tai asshole, not Thai. Correct me in person, see if I don’t knock you off that fucking high horse.

Posted at 1:53 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by Skitchin

@sparx Is that really alright? It seems like you’re implying your gender means what you say on the issue is more meaningful; Are we discounting the opinion of all males on the issue then?

I don’t mean to sound so harsh, but testimony is a poor form of evidence.

Posted at 2:25 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by CH

I’m sure there are men in other countries that are offended by the uncovered faces of women. Perhaps Yahoo should bow to the will of those groups also and enforce burqas as a dress code for all women who attend.

Posted at 2:30 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by Kyoorius

what, no arduino’s?

Posted at 3:43 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by lov2xlr8

@CH – point taken and you’re right, as I can see both male *and* female readers are scratching their head over this. Rather it just should have said: why is this a hack? Oh well.

Posted at 4:18 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by sparx

IF the strippers had been wearing some programmable LEDs then yeah, I’d consider this much more hack-a-day worthy ;)

Posted at 4:24 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by sparx

Wow. Through thick and thin I’ve read this site for years now. And this (Mike) is the straw that broke the camel’s back. Goodbye.

Posted at 4:48 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by DubMuffin

The rest of you are just arrogant beyond your mean’s.

I think having female entertainer’s is a cool idea. Not just because I’m male either. It’s because there’s no reason to deny the humanistic side of society that is so often shoved into the dark region’s of society status quo. Men are attracted to sexy women. Everyone knows this. It’s not like the women attending the event were forced to dance for the men, or even to partake in the stripper’s.

Sound’s like the same people that condemned Bush for his behavior towards morality are taking up the same justification to enforce their own upon other’s….

Posted at 4:56 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by David

Dummm tiss dummm tiss

Dont cha wish your company event was hot like this
Dont cha wish your company event was a freak like this
Dont cha, dont cha

Sorry couldn’t resists :P
I’ll be visiting Yahoo’s booth at the next RSA conference, maybe they give away a dance for free. And I thought Google was cool ;o)

Posted at 5:08 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by Concino

I take it I’m the only one that read that as “Yahoo hi-res strippers for hackers” and then thought wtf.

Posted at 5:18 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by Edd

No, you see, having strippers is actually for the good of women. Help make them a little less uptight, am I right fellas? Whoa, girls, don’t get all hysterical on me. Damn must be that time of the month, eh?

Posted at 7:59 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by shazzner

Ya… ho?!?

Posted at 8:39 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by ewertz

So everybody cares about exotic dancers but nobody cared about Yahoo turning over bloggers to the Chinese government to kidnap and torture?

WTF is wrong with people?

Posted at 10:56 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by A. Noni Mouse

…yeehaa, haha!

Posted at 11:50 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by markii

So everybody cares about exotic dancers but nobody cared about Yahoo turning over bloggers to the Chinese government to kidnap and torture?

Just the same old story noni mouse. Do what you will, and they don’t care unless it has something to do with sex. The self described, morally ambiguous moral majorty are the scourge of the Earth.

Posted at 11:56 pm on Oct 21st, 2009 by Doug

Right on shazzner!

Posted at 12:03 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by Stick

holy….crap…..no “not a hack” posts… and I agree, no vid after break??? if yahoo is doing this….think of the crazy stuff google must do to 1 up them

Posted at 12:16 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by Frogz

they better have strippers next year……….

Posted at 1:42 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by tech123

Man! The most *I* ever got at a conference was a t-shirt. I’ve been going to the _wrong_ conferences!

Where do I sign up?

Posted at 5:21 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by foober

Am I the only one who thinks it’s incredibly ironic that BoingBoing is up in arms about it, when they run ads for porn websites, and their articles and homepage are frequently NSFW?

Posted at 5:27 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by anon

Those ARE the dissident bloggers on stage being publicly tortured and ridiculed by female interrogators. When reminds me.. I better get around to starting that blog..

Posted at 5:34 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by Kyoorius

Wow!

Has any of you though about the anguish of a gay hacker forced to laugh with the audience and pretend he is into girls?
Another example of the heterocentrist society we live in. It’s straight pride 364 days a year, and this in another sorry example. Yuck!

Oh, I forgot, gay guys are not real guys… of course, there can’t be a gay hacker.

Don’t assume I’m straight, I won’t assume you’re an a**hole…

Posted at 6:43 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by Philippe

Yeah. As is, this is not a hack.

But let’s take your thought one step further: If someone could program an arduino to flash LEDs on the ends of the dancers’…er…”tassles,” you could generate a digital display over each hooter, just like a pair of propeller clocks!

Now, code in a little bit of company advertisement or some corporate logos and bingo! It’s all legit!

With enough tiny LEDs, you might even get the resolution up enough that you could regenerate PowerPoint presentations. I guarantee your audience wouldn’t fall asleep, no matter how boring the speaker…as long as the audience was predominantly male.

Awesome!

@sparx said:
>IF the strippers had been wearing some >programmable LEDs then yeah, I’d consider this ?much more hack-a-day worthy ;)

Posted at 8:05 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by pookey

It’s no more demeaning than muscle building ads in computer magazines.

Posted at 8:21 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by tj

@Phillipe:

“Heterocentrist society?” You’re kidding, right?

I’ve got news for you… this is a “heterocentrist” PLANET. Most animals, at least those above single-celled pond-creatures reproduce *sexually.*

Sexual reproduction is how YOU came into being.

Here’s another bit of news for you. Most people, including myself, really DON’T CARE what your orientation is, and don’t want to hear about it. This is a free society, and we believe in tolerance.

On the other hand, tolerance for an orientation is not the same thing as tolerance for advocacy. So, while I don’t expect that a guy who is born with one leg shorter than the other should be beat up or discriminated against, I also don’t expect that this person would try to convince the world that having a short leg is an “alternate lifestyle.” Nor would I expect that guy to whine that society is so “even-legged-centric.”

I am disinclined to “assume” you are gay, primarily because I simply don’t care. Your militancy makes me more inclined to assume you are the a**hole.

Posted at 8:22 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by turbine

Who cares? It’s a pretty stupid marketing ploy, it’s not acceptable in most Asian cultures, and to be honest, I’ve always found Chinese women ugly.

So: good job. Ugly women dancing in association with a media company that tries to convince people it’s a technology company. Exactly what I come to hackaday for.

Posted at 10:36 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by Choscura

They are lap dancers NOT strippers. boingboing atleast posted it right.

Posted at 10:55 am on Oct 22nd, 2009 by Lethal

I really don’t think this is that bad. I remember heaps of conferences and trade shows with booth babes, heck last years Sydney VMware conference had a guy dressed as a fireman (and a girl), both were scantly clad and the fireman was damn hot bare chest an nice little tight black shorts.
I could see this disturbed the guys a little but please, they were mobbing the girl.
I think that was from f3 networks, if they do it this year I am going to cite yahoo’s precendence on that guy :)

Posted at 12:42 am on Oct 23rd, 2009 by Megan

“Lets give the nerd something can’t have in real live, a girl.”

What do they think today’s nerds/geeks look like? This http://tinyurl.com/yhrab6g ???!!!

Posted at 5:53 am on Oct 23rd, 2009 by Sharky

@sharky YES!!!

lol dont forget this is america were every one is labled some crap and anything you do can offend someone…

THIS IS NOT A HACK!

besides they were shemales anyways lmao

Posted at 2:23 pm on Oct 24th, 2009 by vash

so what prompted yahoo’s apology? did a bunch of grandmas show up at the event, get upset, and write a bunch of letters or something? why can’t people let each other have fun. big ups yahoo for throwing a good party.

Posted at 2:42 pm on Oct 26th, 2009 by walt