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BitPass: Micropayment That Seems To Work
Omega1045 writes "I have been following the story of BitPass for some time now. The micropayment solution provider has been featured on Slashdot before. That article focused on Scott McCloud, and his comic The Right Number. Since that story, BitPass has added a number of sites using their service. From this netizen, it looks like the idea is really taking off. Some news sources (NJ.com, SiliconValley.com) have noticed how this micropayment trend has progressed to include well known services like iTunes. I really like the idea of the artist getting a fair cut of the profits at BitPass."
Wow, my first post to the /. front page!
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
I have a Intel Athlon 450Mhz III. Can I purchase an ISA card with a G5 processor on it along with MacOS XP on a floppy disk?
Thanx.
Here's Tyreth. Tyreth is a Christian Fundamentalist troll dumping shit on many threads ; take a look at his recent posts and see for yourself. His specialty is talkshitting about the evolution theory and spitting half-baked syllogisms he sees as solid ground for this plague known as creationism.
If you care about quality discussion on Slashdot, please put Tyreth on your Foes list and regularly mod him down to death. Thanks a lot.
I have pimples that have been labelled more insightful than the post 'Fuck Bitpass.'
George Bush is a liar: impeach him
November 6, 2003
The President has no idea where his aggressive policies are leading America, warns Robert Scheer.
On Sunday, 18 more young Americans died in Iraq serving the vanity of an American President who woefully betrayed them and who has no idea where his policies are taking his country.
This is a President who, as is now amply clear, has systematically lied to the troops and the American people about the reasons for going to war, distorting evidence to claim that the United States was threatened by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and linking Iraq to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Having led America and its allies by the nose into a clumsy, ill-advised Middle East power grab, President Bush is faced with a terrible quandary: what do we do now?
The first thing is to resist the logic of the self-fulfilling prophecy: Bush claimed Iraq was a centre of international terrorism - it wasn't - and now says that because terrorists are coming over Iraqi borders to take pot shots at Americans, the US needs to stay and fight them.
"We won't run," Bush said, cavalierly dismissing the lives of the young soldiers mired in his folly. This amounts to using America's young men and women as bait and assumes there are a finite number of fanatics who can be dispensed with once and for all.
In fact, the US occupation of the historic centre of the Arab world has provided al-Qaeda and other like-minded groups with their most effective recruiting poster yet, and America is fighting them on their terms and on their turf.
Meanwhile, attacks also are coming from various Iraqi quarters: those who enjoyed favours under Saddam and those who may have been glad to see the US overthrow the tyrant but have since become alienated by an occupation that inevitably inspires nationalist as well as religious opposition.
Why can't America learn from its history in Vietnam and the experiences of the French in Algeria and the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza that no occupation by an army of "the other" is ever welcome?
Only last week, Israel's army chief of staff issued a warning on the limits of an occupying power to achieve its goals through military force. "It increases hatred for Israel and strengthens the terror organisations," said Lieutenant-General Moshe Yaalon, adding: "In our tactical interests, we are operating contrary to our strategic interests."
Some pundits and politicians, even those who may have been sceptical about the war to begin with, now argue that the US must "finish the job", even if it means increasing its commitment of troops or ruling Iraq indefinitely. This is, however, exactly the kind of stubborn and mushy thinking that led the US into the hell of Vietnam and the deaths of 58,000 Americans and 2 million Vietnamese and Cambodians.
The occupation of Iraq is not working and will not work. For Iraqis, American culture is offensive and American tactics are heavy-handed. As none other than the American-sponsored Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi put it after the latest guerilla attacks: "The Americans, their methods, their operations and their procedures are singularly unsuited to deal with this kind of problem."
And US intentions in Iraq are far from clear. Though there may be an echo of "white man's burden" that seeks to export "civilisation", even that highly questionable goal is clouded and undermined by the fact that Washington inevitably will put a higher priority on having a new Iraq serve America's superpower needs - oil, commerce, military power - rather than meet the needs of regular Iraqis.
Unless America is willing to trade the lives of US troops and Iraqis for the obsessions of empire, America must end the occupation now.
The US can give Chalabi and his crowd the money they need to operate in the short-term and similarly aid the more established Shiite groups. It can beg the UN Security Council to take over this mess, with financial support fro
hope I don't fail it. also, bitpass == teh ghey.
Does anyone know where i can get a 486 processor that runs Mac OS Panther for the Apple II? Also, how can I fit a Radeon 9900 onto my ISA slot on it.
This is the return of the greatest karma whore on Slashdot, SIR HAXALOT ! He's been banned for a while but now he's back for more excellent trolling. If you enjoy shit on Slashdot, give the man some credit !
the kode base has been expanded to include an excitement score (mynut won, or above), should anything that matters be published buy the felonious corepirate nazis' ?pr? ?firm? stock markup FraUD execrable puppets.
stay tuned. the lights are coming up now.
you know who to consult with/trust in?
since Pingular is another account for Sir Haxalot ! Maybe he thinks we don't know already...
Well now you do.
sheesh. gooed thing that the eyecon0meter kode is both self-correcting, & unbreakable, at the same time?
mynuts won: give us another storIE to rate please.
Pingular and Sir Haxalot are the same person, interestingly enough. You might want to see someone about this talking to yourself thing.
2096-- United Nations officials refuse to accept the robot civilization of Zero One as a sovereign nation. A trade blockade of robot goods leads to war.
2097 -- Zero One survives a nuclear attack -- its inhabitants are impervious to the heat and radiation and casualties are quickly replaced. Counterstrikes launch
ed against humans.
2098 -- As cities fall beneath the might of mechanized forces, desperate military leaders attempt to block the main source of energy for the robot city: the sun. The plan destroys the atmosphere and fills the sky with choking black smoke -- but does not stop the machines.
from the mass-adoption-is-the-key dept.
It seems the shameless-plug dept. would have been more appropriate!
Israel is a first-world country in a third-world region, and one that the United States wants to maintain relations with. The United States' stance is that, should the need arise, Israel should be able to withstand an attack from all of the other Arab countries simultaneously. This means a couple things: helping Israel and hurting (or at least, not helping) everyone else. This is the US' foriegn policy towards the Middle East that has been set for decades, and it's too late to change it. The democratization of the area will lead to a higher level of stability in the area, and hopefully, with Israel's help, we can pull the whole area out of its third-world hole.