An Online ID Registry

Neil Gunton writes "Over the years I have had a few ideas for websites which would allow for free registration and trial, but I always ran up against a brick wall with regard to how to stop people from re-registering as someone else once the trial was up, or registering multiple times for abusive purposes. The question of how to verify online identity has been bugging me for a while now, so eventually I just sat down and wrote a prototype for an Online ID Registry. There's a white paper explaining what it's all about. I am curious to know what the slashdot crowd thinks of all this, whether I am on the right track, and what to do next. Should it be for-profit or non-profit? Is the whole thing pointless and stupid, or a cool idea? I don't really know where to take it next, because I don't really want to be sitting at home verifying people's documentation for free, and I am nervous about the security and legal aspects if I do it for money. I have no clue how to set up a non-profit organization, and my business knowledge is almost non-existent. I am sort of stuck with a working website but nowhere to go with it... that is, if it's even worth going anywhere. Perhaps it was just an interesting exercise... thoughts and ideas welcomed. (Note: The server may get a little slow, since while I have a caching reverse proxy front end, people will inevitably be trying out the registration, which involves key generation and other cpu intensive activities, so I don't really know how well the mod_perl backend will stand up...)"

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Re:CHeck out my drawings!!1

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CHeck out my drawings!!1... comments/suggestions are most welcomed

Thank you so much for posting this link to your amateurish drawings of Furry Hentai.

After a weekend of consisting of drinking beer, posting on Slashdot, and not going out on any dates, I was naturally questioning whether I was a pathetic loser who had wasted his life on stupidities.

But after seeing your drawings of women with cow and lizard (or something, your cows and your lizards look pretty much the same but for their colors) heads, expression-less faces, impossible ballooning breasts, and crudely drawn swollen genitals stuffed full of gigantic dildos and tentacles, my depression lifted and I felt once again a real satisfaction in my life.

I realized that no matter how much time and potential I've frittered away in my life, no matter what mistakes I've made, nothing I have done is so pointless, lacking in artistic merit, or symptomatic of an inability to relate to women as other than dumb animals with giant boobies and gaping genitals, as the "art" work you are so deluded as to be proud of.

Once again, the internet has served its real purpose: to show, by the great diversity of its most dismal and fetid and stunningly pointless depths, that most of the rest of us are by comparison, balanced, happy, contributing members of society.

Thank you once again for making me -- and I'm sure legions of others -- feel better by displaying just how useless your life is. You are truly a holy martyr to the cause of human joy! Christians claim Christ for our sins, but you have outdone Jesus: you live for your pointless Furry obsession, and in so doing enrich all lives around you merely by comparison!

I salute you sir, for the happiness you bring to the world by allowing the rest of us the relaxing pleasure of some thorough Schadenfreude!

Mod parent up to bring this joy to all who read Slashdot!