Give your customers a way to authorize credit card payments. Instead of using their normal 16 digit cc number for buying a single-month-membership at www.sexyteens.com (and not knowing shit about both the trustworthiness of the webmaster and of their security/antihacking measures), enable them to go to your website (https://www.mastercard.com/) and create a temporary one.
The users can then e.g. select that he wants this temporary number to carry $30. Some script (hopefully not visual basic...) can then encrypt the data and Base64 it, giving the user the number "KBVjSOEgraG3bp7WIkbMWKPRB" to pass on to the shady website owner.
This protects him from excessive fraud (having the website charge him $500 instead of $30) as well as from cc theft (the stolen number will be completely worthless as soon as it has been billed for its allowed charge) and identity theft (since a number like that would not be legally allowed as proof of identity)
But since we're going to have to wait for banks to implement this scheme, I don't believe we'll see a possibility like that before 2050:( --------------------------------------
"Warning! You seem to be about to send your credit card # to www.esomewhat.com. Since this website is running the Microsoft IIS Webserver (which is known to be very easy to hack) you should think twice before doing so!" --------------------------------------
Actually, I am rather seeing an increase in the abuse of metamoderating. I lost 3 karma the last week with only 10 Moderator points being used on fair moderations.
It seems that anything other than marking obviously karmawhoring jokes with a +1 Funny will lose you your hard-earned karma...
Well, I learned by lesson and put myself to "not willing to moderate". --------------------------------------
The DNS was designed from ground up as a client/server system, putting much too high obstacles in the way of someone who wants to run a machine with a somewhat decent host name...
And it is a lot older than AOL, Windows and other Internet user dumbification devices.
Where have you been the last year?
Today, you're lucky if you even get a single buck per 1,000 impressions. Some advertisers have even started to offer their ads for cents...
And if we're lucky, we still have a 50% chance in 2010 of getting a space shuttle into orbit without it being shredded by one of those microsatellites...
They still have the trademark for Aspirin in germany, and I think you'd be hear from their lawyers pretty soon if you should want to start selling your own Aspirin brand headache pills...
Everyone who still uses BASIC after having turned fourteen is simply stupid and worth ignoring.
Just look at the one FAQ available: "Hard facts that prove which is the BEST cripting language!"
I didn't even read the article (I'm on Solaris and I can't be arsed into disabling Javascript) but I can tell right now that this guy simply is a troll. Being mentioned on a site like/. is better than anything he deserves... ------------------------------------- -
The first question every customer (especially those in europe) asks when buying a DVD player is "Is is codefree?"
Everyone knows there's some stupid protection in some players that make it refuse to play US movie releases, and noone likes that.
The result: Even ppl who understand absolutely no english and won't ever in their life buy a region 1 DVD _insist_ on codefree players, just because they don't want to spend some 200$ on lobotomized hifi-equipment.
One thing is for sure: If IBM, Maxtor, WD and whoever else is going to implement this standard, customers will specifically ask for nonprotected harddisks, just like (insert Taiwan startup company name) produces, even though they probably are never going to pirate any movies. --------------------------------------
That's what the OGR Project on distributed.net is for.
Some actually scientifically useful work to do, unlike looking for ETs with a chance smaller than for cracking a 256 bit key...
IMHO, distributed.net should've dumped the RC5 project after the encryption export laws were changed and fully concentrate on useful stuff.
People everywhere are moving to not-so-performance-efficient but easier to work with platforms (Java is a prime example here, Mozilla another)
No IT-Manager with a half a brain would frown upon buying new machines every year (or even every few months) for budget reasons, while losing thousands of $ because the programmers aren't working at top-efficiency on computers which don't support the best development tools.
(And yes, sometimes vi _is_ the best tool. But for most of the applications it has ceased to be that at the start of the nineties...)
Remember that the P4 1.5GHz costs more than twice as much as the TBird 1.2GHz.
The thing would have to be a _lot_ faster to make up for this huge disadvantage... --------------------------------- -----
I don't even want to talk about the relative stupidity of posting a link to slashdot and then complain that the page was slashdotted, but could you at least put up a mirror on some geocities account?
With the current state of music piracy, the RIAA is desperate. The success of SDMA (marketing-wise, certainly not from the technical side) shows this.
I believe it's right now easier to get rich by licensing fluke Anti-MP3-Piracy software to the RIAA than by selling magnetic "lose 50 pounds in one week" bracelets to Iowa farmer wives... --------------------------------------
The five states you mentioned have together 167 electoral votes (54 + 33 + 25 + 23 + 32), or about 31% of all the 538 electoral votes.
They also list 32.8 million voters (9.6 + 6.1 + 6.0 + 4.8 + 6.3) or about 32% of the total voting population.
I really can't see where's the huge difference (and unfairness) between the electoral and the popular vote system.
Also, what most people don't like about the electoral college is the "winner takes it all"-rule!
Slashdot Mirror
A much better way:
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Give your customers a way to authorize credit card payments. Instead of using their normal 16 digit cc number for buying a single-month-membership at www.sexyteens.com (and not knowing shit about both the trustworthiness of the webmaster and of their security/antihacking measures), enable them to go to your website (https://www.mastercard.com/) and create a temporary one.
The users can then e.g. select that he wants this temporary number to carry $30. Some script (hopefully not visual basic...) can then encrypt the data and Base64 it, giving the user the number "KBVjSOEgraG3bp7WIkbMWKPRB" to pass on to the shady website owner.
This protects him from excessive fraud (having the website charge him $500 instead of $30) as well as from cc theft (the stolen number will be completely worthless as soon as it has been billed for its allowed charge) and identity theft (since a number like that would not be legally allowed as proof of identity)
But since we're going to have to wait for banks to implement this scheme, I don't believe we'll see a possibility like that before 2050
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"Warning! You seem to be about to send your credit card # to www.esomewhat.com. Since this website is running the Microsoft IIS Webserver (which is known to be very easy to hack) you should think twice before doing so!"
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Actually, I am rather seeing an increase in the abuse of metamoderating. I lost 3 karma the last week with only 10 Moderator points being used on fair moderations.
-
It seems that anything other than marking obviously karmawhoring jokes with a +1 Funny will lose you your hard-earned karma...
Well, I learned by lesson and put myself to "not willing to moderate".
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The DNS was designed from ground up as a client/server system, putting much too high obstacles in the way of someone who wants to run a machine with a somewhat decent host name...
And it is a lot older than AOL, Windows and other Internet user dumbification devices.
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Where have you been the last year?
Today, you're lucky if you even get a single buck per 1,000 impressions. Some advertisers have even started to offer their ads for cents...
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And if we're lucky, we still have a 50% chance in 2010 of getting a space shuttle into orbit without it being shredded by one of those microsatellites...
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Nietzsche proclaimed God's death already in 1882, which means both copyright and patents have expired, and everything is public domain now©
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I know on what to put my bet on fc©com
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They'd just have to change the way loot is dropped© Now, all those monsters are camped because everyone knows what they are going to drop© No wonder there's a bunch of ebayers camping around every monster which has a guaranteed 20$ drop©
If the loot was dropped completely randomly ¥meaning that you can get the kickass 100$ sword from any monster with a 0©01% chance, and not just from a hardcoded single one the problem with the campers would completely disappear!
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Of course we all know that the world would be a better place without these silly lawsuits, but if there's a chance to beat a corporate websquatter, I say take it©©©
What I'd like much more is if some lawyer would be hold responsible for the "under penalty of perjury" part of the DMCA for making false allegations about copyrighted material ¥like the DeCSS vs© DeCSS case© That would be really nice and would also make some guys think twice before sending bulk-'cease and desist' letters to ISPs©
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Sales of spell checking software will skyrocket!
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It's not like Pilsbury isn't gonna get their ass kicked all over the place by the Judges...
A bit soon for boycott calls, IMHO
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They still have the trademark for Aspirin in germany, and I think you'd be hear from their lawyers pretty soon if you should want to start selling your own Aspirin brand headache pills...
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Well, it's not like there were no Trojans for Windows which you could use to send emails from another guys' computer...
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Everyone who still uses BASIC after having turned fourteen is simply stupid and worth ignoring.
/. is better than anything he deserves...- -
Just look at the one FAQ available: "Hard facts that prove which is the BEST cripting language!"
I didn't even read the article (I'm on Solaris and I can't be arsed into disabling Javascript) but I can tell right now that this guy simply is a troll. Being mentioned on a site like
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Well, that's exactly how the situation is on Half-Life servers right now, so why bother :)
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The first question every customer (especially those in europe) asks when buying a DVD player is "Is is codefree?"
Everyone knows there's some stupid protection in some players that make it refuse to play US movie releases, and noone likes that.
The result: Even ppl who understand absolutely no english and won't ever in their life buy a region 1 DVD _insist_ on codefree players, just because they don't want to spend some 200$ on lobotomized hifi-equipment.
One thing is for sure: If IBM, Maxtor, WD and whoever else is going to implement this standard, customers will specifically ask for nonprotected harddisks, just like (insert Taiwan startup company name) produces, even though they probably are never going to pirate any movies.
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That's what the OGR Project on distributed.net is for.
Some actually scientifically useful work to do, unlike looking for ETs with a chance smaller than for cracking a 256 bit key...
IMHO, distributed.net should've dumped the RC5 project after the encryption export laws were changed and fully concentrate on useful stuff.
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People everywhere are moving to not-so-performance-efficient but easier to work with platforms (Java is a prime example here, Mozilla another)
No IT-Manager with a half a brain would frown upon buying new machines every year (or even every few months) for budget reasons, while losing thousands of $ because the programmers aren't working at top-efficiency on computers which don't support the best development tools.
(And yes, sometimes vi _is_ the best tool. But for most of the applications it has ceased to be that at the start of the nineties...)
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Actually, I'd first like to see a browser built on top of Mozilla.
Then we can talk about WOrd Processors...
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Remember that the P4 1.5GHz costs more than twice as much as the TBird 1.2GHz.- -----
The thing would have to be a _lot_ faster to make up for this huge disadvantage...
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I don't even want to talk about the relative stupidity of posting a link to slashdot and then complain that the page was slashdotted, but could you at least put up a mirror on some geocities account?
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With the current state of music piracy, the RIAA is desperate. The success of SDMA (marketing-wise, certainly not from the technical side) shows this.
I believe it's right now easier to get rich by licensing fluke Anti-MP3-Piracy software to the RIAA than by selling magnetic "lose 50 pounds in one week" bracelets to Iowa farmer wives...
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The five states you mentioned have together 167 electoral votes (54 + 33 + 25 + 23 + 32), or about 31% of all the 538 electoral votes.
They also list 32.8 million voters (9.6 + 6.1 + 6.0 + 4.8 + 6.3) or about 32% of the total voting population.
I really can't see where's the huge difference (and unfairness) between the electoral and the popular vote system.
Also, what most people don't like about the electoral college is the "winner takes it all"-rule!
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The difference in FL between Bush and Gore is right now 1800 votes (in favor of Bush)
This have to be the strangest elections I've ever seen...
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