I'm surprised that many web sites are given venture capital money and later, bought out. Just no good way to capitalize on a service that other people give away free You've just touched on the social psychology behind a pyramid scheme.
Everyone contributes, only a few profit. Lots of that venture capital came from tax money, lots more came from 401(k) investments where the people investing only knew their investments as conglomerate funds.
Pretty sad that it's allowed to continue this way.
Though it's a bit gargantuan to configure: a good smtpd (sendmail) and a mailing list daemon (mailman) coupled with a PBX (asterisk) and a couple of hacked scripts to retrieve web content (eg. this one for Slashdot) would do the trick nicely.
IRC is kinda nice to have at home. It allows for a relatively constant random stream of world consciousness and provides for ways (other than cigarette smoking) to burn that extra 5 or 10 extra minutes (or hours) while waiting for tomato sauce to cook down or glibc to compile.
With all the taxable profit that generates it's hard to believe the USA still has a federal debt, isn't it? We'll just have to come up with newer and more innovative ways to tax the working class.
IRC? IM? Oh wait... this is cellular telephone. Maybe they're infringing on pay-per-post IRC proposals.
It sounds like the people interviewed in the article are all newbs:
"I probably started removing people the first week," said Ryan Irelan, 31, a Web developer in Raleigh, N.C., who began using Twitter last year. "This constant dinging of updates," he added, "it really just became totally overwhelming. I don't see how anyone could get anything done." ICQ "Uh-oh!"
Twitter now hosts more than 30,000 posts a day and has more than 50,000 users, according to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The service is appealing because of its simplicity, said the 30-year old, who formerly worked as a software engineer at a courier-dispatch service. "You find a lot of connection in just the simplest, most mundane updates from your friends," he said. IRC
Twitter doesn't charge users for the service, though he said it may charge for additional features in the future. Get them hooked, then charge. It's like crack.
"I'm a little annoyed by some of these newbies," said Tara Hunt, a 33-year-old marketer in San Francisco...She removed him (Mr. Scoble) from the list of people whose posts she follows, turned off by his frequent notes about the service itself. "He Twittered about Twitter," she said. That'll teach her to friend people who seem "neat" at first sight.
Eric Meyer also had to rethink his online network after experiencing what he calls a "Twitter storm." He and friends found themselves receiving 30 to 40 posts a day from one person musing about what to have for dinner and commercials spotted on television Definitely a newb.
"I've blocked people that, say, signed up and just added me because we were acquaintances," he said. "I guess they liked me more than I liked them, and I didn't care to hear about them that frequently." That's why I like the journals on Slashdot. They don't get force-fed to anyone.
"We get some people who get very chatty," said Dodgeball co-founder Dennis Crowley Tell me they didn't rely on that for the "we'll start charging you later" approach.
While a counterattack is possible there are two mitigating factors:
First, philosophically, it is always the course of greater wisdom to explore extinguishing the problem using passive resistance (eg. avoiding offending services). Sadly, this is rarely effective against a determined aggressor but it does prevent unnecessary conflict by establishing a baseline of just how determined the aggressor is.
Second, in terms of time, the information gathering industry is way ahead of us and the internet laws are written to be easily used against people who would interfere with their exploits.
All in all, though, data pool pollution would be an effective approach if the aggressor has been determined to be resolute and the legal aspect weren't so grim.
Even if the information isn't immediately personally identifiable it is fairly easy, through analysis of the cross-section of a few related databases, to make it so. It's just math and most cookies have some uniquely identifiable characteristic. Perhaps they can't tie information A with person B, but it isn't too difficult to tie information A to information C to information D and then cut the database down to people who have A, C, and D. Iterate if necessary.
As long as everyone keeps calling me paranoid, and some of the mods with short stubby egos have bombed my posting in this thread, maybe we'll just make a race of it:
I read this headline, and this story, and I have this odd sense of paranoia.
a technology journalist...started blogging five years ago check
and last year quit his day job check and check
He now has a full-time staff...contributing to different online journals I probably write more eloquently, more insightfully, and more up-to-date than they do.
There is a downside, Malik readily admits. "I can put in an 18-hour day," he said. "You don't know when to stop." Stop being such a wussy. I live on the streets and have had fewer than a dozen hot meals in the last year and I can still do the job more effectively.
Funny he should mention Marx. Soviet iconography is popping up all over the Bay Area MH42 claims to be in Oregon.
The two have vastly different ethics MH42 preaches whichever side of the line allows him to troll today. I practice one path.
Rubyred Labs, a hip Web design shop in South Park, had its launch party there. Teams from established Web companies such as Google Inc. and Flickr, a photo sharing site that's now owned by Yahoo, meet there. "You'd never know these guys were millionaires," said Ritual co-owner Jeremy Tooker. Why do I have this odd feeling that someone has f**ked me over in the worst way?
They lined up for interviews. None were actually hired, but it cemented in Levine's mind the notion of where the talent pool lies Does my nickname not indicate where I am? Try my journal history
Kennedy, the self-professed bedouin The pampered people profess it. I'm actually out here doing it.
Kennedy said. "In cafes now, it's, 'Is there a Wi-Fi technician in the house?'" Is five years of Debian and Linuxfromscratch not enough?
Kevin Burton, an expert in blogs and RSS feeds Gah. That's like being an expert in tabloids and political circulars. If being an expert in blogs and RSS feeds provides any reasonable income then why are investors allowing me to sleep on a park bench every night?
is it your contention It'slegislatedfact.
a person dragging themselves You mean dragged by their government in collusion with bankers.
buying food on credit 8.8 trillion dollars, of which $406 billion was spent just to pay interest on the federal budget debt, could buy lots of food.
a stooge of financiers Inescapable debt is slavery.
your stance on personal responsibility I have lived debt-free for a full year. Something stinks about the system between the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, and Washington DC.
I am fully qualified for a profitable career. I have fulfilled my responsibility.
Maybe you're trolling (posting from the mountaintop of financial wealth) but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt: How much debt do you have?
I read this journal entry, and this story, and I have this odd sense of paranoia.
a technology journalist...started blogging five years ago check
and last year quit his day job check and check
He now has a full-time staff...contributing to different online journals I probably write more eloquently, more insightfully, and more up-to-date than they do.
There is a downside, Malik readily admits. "I can put in an 18-hour day," he said. "You don't know when to stop." Stop being such a wussy. I live on the streets and have had fewer than a dozen hot meals in the last year and I can still do the job more effectively.
Funny he should mention Marx. Soviet iconography is popping up all over the Bay Area MH42 claims to be in Oregon.
The two have vastly different ethics MH42 preaches whichever side of the line allows him to troll today. I practice one path.
Rubyred Labs, a hip Web design shop in South Park, had its launch party there. Teams from established Web companies such as Google Inc. and Flickr, a photo sharing site that's now owned by Yahoo, meet there. "You'd never know these guys were millionaires," said Ritual co-owner Jeremy Tooker. Why do I have this odd feeling that someone has f**ked me over in the worst way?
They lined up for interviews. None were actually hired, but it cemented in Levine's mind the notion of where the talent pool lies Does my nickname not indicate where I am? Try my journal history
Kennedy, the self-professed bedouin The pampered people profess it. I'm actually out here doing it.
Kennedy said. "In cafes now, it's, 'Is there a Wi-Fi technician in the house?'" Is five years of Debian and Linuxfromscratch not enough?
Kevin Burton, an expert in blogs and RSS feeds Gah. That's like being an expert in tabloids and political circulars. If being an expert in blogs and RSS feeds provides any reasonable income then why are investors allowing me to sleep on a park bench every night?
They hire 16 year olds with no prior experience and train them My age disqualifies me.
Calumny! The assertion is not unsupported. You claim "Anonymous Coward" as your nickname.
you obviously have the skills to be a Wal-Mart Greeter My age disqualifies me.
MickeyD's also hires, and trains, 16 year old kids My age disqualifies me.
Bum That's calumny
Maybe you could buy the logo from them? If you first secure multibillion dollar government contracts to sell your new invention to school districts across the nation you could probably gain the support of government attorneys who could possibly wrestle the logo, based on some little known legal nitpick, away from them.
This link I'm not qualified for that job.
this place I'm not qualified for that one either.
You're definitely qualified You're an Anonymous Coward. You have no authority to speak on my qualifications.
The third time I'm not qualified for that one either.
So I'd say, "treading on memories and goodwill" is pretty close, wouldn't you? Well, ummm, yeah... but it has a C= logo on it! It's turtles all the way down!
it still has nothing to do with Commodore They bought the C= logo!
just a label slapped on an unreleated company I've tried polling for more corporate geneology here.
I also have no doubt that they'll be incredibly expensive You're probably right--but I'm in La Jolla, CA. *looks around* What, is there a shortage of money in this town? They even have a job opening on the ethics commission.
you could custom-build for less Now that's a really good point. I've always preferred to buy as many no name parts as possible and build my own.
That looks more like Pokemon I have no problem with anime, but make it goodanime.
Did the 68060 ever make mass production? After the A4k we were going to see, at various stages, HP-PA RISC chip based Amigas, 68060 Amigas, DEC Alpha (and then Motorola became involved with Alpha development as well), and PPC based Amigas. AGA was to be replaced with AAA, wasn't it?
It's similar to me saying you owe me a million dollars because you borrowed $5 for lunch one day It works so well for credit card companies, banks, insurance companies, and the government. You didn't really need that lunch--you weren't going to starve to death. It's your own fault.:-()
Lighten up a little, Batman. Nostalgia has a great purpose in life. We can always mod the case (make our own C-kin) and the internal cards at a later date. I'm guessing it's not all integrated.
I want one of each so that I can test a home-grown aLFS in parallel.
will allow a soldier to work in a McDonald's without killing Those that are too good to work at McDonald's will be sent to a monastery for passivity training.
I love the modular case design. It won't be long until users begin creating their own C-kin panels.
We need more information in the about us section:
Having acquired the Commodore brand in late 2005 as part of a joint venture with Commodore International Corporation, Commodore Gaming aims to re-establish the brand as a leader in its industry. Who was it that ponied up the cash to buy the old C= logo? Are they at all related (by blood or money) to the people who drove CBM into the ground? How is CIC related to the former CBM? Are they interacting with the current owners of Amiga Technologies (if that still exists)? How long until they make laptops?
Her spectrograph records Raman spectra. In the industry we're more apt to use IR, NMR, and UV. Maybe the invention of an affordable tabletop unit will advance the application of Raman technology.
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Everyone contributes, only a few profit. Lots of that venture capital came from tax money, lots more came from 401(k) investments where the people investing only knew their investments as conglomerate funds.
Pretty sad that it's allowed to continue this way.
Though it's a bit gargantuan to configure: a good smtpd (sendmail) and a mailing list daemon (mailman) coupled with a PBX (asterisk) and a couple of hacked scripts to retrieve web content (eg. this one for Slashdot) would do the trick nicely.
Do they create profit for an American corporate entity?
IRC is kinda nice to have at home. It allows for a relatively constant random stream of world consciousness and provides for ways (other than cigarette smoking) to burn that extra 5 or 10 extra minutes (or hours) while waiting for tomato sauce to cook down or glibc to compile.
With all the taxable profit that generates it's hard to believe the USA still has a federal debt, isn't it? We'll just have to come up with newer and more innovative ways to tax the working class.
It sounds like the people interviewed in the article are all newbs: "I probably started removing people the first week," said Ryan Irelan, 31, a Web developer in Raleigh, N.C., who began using Twitter last year. "This constant dinging of updates," he added, "it really just became totally overwhelming. I don't see how anyone could get anything done." ICQ "Uh-oh!" Twitter now hosts more than 30,000 posts a day and has more than 50,000 users, according to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The service is appealing because of its simplicity, said the 30-year old, who formerly worked as a software engineer at a courier-dispatch service. "You find a lot of connection in just the simplest, most mundane updates from your friends," he said. IRC Twitter doesn't charge users for the service, though he said it may charge for additional features in the future. Get them hooked, then charge. It's like crack. "I'm a little annoyed by some of these newbies," said Tara Hunt, a 33-year-old marketer in San Francisco...She removed him (Mr. Scoble) from the list of people whose posts she follows, turned off by his frequent notes about the service itself. "He Twittered about Twitter," she said. That'll teach her to friend people who seem "neat" at first sight. Eric Meyer also had to rethink his online network after experiencing what he calls a "Twitter storm." He and friends found themselves receiving 30 to 40 posts a day from one person musing about what to have for dinner and commercials spotted on television Definitely a newb. "I've blocked people that, say, signed up and just added me because we were acquaintances," he said. "I guess they liked me more than I liked them, and I didn't care to hear about them that frequently." That's why I like the journals on Slashdot. They don't get force-fed to anyone. "We get some people who get very chatty," said Dodgeball co-founder Dennis Crowley Tell me they didn't rely on that for the "we'll start charging you later" approach.
While a counterattack is possible there are two mitigating factors:
First, philosophically, it is always the course of greater wisdom to explore extinguishing the problem using passive resistance (eg. avoiding offending services). Sadly, this is rarely effective against a determined aggressor but it does prevent unnecessary conflict by establishing a baseline of just how determined the aggressor is.
Second, in terms of time, the information gathering industry is way ahead of us and the internet laws are written to be easily used against people who would interfere with their exploits.
All in all, though, data pool pollution would be an effective approach if the aggressor has been determined to be resolute and the legal aspect weren't so grim.
Even if the information isn't immediately personally identifiable it is fairly easy, through analysis of the cross-section of a few related databases, to make it so. It's just math and most cookies have some uniquely identifiable characteristic. Perhaps they can't tie information A with person B, but it isn't too difficult to tie information A to information C to information D and then cut the database down to people who have A, C, and D. Iterate if necessary.
I read this headline, and this story, and I have this odd sense of paranoia. a technology journalist...started blogging five years ago check and last year quit his day job check and check He now has a full-time staff...contributing to different online journals I probably write more eloquently, more insightfully, and more up-to-date than they do. There is a downside, Malik readily admits. "I can put in an 18-hour day," he said. "You don't know when to stop." Stop being such a wussy. I live on the streets and have had fewer than a dozen hot meals in the last year and I can still do the job more effectively. Funny he should mention Marx. Soviet iconography is popping up all over the Bay Area MH42 claims to be in Oregon. The two have vastly different ethics MH42 preaches whichever side of the line allows him to troll today. I practice one path. Rubyred Labs, a hip Web design shop in South Park, had its launch party there. Teams from established Web companies such as Google Inc. and Flickr, a photo sharing site that's now owned by Yahoo, meet there. "You'd never know these guys were millionaires," said Ritual co-owner Jeremy Tooker. Why do I have this odd feeling that someone has f**ked me over in the worst way? They lined up for interviews. None were actually hired, but it cemented in Levine's mind the notion of where the talent pool lies Does my nickname not indicate where I am? Try my journal history Kennedy, the self-professed bedouin The pampered people profess it. I'm actually out here doing it. Kennedy said. "In cafes now, it's, 'Is there a Wi-Fi technician in the house?'" Is five years of Debian and Linuxfromscratch not enough? Kevin Burton, an expert in blogs and RSS feeds Gah. That's like being an expert in tabloids and political circulars. If being an expert in blogs and RSS feeds provides any reasonable income then why are investors allowing me to sleep on a park bench every night?
Contact me to negotiate an appropriate laptop.
I am fully qualified for a profitable career. I have fulfilled my responsibility.
Maybe you're trolling (posting from the mountaintop of financial wealth) but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt: How much debt do you have?
Stop being so coy.
Contact me to negotiate an appropriate laptop.
Coward.
Maybe you could buy the logo from them? If you first secure multibillion dollar government contracts to sell your new invention to school districts across the nation you could probably gain the support of government attorneys who could possibly wrestle the logo, based on some little known legal nitpick, away from them.
Coward.
I lost track after Escom though I recognize the Tulip name from the kernel NIC drivers that I've had to compile.
Did the 68060 ever make mass production? After the A4k we were going to see, at various stages, HP-PA RISC chip based Amigas, 68060 Amigas, DEC Alpha (and then Motorola became involved with Alpha development as well), and PPC based Amigas. AGA was to be replaced with AAA, wasn't it?
Lighten up a little, Batman. Nostalgia has a great purpose in life. We can always mod the case (make our own C-kin) and the internal cards at a later date. I'm guessing it's not all integrated.
I want one of each so that I can test a home-grown aLFS in parallel.
You're right about the Giana Sisters C-kin. WTH?
We need more information in the about us section: Having acquired the Commodore brand in late 2005 as part of a joint venture with Commodore International Corporation, Commodore Gaming aims to re-establish the brand as a leader in its industry. Who was it that ponied up the cash to buy the old C= logo? Are they at all related (by blood or money) to the people who drove CBM into the ground? How is CIC related to the former CBM? Are they interacting with the current owners of Amiga Technologies (if that still exists)? How long until they make laptops?
I want one... or four.
Her spectrograph records Raman spectra. In the industry we're more apt to use IR, NMR, and UV. Maybe the invention of an affordable tabletop unit will advance the application of Raman technology.