He has designed a wallet that requires someone to show ID in order to see his ID. The device consists of a wallet with a card reader on it. His driver's license can be seen only partially through a display. And in order for someone to see the rest of his ID, they have to swipe their own ID through the card reader to open the wallet.
Oh, if only world politics worked this way.
U.S: We wish to disarm Iraq.
Iraq: Bzzt. We're sorry, but in order to disarm our weapons, you must disarm your weapons too.
Mann quoted Simon Davies of Privacy International, a London-based nonprofit that monitors civil liberties issues: "The totalitarian regime is the regime that would like to know everything about everyone but reveal nothing about itself," Mann said.
Good luck getting inspectors into places in the US.
If only there were someone with a camera with enough balls/stupidity/both to try that out? Michael Moore anyone?
But with itunes, CHARGING = REFILLING. since you can just barely play all the songs on a single charge this basically means that in any practical usage you are constantly refreshing the songs before you hear them twice.
No, that just won't do.
If I have my ipod in my car, or anywhere else where I can charge my ipod, but not be in touch with my copy of iTunes, this is where it breaks down.
Plus, since this is when I'd be listening to my player for long amounts of time, and not be able to swap the songs out.
This is where it becomes apparent.
Also, I sometimes am in the mood to listen to a particular song on the spot. With a shuffle, tough luck, unless it's already preloaded.
This is where it fails the turing test. I don't always play my ipod on shuffle.
The problem with your test is that it fails on the grounds that I want to listen to my music. I'm sure I'm not alone in this respect.
You'd be surprised how many free, legal songs there are on the net. Oh, but you'd know this if you were doing stuff other than downloading RIAA Stuff, right?
For instance, my Overclocked Remix folder is 4.88 gig. These are mostly 128kbps mp3s.
My backups folder of CDs I own is 6.81 gig.
Also, it just so happens that having a larger player allows one to encode stuff in higher than 128kbps quality.
Anyhow, I'd like to type more, but morons like you have already cost me enough of my life and regret even firing off this response.:/
We don't want something hip and stylish. We want something that works well.
Oh yeah, I've never personally been able to understand the whole hooplah over the Ipod shuffle, or even the Ipod mini? 1 gigabyte? 5 gigabytes? Do you have ANY idea how old the songs get on your mp3 player if you keep hearing stuff over and over again like a radio station?
I suppose for top 40 teenie boppers, that's okay. Not for me.
20 gig and 40 gig are good sizes, respectfully. The more, the better.
Sony's designs are ugly, too. I barely tolerate the fact that my ipod is white. It's bad enough that Bono is pushing the player I own. Now, Sony comes out with Grape, Cherry and Orange flavors. Ugh!
Why can't they make an mp3 player that's like Nyquil. In the words of Denis Leary, that "original green death fucking flavor, but it doesn't matter..." If an mp3 player is green-death nyquil colored, but has a great interface, and does all I want in regards to playability and reliability, that's all I need.
I'm sure everyone else's priorities will be similar after they buy an orange mp3 player, and throw it against the wall in rage when it doesn't do what they want it to do.
See, this is why things like Livejournal is still around, and other stuff has gone to the dogs.
Anything that depends on the size of its community to stay afloat shouldn't be entirely non-free. That especially becomes true if what your site is can be replicated in less than 100 man-hours of work. Someone will clone you, and all your business will go away.
I can't imagine anything like myspace staying around if all of a sudden it went to a membership system. People wouldn't fork up the money, and the allure of the site would go away.
This proves that a programmer was behind this... because like me, the guy has no common business sense.
Something like this, you have absolutely no legacy whatsoever. No kids to carry things on, nobody left to remember you, none of your accomplishments mattering.
I, for one, don't want to see the human race become extinct, regardless of if it's in my lifetime or not.
You're counting things out waaay too easily. I mean, NOW is the time to construct your house out of tin-foil.
All you have to figure out now is how to get 20 of the world's prettiest supermodels at your house, and some animal specimens, during the time of this burst, so you could repopulate the earth later.
It'd be just like Noah's Ark, only... well... not...
I remember reading this a while back on the Wikipedia entry for the Permian Triassic Extinction Event (link), but the Wiki entry quotes specifically that an extinction like this would only happen if the star were 10 parsecs, or 30 light years away.
Dr Melott in the article claims that a star like this would have to be 6,000 light years away, or closer. (That's more than 200 times the distance previously claimed.
Keep in mind the volume of a sphere is 4/3 pi r^3, so the volume of space that this would take up is increased by a factor of 8,000,000. I'd say, that the chance of this happening to us, therefore is increased by a factor of 8 million.
This is just guesswork since I haven't seen the movie (duh)... but...
What I can't help but imagine is if the whole swing towards the religious right and indecency plays a part within this. After the whole Janet Jackson thing, it's quiet possible that Ani's relationship with Padme that helps contribute towards this rating along with the violence.
After all, it seems somehow "okay" to expose kids to violence in the states. Sex is a whole other thing...
Of course the film is going to be PG-13... because only people above the age of 13 will be able to truly appreciate Jar Jar's evisceration.
I can imagine it now. Darth Vader ripping that demon Jamaican dinosaur Wino from limb to limb. With each limb being severed, hearing the beast shouting out, "Meesa in Pain! Meesa in Pain!" Vader points his finger, and throws the battered, lifeless carcass against the wall.
"Only two there are," says Yoda, "a master and an apprentice. Killed, Palpatine's apprentice, Vader did he!"
Along with Jar Jar, in the abyss, floats the souls of Saddam Hussein, Oprah, Geraldo Rivera, Dick Clark and New Kids on the Block. Jar Jar shall be reborn in another realm. In a galaxy far far away from the one he was in, way in the future.
That backwards asshat dinosaur is scheduled to come back, Jesus style. Only next time, it'll be rated R. Be afraid... be very afraid...
Now that is why this Star Wars is PG-13. Sleep tight kiddies...
It's kind of like growing up in a country without rights.
After a while, the next generation of people are accustomed to it. Because of the lack of outrage, the system stays in place.
It applies here perfectly too. Nothing will be done about spam as long as most of the people out there will put up with it, and some of the people out there even go so far as support it.
There actually are lots of people who have clicked.
I get more referrals from slashdot than I do from google adwords. I wouldn't have imaged that either.
But then, there are a lot of things that people order online that I wouldn't fathom.
For instance, I could never imagine buying jewelry online. There's a large market for it. I couldn't imagine buying flowers, or gift baskets. I couldn't imagine buying sunglasses. I'm one of those people who has to simply buy some things in person.
But yes, people actually do click the links on this site. Strange as that may be.
Thanks, I do this already. Check out my sig. The reason I don't do this with my Homepage on the top is that I don't want that being crawled by google, since it's written out.
I'm tracking refering clicks from my sig, google (one different URL per keyword), Stubmleupon, and everywhere else.
You have an interesting point there... As you can see, I changed my sig to something that sounds a little bit more like a sentence, and less like an exclamation.
Use a call-to-action to prepare your audience for what you want them to do.
Make sure that this phrase is unique and specific to your business so that it is more informative and compelling and distinguishes you from the competition.
Example: "Register for membership now," "Save on DVDs," "Get cheap stereos," or "Join now for 20% discount."
I think what's going on here is that I'm targetting a different market (oh God, what have I become), than on Google adwords. Since it's an expected advertising environment, they want you to use strong "advertiser" words like that.
Here, since it's just a forum, people don't want stuff that's as blaring or strong.
Lesson learned. I do programming for a living, so I'm new to add this. Thanks for being patient:)
Actually, you know that's a really great idea. I have some tutorials on the members page with advice on setting up Outlook Express, Outlook, and Filezilla.
(No, this isn't taking into account your special Slashdotter offer.)
But what if you do factor this in? I have the same discount for google, stumbleupon, and anywhere else where I'm advertising. It's only when you go to the site flat out that you don't get the discount.
Sadly, that seems to be one of the keys of advertising. I guess it's not so much about what you get, versus how much you save.
Of course $20 / month isn't going to compete. But then, where do you buy your hardware? From retail, or from pricewatch?
(notice some pricewatch sites have special prices for pricewatch referers only)
I don't think $9.95 is bad. Especially when you've had a bit of time on the machine to realize if you want it or not.
and whether we're paying attention while we're watching and even whether we're actually noticing the advertisements among the shows we may or may not be watching -- well, this is where things get tricky...
As someone who is recently starting to advertise (see below), that's one of the things that I'm finding much more difficult to determine.
For instance, advertising on google adwords, I see that my link gets 4,000 or so impressions. Does that mean that the person is even looking at the sponsored links on the side of the page? Taking it a step further, I had one day on google syndication that had 100,000 impressions. Only 60 or so people clicked through. I think a lot more internet viewers nowdays just glaze over ads.
I started doing advertisement by promoting on StumbleUpon. How do I know that the people reaching aren't annoyed with being redirected to a page they have absolutely no interest in? After all, on StumbleUpon, my page ends up fitting under web development. I'm sure all those people who are looking for things like SQL, CSS, or PHP tutorials must love me. 1600 hits. 0 emails. 0 signups. Maybe if they added a hosting section.
I'm thinking of moving my campaign off the internet, and into print / radio. But even then, how many people are just going to glaze through the ad when it's being played on the radio? For how many people I *might* appeal to, how many people will I *not* appeal to?
Ultimately, I guess advertising comes down to how much money I spend, versus how much I get back, relevance be damned. And I guess that's why spammers are around, after all. No, I will not start spamming people. That's just evil. Then again, Bill Hicks said, "Those of you who are in marketing and advertising, kill yourselves. You are satan's little helpers."
I really wish there were a way to just have my ad pop up for people who actually are interested in what I have to offer. Then I can leave everyone else the hell alone.
I mean, seriously... back in the days of Soviet Russia (must resist), there used to be propaganda that claimed that a Russian invented the lightbulb, and other stuff like that.
This is no better than American Patroitism. As an American, let me say that we are NOT the best country in the world, and that any time we say that we are, we sound as silly as the russians here.
Anyway, I'd loooove to hear what the Chinese hackers have to say about this.
Slashdot Mirror
Go ahead and mod this one down too. Be consistent!
So Mr. Moderator, which of the following was the above? Disruptive? Offensive? Deceptive? Idiosyncratic?
God, this groupthink gets on my nerves sometimes.
Oh, if only world politics worked this way.
U.S: We wish to disarm Iraq.
Iraq: Bzzt. We're sorry, but in order to disarm our weapons, you must disarm your weapons too.
Mann quoted Simon Davies of Privacy International, a London-based nonprofit that monitors civil liberties issues: "The totalitarian regime is the regime that would like to know everything about everyone but reveal nothing about itself," Mann said.
Good luck getting inspectors into places in the US.
If only there were someone with a camera with enough balls/stupidity/both to try that out? Michael Moore anyone?
No, that just won't do.
If I have my ipod in my car, or anywhere else where I can charge my ipod, but not be in touch with my copy of iTunes, this is where it breaks down.
Plus, since this is when I'd be listening to my player for long amounts of time, and not be able to swap the songs out.
This is where it becomes apparent.
Also, I sometimes am in the mood to listen to a particular song on the spot. With a shuffle, tough luck, unless it's already preloaded.
This is where it fails the turing test. I don't always play my ipod on shuffle.
The problem with your test is that it fails on the grounds that I want to listen to my music. I'm sure I'm not alone in this respect.
The song vertigo, Bono's opening lyrics are
Unos, dos, tres, catorce
Which translates to (1,2,3,14)
Do I know this because I'm U2 fan? NO! I know it because the bloody song is plastered all over the TV and radio.
You'd be surprised how many free, legal songs there are on the net. Oh, but you'd know this if you were doing stuff other than downloading RIAA Stuff, right?
For instance, my Overclocked Remix folder is 4.88 gig. These are mostly 128kbps mp3s.
My backups folder of CDs I own is 6.81 gig.
Also, it just so happens that having a larger player allows one to encode stuff in higher than 128kbps quality.
Anyhow, I'd like to type more, but morons like you have already cost me enough of my life and regret even firing off this response. :/
Poor, poor you. My heart goes out to you :P
Master Shake, is that you?
We don't want something hip and stylish. We want something that works well.
Oh yeah, I've never personally been able to understand the whole hooplah over the Ipod shuffle, or even the Ipod mini? 1 gigabyte? 5 gigabytes? Do you have ANY idea how old the songs get on your mp3 player if you keep hearing stuff over and over again like a radio station?
I suppose for top 40 teenie boppers, that's okay. Not for me.
20 gig and 40 gig are good sizes, respectfully. The more, the better.
Sony's designs are ugly, too. I barely tolerate the fact that my ipod is white. It's bad enough that Bono is pushing the player I own. Now, Sony comes out with Grape, Cherry and Orange flavors. Ugh!
Why can't they make an mp3 player that's like Nyquil. In the words of Denis Leary, that "original green death fucking flavor, but it doesn't matter..." If an mp3 player is green-death nyquil colored, but has a great interface, and does all I want in regards to playability and reliability, that's all I need.
I'm sure everyone else's priorities will be similar after they buy an orange mp3 player, and throw it against the wall in rage when it doesn't do what they want it to do.
Anything that depends on the size of its community to stay afloat shouldn't be entirely non-free. That especially becomes true if what your site is can be replicated in less than 100 man-hours of work. Someone will clone you, and all your business will go away.
I can't imagine anything like myspace staying around if all of a sudden it went to a membership system. People wouldn't fork up the money, and the allure of the site would go away.
This proves that a programmer was behind this... because like me, the guy has no common business sense.
Something like this, you have absolutely no legacy whatsoever. No kids to carry things on, nobody left to remember you, none of your accomplishments mattering.
I, for one, don't want to see the human race become extinct, regardless of if it's in my lifetime or not.
You're counting things out waaay too easily. I mean, NOW is the time to construct your house out of tin-foil.
All you have to figure out now is how to get 20 of the world's prettiest supermodels at your house, and some animal specimens, during the time of this burst, so you could repopulate the earth later.
It'd be just like Noah's Ark, only... well... not...
I remember reading this a while back on the Wikipedia entry for the Permian Triassic Extinction Event (link), but the Wiki entry quotes specifically that an extinction like this would only happen if the star were 10 parsecs, or 30 light years away.
Dr Melott in the article claims that a star like this would have to be 6,000 light years away, or closer. (That's more than 200 times the distance previously claimed.
Keep in mind the volume of a sphere is 4/3 pi r^3, so the volume of space that this would take up is increased by a factor of 8,000,000. I'd say, that the chance of this happening to us, therefore is increased by a factor of 8 million.
As I said before, scary stuff.
I bet all that "protein" that lands on the keyboards of many of us slashdotters are helping those strains out, don't you think?
This is just guesswork since I haven't seen the movie (duh)... but...
What I can't help but imagine is if the whole swing towards the religious right and indecency plays a part within this. After the whole Janet Jackson thing, it's quiet possible that Ani's relationship with Padme that helps contribute towards this rating along with the violence.
After all, it seems somehow "okay" to expose kids to violence in the states. Sex is a whole other thing...
I can imagine it now. Darth Vader ripping that demon Jamaican dinosaur Wino from limb to limb. With each limb being severed, hearing the beast shouting out, "Meesa in Pain! Meesa in Pain!" Vader points his finger, and throws the battered, lifeless carcass against the wall.
"Only two there are," says Yoda, "a master and an apprentice. Killed, Palpatine's apprentice, Vader did he!"
Along with Jar Jar, in the abyss, floats the souls of Saddam Hussein, Oprah, Geraldo Rivera, Dick Clark and New Kids on the Block. Jar Jar shall be reborn in another realm. In a galaxy far far away from the one he was in, way in the future.
That backwards asshat dinosaur is scheduled to come back, Jesus style. Only next time, it'll be rated R. Be afraid... be very afraid...
Now that is why this Star Wars is PG-13. Sleep tight kiddies...
After a while, the next generation of people are accustomed to it. Because of the lack of outrage, the system stays in place.
It applies here perfectly too. Nothing will be done about spam as long as most of the people out there will put up with it, and some of the people out there even go so far as support it.
Right now, my page gets a pagerank of 0. I imagine things will improve in time.
Thanks though :)
Those are allowed a FAR less clickthrough rate, since they figure people aren't actively looking for something the way they are on google.
There actually are lots of people who have clicked.
I get more referrals from slashdot than I do from google adwords. I wouldn't have imaged that either.
But then, there are a lot of things that people order online that I wouldn't fathom.
For instance, I could never imagine buying jewelry online. There's a large market for it. I couldn't imagine buying flowers, or gift baskets. I couldn't imagine buying sunglasses. I'm one of those people who has to simply buy some things in person.
But yes, people actually do click the links on this site. Strange as that may be.
I'm tracking refering clicks from my sig, google (one different URL per keyword), Stubmleupon, and everywhere else.
Here's something of interest, though:
https://adwords.google.com/select/tips.html
From the page here:
Use a strong call-to-action.
Example: "Register for membership now," "Save on DVDs," "Get cheap stereos," or "Join now for 20% discount."
I think what's going on here is that I'm targetting a different market (oh God, what have I become), than on Google adwords. Since it's an expected advertising environment, they want you to use strong "advertiser" words like that.
Here, since it's just a forum, people don't want stuff that's as blaring or strong.
Lesson learned. I do programming for a living, so I'm new to add this. Thanks for being patient :)
That's really helpful. Thank you sir.
3 months free hosting for you... *laughs*
But what if you do factor this in? I have the same discount for google, stumbleupon, and anywhere else where I'm advertising. It's only when you go to the site flat out that you don't get the discount.
Sadly, that seems to be one of the keys of advertising. I guess it's not so much about what you get, versus how much you save.
Of course $20 / month isn't going to compete. But then, where do you buy your hardware? From retail, or from pricewatch?
(notice some pricewatch sites have special prices for pricewatch referers only)
I don't think $9.95 is bad. Especially when you've had a bit of time on the machine to realize if you want it or not.
Please respond.
As someone who is recently starting to advertise (see below), that's one of the things that I'm finding much more difficult to determine.
For instance, advertising on google adwords, I see that my link gets 4,000 or so impressions. Does that mean that the person is even looking at the sponsored links on the side of the page? Taking it a step further, I had one day on google syndication that had 100,000 impressions. Only 60 or so people clicked through. I think a lot more internet viewers nowdays just glaze over ads.
I started doing advertisement by promoting on StumbleUpon. How do I know that the people reaching aren't annoyed with being redirected to a page they have absolutely no interest in? After all, on StumbleUpon, my page ends up fitting under web development. I'm sure all those people who are looking for things like SQL, CSS, or PHP tutorials must love me. 1600 hits. 0 emails. 0 signups. Maybe if they added a hosting section.
I'm thinking of moving my campaign off the internet, and into print / radio. But even then, how many people are just going to glaze through the ad when it's being played on the radio? For how many people I *might* appeal to, how many people will I *not* appeal to?
Ultimately, I guess advertising comes down to how much money I spend, versus how much I get back, relevance be damned. And I guess that's why spammers are around, after all. No, I will not start spamming people. That's just evil. Then again, Bill Hicks said, "Those of you who are in marketing and advertising, kill yourselves. You are satan's little helpers."
I really wish there were a way to just have my ad pop up for people who actually are interested in what I have to offer. Then I can leave everyone else the hell alone.
This story should be flagged -1 flamebait.
I mean, seriously... back in the days of Soviet Russia (must resist), there used to be propaganda that claimed that a Russian invented the lightbulb, and other stuff like that.
This is no better than American Patroitism. As an American, let me say that we are NOT the best country in the world, and that any time we say that we are, we sound as silly as the russians here.
Anyway, I'd loooove to hear what the Chinese hackers have to say about this.