Oh shut your mouth. I'm tired of hearing this bullshit. There are shades of gray in the world. Before Google was allowed over in China there were articles and debates over what was worse, no Google or Google without some of the results. They looked at it and realized "well shit, they aren't getting the democracy links either way, may as well open it up with censored results...." but you could tell they weren't happy about it. Not everything is a war for the human fucking spirit. Sometimes a straw breaks a camels back, sometimes people aren't thinking about ethics violations they have no power to control. Sometimes, people are just trying to provide a service that is better than what was out there. Its good to know dicks like you will always be around to tell them it wasn't pure enough. Maybe Google didn't have the clout to stop censoring until China overstepped itself.
Now go somewhere else and tell all your friends how the only charitable giving is done in secret for causes the donators disagree with so they don't even get satisfaction out of it. Anything less is just people being selfish dicks. Thats what you believe, isn't it?
I think the sentiment of HR is not something stupid. I think its very important, as they will be the gatekeepers for the people I will be working with and therefore dictate the company culture at large to a not-so-small degree. Think down the line when it comes to promotions, etc. It is a bad business decision, indicative of further bad business decisions to come. Maybe people aren't in a position to be picky, but if you've got real talent you probably can be. And for the record, as far as I can tell most companies will talk to you without a degree. Maybe you won't get government contracts, but at least it he midwest its only real douchebag companies that are sticklers.
If they will not talk to you without a degree, thats not the company you want to work for. Seriously. Programmers that come from schools are terrible unless they also happened to want to learn on their own and did so. Of every programmer I've worked with in their twenties, everybody was shit except for those who self-taught. I'm talking people with CS degrees unable to make webpages. Several of them.
The going rate for a decent programmer is pretty high up there. I don't know where people come up with this shit about programming and IT being low paid in the US. Sure, we're not making engineer money, but, you know... we're not engineers. Somebody actually pays me tens of thousands of dollars a year to do what I do for fun. That's a pretty good deal. Maybe you can make more money in China or overseas doing that work, but its not like I'll ever be struggling to put food on the table.
Of course there are cases where that doesn't work. But this is the fucking internet, and not eCommerce or business (or email). Odds of somebody being on the same network as you to get the same IP address that can actually be routed back to, interested in what you're doing, capable of intercepting the cookie and willing to do it are pretty damned low. Did you also know your locks can be picked?
Here is how I would do it if I didn't want to run the whole thing in SSL.
1. Login in through HTTPS
2. Write the cookie and redirect over to HTTP. Sign the cookie with some kind of a hash of values the user shouldn't change + Requester IP Address + random characters.
3. In HTTP land, rebuild the hash, verify a match.
Its not bullet proof but for anything that isn't eCommerce or business, its probably fine.
I mean, I was mostly joking because this is seriously just a useful product to have for ongoing wars and you shouldn't just attribute every new military technique or piece of equipment to war-mongering. However if you for some reason don't think there are gigantic food conglomerates that manipulate nutrition guidelines and have a huge effect on the health of the world then you're just wrong.
This reminds me of when a friend of mine got involved in a pyramid scheme and was trying to recruit underlings to push him up. I decided I wanted to try to talk some sense in to him so I "set up a meeting". He literally tried to tell me that the money he was making wasn't coming from screwing over people at the bottom because more people are born all the time, so everybody could keep moving up. "But you don't make anything, all you do is try to get people to stop making stuff and buy stuff." "But only the stuff you would buy otherwise, just buy it from here and make money doing it!" "But don't you see that isn't sustainable? People need to make that stuff and they're the ones paying you. They're never going to pay out more than they're taking in, and they have to pay for the manufacturing of the products and all the people who get a cut of your sales!".... Anyway the point is, that guy had a hot wife.
I'm also in the same boat. I don't use many coupons to begin with but I am kind of starting to hate the website. I think its because it stinks of Facebook. Way overvalued, way too easy to implement, and when there is a small shift in the internet or culture (which happens only constantly) they will find themselves unable to pay back their investors. So I try to pretend the website and the bubble aren't happening, but when they stuff ads in your face its kind of hard.
At least Facebook has something unique in their critical mass and have done a good job integrating themselves with everything else. They're still way overvalued and people seem to think it will always be here.
Yeah, war is definitely making people rich. But you should check out the real problem which is all the money being made off of hunger. Fucking farmers. Clearly they're to blame for China's population problems.
You answered your own question. Costs go down, fees stay the same because more and more people are using the cards, and they're making more and more money. If anything they should be RAISING the fees. Now at some point though, stores will stop accepting credit cards or as it becomes easier and easier there will be competitors to Visa and Mastercard. You already see Wal-Mart and Speedway rolling out their own credit cards, and these are not exactly high end places. How long until they decide to process the transactions on their own without riding on Visa or Mastercard's backs?
In short, your general assessment of when a market is failing is flawed by retarded expectations. The conditions for them to be undercut are in the process of forming. The market isn't a magical box that is always at optimal performance. As conditions change it needs to adjust and thats not always a quick process, especially in fields that require a lot of capital such as financial services for the entire country.
Oh, looks like somebody got picked on a lot. Grow a pair. Mommy and daddy won't always be around to protect you from other peoples words. You know, we used to have a saying "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" then all of a sudden everybody decided words were the worst thing that could happen to a child. Perhaps parents who act like petty shit like this is a big deal are the reason petty shit like this seems to be such a big deal to kids now. I remember being picked on, but the thing is if you just let it roll off, one day you'd be picked on and the next day the same person would be playing with you out on the playground. Its called childhood, and it involves a lot of immaturity. Parents need to stop validating all of their childs "woes".
Ok, since you asked here is how I see this all going down:
This becomes juicy. People like it, Netflix does more of it. Netflix begins with no advertising but raises their rates. Then others (Hulu comes to mind) begin also doing web exclusive content. Hulu does it as ad supported, or no ads with Hulu Plus. These two begin the commercial internet "television" stuff. Others join in, and down the line what we end up with is basically your internet connection being exactly like cable now, but all of the "channels" are ala carte. Finally, they all get together and agree to swap shows. Out-of-network content (streaming content from company B through company 4) comes with ads.
I'm bad at getting my points across. Let me try again.
Well the thing is, lots of things are easy to steal. Lets take a house for example. They're hard to protect. Think about the episode of the simpsons where cooter and his son (the carnies) move in to the Simpsons house and change the locks while they are gone. This in all reality could happen, except we have laws that say "Hey, wait a second, you can't do that. Somebody else owns that. We know its theres because there is a piece of paper with their name on it somewhere." The only reason real property rights exist is because of laws.
Now, that is a case where somebody is deprived of their real property, but lets take it a bit closer to piracy and away from theft. What if instead of squatting in houses I just decided to print money? After all, its easy to produce paper, nobody else physically has less money. And there is such a strong incentive to do it! Yet we see way more piracy than counterfitting. Why? Because counterfitting has a huge penalty associated with it. No hacker is putting out do-it-yourself instructions on how to do this because they would be raped. In the butt. Several times.
The points I'm trying to make is just because something can be done easily doesn't mean you should do it. Pirates love to pirate but if they keep it up, someday they may not have anything worth pirating. The things I mentioned in the previous post are likely consequences of pirates winning. Secondly, high criminal penalties probably would stop piracy. Finally, in the information age, where information is the bedrock of our economy, it is important to everybody that we figure out the solution to reducing piracy. Frankly, I would much rather see harsh criminal penalties than a slew of DRM and monitoring.
Logical next step - unapproved encryption is illegal. The government has already won, the pirates lost and took everybody else with them. Thanks jerks.
The end result can be assigned value. Its done through copyright so that people will want to take on the cost of creating. You are an idiot. Just because copyright should be about 20 years doesn't mean copyright should be done away with. Really, if it was just fine and dandy for everybody to distribute copies of content for free after it was created our information based economy would be completely destroyed. Nobody would want to develop commercial software, nobody would want to write newspapers (this is already happening!) nobody would want to invest the time or money in to creating the next big game, the bottom would fall out of performance computer equipment, game consoles would no longer exist, movies would look like youtube, music would be about the same.
Everything's value is what its purchaser is willing to pay for it. If you make it so people don't have to pay anything for it, then its value will be zero. Once you grow up you don't really have much time to do things that will give you nothing in return. If you make it so they have to pay something for it, it will have value. So if you want media (which you do, as a pirate [probably more than honest citizens]) you should pay for it. Otherwise you will be biting the hand that feeds you. And people talk about the rich for being "greedy" how come you never hear about greedy pirates, slashdot?
Slashdot Mirror
Oh shut your mouth. I'm tired of hearing this bullshit. There are shades of gray in the world. Before Google was allowed over in China there were articles and debates over what was worse, no Google or Google without some of the results. They looked at it and realized "well shit, they aren't getting the democracy links either way, may as well open it up with censored results...." but you could tell they weren't happy about it. Not everything is a war for the human fucking spirit. Sometimes a straw breaks a camels back, sometimes people aren't thinking about ethics violations they have no power to control. Sometimes, people are just trying to provide a service that is better than what was out there. Its good to know dicks like you will always be around to tell them it wasn't pure enough. Maybe Google didn't have the clout to stop censoring until China overstepped itself.
Now go somewhere else and tell all your friends how the only charitable giving is done in secret for causes the donators disagree with so they don't even get satisfaction out of it. Anything less is just people being selfish dicks. Thats what you believe, isn't it?
I think the sentiment of HR is not something stupid. I think its very important, as they will be the gatekeepers for the people I will be working with and therefore dictate the company culture at large to a not-so-small degree. Think down the line when it comes to promotions, etc. It is a bad business decision, indicative of further bad business decisions to come. Maybe people aren't in a position to be picky, but if you've got real talent you probably can be. And for the record, as far as I can tell most companies will talk to you without a degree. Maybe you won't get government contracts, but at least it he midwest its only real douchebag companies that are sticklers.
If they will not talk to you without a degree, thats not the company you want to work for. Seriously. Programmers that come from schools are terrible unless they also happened to want to learn on their own and did so. Of every programmer I've worked with in their twenties, everybody was shit except for those who self-taught. I'm talking people with CS degrees unable to make webpages. Several of them.
The going rate for a decent programmer is pretty high up there. I don't know where people come up with this shit about programming and IT being low paid in the US. Sure, we're not making engineer money, but, you know... we're not engineers. Somebody actually pays me tens of thousands of dollars a year to do what I do for fun. That's a pretty good deal. Maybe you can make more money in China or overseas doing that work, but its not like I'll ever be struggling to put food on the table.
Of course there are cases where that doesn't work. But this is the fucking internet, and not eCommerce or business (or email). Odds of somebody being on the same network as you to get the same IP address that can actually be routed back to, interested in what you're doing, capable of intercepting the cookie and willing to do it are pretty damned low. Did you also know your locks can be picked?
Yes, SSL can be done on a per domain basis. So it isn't IP Address/port, its IP Address/port/host header.
However, SSL doesn't give a shit about private information, so a private IP address being different doesn't matter.
Here is how I would do it if I didn't want to run the whole thing in SSL.
1. Login in through HTTPS
2. Write the cookie and redirect over to HTTP. Sign the cookie with some kind of a hash of values the user shouldn't change + Requester IP Address + random characters.
3. In HTTP land, rebuild the hash, verify a match.
Its not bullet proof but for anything that isn't eCommerce or business, its probably fine.
They may not have paid for it, but they are adding value to slashdot with their information. What value are you adding to Knight Rider by watching it?
I mean, I was mostly joking because this is seriously just a useful product to have for ongoing wars and you shouldn't just attribute every new military technique or piece of equipment to war-mongering. However if you for some reason don't think there are gigantic food conglomerates that manipulate nutrition guidelines and have a huge effect on the health of the world then you're just wrong.
This reminds me of when a friend of mine got involved in a pyramid scheme and was trying to recruit underlings to push him up. I decided I wanted to try to talk some sense in to him so I "set up a meeting". He literally tried to tell me that the money he was making wasn't coming from screwing over people at the bottom because more people are born all the time, so everybody could keep moving up. "But you don't make anything, all you do is try to get people to stop making stuff and buy stuff." "But only the stuff you would buy otherwise, just buy it from here and make money doing it!" "But don't you see that isn't sustainable? People need to make that stuff and they're the ones paying you. They're never going to pay out more than they're taking in, and they have to pay for the manufacturing of the products and all the people who get a cut of your sales!".... Anyway the point is, that guy had a hot wife.
I'm also in the same boat. I don't use many coupons to begin with but I am kind of starting to hate the website. I think its because it stinks of Facebook. Way overvalued, way too easy to implement, and when there is a small shift in the internet or culture (which happens only constantly) they will find themselves unable to pay back their investors. So I try to pretend the website and the bubble aren't happening, but when they stuff ads in your face its kind of hard.
At least Facebook has something unique in their critical mass and have done a good job integrating themselves with everything else. They're still way overvalued and people seem to think it will always be here.
Yeah, war is definitely making people rich. But you should check out the real problem which is all the money being made off of hunger. Fucking farmers. Clearly they're to blame for China's population problems.
You answered your own question. Costs go down, fees stay the same because more and more people are using the cards, and they're making more and more money. If anything they should be RAISING the fees. Now at some point though, stores will stop accepting credit cards or as it becomes easier and easier there will be competitors to Visa and Mastercard. You already see Wal-Mart and Speedway rolling out their own credit cards, and these are not exactly high end places. How long until they decide to process the transactions on their own without riding on Visa or Mastercard's backs?
In short, your general assessment of when a market is failing is flawed by retarded expectations. The conditions for them to be undercut are in the process of forming. The market isn't a magical box that is always at optimal performance. As conditions change it needs to adjust and thats not always a quick process, especially in fields that require a lot of capital such as financial services for the entire country.
Oh, I know this one! 1 second.
Oh, looks like somebody got picked on a lot. Grow a pair. Mommy and daddy won't always be around to protect you from other peoples words. You know, we used to have a saying "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" then all of a sudden everybody decided words were the worst thing that could happen to a child. Perhaps parents who act like petty shit like this is a big deal are the reason petty shit like this seems to be such a big deal to kids now. I remember being picked on, but the thing is if you just let it roll off, one day you'd be picked on and the next day the same person would be playing with you out on the playground. Its called childhood, and it involves a lot of immaturity. Parents need to stop validating all of their childs "woes".
Well that document did give them the power to make those decisions.... so.... Yeah. There.
Ok, since you asked here is how I see this all going down:
This becomes juicy. People like it, Netflix does more of it. Netflix begins with no advertising but raises their rates. Then others (Hulu comes to mind) begin also doing web exclusive content. Hulu does it as ad supported, or no ads with Hulu Plus. These two begin the commercial internet "television" stuff. Others join in, and down the line what we end up with is basically your internet connection being exactly like cable now, but all of the "channels" are ala carte. Finally, they all get together and agree to swap shows. Out-of-network content (streaming content from company B through company 4) comes with ads.
What you need is boxee. Boxee Box finally supports netflix if you don't have a media PC yet.
Down with cable TV tyrants, and up with cable internet tyrants!
...Wait. That can't be right.
I'm bad at getting my points across. Let me try again.
Well the thing is, lots of things are easy to steal. Lets take a house for example. They're hard to protect. Think about the episode of the simpsons where cooter and his son (the carnies) move in to the Simpsons house and change the locks while they are gone. This in all reality could happen, except we have laws that say "Hey, wait a second, you can't do that. Somebody else owns that. We know its theres because there is a piece of paper with their name on it somewhere." The only reason real property rights exist is because of laws.
Now, that is a case where somebody is deprived of their real property, but lets take it a bit closer to piracy and away from theft. What if instead of squatting in houses I just decided to print money? After all, its easy to produce paper, nobody else physically has less money. And there is such a strong incentive to do it! Yet we see way more piracy than counterfitting. Why? Because counterfitting has a huge penalty associated with it. No hacker is putting out do-it-yourself instructions on how to do this because they would be raped. In the butt. Several times.
The points I'm trying to make is just because something can be done easily doesn't mean you should do it. Pirates love to pirate but if they keep it up, someday they may not have anything worth pirating. The things I mentioned in the previous post are likely consequences of pirates winning. Secondly, high criminal penalties probably would stop piracy. Finally, in the information age, where information is the bedrock of our economy, it is important to everybody that we figure out the solution to reducing piracy. Frankly, I would much rather see harsh criminal penalties than a slew of DRM and monitoring.
They're less at fault than the pirates.
You mean as you get older being a know-it-all jackass loses its appeal? I'm shocked!
Logical next step - unapproved encryption is illegal. The government has already won, the pirates lost and took everybody else with them. Thanks jerks.
The end result can be assigned value. Its done through copyright so that people will want to take on the cost of creating. You are an idiot. Just because copyright should be about 20 years doesn't mean copyright should be done away with. Really, if it was just fine and dandy for everybody to distribute copies of content for free after it was created our information based economy would be completely destroyed. Nobody would want to develop commercial software, nobody would want to write newspapers (this is already happening!) nobody would want to invest the time or money in to creating the next big game, the bottom would fall out of performance computer equipment, game consoles would no longer exist, movies would look like youtube, music would be about the same.
Everything's value is what its purchaser is willing to pay for it. If you make it so people don't have to pay anything for it, then its value will be zero. Once you grow up you don't really have much time to do things that will give you nothing in return. If you make it so they have to pay something for it, it will have value. So if you want media (which you do, as a pirate [probably more than honest citizens]) you should pay for it. Otherwise you will be biting the hand that feeds you. And people talk about the rich for being "greedy" how come you never hear about greedy pirates, slashdot?
So the question is, do they want to be the 51st state? It is my understanding that largely they do not, which is why this hasn't been a problem.