i can't link to the url, because i can only find these guidelines from the edit screen for my kickstarter project (see my sig), but there is a lot you cannot kickstart:
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it should care if it is effective. snake oil salesman kill people financially, and literally, by wasting their time on ineffective or even potentially dangerous "treatments" for medical conditions. people with medical conditions are desperate, and they don't have a medical degree. society owes it to them to protect them from charlatans
that's a good point. but there is no product being advertised for end users, just advertising for venture capital
of course, if the product gets demoed and sampled by random end users, and this is made possible by this guy's kickstarter like portal, yeah, that's a problem. it's a fine line he's walking, and he should be very careful. it doesn't mean his scheme won't work, it just means all the implications and possibilities have to be thought out in advance and guarded against, or he will go down in legal flames
The guy is providing you with research and development, for free.
Hire him, you blind idiots.
You'd prefer this hack had been quietly discovered in the wild by somebody who isn't so upfront with the techniques? And then deal with the cost and PR fiasco of violated iPhone users?
Wake up, Apple HQ morons.
Your wallet product is being hardened against exploit, for FREE, and you punish the guy for it.
did you use yahoo voice? only yahoo voice customers were affected
not that this story shouldn't change your opinion of yahoo, and therefore dumping them is a good choice on your part
i'm just saying the article specifically mentions yahoo voice customers as the victims, which i was about 2 years ago, but, if you weren't, you should be ok
capitalism is a beast of burden. yolk it and you can plough your land and do great things. let it loose and it runs roughshod over your farm, breaking everything
you don't worship capitalism, you put it to work: you siphon off the excess capital and do some good with it. what's the alternative? richie rich getting another mansion?
not that there shouldn't be rich people. but they are rich because of the society they are in. so that society needs to be taken care of
granddaddy's granddaddy was a proper wifebeating drunk in ireland or germany. alcohol is a familiar. therefore it's ok
meanwhile, look at these mexicans and their loco weed! scary otherness! outlaw that stuff!
seriously. this is the reason marijuana is illegal in the usa:
The first group of states to have marijuana laws in that part of the century were Rocky Mountain and southwestern states. By that, I mean Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana. You didn't have to go anywhere but to the legislative records to find out what had motivated those marijuana laws. The only thing you need to know to understand the early marijuana laws in the southwest and Rocky Mountain areas of this country is to know, that in the period just after 1914, into all of those areas was a substantial migration of Mexicans. They had come across the border in search of better economic conditions, they worked heavily as rural laborers, beet field workers, cotton pickers, things of that sort. And with them, they had brought marijuana.
Basically, none of the white people in these states knew anything about marijuana, and I make a distinction between white people and Mexicans to reflect a distinction that any legislator in one of these states at the time would have made. And all you had to do to find out what motivated the marijuana laws in the Rocky mountain and southwestern states was to go to the legislative records themselves. Probably the best single statement was the statement of a proponent of Texas’ first marijuana law. He said on the floor of the Texas Senate, and I quote, "All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff (referring to marijuana) is what makes them crazy." Or, as the proponent of Montana's first marijuana law said, (and imagine this on the floor of the state legislature) and I quote, "Give one of these Mexican beet field workers a couple of puffs on a marijuana cigarette and he thinks he is in the bullring at Barcelona."
i bet we find that most of these objects are more like swarms of loosely coupled rocks
way out there, there's no sun or gas giant to sweep the area, and nothing grouped together in the earlier part so the solar system: too much distance. so it is accretion in slow motion, and, being mostly solid and cold, bits of junk that never really gelled, just sort of banged together
these cloudy wobbly grainy agglomerations are going to smash any probe we send to them
"if you were standing in the forest, you could be hit by a falling tree. therefore, because we cut down this tree and killed that guy standing over there, we're not responsible, because getting killed by falling trees happens naturally"
secure email on your cellphone with a really good interface was a really big deal in its time
them iPhone came along, shortly thereafter android, and took the next quantum leap
that's the whole story
and don't worry about it RIM: somewhere, some team is thinking up the next quantum leap, and android and iPhone will be left in the dustbin of history, just like all those blackberries
the grammar nazi's kid sister: the analogy literalist
i swear, every time someone posts an analogy on slashdot, somebody has to get pedantic with the analogy
there IS such a thing as bad analogies, but why esperanto isn't spoken is a good analogy as to why the dvorak or any other nonQWERTY keyboard won't take off: historical lock in
THAT'S the analogy. get it? historical lock in
but you go and take a literalist approach to the analogy, and think it means something to point out an analogy is not the same equivalency. no: your point means nothing. really. it just means you are being pedantic
we understand an analogy has its limits. ok? everyone can see this. it is an easy, and pointless, exercise to point out where two examples are not the same. the point is: where are they the same? and does that say something useful?
slashdot, please listen:
pointing out where two examples are not analogous, UNLESS that difference counteracts the parts that are analogous, is USELESS
The English language has all sorts of grammar, spelling, and pronunciation problems. It's a nasty difficult to learn mix of germanic and romance language pronounciation and word derivations. Take the word "Sure". Where is the "H" in "sure"? Speaking of "where", why is it not "ware"? And what the bleep is up with "cough", "dough", and "plough"? Ridiculous nonsense, horrible language with too many idiosyncratic oddities to learn.
And yet it remains an international standard for business. Why? History, that's why.
And that history locks the language in this role is the deciding factor, regardless of how much more intelligently designed, more easily learned, more easily understood, that Esperanto is.
And same applies to the QWERTY keyboard. I am certain there are more intelligent designs out there, like the dvorak:
learn it, post it. make it your underground battle cry
Here in the West, we outsource all manufacturing to China. In China, they outsource all rights protections to the West.
A curious, obviously temporary, global arrangement. The West's economy will collapse, and angry Chinese will rise up and demand their rights. Give it 10-20 years.
and yet the US DOJ and the rent seeking corporate parasites on whose behalf this fiasco is spearheaded, make Kim Dotcom look like an angelic martyr
copyright law is such a joke. when you try to enforce it, you wind up with hilarious farces like this atrocious case
Dear Kiwis:
As an American, I apologize for my government creating this farce in your country. There are plenty of Americans who are right there with you in thinking what a trumped up pile of sheepshit this painful embarrassment is.
Regards, your fellow media conglomerate rent seeking parasite hater
look: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE MARKET ON ROADS
free market implies a choice between competitors. you want doubly, triply, quadruply redundant roads?!
but even with redundant road networks, you don't even have a free market, because without REGULATION (which keeps a market truly free, as in just, as in equal playing field for big guys and little guys) you have an OLIGOPOLY, where the big players collude amongst themselves and the consumer loses: squeeze you for any price they can get away with, and prevent any other little players form sprouting up. you have everything you hate about government and not even a pretense, like our real government, that the arrangement is supposed to serve the interests of the average citizen
of course, our government frequently makes bad decisions that hurt the common man: where corporate interests infect the government! so we kill the government and hand society over to the very criminal enterprises that are destroying the entity that is suppose to work on your behalf? wtf?!
or say you are in the middle of nowhere, with one road, built by a private enterprise: then what you have is a MONOPOLY, which is NOTHING like a free market! so another guy is going to build a road right alongside, is that what you are saying? he has the $1 billion in startup costs and can wait out the 20 years before he sees a penny in profit to get his second road up and running... when there is another road already built?! what the hell are you smoking? free market on roads: hilarious stupidity
it's all that you hate about the abuses of a government, without any mandate that the arrangement is for the little guy. it is in fact, for the big guy to profit off you and squeeze you as much as it wants, without any recourse for you whatsoever: you have no choice, and you can't sue them (oh, you have six months to spare, $100,000 to spend, and then you lose anyway because the corporation has a legion of lawyer goons that can wait you out?)
sheesh, what is the exact source of the colossal stupidity about the nature of "free" markets? wake up ignorant fan boys
that's the most amazing part, how many fools swallow faux news, which is basically corporate propaganda, at the expense of their own health and financial well-being
Slashdot Mirror
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2974969&cid=40628353
i can't link to the url, because i can only find these guidelines from the edit screen for my kickstarter project (see my sig), but there is a lot you cannot kickstart:
it should care if it is effective. snake oil salesman kill people financially, and literally, by wasting their time on ineffective or even potentially dangerous "treatments" for medical conditions. people with medical conditions are desperate, and they don't have a medical degree. society owes it to them to protect them from charlatans
besides, you like to hear this on your tv?:
HEADON! Apply directly to the forehead!
HEADON! Apply directly to the forehead!
HEADON! Apply directly to the forehead!
that's a good point. but there is no product being advertised for end users, just advertising for venture capital
of course, if the product gets demoed and sampled by random end users, and this is made possible by this guy's kickstarter like portal, yeah, that's a problem. it's a fine line he's walking, and he should be very careful. it doesn't mean his scheme won't work, it just means all the implications and possibilities have to be thought out in advance and guarded against, or he will go down in legal flames
The guy is providing you with research and development, for free.
Hire him, you blind idiots.
You'd prefer this hack had been quietly discovered in the wild by somebody who isn't so upfront with the techniques? And then deal with the cost and PR fiasco of violated iPhone users?
Wake up, Apple HQ morons.
Your wallet product is being hardened against exploit, for FREE, and you punish the guy for it.
did you use yahoo voice? only yahoo voice customers were affected
not that this story shouldn't change your opinion of yahoo, and therefore dumping them is a good choice on your part
i'm just saying the article specifically mentions yahoo voice customers as the victims, which i was about 2 years ago, but, if you weren't, you should be ok
Just changed my password.
Thanks Slashdot, seriously.
exactly
capitalism is a beast of burden. yolk it and you can plough your land and do great things. let it loose and it runs roughshod over your farm, breaking everything
you don't worship capitalism, you put it to work: you siphon off the excess capital and do some good with it. what's the alternative? richie rich getting another mansion?
not that there shouldn't be rich people. but they are rich because of the society they are in. so that society needs to be taken care of
making mounds and long houses are not unique to vikings and native americans
Arranged them as a cross. That would have awesome.
Bonus: it folds up into a cube. Then the goths would make "hellraiser" jokes and the Christians wouldn't get it
granddaddy's granddaddy was a proper wifebeating drunk in ireland or germany. alcohol is a familiar. therefore it's ok
meanwhile, look at these mexicans and their loco weed! scary otherness! outlaw that stuff!
seriously. this is the reason marijuana is illegal in the usa:
http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/dpf/whitebread05.html
or any other far out solar system object
i bet we find that most of these objects are more like swarms of loosely coupled rocks
way out there, there's no sun or gas giant to sweep the area, and nothing grouped together in the earlier part so the solar system: too much distance. so it is accretion in slow motion, and, being mostly solid and cold, bits of junk that never really gelled, just sort of banged together
these cloudy wobbly grainy agglomerations are going to smash any probe we send to them
for consumer reimbursement in such cases
you'd see these situations get settled long before the consumer suffers
but i guess the average consumer, because they don't have a lobbyist, doesn't get a say
perhaps it is good then: no tv, maybe they'll get off their asses and agitate or vote
"if you were standing in the forest, you could be hit by a falling tree. therefore, because we cut down this tree and killed that guy standing over there, we're not responsible, because getting killed by falling trees happens naturally"
secure email on your cellphone with a really good interface was a really big deal in its time
them iPhone came along, shortly thereafter android, and took the next quantum leap
that's the whole story
and don't worry about it RIM: somewhere, some team is thinking up the next quantum leap, and android and iPhone will be left in the dustbin of history, just like all those blackberries
<blatant-sales-pitch>
my anti-tea party movie on kickstarter, gentle social satire
watch the preliminary trailer!
</blatant-sales-pitch>
not off topic! it's a kickstarter project (ok, ok, somewhat off topic)
i mean, er, don't be really evil*
*we made need to add another really in there at some point
exactly!
what is the point of civilization? what is the purpose of your life?
to enrich some guy who's dad was rich too, that's the point!
you should have just said:
"i'm an esperanto speaking dvorak keyboard user, you insensitive clod!"
the grammar nazi's kid sister: the analogy literalist
i swear, every time someone posts an analogy on slashdot, somebody has to get pedantic with the analogy
there IS such a thing as bad analogies, but why esperanto isn't spoken is a good analogy as to why the dvorak or any other nonQWERTY keyboard won't take off: historical lock in
THAT'S the analogy. get it? historical lock in
but you go and take a literalist approach to the analogy, and think it means something to point out an analogy is not the same equivalency. no: your point means nothing. really. it just means you are being pedantic
we understand an analogy has its limits. ok? everyone can see this. it is an easy, and pointless, exercise to point out where two examples are not the same. the point is: where are they the same? and does that say something useful?
slashdot, please listen:
pointing out where two examples are not analogous, UNLESS that difference counteracts the parts that are analogous, is USELESS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
The English language has all sorts of grammar, spelling, and pronunciation problems. It's a nasty difficult to learn mix of germanic and romance language pronounciation and word derivations. Take the word "Sure". Where is the "H" in "sure"? Speaking of "where", why is it not "ware"? And what the bleep is up with "cough", "dough", and "plough"? Ridiculous nonsense, horrible language with too many idiosyncratic oddities to learn.
And yet it remains an international standard for business. Why? History, that's why.
And that history locks the language in this role is the deciding factor, regardless of how much more intelligently designed, more easily learned, more easily understood, that Esperanto is.
And same applies to the QWERTY keyboard. I am certain there are more intelligent designs out there, like the dvorak:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard
And so why hasn't the dvorak caught on? And why won't this new keyboard catch on? Historical lock in, that's why.
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
learn it, post it. make it your underground battle cry
Here in the West, we outsource all manufacturing to China. In China, they outsource all rights protections to the West.
A curious, obviously temporary, global arrangement. The West's economy will collapse, and angry Chinese will rise up and demand their rights. Give it 10-20 years.
and yet the US DOJ and the rent seeking corporate parasites on whose behalf this fiasco is spearheaded, make Kim Dotcom look like an angelic martyr
copyright law is such a joke. when you try to enforce it, you wind up with hilarious farces like this atrocious case
Dear Kiwis:
As an American, I apologize for my government creating this farce in your country. There are plenty of Americans who are right there with you in thinking what a trumped up pile of sheepshit this painful embarrassment is.
Regards,
your fellow media conglomerate rent seeking parasite hater
free market fundamentalism
look: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE MARKET ON ROADS
free market implies a choice between competitors. you want doubly, triply, quadruply redundant roads?!
but even with redundant road networks, you don't even have a free market, because without REGULATION (which keeps a market truly free, as in just, as in equal playing field for big guys and little guys) you have an OLIGOPOLY, where the big players collude amongst themselves and the consumer loses: squeeze you for any price they can get away with, and prevent any other little players form sprouting up. you have everything you hate about government and not even a pretense, like our real government, that the arrangement is supposed to serve the interests of the average citizen
of course, our government frequently makes bad decisions that hurt the common man: where corporate interests infect the government! so we kill the government and hand society over to the very criminal enterprises that are destroying the entity that is suppose to work on your behalf? wtf?!
or say you are in the middle of nowhere, with one road, built by a private enterprise: then what you have is a MONOPOLY, which is NOTHING like a free market! so another guy is going to build a road right alongside, is that what you are saying? he has the $1 billion in startup costs and can wait out the 20 years before he sees a penny in profit to get his second road up and running... when there is another road already built?! what the hell are you smoking? free market on roads: hilarious stupidity
it's all that you hate about the abuses of a government, without any mandate that the arrangement is for the little guy. it is in fact, for the big guy to profit off you and squeeze you as much as it wants, without any recourse for you whatsoever: you have no choice, and you can't sue them (oh, you have six months to spare, $100,000 to spend, and then you lose anyway because the corporation has a legion of lawyer goons that can wait you out?)
sheesh, what is the exact source of the colossal stupidity about the nature of "free" markets? wake up ignorant fan boys
that's the most amazing part, how many fools swallow faux news, which is basically corporate propaganda, at the expense of their own health and financial well-being