Thanks, I heard the WHOOSHING sound, but I think it might have been as your post went by and missed the bigger picture.;-)
What we are risking, is turning ANY kind of public position into a witch-hunt, even those positions as trivial as Miss Vermont. And given the publicity availabe by the internet, the lines of public positions will probably become more blurred. For example, does writing a blog now qualify you as a public figure?
What is an important position? Do you honestly think Miss Vermont is? Where is that line? Are you, because you posted on slashdot? Maybe you should be investigated before anyone moderates your post!
And is Barbara Streisand an important figure? She's not in any public position, so I fail to see why she should be in public office.
I for one want normal people with all their flaws running the country. I don't care about their dark secrets, I want to know what they can do TODAY.
If you can't face up to your past, DON'T pursue a role as a public figure (like Miss Pure-and-Proper America -- DUH). Eventually, it's gonna come back and bite you in the ass. Either have the ovaries to stand up and address the "mistakes" you've made, or STFU and retire to a quiet life of obscurity
Do you really believe that? Should every person who wants to run for any kind of public position be forced to lead a quiet and sanctimonious life?
Personally I don't want the David Souters of the world to be the only ones holding important positions. Real people who have lived real lives should also be able to. Otherwise the US is going to become a really boring (and repressed) country.
I think over time the guidelines on privacy may have to change, first amendment or not. People are entitled to a certain level of privacy, "celebrity" status or not.
By attempting to inflate a site's pagerank through a monetary transaction (thus using artificial methods), you are essentially trying to buy popularity with money.
As much as I don't like SearchKind's tacky PR methods, they do raise an important point.
What is wrong with advertising links from websites? And why is it different when Google does it via google adwords?
Yes, people are paying for pagerank and manipulating the system. But advertising is an integral part of how things work. If you disagree with what SearchKing is doing, you disagree with advertising on television. Something we want for free (eg a TV show) is subsidized by something that makes money (an ad).
Linking from one page to another, whether paid or not is reasonable, right and fair.
As a user, I want google to return the best search results. But over the longer term, a better way to evaluate website rankings needs to be invented.
I completely understand this kind of energy and focus.
But why not focus that passion on companies that are using DRM now?
If companies start to realise that the moment they start using DRM that hordes of raving slashdotters will do their best to wreak havoc - but that it will go away once they stop - thats a pretty powerful lesson in my opinion.
We're on the same page on this. I think its better to punish the ones still using DRM and reward the ones who stopped using it. Then the companies who stopped using it will say "wow, people were really happy we stopped with that", and word will get around in the industry.
We've been through the DRM tests in the past about 10-15 years ago, now we're going through it again.
Intuit should be made to feel pain, and I mean deep hurting
So if a friend of yours has done something wrong to you, but then stopped, do you continue to punish them until "they feel pain....deep hurting"?
Or do you say "ok, you've stopped, I'm glad you understand, now lets move on and make things more positive."?
Intuit ought to be rewarded for moving past DRM. This will encourage other companies to do the same. Sure, don't use their software while they are using DRM. But once they drop it, its time to go back with open arms and welcome them back. Be happy that they've seen the light.
Lead generation is an important aspect of selling online. If you use a lot of fake signups to decrease the quality of the leads, the mortgage and other financial companies won't be willing to pay so much for them anymore. If you did it well, you could have them refuse to pay.
This will decrease the profit to the spammers and make this approach much less cost effective via spam.
I hope someone here with the resources and time considers doing this.
This is just one element of a bigger picture of what's wrong with the way our economy is being run. As market dynamics force a greater focus on shareholder value over solid profit models, and on the short term over the long term, industry is pushed more and more towards a strategy that focuses on the short term bottom line.
At some level you have to be short term focused. You can't go off and spend billions of dollars on R&D that isn't going to work. (see the.com meltdown). R&D investment has to be focused in a profitable direction - and this comes through gradually testing ideas, and then investing in the ones which work.
Money is not always the solution.
There's some geolocation software out there for ip addresses - maxmind.com is one. Although their level of accuracy isn't good enough yet, I think they can only do zipcodes so far.
a) they're placed close to what someone is searching for.
b) their keyword relevance is selected by the user. As we all know, there's much more power and accuracy as users provide more information (compare dmoz & yahoo for example).
Slashdot could easily do the same - put some contexctually based pay per click ads close to the stories. This would help all of us.
For example, see a story about MySQL? Put a list on the side of the story comprised of text based PPC ads. The advertisers who want to be associated with that product will know how much its worth for them to be listed at the top.
Simply having some "idea" and not bringing it to fruitation doesn't count for shit. I have an idea about a perfect User Interface which intelligently predicts what the user does/wants, and re-configures itself dynamically based around that. That doesn't count for shit: only the actual implementation of that idea
Well, you should patent your idea. First put together an invention disclosure, signed by two witnesses and dated (just send it by mail to yourself will work). Then get $15k and a patent attorney, and put together a filing.
You don't have to have the idea working - just get the idea first into the patent office. The advantage in having the idea working is that you can get a much stronger and more accurate patent.
Oftentimes companies will file one patent when they have the idea, and then come back and file a couple more later on, once they've implemented the idea.
You should really learn a bit more about this before posting about this on slashdot.
AIESEC is the world's largest student run organization, setting up work exchanges in 87 countries. They usually have a real demand for people with a background like yours. You won't be paid a lot of money, but you will get an amazing cultural experience.
Creative Commons is an non profit orgnanization started by Larry Lessig dedicated to releasing alternative licenses for music, video and all other content. (disclaimer, I am involved).
Soon we'll be releasing some licenses to the public which will enable artists to do exactly what you need - mark their content according to how they want it to be distributed. We don't believe in only having the black and white options of just copyright or public domain. While those are good, we're going to create some more differences, such as "non-commercially redistributable", "derivatives allowed", "no derivatives allowed", etc.
It doesn't solve your problem *today*, but it will start to help soon. You can subscribe to our mailing list to stay informed.
> The Amiga suffered from an identity > crisis that the company never solved. Was > it a gaming machine? People were happy > enough with their Ataris. A music synthesizer?
The amiga was hugely popular in Europe and Australia. I should know, I grew up in Australia and spent a lot of time with people using these in Europe.
The amiga didn't take off in the US for a variety of reasons, probably largely marketing related.
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Thanks, I heard the WHOOSHING sound, but I think it might have been as your post went by and missed the bigger picture. ;-)
What we are risking, is turning ANY kind of public position into a witch-hunt, even those positions as trivial as Miss Vermont. And given the publicity availabe by the internet, the lines of public positions will probably become more blurred. For example, does writing a blog now qualify you as a public figure?
What is an important position? Do you honestly think Miss Vermont is? Where is that line? Are you, because you posted on slashdot? Maybe you should be investigated before anyone moderates your post!
And is Barbara Streisand an important figure? She's not in any public position, so I fail to see why she should be in public office.
I for one want normal people with all their flaws running the country. I don't care about their dark secrets, I want to know what they can do TODAY.
Adrian
If you can't face up to your past, DON'T pursue a role as a public figure (like Miss Pure-and-Proper America -- DUH). Eventually, it's gonna come back and bite you in the ass. Either have the ovaries to stand up and address the "mistakes" you've made, or STFU and retire to a quiet life of obscurity
Do you really believe that? Should every person who wants to run for any kind of public position be forced to lead a quiet and sanctimonious life?
Personally I don't want the David Souters of the world to be the only ones holding important positions. Real people who have lived real lives should also be able to. Otherwise the US is going to become a really boring (and repressed) country.
I think over time the guidelines on privacy may have to change, first amendment or not. People are entitled to a certain level of privacy, "celebrity" status or not.
Adrian
As much as I don't like SearchKind's tacky PR methods, they do raise an important point.
What is wrong with advertising links from websites? And why is it different when Google does it via google adwords?
Yes, people are paying for pagerank and manipulating the system. But advertising is an integral part of how things work. If you disagree with what SearchKing is doing, you disagree with advertising on television. Something we want for free (eg a TV show) is subsidized by something that makes money (an ad). Linking from one page to another, whether paid or not is reasonable, right and fair.
As a user, I want google to return the best search results. But over the longer term, a better way to evaluate website rankings needs to be invented.
I completely understand this kind of energy and focus.
But why not focus that passion on companies that are using DRM now?
If companies start to realise that the moment they start using DRM that hordes of raving slashdotters will do their best to wreak havoc - but that it will go away once they stop - thats a pretty powerful lesson in my opinion.
We're on the same page on this. I think its better to punish the ones still using DRM and reward the ones who stopped using it. Then the companies who stopped using it will say "wow, people were really happy we stopped with that", and word will get around in the industry.
We've been through the DRM tests in the past about 10-15 years ago, now we're going through it again.
Intuit should be made to feel pain, and I mean deep hurting
..deep hurting"?
So if a friend of yours has done something wrong to you, but then stopped, do you continue to punish them until "they feel pain..
Or do you say "ok, you've stopped, I'm glad you understand, now lets move on and make things more positive."?
Intuit ought to be rewarded for moving past DRM. This will encourage other companies to do the same. Sure, don't use their software while they are using DRM. But once they drop it, its time to go back with open arms and welcome them back. Be happy that they've seen the light.
For more on this line of thinking read "Don't shoot the dog".
It'll blow your mind and get you much further than continual punishment.
This is a great idea!
Lead generation is an important aspect of selling online. If you use a lot of fake signups to decrease the quality of the leads, the mortgage and other financial companies won't be willing to pay so much for them anymore. If you did it well, you could have them refuse to pay.
This will decrease the profit to the spammers and make this approach much less cost effective via spam.
I hope someone here with the resources and time considers doing this.
Then you should be doing a better job of marketing it!
At some level you have to be short term focused. You can't go off and spend billions of dollars on R&D that isn't going to work. (see the .com meltdown). R&D investment has to be focused in a profitable direction - and this comes through gradually testing ideas, and then investing in the ones which work.
Money is not always the solution.
How were you able to get all these listings? Netsol doesn't allow searching by owner any more as far as I know..
There's some geolocation software out there for ip addresses - maxmind.com is one. Although their level of accuracy isn't good enough yet, I think they can only do zipcodes so far.
Text ads work well in google because
a) they're placed close to what someone is searching for.
b) their keyword relevance is selected by the user. As we all know, there's much more power and accuracy as users provide more information (compare dmoz & yahoo for example).
Slashdot could easily do the same - put some contexctually based pay per click ads close to the stories. This would help all of us.
For example, see a story about MySQL? Put a list on the side of the story comprised of text based PPC ads. The advertisers who want to be associated with that product will know how much its worth for them to be listed at the top.
Well, you should patent your idea. First put together an invention disclosure, signed by two witnesses and dated (just send it by mail to yourself will work). Then get $15k and a patent attorney, and put together a filing.
You don't have to have the idea working - just get the idea first into the patent office. The advantage in having the idea working is that you can get a much stronger and more accurate patent.
Oftentimes companies will file one patent when they have the idea, and then come back and file a couple more later on, once they've implemented the idea.
You should really learn a bit more about this before posting about this on slashdot.
AIESEC is the world's largest student run organization, setting up work exchanges in 87 countries. They usually have a real demand for people with a background like yours. You won't be paid a lot of money, but you will get an amazing cultural experience.
Soon we'll be releasing some licenses to the public which will enable artists to do exactly what you need - mark their content according to how they want it to be distributed. We don't believe in only having the black and white options of just copyright or public domain. While those are good, we're going to create some more differences, such as "non-commercially redistributable", "derivatives allowed", "no derivatives allowed", etc.
It doesn't solve your problem *today*, but it will start to help soon. You can subscribe to our mailing list to stay informed.
> The Amiga suffered from an identity
> crisis that the company never solved. Was
> it a gaming machine? People were happy
> enough with their Ataris. A music synthesizer?
The amiga was hugely popular in Europe and Australia. I should know, I grew up in Australia and spent a lot of time with people using these in Europe.
The amiga didn't take off in the US for a variety of reasons, probably largely marketing related.