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My girlfriend used to use X.com as her bank, which was bought out by PayPal.com during the bubble. They offered great interest rates regular checking accounts, roughly 4%, which is generally unheard of for a checking account.
Well, as most internet things go, if it's too good to be true, it'll go under. After about 9 months in service, the PayPal people decided it was not part of thier "core" technology to keep the back part of biz, so they let it go. Everyone's accounts went into limbo-land for about a month (this happend to me too at another online back) while they were transfered to another bank and/or sent you money by mail. If you were lucky, you got out quick before your account went into limbo, but some didn't. Nothing was actually *lost*, but x.com (paypal) left a lot of upset people looking for another bank.
Does this relate? Sure: If it's too good, or cool, to be true, it won't be around for long. Example is the "unlimited" credit card payments PayPal first offered. After a while, they put a $100 cap on it. Also, they've got a really skeleton crew over there, and I've heard customer support sucks.
In my view, PayPal is just a really snazzy front end for one of those CHECKS CASHED stands you see on the bad side of town. Most transactions work fine, but when you get screwed (usually by a bogus seller and now a failing transaction), you ain't getting your money back. You just got screwed.
My girlfriend used to use X.com as her bank, which was bought out by PayPal.com during the bubble. They offered great interest rates regular checking accounts, roughly 4%, which is generally unheard of for a checking account.
Well, as most internet things go, if it's too good to be true, it'll go under. After about 9 months in service, the PayPal people decided it was not part of thier "core" technology to keep the back part of biz, so they let it go. Everyone's accounts went into limbo-land for about a month (this happend to me too at another online back) while they were transfered to another bank and/or sent you money by mail. If you were lucky, you got out quick before your account went into limbo, but some didn't. Nothing was actually *lost*, but x.com (paypal) left a lot of upset people looking for another bank.
Does this relate? Sure: If it's too good, or cool, to be true, it won't be around for long. Example is the "unlimited" credit card payments PayPal first offered. After a while, they put a $100 cap on it. Also, they've got a really skeleton crew over there, and I've heard customer support sucks.
In my view, PayPal is just a really snazzy front end for one of those CHECKS CASHED stands you see on the bad side of town. Most transactions work fine, but when you get screwed (usually by a bogus seller and now a failing transaction), you ain't getting your money back. You just got screwed.
But the CD is *supposed* to play on a regular CD player. It seems to me that the
recording industry is going to have to get into bed with the hardware manufactures
to make sure they conform to their protection standard.
For example, there are regional codes on DVDs and DVD *players* to make sure
they're only playable where they were released. Another hardware/software
marriage was the 5-byte key to extract DVD info from a disk (later cracked).
So, it appears that regular CD players are going to have to undergo a change in
order for any successful protection to work, since the CDRs (or new drivers) could
emulate a cd player.
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(this post has breaks, unlike the first one.) My girlfriend used to use X.com as her bank, which was bought out by PayPal.com during the bubble. They offered great interest rates regular checking accounts, roughly 4%, which is generally unheard of for a checking account.
Well, as most internet things go, if it's too good to be true, it'll go under. After about 9 months in service, the PayPal people decided it was not part of thier "core" technology to keep the back part of biz, so they let it go. Everyone's accounts went into limbo-land for about a month (this happend to me too at another online back) while they were transfered to another bank and/or sent you money by mail. If you were lucky, you got out quick before your account went into limbo, but some didn't. Nothing was actually *lost*, but x.com (paypal) left a lot of upset people looking for another bank.
Does this relate? Sure: If it's too good, or cool, to be true, it won't be around for long. Example is the "unlimited" credit card payments PayPal first offered. After a while, they put a $100 cap on it. Also, they've got a really skeleton crew over there, and I've heard customer support sucks.
In my view, PayPal is just a really snazzy front end for one of those CHECKS CASHED stands you see on the bad side of town. Most transactions work fine, but when you get screwed (usually by a bogus seller and now a failing transaction), you ain't getting your money back. You just got screwed.
My girlfriend used to use X.com as her bank, which was bought out by PayPal.com during the bubble. They offered great interest rates regular checking accounts, roughly 4%, which is generally unheard of for a checking account. Well, as most internet things go, if it's too good to be true, it'll go under. After about 9 months in service, the PayPal people decided it was not part of thier "core" technology to keep the back part of biz, so they let it go. Everyone's accounts went into limbo-land for about a month (this happend to me too at another online back) while they were transfered to another bank and/or sent you money by mail. If you were lucky, you got out quick before your account went into limbo, but some didn't. Nothing was actually *lost*, but x.com (paypal) left a lot of upset people looking for another bank. Does this relate? Sure: If it's too good, or cool, to be true, it won't be around for long. Example is the "unlimited" credit card payments PayPal first offered. After a while, they put a $100 cap on it. Also, they've got a really skeleton crew over there, and I've heard customer support sucks. In my view, PayPal is just a really snazzy front end for one of those CHECKS CASHED stands you see on the bad side of town. Most transactions work fine, but when you get screwed (usually by a bogus seller and now a failing transaction), you ain't getting your money back. You just got screwed.
here are some websites they've done....
ah I see.
But the CD is *supposed* to play on a regular CD player. It seems to me that the recording industry is going to have to get into bed with the hardware manufactures to make sure they conform to their protection standard.
For example, there are regional codes on DVDs and DVD *players* to make sure they're only playable where they were released. Another hardware/software marriage was the 5-byte key to extract DVD info from a disk (later cracked).
So, it appears that regular CD players are going to have to undergo a change in order for any successful protection to work, since the CDRs (or new drivers) could emulate a cd player.
PS: got some info from here.