"Why not? Simply add up the cost to provide the whole metered service, divide by the number of people who will pay for the service, add in your 12% for a return on your assets/investment, and there you go."
You can't add up the cost to provide the whole metered service. The only way you could possibly do this is to limit the number of page views because upstream bandwidth providers charge Slashdot a certain amount per page view (without limit). There is no "total cost" unless it is somehow limited. Once we do that, you end up paying so many dollars for so many pageviews. Which is exactly what they are proposing.
I'm pretty sure the large quantity of Paypal horror stories I've read recently have been posted on Slashdot.
Perhaps they need to read over their recent postings and find an alternate payment method that doesn't leave their customers with that "I've been anally reamed" feeling.
"The Media Lab had previously paid such positions $8.75 and up in order to remain competitive with industry offers that even not-yet-graduated students were receiving."
$8.75 per? Hour? Day? Year?
Perhaps this submission should have been polished a bit before being unleashed on the unsuspecting (and fact-hungry) public.
Powazek is an extremely well-regarded member of the online community. Unfortunately, I'm not sure about the future of online communities. Banner revenue has been in free-fall for months, and online communities have the unfortunate side effect of encouraging users to hang around, view many (often dynamically created) pages, and ask for more features.
The online community community ends feeling like the guy who threw a party and a thousand people showed up. It's great to be popular, but who the hell is going to pay for this?
What I guess I'm trying to say is that a rationalization or consolidation is in order for the online communities of today. I wouldn't get used to the concept of a full-featured online community, (Slashdot included) because I have a feeling that most of them will be collapsing under the weight of their own successes.
I'll have to second that recommendation. Development of Agent (and it's free little cousin, Free Agent) seemed to stop for a couple years, but Forte has recently released some upgrades. Their site indicates that users will be able to vote for new features on the eagerly anticipated Agent 2.0.
...obey the Robot Exclusion Standard. This is not a big secret, and is linked to by all major search engines. Anyone wishing to exclude a well-behaved robot (like those of major search engines) can place a small file on their site which controls the behaviour of the robot. Don't want a robot in a particular directory? Then set your robots.txt up correctly.
P.S. Anyone keeping credit card info in a web directory that's accessible to the outside world should really think long and hard about getting out of business on the internet.
Last year, Business Depot co-branded with register.com to provide domains for the princely sum of $1. I registered 50 and found the register.com maintenance process acceptable, but not as good as OpenSRS.
Both my cats enjoyed having their own domains for a year, though. Their kitty geek status was unquestioned.
OpenSRS resellers have a super-easy set of password-protected web forms for updating all of your info. The cool thing is, if for some reason your reseller goes out of business (imagine that!), you can still do maintenance through opensrs.org.
The next version of the slashcode software will automatically remove all vowels from words. It will also turn any phrase that it's ever seen before into an acronym.
The slashdot readership will love it. Apparently superfluous letters anger them.
Unfortunately there's an oar coming through the window. A drummer drums, you grab the oar and row as if your life depends on it. Because (heh heh) IT DOES!
Slashdot Mirror
"Why not? Simply add up the cost to provide the whole metered service, divide by the number of people who will pay for the service, add in your 12% for a return on your assets/investment, and there you go."
You can't add up the cost to provide the whole metered service. The only way you could possibly do this is to limit the number of page views because upstream bandwidth providers charge Slashdot a certain amount per page view (without limit). There is no "total cost" unless it is somehow limited. Once we do that, you end up paying so many dollars for so many pageviews. Which is exactly what they are proposing.
I'm pretty sure the large quantity of Paypal horror stories I've read recently have been posted on Slashdot.
Perhaps they need to read over their recent postings and find an alternate payment method that doesn't leave their customers with that "I've been anally reamed" feeling.
You can't make money selling a metered resource at a flat rate. Hence, the dot-com crash.
After all, it would be quite easy to do so in the U.S., or any other first world country.
Actually, it doesn't beg the question.
"I hit a highway divider while on my daily commute to Tulare, CA (from Fresno) at over 70mph after an 18-wheeler ran me off the road. "
The fact that you survived sounds like you are very lucky.
"Needless to say, my iBook hit the dash at a force of over 500mph (according to the firefighters that pulled me from the wreckage of my car) "
I'm still trying to figure out how hitting a stationary object while moving at 70 mph will cause an object within your car to move at 500mph.
"An easier solution would be along the lines of what they do with dogs"
Send it to obedience school? Teach it to heel?
Watch out if your thief is Korean.
"The Media Lab had previously paid such positions $8.75 and up in order to remain competitive with industry offers that even not-yet-graduated students were receiving."
$8.75 per? Hour? Day? Year?
Perhaps this submission should have been polished a bit before being unleashed on the unsuspecting (and fact-hungry) public.
Have you tried recently to sue a 14-year-old in Singapore or Russia or South America?
This won't do you any good if your ISP is blocking port 25 traffic... A big load of nothing will hit myrealbox's smtp port.
K7S5A's have a reputation for being cheap, fast and generally hard to overclock.
People can have funny names. Such a name does not always imply a hoax.
You are clearly not thinking clearly.
And TV commercials interrupt the flow of my favorite shows.
Life can be hard sometimes.
Powazek is an extremely well-regarded member of the online community. Unfortunately, I'm not sure about the future of online communities. Banner revenue has been in free-fall for months, and online communities have the unfortunate side effect of encouraging users to hang around, view many (often dynamically created) pages, and ask for more features.
The online community community ends feeling like the guy who threw a party and a thousand people showed up. It's great to be popular, but who the hell is going to pay for this?
What I guess I'm trying to say is that a rationalization or consolidation is in order for the online communities of today. I wouldn't get used to the concept of a full-featured online community, (Slashdot included) because I have a feeling that most of them will be collapsing under the weight of their own successes.
I'll have to second that recommendation. Development of Agent (and it's free little cousin, Free Agent) seemed to stop for a couple years, but Forte has recently released some upgrades. Their site indicates that users will be able to vote for new features on the eagerly anticipated Agent 2.0.
It will stop the casual perusal of your data.
The way to stop the determined snooper is to not keep your data in a directory that can be accessed by your web server.
You should be writing that type of data on the backs of envelopes and leaving them scattered around your living room...
...obey the Robot Exclusion Standard. This is not a big secret, and is linked to by all major search engines. Anyone wishing to exclude a well-behaved robot (like those of major search engines) can place a small file on their site which controls the behaviour of the robot. Don't want a robot in a particular directory? Then set your robots.txt up correctly.
P.S. Anyone keeping credit card info in a web directory that's accessible to the outside world should really think long and hard about getting out of business on the internet.
ROFL
ROFL!!
Last year, Business Depot co-branded with register.com to provide domains for the princely sum of $1. I registered 50 and found the register.com maintenance process acceptable, but not as good as OpenSRS.
Both my cats enjoyed having their own domains for a year, though. Their kitty geek status was unquestioned.
OpenSRS resellers have a super-easy set of password-protected web forms for updating all of your info. The cool thing is, if for some reason your reseller goes out of business (imagine that!), you can still do maintenance through opensrs.org.
Two that I like and have used are
Domainmonger
and 000domains
Plus, the price is usually cheap ($13-17 per year).
It's easy to switch from NSI/Verisign to these guys. The instructions are on the sites.
The next version of the slashcode software will automatically remove all vowels from words. It will also turn any phrase that it's ever seen before into an acronym.
The slashdot readership will love it. Apparently superfluous letters anger them.
It's I say It's a joke, son.
Lighten up.
Everyone gets an office with a window.
Unfortunately there's an oar coming through the window. A drummer drums, you grab the oar and row as if your life depends on it. Because (heh heh) IT DOES!