Chargebacks are even worse than PayPal referals because generally you are charged some sort of penalty fee per chargeback, and your account is closed if you get too many.
PayPal seems to try and market itself as the new way to pay for things online. However it is completely incompatible with any sort of online only system.
I work for a small software company, $20 buys you the current version of our software, and all future versions for free. You pay via paypal, use the software for a while, then force a refund since (as has already been mentioned) there is absolutely no way for us to contest it. The PayPal resposne boxes just don't work allow for anything other than a tracking number. You get the refund, and we get squat.
This is only moderatly bad for us, I can delete the account, so there is no real loss (apart from my time). But take a company like www.TransmissionFilms.com, if they took PayPal and random client B watched a movie, then reversed payment, they have no recourse. And worse than that, they might be contractually obligated to pay the creator of the film $X since the film was watched.
I think that PayPal needs to step up and embrace the technology that allows it to thrive. Allow merchants to specify exactly what will be provided during registration (ie username, password, account name, etc), and possibly some third party way of validating that data. The customer would be presented with information on exactly what PayPal thinks they should be receiving, at time of purchase. The fraud department would also need to be staffed with people, not drones, to deal with issues that arised thereafter.
Yeah, I have seen a lot of mis-reporting on that as well. The rules really didn't seem to complicated to me, I am surprised more 'news' services didn't do more fact checking on a story such as this.
I of course live in the projects in brooklyn, so I don't know if it is apropriate to site UPN as a 'news' source.
A few of my friends were very surprised that this run wouldn't count at all for the X-Prize, since it didn't have enough people or weight to replace them.
This is exactly why, it was a test run, things can, and did (though fortunatly not bad enough to have resulted in loss of life) go wrong.
I think this was exactly the right way for them to have approached this, go up with as little extra as possible, see what goes well and what doesn't, and make revisions based on that. Though an extra 300lbs might not have mattered much with this particular problem, in other cases it could have turned a small problem into a disaster.
The problem is real, depending on the phase of the moon she comes through in a jagged-stuttery-roboty voice, ocasionally with some lag. I don't know if it's a bandwidth issue or what. She has resigned herself to re-installing the software daily to keep in touch, which seems to help somewhat.
It's good to know that I will be able to keep in touch with her once my new linux machine arrives.
Reverse compatibility was a primary selling factor in me purchasing the GBASP, it meant I had 20+ games to play with.
Since people who buy an XBox2 wanting reverse compatibility will obviously already own an XBox, I can see how it might be perceived as not that big a deal. But shelf real-estate in my entertainment unit is already pretty scarce, tv, vcr, dvd, xbox, gc, stereo, satelite... Reverse compatibility would allow me to swap units, rather than having to try and force one in.
Having the XBox2 not be reverse compatible would definetly push off me purchasing one, as the unit probably wont have enough games to warrent a purchase & reorganize my entertainment unit.
A business card pre-encoded with the contact information for its owner would be cool. Hand someone your card, they touch it to their PDA and hand it back.
Other more permenant uses would also be cool, get train schedules (including changes due to repairs (Those in NYC know just how important that detail is) at the station with a quick touch.
My big concern with this is of course, privacy. Survelance cameras are already very common in major cities,
adding this technology to the cameras or to areas near the cameras would be trivial. Using this technology
to monitor access to corporate parking lots would make this very attractive to the private sector. Companies could band
togethor to sell data, or sell it to private investigators, who will combine the data into one large
database. Your employer can determine the RFID tag for your car by comparing the ID read with the ID used
to get into a corporate controlled parking lot. Then the company (or your significant other) can search
in some pay-for-use database maintained by firm X to find out where your car was on tuesday when you wern't
at work (or missed that dinner date). If your car spends too long near your competitors office, who knows
what the corporate response would be.
Government of course will respond in turn, DMCA laws in the US would prevent anyone there (assuming a similar
thing was implemented) from determining what their code was (since it is 'encrypted'). The curious would be
thrown in jail, or sued, and the major corporations would still enjoy the power.
Yeah the monthly fee could add up. I see my usage going something like
Day 1. Install the product Day 2-5. Play with it Day 4-8. Look for problems, areas where users are having difficulty getting to the information they need, and places where users frequently abandon the site. Fix those problems. Day 9-10. Monitor results, adjust as needed..indefinete untill the website changes.. Start over.
Installing the product involves tagging each of your pages with some specific code so you can monitor whats going on, this leaves a couple questions: Where is the data being generated stored? Is the creator's website storing it all for me? How secure is their site? Most importantly (for those who care about their code) If I choose to uninstall the product, will it rip all of its code off of my pages?
A fre trial would have been really great. It looks like a good tool, but I would need to see how usefull I found it before I lay down my cash. Even if you cancel in the first month there is a %10 processing fee
It seems like the court case should have waited pending an end to the resolution of the US Patent Offices' re-examination of the patents in question. The whole thing becomes a non-issue if the patents are thrown out.
In terms of putting UV projectors behind the screen or off to the side, cant you just get a UV filter and put it over the lens, to filter out all the ultra violet light?
And in terms of messing with the projection rate. All of the things they seek to exploit stem from the fact that the human eye doesn't see descrete frames, it sort of blurs them togethor. Couldn't the people using the camcorders decrease the shutter speed to accomplish basically the same thing?
Taking a resource away from someone only matters if they have a finite amount of it.
So, for instance, if you at war in a desert, doing something to make a water supply unusable to the enemy would be a tactically sound move. However, if you were at war in the Canadian praries destroying some wheat really isn't going to hurt the opposing force. There is a lot of wheat up here.
Microsoft has over 53 Billion dollars in cash and short term assets. Thats Billion with a B. Taking a couple hundred, or even thousand dollars from them in terms of advertising will in no way effect Microsoft in the short or long term. Every linux site out there could show nothing but ads from Microsoft untill the cows come home, and Microsoft would still not be adversly affected by the cash flow.
Working support, I love it when people send emails asking for help to completely the wrong email address. ie rather than emailing support@ they email partners@or advertising@. According to the 'contract' in their email the recpiant can't even forward it to anyone else.
I ignore these just like I ignore flashing ad banners, George Bush, and non-residential speed limits.:)
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See now this I would mod up. NYT gets the ad revenue from their article (which/.'ers obviously feel is worth reading), and no copyright infringement has taken place.
Not only do WiFi equipment manufacturers disable most of the security by default. Some blame any connectivity issues you are having on the encryption (see How stable is WEP).
Personally, I would love to see some more options when it comes to turning WEP on. Since my laptop connects in both a wired and wireless manner to my network, it would be great is some software generated a new WEP key to use each time I went wired. I see no reason that the end user would need to be involved, any weakess on the part of the pseudo-random generation of a new WEP key would be less insecure than having the same one for months on end.
You're right, it is emotional, and for good reason I think, it's pointless to go into details since you already seem to understand.
I wrote a peice for the school paper a while back entitled 'the cheapening of my education (while tuiton rises)', which unfortunatly never got published.
I have talked with a few professors about the issue, they have recognized the issue but feel powerless to work against it. Lawsuits are expensive and it seems that the school hasn't assured them that all related costs will be covered.
I really feel my tuition (+ related fees) would be far better spent on ensuring my degree still has worth when I graduate than on the upcoming expansion to the Gym, new parking lots for faculty or an expansion for the on campus bar (which I still don't understand, I'm Canadian, the university is in Canada. They spent some un-godly amount of money to add an outdoor patio to the campus pub, which is in the basement, so of course they had to do some serious excavation for it. It's Canada, it gets cold, most of the students are only there in the Winter... Does anyone see where I am going with this?).
You cheat on a project, paper or final? You are served with papers to that effect, you and a chosen representative (likely from the student union) go in front of the dean along with the accusing faculty member. A mini trial takes place, your innocence or guilt is determined, and if apropriate a punishment is handed down. Dean is available during finals so decisions can be made quickly before the term ends.
I am almost done a 4 year double major degree, and I applaud any university that kicks out students for plagerism or cheating.
I am sick and fucking tired of watching classmates cheat on assignments, term papers and final exams, while the faculty does nothing. I have reported someone cheating to either a teacher or TA at pretty much every exam I have written and nothing gets done. 'Stern' warnings are pretty much as far as it seems to go. Occasionally I have heard of students being forced to repeat a class, the odds of getting caught by someone who cares enough to do something about it are so small, that the penalty pales in comparison to the crime.
This pisses me off because they are devauluing my degree. Random employer A goes out and hires someone with the same degree I am getting, sees that they know jack shit, and fires them. I'm not even going to get an interview walking in 2 months later because they have already discounted that peice of paper I spent 4 years of my life and many thousands of dollars on.
If you want to get a degree the easy way, do it mail order, and get the fuck out of the class room.
(I beleive this is the first time I have sworn on a/. entry, this is just a subject I feel very strongly about)
I really think this could come in usefull to help corelate seperate calls faster, especially since many operators may be handling calls in the same area and not even know it. One quick look at the screen and you can see a series of disturbance calls moving in a line, or a growing cicrle.
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Chargebacks are even worse than PayPal referals because generally you are charged some sort of penalty fee per chargeback, and your account is closed if you get too many.
PayPal seems to try and market itself as the new way to pay for things online. However it is completely incompatible with any sort of online only system.
I work for a small software company, $20 buys you the current version of our software, and all future versions for free. You pay via paypal, use the software for a while, then force a refund since (as has already been mentioned) there is absolutely no way for us to contest it. The PayPal resposne boxes just don't work allow for anything other than a tracking number. You get the refund, and we get squat.
This is only moderatly bad for us, I can delete the account, so there is no real loss (apart from my time). But take a company like www.TransmissionFilms.com, if they took PayPal and random client B watched a movie, then reversed payment, they have no recourse. And worse than that, they might be contractually obligated to pay the creator of the film $X since the film was watched.
I think that PayPal needs to step up and embrace the technology that allows it to thrive. Allow merchants to specify exactly what will be provided during registration (ie username, password, account name, etc), and possibly some third party way of validating that data. The customer would be presented with information on exactly what PayPal thinks they should be receiving, at time of purchase. The fraud department would also need to be staffed with people, not drones, to deal with issues that arised thereafter.
Yeah, I have seen a lot of mis-reporting on that as well. The rules really didn't seem to complicated to me, I am surprised more 'news' services didn't do more fact checking on a story such as this.
I of course live in the projects in brooklyn, so I don't know if it is apropriate to site UPN as a 'news' source.
A few of my friends were very surprised that this run wouldn't count at all for the X-Prize, since it didn't have enough people or weight to replace them.
This is exactly why, it was a test run, things can, and did (though fortunatly not bad enough to have resulted in loss of life) go wrong.
I think this was exactly the right way for them to have approached this, go up with as little extra as possible, see what goes well and what doesn't, and make revisions based on that. Though an extra 300lbs might not have mattered much with this particular problem, in other cases it could have turned a small problem into a disaster.
I hadn't actually...
The problem is real, depending on the phase of the moon she comes through in a jagged-stuttery-roboty voice, ocasionally with some lag. I don't know if it's a bandwidth issue or what. She has resigned herself to re-installing the software daily to keep in touch, which seems to help somewhat.
It's good to know that I will be able to keep in touch with her once my new linux machine arrives.
I like Skype, I just wish my girlfriend didn't sound like a robot half the time.
Reverse compatibility was a primary selling factor in me purchasing the GBASP, it meant I had 20+ games to play with.
Since people who buy an XBox2 wanting reverse compatibility will obviously already own an XBox, I can see how it might be perceived as not that big a deal. But shelf real-estate in my entertainment unit is already pretty scarce, tv, vcr, dvd, xbox, gc, stereo, satelite... Reverse compatibility would allow me to swap units, rather than having to try and force one in.
Having the XBox2 not be reverse compatible would definetly push off me purchasing one, as the unit probably wont have enough games to warrent a purchase & reorganize my entertainment unit.
A business card pre-encoded with the contact information for its owner would be cool. Hand someone your card, they touch it to their PDA and hand it back.
Other more permenant uses would also be cool, get train schedules (including changes due to repairs (Those in NYC know just how important that detail is) at the station with a quick touch.
My big concern with this is of course, privacy. Survelance cameras are already very common in major cities, adding this technology to the cameras or to areas near the cameras would be trivial. Using this technology to monitor access to corporate parking lots would make this very attractive to the private sector. Companies could band togethor to sell data, or sell it to private investigators, who will combine the data into one large database. Your employer can determine the RFID tag for your car by comparing the ID read with the ID used to get into a corporate controlled parking lot. Then the company (or your significant other) can search in some pay-for-use database maintained by firm X to find out where your car was on tuesday when you wern't at work (or missed that dinner date). If your car spends too long near your competitors office, who knows what the corporate response would be.
Government of course will respond in turn, DMCA laws in the US would prevent anyone there (assuming a similar thing was implemented) from determining what their code was (since it is 'encrypted'). The curious would be thrown in jail, or sued, and the major corporations would still enjoy the power.
Yeah the monthly fee could add up. I see my usage going something like
..indefinete untill the website changes..
Day 1. Install the product
Day 2-5. Play with it
Day 4-8. Look for problems, areas where users are having difficulty getting to the information they need, and places where users frequently abandon the site. Fix those problems.
Day 9-10. Monitor results, adjust as needed
Start over.
Installing the product involves tagging each of your pages with some specific code so you can monitor whats going on, this leaves a couple questions:
Where is the data being generated stored?
Is the creator's website storing it all for me?
How secure is their site?
Most importantly (for those who care about their code)
If I choose to uninstall the product, will it rip all of its code off of my pages?
A fre trial would have been really great. It looks like a good tool, but I would need to see how usefull I found it before I lay down my cash. Even if you cancel in the first month there is a %10 processing fee
It seems like the court case should have waited pending an end to the resolution of the US Patent Offices' re-examination of the patents in question. The whole thing becomes a non-issue if the patents are thrown out.
Insert, I know what its for, but I don't think its needed enough to warrent a key
Delete, pretty much the same story, control-backspace would be sufficient (or some other key combination)
scroll lock
the controll and alt on the right side of they keyboard
I actually just used it to enter in a sample key sequence for someone writing a script.
All in all, I don't use it that often, but I think there are less usefull keys on the keyboard if we want to start cutting them out.
In terms of putting UV projectors behind the screen or off to the side, cant you just get a UV filter and put it over the lens, to filter out all the ultra violet light?
And in terms of messing with the projection rate. All of the things they seek to exploit stem from the fact that the human eye doesn't see descrete frames, it sort of blurs them togethor. Couldn't the people using the camcorders decrease the shutter speed to accomplish basically the same thing?
Taking a resource away from someone only matters if they have a finite amount of it.
So, for instance, if you at war in a desert, doing something to make a water supply unusable to the enemy would be a tactically sound move. However, if you were at war in the Canadian praries destroying some wheat really isn't going to hurt the opposing force. There is a lot of wheat up here.
Microsoft has over 53 Billion dollars in cash and short term assets. Thats Billion with a B. Taking a couple hundred, or even thousand dollars from them in terms of advertising will in no way effect Microsoft in the short or long term. Every linux site out there could show nothing but ads from Microsoft untill the cows come home, and Microsoft would still not be adversly affected by the cash flow.
Dont flash cards have a maximum number of write operations? Or is that USB keys?
Working support, I love it when people send emails asking for help to completely the wrong email address. ie rather than emailing support@ they email partners@or advertising@. According to the 'contract' in their email the recpiant can't even forward it to anyone else.
:)
I ignore these just like I ignore flashing ad banners, George Bush, and non-residential speed limits.
See now this I would mod up. NYT gets the ad revenue from their article (which /.'ers obviously feel is worth reading), and no copyright infringement has taken place.
Not only do WiFi equipment manufacturers disable most of the security by default. Some blame any connectivity issues you are having on the encryption (see How stable is WEP).
Personally, I would love to see some more options when it comes to turning WEP on. Since my laptop connects in both a wired and wireless manner to my network, it would be great is some software generated a new WEP key to use each time I went wired. I see no reason that the end user would need to be involved, any weakess on the part of the pseudo-random generation of a new WEP key would be less insecure than having the same one for months on end.
You're right, it is emotional, and for good reason I think, it's pointless to go into details since you already seem to understand.
I wrote a peice for the school paper a while back entitled 'the cheapening of my education (while tuiton rises)', which unfortunatly never got published.
I have talked with a few professors about the issue, they have recognized the issue but feel powerless to work against it. Lawsuits are expensive and it seems that the school hasn't assured them that all related costs will be covered.
I really feel my tuition (+ related fees) would be far better spent on ensuring my degree still has worth when I graduate than on the upcoming expansion to the Gym, new parking lots for faculty or an expansion for the on campus bar (which I still don't understand, I'm Canadian, the university is in Canada. They spent some un-godly amount of money to add an outdoor patio to the campus pub, which is in the basement, so of course they had to do some serious excavation for it. It's Canada, it gets cold, most of the students are only there in the Winter... Does anyone see where I am going with this?).
You cheat on a project, paper or final? You are served with papers to that effect, you and a chosen representative (likely from the student union) go in front of the dean along with the accusing faculty member. A mini trial takes place, your innocence or guilt is determined, and if apropriate a punishment is handed down. Dean is available during finals so decisions can be made quickly before the term ends.
I am almost done a 4 year double major degree, and I applaud any university that kicks out students for plagerism or cheating.
/. entry, this is just a subject I feel very strongly about)
I am sick and fucking tired of watching classmates cheat on assignments, term papers and final exams, while the faculty does nothing. I have reported someone cheating to either a teacher or TA at pretty much every exam I have written and nothing gets done. 'Stern' warnings are pretty much as far as it seems to go. Occasionally I have heard of students being forced to repeat a class, the odds of getting caught by someone who cares enough to do something about it are so small, that the penalty pales in comparison to the crime.
This pisses me off because they are devauluing my degree. Random employer A goes out and hires someone with the same degree I am getting, sees that they know jack shit, and fires them. I'm not even going to get an interview walking in 2 months later because they have already discounted that peice of paper I spent 4 years of my life and many thousands of dollars on.
If you want to get a degree the easy way, do it mail order, and get the fuck out of the class room.
(I beleive this is the first time I have sworn on a
I really think that looks usefull, if only I programmed in perl.
:)
Anyone want to make something similar in PHP?
Congrats to the author.
I really think this could come in usefull to help corelate seperate calls faster, especially since many operators may be handling calls in the same area and not even know it. One quick look at the screen and you can see a series of disturbance calls moving in a line, or a growing cicrle.