No offence to all the MOCKARY here....
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EFF's Logfinder
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No offence to the fact that almost all the comments under this thread are mocking it....
But even as a professional admin whom has worked on hosting envrionment servers for years, sometimes I run into problems from a log file getting out of hand that hadnt been properly managed etc... It's hard to know and find them sometimes and,:O this does;P
LOL wish I could mod this up!
Text based and still more adventure then a full 3d game!
Re:Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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Battlefield vietnam hardly highlights a difference in who's good or bad, its just warefare, they don't actually say "THE US IS THE GOOD PERSON IN THE FIGHT." Anytime in Vietnam's Campaigns, it just talks about the war as historically documented on our side, while it does try to highlight american values as being better...
I think the reasons for the bans is, these games directly promote racism between ex-enemies... I mean, every friend I know was totally game drivenly racist twoards viet's for awhile after vietnams release, im sure its the same out there, I think we should feel better that the gov is trying to create a good environment, instead of promiting anti american warefare propoganda...
Usually american banks are extremly their-client sided, any time i've wanted funds pulled for someons account for a check they cashed that I didnt recieve proper products or service for, or the same with credit charges, the only sole question my bank ever asked me is 'Is it a fradulent(unauthorized charge? Or did you receive something other then what you paid for?'
I've answered with both, and still the same result, my money back within a few days, and a letter in a month saying i get to keep it forever...
That is Bank One, but almost any american bank is willing to blindly take money back, where as most other banks around the world seem to really not be willing to...(i've had alot of international customers, partners and friends not be able to file chargebacks even in cases of diret fradulent activity)
I don't know if you had a signed contract, and the terms of it (but if you did im sure it coveres you not paying if they dont do the work properly, or some equivelent... Also hopefully it gives you rights to the source?
If its been 8 days since you've heard from them, maybe try emailng them with instead of a 'Whats going on why dosent this work' with a 'Could we have the source so we can do some modifications' and perhaps they will respond thinking you've lost intrest in prosecution, that way you can atleast ge the source before taking your money back...
But thats a risk and juding by what you say of them don't sound like they would respond or even want to give up the source...
Yah, It seems people fail to take into account, that if they persay doubled their server count, after a short time (or even from the start) would be more then they need and be a large unneeded expense...
I mean 88 servers is ALOT in the first place... Most starting with like 10 or less...
As you say, some people only look for the techinical information and everything else techs look for, and alot more sales go to those likely to be induced by buzzwords. The point is Use both, just like microsoft and apple and the rest, say Complete Enterprise Solution, and then describe in technical detail, what that solution is.
It's not that they are focusing purely on these buzzwords, they are just using them for what they are worth.
Granted, overuse can easily cause amiguity in what that title means, but from a business standpoint, it's what works.
I can't belive nobodys pointed out what about the 'rest' of the users who DON'T want someone else in control, or are constnatly building new systems, or arn't very fond of the idea of development going in the direction of someone else having more control over our machines then ourselves...
Only one of the greatest and most violent while still holding a grand storyline comics ever written. I've had the entire set of Sin City's on Dark Horse comics for as long as I can remember, and When I heard Frank Miller was directing it, I was greatly content... I love how they use a comic book style CGI animation, and how the movie is black and white yet with certiant elements of color on things like lips, certiatn clothes, blood, some lights etc, just like in the comic...
Consider the aggresion of the Boston Tea Party wasn't exactly considered by some to be Legal or Moral...
A more accurate analog would probably be something like an organized DoS attack against.net root servers, or against ICANN..
Or perhaps something like a boycott on the registration of.net names
(although of course some people wouldn't mind or even notice the difference in price, especially since the companies providing the registration service will be the ones paying ICANN or paying someone who pays them, not the client directly taxed, so it will just be passed down to the client in the total...)
Although both of the examples listed above wouldn't be anything at all near wise or effective solution to handeling the situation.
I think those type of acts would be more along the lines of Boston Tea Party, and for some kind of organized act of the common intrest to go against the monopolie's taxation over something people don't have large control in is what I assume the intended meaning of the posted.
EXACTLY, its the same thing, if the US government told us someone needed our help (iraq sound framilier) the country tends to generally take their word for it. And while both Iraq and Tibet are in considerable conditions (while in far differnt ways) its easy to say you want to help but doing it in a way the people of the area your 'helping' would rather not be helped by...
I mean, if you can't turst your government... oh wait....
That's what I mean, It could be just me, but the average person I know dosen't work or study outside of when they ABSOLUTELY have to.
The average middle aged person I know, dosen't intake any new knoweldge other then daily news, and they work as much as they have to, get home, and spend the rest of the time watching tv and just vegging.
The average person I know from 15-28, either works a average job or goes to school, although looks at them both as burdens, and dosen't make any attempt to work or learn outside of those.
And yes, it is understandbale that not everyone wants to 'constantly' be engaged in these activites, but thats not my point, its that most people avoid them whenever possible when they are the most bennificial things in exsistance (imo).
Im not trying to critize peoples lifestyles, they work, and they go to school, and they are welcome to spend their time doing whatever else they want. My point, is more about the general idealism's in america about education in work, how we are raised to see them as ONLY tasks and burdens... Im sure it is to different extents depending on how your rasied, but myself and general everyone ive met was raised with that mindset...
I Implied that People can learn MORE then they do, if they applied more effort, not that they can ALL obtain equal status.
Even if your reffering to just me, it's still closed minded of you to think that I couldnt excel in one single topic in comparisson to a 10 year old kim.
EVERYONE is capable of learning to some extent, and I didnt imply to 'stuff their brain' with something beyond their limit. I didn't IMPLY anyone can do anything if they just have some effort. I directly said anyone has a chance to be more then they are, YOU took the initaitive to perceive that as 'Anyone can do anything if they try'.
Of course there are limits to how much each person can learn, and of course they are differnt from person to person, but if you insist that the common person isnt capable of learning more if they tried harder, again, thats your closed mindedness.
TO ALL READING THIS POST, I USED PARAGAPHS AND LINE BREAKS, and/. Is formatting most posts to remove them, Do i have to include HTML or some other tag to make it work? I put the paragaphs and linebreaks in when typing it, and in the textbox looked correctly, but no matter what I do when I click submit it goes back to lineless and paragraphless fromatting...
The point was to be general, that any person has higher intellectual capablities then they focus on developing.
I would like you to point out where I said I can compete with any of his skills, becuase I didn't.
"There is no amount of learning or practice that would allow you to beat either one, ever." Is a ridiculious statement, as if your such a limited mind to think that nobody on earth who studies math for their whole life could EVER compete in math against kim, then thats your problem.
Skils and talents are differnt, people are better at differnt things, my point IS you yourself would probably be alot more intelligent if you didn't spend so much idle time. And again, I don't know how much time you might or might not waste, But the average person my age spends more then half of every day literally doing NOTHING. If that time was spent studying you can be ASSURED that the average level of intelligence amoung them would be higher..,.
My point wasn't that anyone can be Kim Peek, or better then, but that they can be alot more then they are.
And that becuase of his autism, he is more focused in those areas then other people.
I don't mean to sound how I probably do, but I've found (and while I dont mean on the level of intellectual knoweldge bareance as Kim) that most people have close to an endless amount of memory, and if people spend their time Learning and absorbing information, they tend to retain most of it...
I know intelligence is a factor, but persay in this country, we are raised to think of education, work, and learning as a burden, and hence we don't like it...
When I was in school, I failed classes, didn't do test's or homework, slept through classes etc... Now I love learning so much I can't find the will to do anything with my life BUT work or study 24 hours a day...
When I thought with the mindset i was raised with here, that learning was burden, I hated it and didnt retain near 30% of the infromation I processed... Now that I enjoy learning, I tend to bare memory of closer to 80% of what I learn, and at other times in my life I would of thought it impossible to know as much information as I do now...
And of course, im not saying I am any more intellegent or am more adept to learning then anyone else, especially here on/. where almost anyone is my intellectual peer, but my point is meerly someones will to learn, or more of lack of will to limit themsleves, is highly responsible for how much a person knows....
And yes, of course, this person is impressivly and extremely knowledgeable in a wide array of topics, more then the average person can ever expect to be, my point being though that I consider it easily humanly possible for me or anyone reading this to posses the same knowledge...
Im sure most of you are as geeky and me, and like learning as much as me, if you were able to spend all your time studying eg full time student, and studied every topic this man is knowledgeable in, I think it enitrely possible for humanity itself to reach that level of 'genius'...
I blame the stunt of humanitys growth(or atleast, partially this countries) on how we are mentally raised... We are raised being told you will go school and hate it, then go to work and hate it. Almost anyone I know raised in America has this mindstate, and becuase of it, their idea of a productive night involves doing nothing but sittin on a couch... Where as my japanese friends, even my younger ones, are fierce when it comes to educational and work concepts, they are FAR FAR more diciplined, and they were raised with a 'learn to succeed, its good and you NEED TO, you almost have no choice but to learn as much as you can' mindstate, and becuase of it, their lives much more reflect a productive and educational lifestyle....
As this post is starting to wander FAR off topic and ill probably get negatively modded for it, ill wrap it up and try to bring it back to the original content...
Yes, this person does have genius-level learning and knowledge posession, but imo, alot more of earth is capable of it if they didnt waste so much time:D
(and yes I know people dedicate their lives to this and don't acheive, but my point is if society, espcially american society, produced differnt veiws to people, they would be far more willed to educate themsleves further then the 'minimum' ; eg most people get degrees just to get a job, not to learn what they are being taught, becuase yet again, here thats the mindset we are raised with, not to go to shcool to learn, but to have a peice of paper that says you can work somenwhere'...)
I supposed my thinking is biased and flawed, but still, If humans didnt waste so much time, I think all of humanity would be genius by now;P
A: Yes you can use them, they are "grandfathered" into the new regulations. It will always be completely legal to use them. The card ignores the copy right bit and if a show has this bit enabled, the card doesn't care and will save the stream in full quality anyway.
A: This becomes a very gray area. From what I have heard, the regulation prohibits you from SELLING devices cross STATE boundries that do not follow the new regulations. From what I hear, if you assemble a HD tuner yourself, it is still legal. I know though that the HD-3000 card will not be sold after July 1st 2005 if the EFF and other groups don't win the case to fight the broadcast flag. I am 100% sure this is not the end of HDTV in Myth or any computer, and I'm not just refering to using firewire or usb from dish/cable boxes to get the HD into Myth. For the next little while I can't comment though.
According to these excperts I pulled from one of the previous links, Im lead to belive it WONT be illegal after then jsut illegal to purchase it afterward.
I havn't been directly effected by it, other then being informed by governement agencies that I was repsonsible for maintaining certiant logs of/for my users (I at the time ran an ISP/Hosting firm)...
A friend of mine, a photographer was arrested and 10k in equipment confinscated under the patriot act, he still hasnt gotten it back...
A friend of my brothers set up Kiosk's in malls, very nice work for alot of cash he made a joke to one of the other workers that he worked with alquida and there was a confrence there that month, less than an hour later multiple agents of several agencies showed up at the mall he was working, took him to his home, where they searched it and questioned him for hours, he now isnt allowed in any mall in the US and tons of other lame legal resitrictions imposed on him just for JOKEINGLY saying he was in the alquida to a coworker.. I know its not something to joke about, but he cant even get another job anywhere now, hes nationally blackedlisted for nothing, a bit overkill even for a joke that shouldnt have been made...
Yeah, as if some anonymouse scam artist is going to come out of the shadows to get back 200$ in a court battle, where by revealing himself subjects himself to 10,000 charges of fraud for his attempts at it... No scam artist is going to publicly press charges if they get scammmed trying to scam...
Again, Im probably missing something....
But wasnt it beaten by a large bit even a week before now?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 0/1727255&tid=137&tid=136&tid=14
lol... I know im pobably overlooking something but istn the record now in the 60's?
Isnt http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 0/1727255&tid=137&tid=136&tid=14 faster or? Im probably missing something obvious as always but yeah...
There are also other large competitors, with revenues rivaling that of even paypals, NetTeller Claims to be the largest, bigger then paypal, And as almost every online casino and poker parlor(ALOT of big revenue) accepts them as the default payment method, as well as many many adult sites, both markets which due to fraudlent activity, paypal isnt willing to touch (dosent allow its accounts to be used for such)...
Also, paypal makes very little profit margin on each transaction, The average client of net teller is gambling or using an adult site, both of which they want immediate access and immediate funds trasnfer, netteller charges 8% for immediate access to those funds, which is slightly larger then paypals fees.
While I suppose paypal might not consider them direct compeition, becuase they both cover
Also, there are independant and other company run sites like www.firepay.com, www.stormpay.com, ikobo.com, one of which was started by a friend of mine, I had even considered it when I was marketing merchant accounts....
While nobody will be able to beat out paypals brand nameing, providing compeition isnt the problem, although the companies that do mostly do so for goods and services paypal dosent cover so In that aspect, they arnt paypals competition, but in general money transfer business aspect, they compete very well by providing those services paypal won't, giving them that edge....
I dunno ranting on way too much, but yeah neteller's big too and firepay and others get alot of business from yeah what isaid before....
I dont know if anyone's been paying attention but ive been seeing big screen TV's in games playing ad's for along time, Half the counter-strike games ive played the last 3 months have had verizon cell phone ads in them...
http://www.adsingame.com/ has been doing this for along time...
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No offence to the fact that almost all the comments under this thread are mocking it.... But even as a professional admin whom has worked on hosting envrionment servers for years, sometimes I run into problems from a log file getting out of hand that hadnt been properly managed etc... It's hard to know and find them sometimes and, :O this does ;P
LOL wish I could mod this up! Text based and still more adventure then a full 3d game!
Battlefield vietnam hardly highlights a difference in who's good or bad, its just warefare, they don't actually say "THE US IS THE GOOD PERSON IN THE FIGHT." Anytime in Vietnam's Campaigns, it just talks about the war as historically documented on our side, while it does try to highlight american values as being better...
I think the reasons for the bans is, these games directly promote racism between ex-enemies... I mean, every friend I know was totally game drivenly racist twoards viet's for awhile after vietnams release, im sure its the same out there, I think we should feel better that the gov is trying to create a good environment, instead of promiting anti american warefare propoganda...
Now if only SCO would follow suite!
Usually american banks are extremly their-client sided, any time i've wanted funds pulled for someons account for a check they cashed that I didnt recieve proper products or service for, or the same with credit charges, the only sole question my bank ever asked me is 'Is it a fradulent(unauthorized charge? Or did you receive something other then what you paid for?'
I've answered with both, and still the same result, my money back within a few days, and a letter in a month saying i get to keep it forever...
That is Bank One, but almost any american bank is willing to blindly take money back, where as most other banks around the world seem to really not be willing to...(i've had alot of international customers, partners and friends not be able to file chargebacks even in cases of diret fradulent activity)
I don't know if you had a signed contract, and the terms of it (but if you did im sure it coveres you not paying if they dont do the work properly, or some equivelent... Also hopefully it gives you rights to the source?
If its been 8 days since you've heard from them, maybe try emailng them with instead of a 'Whats going on why dosent this work' with a 'Could we have the source so we can do some modifications' and perhaps they will respond thinking you've lost intrest in prosecution, that way you can atleast ge the source before taking your money back...
But thats a risk and juding by what you say of them don't sound like they would respond or even want to give up the source...
Yah, It seems people fail to take into account, that if they persay doubled their server count, after a short time (or even from the start) would be more then they need and be a large unneeded expense...
I mean 88 servers is ALOT in the first place... Most starting with like 10 or less...
As you say, some people only look for the techinical information and everything else techs look for, and alot more sales go to those likely to be induced by buzzwords. The point is Use both, just like microsoft and apple and the rest, say Complete Enterprise Solution, and then describe in technical detail, what that solution is.
It's not that they are focusing purely on these buzzwords, they are just using them for what they are worth.
Granted, overuse can easily cause amiguity in what that title means, but from a business standpoint, it's what works.
I can't belive nobodys pointed out what about the 'rest' of the users who DON'T want someone else in control, or are constnatly building new systems, or arn't very fond of the idea of development going in the direction of someone else having more control over our machines then ourselves...
Im the only person that eats, watches tv, and uses the pc at the same time?
Only one of the greatest and most violent while still holding a grand storyline comics ever written. I've had the entire set of Sin City's on Dark Horse comics for as long as I can remember, and When I heard Frank Miller was directing it, I was greatly content... I love how they use a comic book style CGI animation, and how the movie is black and white yet with certiant elements of color on things like lips, certiatn clothes, blood, some lights etc, just like in the comic...
Consider the aggresion of the Boston Tea Party wasn't exactly considered by some to be Legal or Moral...
.net root servers, or against ICANN..
.net names
(although of course some people wouldn't mind or even notice the difference in price, especially since the companies providing the registration service will be the ones paying ICANN or paying someone who pays them, not the client directly taxed, so it will just be passed down to the client in the total...)
Although both of the examples listed above wouldn't be anything at all near wise or effective solution to handeling the situation.
A more accurate analog would probably be something like an organized DoS attack against
Or perhaps something like a boycott on the registration of
I think those type of acts would be more along the lines of Boston Tea Party, and for some kind of organized act of the common intrest to go against the monopolie's taxation over something people don't have large control in is what I assume the intended meaning of the posted.
EXACTLY, its the same thing, if the US government told us someone needed our help (iraq sound framilier) the country tends to generally take their word for it. And while both Iraq and Tibet are in considerable conditions (while in far differnt ways) its easy to say you want to help but doing it in a way the people of the area your 'helping' would rather not be helped by... I mean, if you can't turst your government... oh wait....
That's what I mean, It could be just me, but the average person I know dosen't work or study outside of when they ABSOLUTELY have to.
The average middle aged person I know, dosen't intake any new knoweldge other then daily news, and they work as much as they have to, get home, and spend the rest of the time watching tv and just vegging.
The average person I know from 15-28, either works a average job or goes to school, although looks at them both as burdens, and dosen't make any attempt to work or learn outside of those.
And yes, it is understandbale that not everyone wants to 'constantly' be engaged in these activites, but thats not my point, its that most people avoid them whenever possible when they are the most bennificial things in exsistance (imo).
Im not trying to critize peoples lifestyles, they work, and they go to school, and they are welcome to spend their time doing whatever else they want.
My point, is more about the general idealism's in america about education in work, how we are raised to see them as ONLY tasks and burdens... Im sure it is to different extents depending on how your rasied, but myself and general everyone ive met was raised with that mindset...
I Implied that People can learn MORE then they do, if they applied more effort, not that they can ALL obtain equal status.
Even if your reffering to just me, it's still closed minded of you to think that I couldnt excel in one single topic in comparisson to a 10 year old kim.
EVERYONE is capable of learning to some extent, and I didnt imply to 'stuff their brain' with something beyond their limit. I didn't IMPLY anyone can do anything if they just have some effort. I directly said anyone has a chance to be more then they are, YOU took the initaitive to perceive that as 'Anyone can do anything if they try'.
Of course there are limits to how much each person can learn, and of course they are differnt from person to person, but if you insist that the common person isnt capable of learning more if they tried harder, again, thats your closed mindedness.
I now just noticed the HTML formmated option and realized I had it on instead of Plain text, being the cause of thus...
TO ALL READING THIS POST, I USED PARAGAPHS AND LINE BREAKS, and /. Is formatting most posts to remove them, Do i have to include HTML or some other tag to make it work? I put the paragaphs and linebreaks in when typing it, and in the textbox looked correctly, but no matter what I do when I click submit it goes back to lineless and paragraphless fromatting...
The point was to be general, that any person has higher intellectual capablities then they focus on developing. I would like you to point out where I said I can compete with any of his skills, becuase I didn't. "There is no amount of learning or practice that would allow you to beat either one, ever." Is a ridiculious statement, as if your such a limited mind to think that nobody on earth who studies math for their whole life could EVER compete in math against kim, then thats your problem. Skils and talents are differnt, people are better at differnt things, my point IS you yourself would probably be alot more intelligent if you didn't spend so much idle time. And again, I don't know how much time you might or might not waste, But the average person my age spends more then half of every day literally doing NOTHING. If that time was spent studying you can be ASSURED that the average level of intelligence amoung them would be higher..,. My point wasn't that anyone can be Kim Peek, or better then, but that they can be alot more then they are. And that becuase of his autism, he is more focused in those areas then other people.
I don't mean to sound how I probably do, but I've found (and while I dont mean on the level of intellectual knoweldge bareance as Kim) that most people have close to an endless amount of memory, and if people spend their time Learning and absorbing information, they tend to retain most of it... I know intelligence is a factor, but persay in this country, we are raised to think of education, work, and learning as a burden, and hence we don't like it... When I was in school, I failed classes, didn't do test's or homework, slept through classes etc... Now I love learning so much I can't find the will to do anything with my life BUT work or study 24 hours a day... When I thought with the mindset i was raised with here, that learning was burden, I hated it and didnt retain near 30% of the infromation I processed... Now that I enjoy learning, I tend to bare memory of closer to 80% of what I learn, and at other times in my life I would of thought it impossible to know as much information as I do now... And of course, im not saying I am any more intellegent or am more adept to learning then anyone else, especially here on /. where almost anyone is my intellectual peer, but my point is meerly someones will to learn, or more of lack of will to limit themsleves, is highly responsible for how much a person knows....
And yes, of course, this person is impressivly and extremely knowledgeable in a wide array of topics, more then the average person can ever expect to be, my point being though that I consider it easily humanly possible for me or anyone reading this to posses the same knowledge...
Im sure most of you are as geeky and me, and like learning as much as me, if you were able to spend all your time studying eg full time student, and studied every topic this man is knowledgeable in, I think it enitrely possible for humanity itself to reach that level of 'genius'...
I blame the stunt of humanitys growth(or atleast, partially this countries) on how we are mentally raised... We are raised being told you will go school and hate it, then go to work and hate it. Almost anyone I know raised in America has this mindstate, and becuase of it, their idea of a productive night involves doing nothing but sittin on a couch... Where as my japanese friends, even my younger ones, are fierce when it comes to educational and work concepts, they are FAR FAR more diciplined, and they were raised with a 'learn to succeed, its good and you NEED TO, you almost have no choice but to learn as much as you can' mindstate, and becuase of it, their lives much more reflect a productive and educational lifestyle....
As this post is starting to wander FAR off topic and ill probably get negatively modded for it, ill wrap it up and try to bring it back to the original content...
Yes, this person does have genius-level learning and knowledge posession, but imo, alot more of earth is capable of it if they didnt waste so much time :D
(and yes I know people dedicate their lives to this and don't acheive, but my point is if society, espcially american society, produced differnt veiws to people, they would be far more willed to educate themsleves further then the 'minimum' ; eg most people get degrees just to get a job, not to learn what they are being taught, becuase yet again, here thats the mindset we are raised with, not to go to shcool to learn, but to have a peice of paper that says you can work somenwhere'...)
I supposed my thinking is biased and flawed, but still, If humans didnt waste so much time, I think all of humanity would be genius by now ;P
Q: Can I use these cards after July 1st 2005?
A: Yes you can use them, they are "grandfathered" into the new
regulations. It will always be completely legal to use them. The card
ignores the copy right bit and if a show has this bit enabled, the
card doesn't care and will save the stream in full quality anyway.
A: This becomes a very gray area. From what I have heard, the
regulation prohibits you from SELLING devices cross STATE boundries that
do not follow the new regulations. From what I hear, if you assemble
a HD tuner yourself, it is still legal. I know though that the
HD-3000 card will not be sold after July 1st 2005 if the EFF and other
groups don't win the case to fight the broadcast flag. I am 100% sure
this is not the end of HDTV in Myth or any computer, and I'm not just
refering to using firewire or usb from dish/cable boxes to get the HD
into Myth. For the next little while I can't comment though.
According to these excperts I pulled from one of the previous links, Im lead to belive it WONT be illegal after then jsut illegal to purchase it afterward.
I havn't been directly effected by it, other then being informed by governement agencies that I was repsonsible for maintaining certiant logs of/for my users (I at the time ran an ISP/Hosting firm)...
A friend of mine, a photographer was arrested and 10k in equipment confinscated under the patriot act, he still hasnt gotten it back...
A friend of my brothers set up Kiosk's in malls, very nice work for alot of cash he made a joke to one of the other workers that he worked with alquida and there was a confrence there that month, less than an hour later multiple agents of several agencies showed up at the mall he was working, took him to his home, where they searched it and questioned him for hours, he now isnt allowed in any mall in the US and tons of other lame legal resitrictions imposed on him just for JOKEINGLY saying he was in the alquida to a coworker.. I know its not something to joke about, but he cant even get another job anywhere now, hes nationally blackedlisted for nothing, a bit overkill even for a joke that shouldnt have been made...
Yeah, as if some anonymouse scam artist is going to come out of the shadows to get back 200$ in a court battle, where by revealing himself subjects himself to 10,000 charges of fraud for his attempts at it... No scam artist is going to publicly press charges if they get scammmed trying to scam...
Again, Im probably missing something.... But wasnt it beaten by a large bit even a week before now? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 0/1727255&tid=137&tid=136&tid=14
lol... I know im pobably overlooking something but istn the record now in the 60's?
Isnt http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 0/1727255&tid=137&tid=136&tid=14 faster or? Im probably missing something obvious as always but yeah...
There are also other large competitors, with revenues rivaling that of even paypals, NetTeller Claims to be the largest, bigger then paypal, And as almost every online casino and poker parlor(ALOT of big revenue) accepts them as the default payment method, as well as many many adult sites, both markets which due to fraudlent activity, paypal isnt willing to touch (dosent allow its accounts to be used for such)...
Also, paypal makes very little profit margin on each transaction, The average client of net teller is gambling or using an adult site, both of which they want immediate access and immediate funds trasnfer, netteller charges 8% for immediate access to those funds, which is slightly larger then paypals fees.
While I suppose paypal might not consider them direct compeition, becuase they both cover
Also, there are independant and other company run sites like www.firepay.com, www.stormpay.com, ikobo.com, one of which was started by a friend of mine, I had even considered it when I was marketing merchant accounts....
While nobody will be able to beat out paypals brand nameing, providing compeition isnt the problem, although the companies that do mostly do so for goods and services paypal dosent cover so In that aspect, they arnt paypals competition, but in general money transfer business aspect, they compete very well by providing those services paypal won't, giving them that edge....
I dunno ranting on way too much, but yeah neteller's big too and firepay and others get alot of business from yeah what isaid before....
I dont know if anyone's been paying attention but ive been seeing big screen TV's in games playing ad's for along time, Half the counter-strike games ive played the last 3 months have had verizon cell phone ads in them...
http://www.adsingame.com/ has been doing this for along time...