...so now when they get back home, and the parent tries to pull them off the internet (or tell the kids to do/not to do anything), the kids are now eqiupped with the skills to kick the parent's ass. Great thinking!
Min-maxing. Get the most out of every situation with the least put in, whether that be biggest return on the smallest monetary investment, most work done in the least amount of time, etc. Make every iota of effort, energy, money, anything you put into the world pay you back as big as you can.
...the ACCC can allow them to only accept PayPal, but PayPal is not allowed to collect any fees on the transactions.
If eBay is doing this for "consumer safety", I'm sure they won't mind freely offering their payment service.
For example, the guys at Will it Blend blending that one iPhone. They bought the iPhone, but no longer have it. Will they be able to get the $100 credit, even though the remains of the iPhone were sold to someone else? (And thus blend the new product?)
Also, in a more reasonable situation, what if someone bought the iPhone only to resell it, or was unsatisfied with it and dumped it? Who gets the $100 then?
No, we'd put the spork IN the blender, and an old guy wearing a lab coat will show off how powerful his $400 blender is by blending the spork and putting up videos of it.
You mess with someone online, they get to do something that messes with you in real life, plain and simple.
Slightly off-topic but just relevant enough to post, I play in collectible card game tournaments, and the local tournament organizer has denied players entry to his tournaments in the past based on seeing that certain players were cyberbullying other players on the message boards for those games. So the bullies were essentially "grounded" by the bullied, being prevented from doing something they enjoyed doing, and this tournament organizer's bans based on a person's character tend to last AT LEAST 1 full year.
It's stuff like that that needs to be happening more often.
Where have you been? In case you haven't seen it from various humor websites, anything put on the internet is pretty much fair game until you're specifically told that you're infringing copyright, served a cease and desist, and have to take down the stolen content.
But by then, so many people have viewed that stolen content (and thus, have either clicked on ads, been hit with pop-up/pop-under ads, or at the very least have given one more show of the ad to count against CPM), the site owner doesn't really care that they have to take one specific page down -- they've made their money from it.
Same premise here. Unless this gets outlawed entirely, the majority of people won't opt out (if that choice is available.)
On the flip side of that, there's already a phone service out there that requires you listen to an ad before completing your call, but it's a 4-1-1 service, so instead of paying $0.75 / $1.25 / however much it is to place a 411 call with your regular phone provider, you get that service for free, except you have to listen to 1 ad. With that in mind, those who end up getting hit with these ads thanks to their provider should be getting a cut in price on their monthly service.
Right -- I understand paying 2.9% + 30 cents when you are paying through a credit card.
However, if you have money sitting in your PayPal account, and that money is being transferred to another account, that IS NOT a credit card transaction, and thus shouldn't be charged anything similar to one.
...and this is coming from someone who does fairly significant business through eBay.
eBay's fees are ridiculous now, and PayPal even moreso. eBay has continually raised their fees year after year, taking a far too large cut of small items. What's worse is that 2.9% + 30 cents bit on PayPal transactions, whether or not it was actually funded through a credit card. I understand needing to pay yourself back should someone actually pay with a credit card and get small fee on top of that, but when money is moved from one PP account to another, that costs them $0...not to mention that PayPal's fee is done on the TOTAL, not the pre-shipping price, so they end up taking 2.9% of the money that you're supposed to have to ship the item as well....and since eBay and PayPal are so closely knit, and almost everyone on eBay only uses PayPal to pay, trying to use any of the smaller players is pretty much futile. The only payment service that can reasonably knock PayPal off of its pedestal is Google Checkout, and eBay knows this.
Between those two things, I'm losing well over 10% on any item that doesn't cost a huge amount of money. They wonder why people do stuff like use eBay contact info to sell outside of eBay and to list $1 items with hundred or even thousand-dollar shipping cost to avoid paying eBay as much as they can.
eBay claims that they want to have payment services with established track records or something like that. Just wait a year or two, and then possibly sue for inclusion, or at least under some law about anti-competitive acts? If Google could get GBay up...
COMMUNITY SERVICE? Failed for the whole term on the FIRST plagarism? I understand a fail for the term in college, but in high school, that is definitely excessive and the school made the right decision.
Glad to see someone who shares my view on this. If you're going to die (or be locked up for life), what's the point in not getting rid of as many people who oppose you? It's ethically wrong, but tactically genius.
This is why suicide bombings still occur -- your side sacrifices 1 person to take out 20 who are of another religion/country.
...I got a call from Nielsen today, and was signed up to do the survey for a week. Weird coincidence....I'd also like to point out that I think they give different amounts of money to different people for doing the survey. Anyone want to compare?
That's absolute bullcrap.
I understand no PC in a bedroom -- they have too much time to hide the pornography and whatnot.
I understand no laptops to an extent, for the same reason.
But no TV? That's messed up.
I promise that if I ever am a parent, that I'm going to give my kids the same possibilities of thwarting authority I've had. They have to learn it at some point to survive in the business world -- lying, scamming, etc...
If defending attorneys can just say "OK, well our fees are X, unless we win a case against the RIAA, where they'll be $5,000,000 instead", then whatever settlement the mom would have to pay for the kid would be moot, no?
The main reason this won't work is because giving "significant" ad revenue to the video creator + paying for bandwidth/hosting > total ad revenue received......but I don't like the idea that people will get the idea that they should be paid for videos they shoot and upload. How is eBaum's World supposed to stay in business? This is a threat to their business model -- taking videos they find on other sites and putting them on theirs, knowing they won't get sued because hardly anyone cares, and those that do won't be able to prove any monetary damages. Now they actually can, which sucks.
(No, I'm not trying to be funny. I actually feel that if you're not able to protect your uploaded content, if it's AT ALL able to be decompiled/decrypted/cracked/etc., then you have no right to bitch when it's taken and put elsewhere.)
Thank you for saying what I wanted to say without looking like an asshole.
Now I'll come in and look like an asshole.
If ($ made/saved by doing illegal act) > (percentage chance of getting caught) * (fine/penalty you'd have to deal with from getting caught), you do the illegal act, plain and simple.
Example: eBaum's World steals content and animations from other sites and artists. They make millions of dollars from advertising (popups/page ads) by stealing this content. The odds on someone actually successfully taking them to court are low, and even if they do get sued, how much of that money would legally be the artist's? The money EBW has made, but divided by the total number of artists, leaving them with little more than a few hundred bucks?
So ($ from content theft) > (% chance of getting busted) * (payoff if they did.) Therefore, it makes sense for EBW to steal content, and Eric is a genius for doing so.
Same goes for all piracy/copyright infringement, big or small.
There are certain walks of life where this should be true. If a student in, say, a business school that produces several CEOs can't manage to cheat successfully while being watched, they'll never make it when they need to do the unethical things that need done in the real world.
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...so now when they get back home, and the parent tries to pull them off the internet (or tell the kids to do/not to do anything), the kids are now eqiupped with the skills to kick the parent's ass. Great thinking!
Min-maxing. Get the most out of every situation with the least put in, whether that be biggest return on the smallest monetary investment, most work done in the least amount of time, etc. Make every iota of effort, energy, money, anything you put into the world pay you back as big as you can.
...the ACCC can allow them to only accept PayPal, but PayPal is not allowed to collect any fees on the transactions. If eBay is doing this for "consumer safety", I'm sure they won't mind freely offering their payment service.
For example, the guys at Will it Blend blending that one iPhone. They bought the iPhone, but no longer have it. Will they be able to get the $100 credit, even though the remains of the iPhone were sold to someone else? (And thus blend the new product?)
Also, in a more reasonable situation, what if someone bought the iPhone only to resell it, or was unsatisfied with it and dumped it? Who gets the $100 then?
If that actually ended up adversely affecting his grade, I'd say it's lawsuit time.
No, we'd put the spork IN the blender, and an old guy wearing a lab coat will show off how powerful his $400 blender is by blending the spork and putting up videos of it.
This is how cyberbullying should be responded to.
You mess with someone online, they get to do something that messes with you in real life, plain and simple.
Slightly off-topic but just relevant enough to post, I play in collectible card game tournaments, and the local tournament organizer has denied players entry to his tournaments in the past based on seeing that certain players were cyberbullying other players on the message boards for those games. So the bullies were essentially "grounded" by the bullied, being prevented from doing something they enjoyed doing, and this tournament organizer's bans based on a person's character tend to last AT LEAST 1 full year.
It's stuff like that that needs to be happening more often.
Where have you been? In case you haven't seen it from various humor websites, anything put on the internet is pretty much fair game until you're specifically told that you're infringing copyright, served a cease and desist, and have to take down the stolen content.
But by then, so many people have viewed that stolen content (and thus, have either clicked on ads, been hit with pop-up/pop-under ads, or at the very least have given one more show of the ad to count against CPM), the site owner doesn't really care that they have to take one specific page down -- they've made their money from it.
Same premise here. Unless this gets outlawed entirely, the majority of people won't opt out (if that choice is available.)
On the flip side of that, there's already a phone service out there that requires you listen to an ad before completing your call, but it's a 4-1-1 service, so instead of paying $0.75 / $1.25 / however much it is to place a 411 call with your regular phone provider, you get that service for free, except you have to listen to 1 ad. With that in mind, those who end up getting hit with these ads thanks to their provider should be getting a cut in price on their monthly service.
Right -- I understand paying 2.9% + 30 cents when you are paying through a credit card.
However, if you have money sitting in your PayPal account, and that money is being transferred to another account, that IS NOT a credit card transaction, and thus shouldn't be charged anything similar to one.
...and this is coming from someone who does fairly significant business through eBay.
...and since eBay and PayPal are so closely knit, and almost everyone on eBay only uses PayPal to pay, trying to use any of the smaller players is pretty much futile. The only payment service that can reasonably knock PayPal off of its pedestal is Google Checkout, and eBay knows this.
eBay's fees are ridiculous now, and PayPal even moreso. eBay has continually raised their fees year after year, taking a far too large cut of small items. What's worse is that 2.9% + 30 cents bit on PayPal transactions, whether or not it was actually funded through a credit card. I understand needing to pay yourself back should someone actually pay with a credit card and get small fee on top of that, but when money is moved from one PP account to another, that costs them $0...not to mention that PayPal's fee is done on the TOTAL, not the pre-shipping price, so they end up taking 2.9% of the money that you're supposed to have to ship the item as well.
Between those two things, I'm losing well over 10% on any item that doesn't cost a huge amount of money. They wonder why people do stuff like use eBay contact info to sell outside of eBay and to list $1 items with hundred or even thousand-dollar shipping cost to avoid paying eBay as much as they can.
eBay claims that they want to have payment services with established track records or something like that. Just wait a year or two, and then possibly sue for inclusion, or at least under some law about anti-competitive acts? If Google could get GBay up...
GBay + "do no evil" = death of eBay.
...if it will detect the Dell-branded Google toolbar as adware, and remove it?
I just glanced over the topic title really quickly and saw "Jack" and "dead" and was really hoping that it was Jack Thompson.
COMMUNITY SERVICE? Failed for the whole term on the FIRST plagarism? I understand a fail for the term in college, but in high school, that is definitely excessive and the school made the right decision.
I'd mod this past 5 if I could. This is how it should ALWAYS be for ANYONE who writes a successful worm/breaks big security.
I wish it was like the good old days, where if you hacked into NASA, you AUTOMATICALLY got a 6-figure salary job working for NASA.
Glad to see someone who shares my view on this. If you're going to die (or be locked up for life), what's the point in not getting rid of as many people who oppose you? It's ethically wrong, but tactically genius. This is why suicide bombings still occur -- your side sacrifices 1 person to take out 20 who are of another religion/country.
...I got a call from Nielsen today, and was signed up to do the survey for a week. Weird coincidence. ...I'd also like to point out that I think they give different amounts of money to different people for doing the survey. Anyone want to compare?
This scares me. The fact that anyone who even clicks on that link could go to prison...WTF. Seriously.
That's absolute bullcrap. I understand no PC in a bedroom -- they have too much time to hide the pornography and whatnot. I understand no laptops to an extent, for the same reason. But no TV? That's messed up. I promise that if I ever am a parent, that I'm going to give my kids the same possibilities of thwarting authority I've had. They have to learn it at some point to survive in the business world -- lying, scamming, etc...
If defending attorneys can just say "OK, well our fees are X, unless we win a case against the RIAA, where they'll be $5,000,000 instead", then whatever settlement the mom would have to pay for the kid would be moot, no?
http://promomagazine.com/incentives/best-buy_04130 5/index.html (Karma whore link)
The main reason this won't work is because giving "significant" ad revenue to the video creator + paying for bandwidth/hosting > total ad revenue received... ...but I don't like the idea that people will get the idea that they should be paid for videos they shoot and upload. How is eBaum's World supposed to stay in business? This is a threat to their business model -- taking videos they find on other sites and putting them on theirs, knowing they won't get sued because hardly anyone cares, and those that do won't be able to prove any monetary damages. Now they actually can, which sucks.
(No, I'm not trying to be funny. I actually feel that if you're not able to protect your uploaded content, if it's AT ALL able to be decompiled/decrypted/cracked/etc., then you have no right to bitch when it's taken and put elsewhere.)
...when hacking into a computer system automatically got you a job working for the company you hacked into?
Thank you for saying what I wanted to say without looking like an asshole.
Now I'll come in and look like an asshole.
If ($ made/saved by doing illegal act) > (percentage chance of getting caught) * (fine/penalty you'd have to deal with from getting caught), you do the illegal act, plain and simple.
Example: eBaum's World steals content and animations from other sites and artists. They make millions of dollars from advertising (popups/page ads) by stealing this content. The odds on someone actually successfully taking them to court are low, and even if they do get sued, how much of that money would legally be the artist's? The money EBW has made, but divided by the total number of artists, leaving them with little more than a few hundred bucks?
So ($ from content theft) > (% chance of getting busted) * (payoff if they did.) Therefore, it makes sense for EBW to steal content, and Eric is a genius for doing so.
Same goes for all piracy/copyright infringement, big or small.
There are certain walks of life where this should be true. If a student in, say, a business school that produces several CEOs can't manage to cheat successfully while being watched, they'll never make it when they need to do the unethical things that need done in the real world.
TOO MANY EXTRA LIVES.
Nintendo thinks that we, as a generation of gamers, are soft.
People should have to play through old games before being permitted to play new ones....yes, I'm saying have gaming permits.