"The reason why PayPal (and most other financial institutions) don't support the eastern european countries is that those countries are notorious for the sheer number of fraudsters. So much so that it is not worth it to provide service there."
Thanks for standing behind an old stereotype that offers quick answers. However you may notice that "fraudsters" script kiddies can obtain US credit card numbers and then sign up without problems for PayPal.
It's guys like me who want to sign up with their own credit card that have the problem. The credit card operators in Bulgaria are the same as those well known internationally (MasterCard, Visa, Diners Club etc.).
And to bust another stereotype, it's not "most other financial institutions" that don't support Eastern Europe, from the big payment processing companies, the problem is specifically with PayPal.
I'd like to take the word tonight to whine about PayPal not supporting my country, Bulgaria.
Every time I see a PayPal donate / purchase button I'm automatically filtered out since they just don't support my country and declineto accept my credit cards if I try to sign up.
For what is considered the most popular micropayments system in the world, they'd do better to hurry up and actually support the world..
"Cool. And, while your at it, you'll need to try not to come up with anything at all that has to do with Fash, including utilities, consulting, advertising, bulletin boards, or technical articles. Quite a site you'll have there, sparky."
Sparky, you can go spread your totally unfounded FUD elsewhere, and check what these sites are busy with in the mean time:
Do we need any special lessons to know that if your product has a lot better availability (preinstalled into Windows) and better quality and standards/CSS support (if you do a fair comparison of NS4 and IE4 you will see) it'll easily grab a lion share in a developing market?
Be fair to yourself and let me know of a common scenario where a casual user would like to adminster their computer by mapping microsoft domains to a different IP in their hosts file...
And compare this to the number of casual users hijacked by malware.
You can twist it and bend it any way you want, but we gotta put some proper priorities in place when judging those issues and not just try to make everything into a shiny demonstration of our hate towards the evil Microsoft.
Making it harder for malware to abuse our computers, or make sure that if not everybody can bypass hosts, then none can, so that we're all screwed. Think about it.
MPAA celebrates 50 years surviving in the uneven battle with the evil video recorders. And they still got enough money to sue kids and grandparents too! Yei!
"Until Adobe gets ahold of the fact that you registered FlashBeyond.com and tries to sue you under some lameass copyright/trademark infringement. Though I firmly believe Adobe would have no grounds to do so as you have not infringed on Fair Use provisions, that the domain name might be misconstrued is more than enough for some judge to declare your site to infringe on something or other provision of law. Not only does squatting need to be addressed but also copyright/trademark laws."
The trademark this site uses is "FlashBeyond" and the trademark of Adobe is still "Macromedia Flash" and soon to be "Adobe Flash".
Now would I register "MacromediaFlashBeyond.com" we could have something to discuss here;)
Since "Flash" is an actual word you can find in daily use, it can not be trademarked alone, it has to be trademarked together in a phrase with something else, or modified, for example "Phlash".
Therefore I'm not infringing on Adobe's trademark and I believe you can hardly call "FlashBeyond" to be squatting on Adobe's brand, I use totally different design style, logo design, "Beyond" is totally non-generic and I also never claim to be affiliated with Adobe or Macromedia.
There are hundreds of sites about Macromedia Flash that include "flash" or "mx" in their brand/domain names and Macromedia never touched them, nor it has a reason to.
Thanks for your concern though;)
PS: Guys in Adobe already know of the site, btw, and they were no threats of any kind to sue me;)
This is basic capitalism in action. As long as there are people willing to pay up a fortune, there will be people to try to sell it for a fortune.
Thing is, you don't have to have the money if you have the imagination. I've recently started brainstorming for domain ideas for some projects I'm releasing in the next couple of months, and I can assure you that despite it being difficult and sometimes frustrating to find a good name for free, it's ALWAYS possible to get one, if you so wish.
When I mention my domains I always get the question "how much you paid up". So I say: "Well I paid up 10 bucks" and get a frown of disbelief. Thing is I've better ways to spend a $5000 than for a domain name.
Here are a couple of very recent examples:
futuremethod.com/net (and fmethod.com/net for short): For my little web design firm team.
binaryconcert.com: Where I'll soon post experimental electronic music.
JUGAI.com: A home for a virtual gaming console concept I'm still working on.
DonBeats.com A site selling hip hop beats I did for my friend, who goes by the nickname Don Perinion. This site ranks on the first or second pages for terms like "beats for sale", "hip hop beats" or "buy exclusive beats".
FlashBeyond.com A new project for free and commercial Flash scripts, components, tutorials...
All those were free for taking and purchased relatively recently (except the web firm ones), and I've found hundreds of other good names in the process which are still free, but I won't list here for obvious reason of someone quickly "parking" them.
To recap: don't let the squatters make you believe there is NO good domain left free on the web, because they neither have the resource or money to keep up with the imagination of the entire world.
"If you just talking about the freaks who wack off to pics of little girls, then think of this: People searching for pics of little kids creates a demand for pics of little kids. If the demand is there, then someone posts pics of little kids. Where do you think this pics come from? People sexually absuing and exploiting little kids and posting pictures of them online."
That's so deeply insightfull. So all we have to do to stop crime, is to lock in jail anyone who ever used money.
"But few in the porn world know much about Steve Jones, the 39-year-old married father of two behind the Lightspeed persona -- and that's the way he wants to keep it."
You know I, and I suppose many others, familiar with large corporation tactics, have a funny filter for reading articles like that, I see the actual article text, but somehow what I end up reading is along those lines:
"Last time we had some crap in that checked crap on install to ensure you don't have unwanted crap. Now we moved a similar crap on our sites so you can't download our crap without passing through our crap first. In the new OS, we've tons and tons and tons of wonderful new crap, but that crap will not run unless you pass through our other crap again, which was updated with all sort os of new kinds of crap. Basically we ensure you don't get crap if you don't pay crap. But even if you would pay, you still get all of the crap."
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"The reason why PayPal (and most other financial institutions) don't support the eastern european countries is that those countries are notorious for the sheer number of fraudsters. So much so that it is not worth it to provide service there."
Thanks for standing behind an old stereotype that offers quick answers. However you may notice that "fraudsters" script kiddies can obtain US credit card numbers and then sign up without problems for PayPal.
It's guys like me who want to sign up with their own credit card that have the problem. The credit card operators in Bulgaria are the same as those well known internationally (MasterCard, Visa, Diners Club etc.).
And to bust another stereotype, it's not "most other financial institutions" that don't support Eastern Europe, from the big payment processing companies, the problem is specifically with PayPal.
No reporter would miss an opportunity for a solid pun like that ;)
Bless their hearts, but, how did the editors decide a PayPal article should be placed in the Hardware section of Slashdot? :)
"In other words, your country represents approx 0.11% of the global population. Do you really expect them to care?"
I don't expect them to particularly care about anything seeing how abysmal is the tech support and service for their already existing customers.
I'd like to take the word tonight to whine about PayPal not supporting my country, Bulgaria.
Every time I see a PayPal donate / purchase button I'm automatically filtered out since they just don't support my country and declineto accept my credit cards if I try to sign up.
For what is considered the most popular micropayments system in the world, they'd do better to hurry up and actually support the world..
"So is his name Goodfellow or Goodnight?"
Lemme gues, he's working at Goodmail.
"Cool. And, while your at it, you'll need to try not to come up with anything at all that has to do with Fash, including utilities, consulting, advertising, bulletin boards, or technical articles. Quite a site you'll have there, sparky."
Sparky, you can go spread your totally unfounded FUD elsewhere, and check what these sites are busy with in the mean time:
www.flashcomponents.net
www.flashkit.com
www.flashloaded.com
www.flashcomponent.com
www.advanceflash.com
and so on and so on...
Do we need any special lessons to know that if your product has a lot better availability (preinstalled into Windows) and better quality and standards/CSS support (if you do a fair comparison of NS4 and IE4 you will see) it'll easily grab a lion share in a developing market?
"Making it easier to administer your computer"
Be fair to yourself and let me know of a common scenario where a casual user would like to adminster their computer by mapping microsoft domains to a different IP in their hosts file...
And compare this to the number of casual users hijacked by malware.
You can twist it and bend it any way you want, but we gotta put some proper priorities in place when judging those issues and not just try to make everything into a shiny demonstration of our hate towards the evil Microsoft.
Making it harder for malware to abuse our computers, or make sure that if not everybody can bypass hosts, then none can, so that we're all screwed. Think about it.
MPAA celebrates 50 years surviving in the uneven battle with the evil video recorders.
And they still got enough money to sue kids and grandparents too! Yei!
"... emits a brilliant white light when attached to an electricity supply."
Holly hell, noone has done THAT before!
Everybody is talking how having Windows on Mac will make Wintel users "switch".
However what I see in the last month is so far the opposite: Mac users trying to cram Vista, XP, 98, Linux, BSD on their machines.
If this trend is to show what the future holds, Apple might in the end be sorry about what they've done to their business.
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"IANAL, but I think you're wrong. Everyday words can be trademarked in context with their field of use."
;)
Well, in that case I'll try and not come up with a web plugin that competes with Flash
"Until Adobe gets ahold of the fact that you registered FlashBeyond.com and tries to sue you under some lameass copyright/trademark infringement. Though I firmly believe Adobe would have no grounds to do so as you have not infringed on Fair Use provisions, that the domain name might be misconstrued is more than enough for some judge to declare your site to infringe on something or other provision of law. Not only does squatting need to be addressed but also copyright/trademark laws."
;)
;)
;)
The trademark this site uses is "FlashBeyond" and the trademark of Adobe is still "Macromedia Flash" and soon to be "Adobe Flash".
Now would I register "MacromediaFlashBeyond.com" we could have something to discuss here
Since "Flash" is an actual word you can find in daily use, it can not be trademarked alone, it has to be trademarked together in a phrase with something else, or modified, for example "Phlash".
Therefore I'm not infringing on Adobe's trademark and I believe you can hardly call "FlashBeyond" to be squatting on Adobe's brand, I use totally different design style, logo design, "Beyond" is totally non-generic and I also never claim to be affiliated with Adobe or Macromedia.
There are hundreds of sites about Macromedia Flash that include "flash" or "mx" in their brand/domain names and Macromedia never touched them, nor it has a reason to.
Thanks for your concern though
PS: Guys in Adobe already know of the site, btw, and they were no threats of any kind to sue me
This is basic capitalism in action. As long as there are people willing to pay up a fortune, there will be people to try to sell it for a fortune.
Thing is, you don't have to have the money if you have the imagination. I've recently started brainstorming for domain ideas for some projects I'm releasing in the next couple of months, and I can assure you that despite it being difficult and sometimes frustrating to find a good name for free, it's ALWAYS possible to get one, if you so wish.
When I mention my domains I always get the question "how much you paid up". So I say: "Well I paid up 10 bucks" and get a frown of disbelief. Thing is I've better ways to spend a $5000 than for a domain name.
Here are a couple of very recent examples:
futuremethod.com/net (and fmethod.com/net for short): For my little web design firm team.
binaryconcert.com: Where I'll soon post experimental electronic music.
JUGAI.com: A home for a virtual gaming console concept I'm still working on.
DonBeats.com A site selling hip hop beats I did for my friend, who goes by the nickname Don Perinion. This site ranks on the first or second pages for terms like "beats for sale", "hip hop beats" or "buy exclusive beats".
FlashBeyond.com A new project for free and commercial Flash scripts, components, tutorials...
All those were free for taking and purchased relatively recently (except the web firm ones), and I've found hundreds of other good names in the process which are still free, but I won't list here for obvious reason of someone quickly "parking" them.
To recap: don't let the squatters make you believe there is NO good domain left free on the web, because they neither have the resource or money to keep up with the imagination of the entire world.
"... how are those [Gooogle] inane squatter pages better than the link farms that Google frowns upon?"
Their income goes back to Google.
That was to expected from a company that went public and reports to their shareholders. Lots of money and values don't go together.
"If you just talking about the freaks who wack off to pics of little girls, then think of this: People searching for pics of little kids creates a demand for pics of little kids. If the demand is there, then someone posts pics of little kids. Where do you think this pics come from? People sexually absuing and exploiting little kids and posting pictures of them online."
That's so deeply insightfull. So all we have to do to stop crime, is to lock in jail anyone who ever used money.
:((
I love Japan in a pure and innocent way, like a child would?
"However, the sacred scriptures of the Flying Spaghetti Monster explicitly say that He does do this..."
Would you PLEASE, for the glory of His Noodly Appendage, stop making fun of FSM!!! Some of us actually BELIEVE in Him!
"But few in the porn world know much about Steve Jones, the 39-year-old married father of two behind the Lightspeed persona -- and that's the way he wants to keep it."
Have no worries, your secrets are safe with us.
You know I, and I suppose many others, familiar with large corporation tactics, have a funny filter for reading articles like that, I see the actual article text, but somehow what I end up reading is along those lines:
"Last time we had some crap in that checked crap on install to ensure you don't have unwanted crap. Now we moved a similar crap on our sites so you can't download our crap without passing through our crap first.
In the new OS, we've tons and tons and tons of wonderful new crap, but that crap will not run unless you pass through our other crap again, which was updated with all sort os of new kinds of crap. Basically we ensure you don't get crap if you don't pay crap. But even if you would pay, you still get all of the crap."
Sorry for the crappy comment.