CulturalNgineer

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Good Idea or Not: Nigeria and Mastercard?(newsroom.mastercard.com)
1 points by CulturalNgineer 12y ago|0 comments
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by CulturalNgineer 13y ago
Characteristics of the Monied "Like" Button http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2013/12/characteristics... One-Click Micropayment Capability for Volume Solicitations and Multiple Providers http:/&
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by CulturalNgineer 13y ago
An (e.g.) 1/2 cent payment connected to the current Like button (whether it was credited to the likee or something else ) would stop the Facebook Fraud problem by making them non-viable for clickfarms.. and still not seriously impact t
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Characteristics of the Monied "Like" Button(culturalengineer.blogspot.com)
2 points by CulturalNgineer 13y ago|0 comments
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by CulturalNgineer 13y ago
If you could BUY a download or certain number of plays of the song for a nickel or a few cents (one-click and without transaction costs making it impractical)... Would you? patent issued... demo built and tested... its called a pooled-user-
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by CulturalNgineer 14y ago
Patents are important protections designed to protect the hard work of individuals from the onslaught of more powerful forces... I've got one myself (a utility patent) THIS IS NOT THE CASE HERE! This is more akin to privatizing the alphabet
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by CulturalNgineer 14y ago
If Blodget really bilked money from widows and orphans (and I don't doubt it) how come he's not running a bank? Seems like the perfect item for the resume. Maybe he's just pissed-off because he was the sacrificial lamb for a lot of other wi
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by CulturalNgineer 15y ago
It really is all just security theater... keeping the peanut gallery scared, entertained... and at the same time self-satisfied about their unearned 'exceptionalism'... BTW, has it occurred to anyone that someone intending a terrorist act c
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by CulturalNgineer 15y ago
RE "The Internet Might Kill Us All" Good read, good points, reasonable possibilities... but a bit hyperbolic. Looking on the bright side... Scenarios depicted could end in massive death and destruction... But wouldn't kill us all. Not much
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
Check the following totally misleading article put out by the Corporate front "Ameripac": FCC: Information Superhighway Traffic Cops http://conservativeactionalerts.com/blog_post/show/2120 This looks to be a campaign intentionally designe
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
The benefits of Facebook marketing for the song and artists is a good question... lots of interesting answers here. But how about Facebook's end? Doesn't seem to me they were going to get much out of it either way? SO how much revenue did F
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
The Internet is a landscape... not a business. Speech, association, politics, mutual assistance (charity), etc... are transactions between humans that pre-date the commercial transaction. The first ICT was perhaps a bird call constructed ou
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
There are points worth considering on both sides regarding file sharing and copyright. However this censorship action is being taken in the name of 'homeland security'... I find this a very disturbing trend and wonder how this community fee
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US seizes filesharing domains – p2p advocates consider new distributed routing(blog.p2pfoundation.net)
1 points by CulturalNgineer 16y ago|2 comments
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
Could be good idea! I'll try to get around to looking into it tomorrow...
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
There must be many factors that go into 'what makes a good entrepreneur'... and many fallacies as well. I'm 60. My background is neither in entrepreneurship, business nor computer technology... but rather a strange combination of cultural a
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
Here's a vote for David Brin's novel "Earth"... full of amazingly prescient ideas regarding the social effects of communication technology, transparency... and especially his Helvetian War* as part of the backstory, though presented as met
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
Nope, not inaccurate at all. We're also 'excreters', 'respirators' and metabolizers generally. The document discussed here and the word 'citizen' refer to a conscious sense of responsibility to and for the "Commons" in addition to oneself.
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
On a similar note: I'd like to see an effort to eliminate the word "consumers" from our leaders lexicons. Cows are consumers... Hogs are consumers... Consumers are commodities that are fattened until they're slaughtered! Words have signific
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
The lesson here is how co-ordinated messaging (propaganda) can continually shape and re-shape broad cultural memes no matter how stupid the memes are. While in the case of diamonds it's a matter of wasting money, encouraging inane consumeri
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
Car insurance and home insurance are relatives of 'derivatives' but are much different than the "naked" derivatives and CDO Squared instruments (2nd generation derivatives naked or otherwise). While you're right about his error regarding th
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
Our paranoid idiot government (or, more accurately, "our paranoid idiot government that believes we're also paranoid idiots just like them)... has given the idiot terrorists all the tools they need to completely bankrupt us while obliterati
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
Satire for sure... But the link to PayPal is real enough! I wonder if they've taken in any money? And if so, did the people think they were supporting this nutty idea or supporting satire?
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
The individual in a tribe of hunter-gatherers has a very different concept of privacy. In his/her world everyone pretty much knows everyone else's 'business'. The whole concept of privacy is relatively new to humanity. This doesn't mean its
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
Internet security, like any kind of security can never be absolute (as is pointed out in a couple of comments). So it's really a question of achieving whatever level of security is practicable in relation to its costs in time, money and ene
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by CulturalNgineer 16y ago
Just want to congratulate them! It's a thankless enough job as it is and those writers don't get often get rich... let alone any exposure on main stream media which is all too focussed on the enormous importance of balloon-boys and octo-mom
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by CulturalNgineer 17y ago
END THE MADNESS! Bring back Black and White...
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by CulturalNgineer 17y ago
Great Post! He's on to vital fundamentals. It's helpful to look at civilizations as products of 'social energy'... countless decisions by individuals and groups. (A decision is an idea + an action). Money and credit are very imperfect techn
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by CulturalNgineer 17y ago
Nope, I'm an anthropologist. Extremes in wealth are not compatible with a stable free society. Though I'm open to contrary evidence.
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by CulturalNgineer 17y ago
Dude, they're still right where they were... running the show.

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