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by markessien 16y ago
Actually, there is a lot of talk of the problems, and little talk about solutions. I have a potential solution: Local whitelisting companies. Paypal and all other payment providers partner with local companies who claim that will pre-screen
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by markessien 16y ago
Just like collective responsibility for the Iraq and Afganistan wars rests with all Americans?
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by markessien 16y ago
How many percentage of internet users from Nigeria are scamming? It's a small minority, probably similar to the number of Americans sending spam emails. But Nigeria can be simply cancelled from the system, because it's a low income country.
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by markessien 16y ago
They are not doing a statistical determination. There is no algorithm behind it that indicates when a country is safe to do business with. They have just switched off Nigeria. There is no appeal. There is no review.
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by markessien 16y ago
If paypal blocks Nigeria now...how will they ever know that payment fraud from Nigeria is decreasing?
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by markessien 16y ago
Hmm, how many paypal killers have been created? Now you want to go create a paypal killer from an african country with a low internet population, and expect big sites to support this? I think "fuck off" is an appropriate answer to people su
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by markessien 16y ago
Nigerian issued credit/debit cards (mastercard/visa) don't work internationally, so can't be used to pay for online items.
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by markessien 16y ago
What I dislike about the attitude of many businesses towards Nigeria is the way they just dismiss the country with a wave of their hand. Sure, there is some scam coming out of the country, but some guy just looks at the numbers and then sen
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by markessien 17y ago
I asked a reviewer on the phone once. He said this: There are 3 levels of review (Technical, policies and X). Random reviewers test different aspects. There is also 'Escalation', which is when the reviewer is not sure and the internal polic
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by markessien 17y ago
I think all of these show one thing: when people like what they use, they will tell everyone else. You watch an amazing short film on youtube - you tell everyone you know, and the tree grows very quickly. The good stuff bubbles to the top.
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by markessien 17y ago
That's not correct. I have read that it's only about ~ 89% of bloggers who make them up.
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by markessien 17y ago
I dislike such projects. It's kind of like having a showcase for the "special kids" where everyone can come and look at how "great" they are because they made some useless trinket. Build by looking people in the eye, talking and trading wit
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by markessien 17y ago
The blog is powered by an unfeatures list - and is ugly and lacks the basic things that every wordpress blog has? Features are put in software because people pay money for them. If nobody added anything to software, or let software evolve a
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by markessien 17y ago
It may be a bit difficult to understand, but most people in the world are constantly shouting: I exist, look over here, notice me! That's why all the kids dream of being famous. Understand it: People don't want their thoughts or their photo
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by markessien 17y ago
I've found that in technology, it's a bad idea to use negations. If you say things that should "not be done" or "will never happen" or "is not possible", at some point in the future, someone will quote you and laugh at you.
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by markessien 17y ago
Hmm, I've had google wave for some months now, and I somehow don't see much a use for it at the moment.
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by markessien 17y ago
The question is - can a network guru leave whatever company he is working at for a few months, and then come back with no problems?
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by markessien 17y ago
It's like trying to model a random graph using a set of distinct y=f(x) functions. There will be a major f(x) that captures most of the movement of the graph, but the spikes and other weird happenings can be modelled by another function h(x
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by markessien 17y ago
I have a wave account. I logged in, and I could not even figure out if the thing could send an email to a normal account. Google Wave is very hard to understand at the moment. It's something that has to be addressed.
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by markessien 17y ago
I don't get it - why would you want to "not work"? What do you do then? If I want to sit on a beach and drink, I can do that right now - if I want to play games all day, I can also do that right now. Work is the game, if I stopped working,
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by markessien 17y ago
I will not be doing the marathon, but will do some of the skating, and probably go the skaters party! The marathon runs beside where I live, so I'll give you a thumbs up as you go by ;)
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by markessien 17y ago
I just read through the group selection wikipedia article. It does not seem to be abandoned as a theory, it seems to be a topic with proponents on both sides, and there are strong arguments for both sides. The selfish gene argument is an ol
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by markessien 17y ago
Apple is a brand for consumer electronics, and that's where you see their brand. There is no 'Apple' search engine, for example. Their OS for example is not branded Apple OS, it's branded as OS X or Mac OS X.
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by markessien 17y ago
He's wrong for a simple reason: Breasts are expensive. They are expensive to maintain, and no other animal maintains them. So even if it had an advantage at some point in time, as he describes, rather than maintaining an expensive evolution
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by markessien 17y ago
How did you get hold of it?
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by markessien 17y ago
Takes a very long time to download and there is no progress bar that tells me how far along it is. The lack of a progress bar makes it bad. I have no idea if this will take 2 days or it will be done in a minute. Pushing play also locked up
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by markessien 17y ago
Because "Microsoft", as a brand, is recognized as a corporation. "Google", as a brand, is a search engine. People don't want to use corporate branded things daily. It's why the IM is called MSN Messenger and not Microsoft Messenger. On a br
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by markessien 17y ago
What will happen is that the keyboard will be replaced with a tactile feedback multitouch surface. It's like your second screen, but a bit more task specific.
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by markessien 17y ago
Because a large part of the interaction with a computer does not consist of typing, it consists of pointing and clicking and moving stuff around. A lot of these stuff being moved around can be done efficiently by hand motions - your mouse e

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