In short, They are not what they used to be.
At one time you pull up that phone number that keeps hanging up on you when they call. At one time you could have proof that (insert name here) has called you. At one time you could get deep directions to the crazy place your child just called you from telling you they are staying at a friend’s house. All for free.
But now they make it creepy and weird. They make it seem like you are doing some strange private detective junk and want to sell you the information at some stupid monthly price.
There are no more sites that do it for free for that one time you need it. They sell you with “well you might need it again”.
You know, there is another way around this issue. Call 1411. It’s cheaper. and you stand a 99.9999% chance they will not steal your credit card number.
Now days there are so many cell phone carriers out there and well, the law is different about listing cell phone numbers. Why? because cell phones cost per minute. It’s pretty crummy when a company calls your cell phone and tries to solicit you.
So head to information, or your yellow pages phone book or what ever directory you can find and locate your kid. If you have to , look at their 4square page or gowalla page or twitter or facebook. You will find the lil tard.
Category: internet
One View of Pirating
I was having a discussion of what pirating was in a forum that I typically converse in. I was having an issue with games for windows live not accepting my install cd key, the thread was created to inform the other users of said site of what betrayal i was facing from something i trusted to invest $60 into. Here is more on games for windows live having a limited install.
I said “no one pirates itunes garbage”. This person from the site gave a response that stunned me. I didn’t expect it , I didn’t believe it till the second time he stated it more clearly. He actually said “iTunes itself is free, some Apps are free, but with a jailbroken device you can find most any app you…..” it goes on a bit after that, but really. I can handle only so much. So I realized I was actually holding a conversation with someone who is brand new to the topic. This person did not see the heyday, this person got interested in computers and the internet, within the last three years. This person was born after 1994.
So I decided to make it clear for others who did not get to be a part of the boom. I give you internet history on it’s dirty side. The side that will not be in future history books.
I give you the response I gave him
You just now told me what age group you are in.
Sorry didn’t know how new you are.
Itunes the name means “music” (tunes is clue #1)
I tunes has been selling music for +5 years now.
The apps thing is quite new
Roughly 3 yearsBack in the day, music was the number one controversial pirated item on the internet.
There used to be some major hitters in the pirating world.
Napster
Limewire
winmx
Kazzaa
Almost all are gone now.
Some have resurfaced as something else.
Truly if it was not for them, the public never would have demanded greater speeds for their internet connections and we would not have the internet the way it is now. 2.0 would not have been an option. php would not have been an option, flash well it would have demised…. well in a flash.
1994-1998 Music pirating was so common that radio station djs would make their playlist at home and bring to the station these crappy assed 32-64bit overly compressed 200k songs and play them on the radio. some of us would bitch how it sounded like the music was being played in a sewer drain.
Around 2000- 2002 Itunes was announced. No one moved for the first year. because it was free. but apple played a bunch of clever commercials. by 2004 all pirating had come to a skid. there was a huge standstill, because Kazaa was seized and millions of i.p. addresses were placed public as targets of interest by the riaa..You know what… I have gone to far with this. i think I have a cool post for the tech blog… later dude.
Some of the time-line might be a tiny bit tilted, but it’s can’t be by much.
Selling Playdom Mobsters Account
Let’s say you have a level 61, this level 61 has a 4,945,412,000 bounty on it’s head and well over 20,000 Energy. It has greater than 100 billion in it’s possession, tons of godfather prizes and playdom prizes. Let’s say you have spent the last two years with that account as your “ace in the hole”. What I mean by ace in the hole is, it’s a small account, but not so small that you have no property you can buy for a fair price. In fact you have tons of choices of land and buildings. Well you have this account just sitting there. You log in daily to return energy, but never really do anything with it. That is of course until you get into trouble in the battlefield.
Once you get cornered, your level 400+ is getting slapped around with two level 100s. You can not retaliate. So you log into the level 61 and hitlist each of the two, ten times straight back to back. Occasionally you attack them after you hitlist them, this leaves you to collect your bounty and get a kill under your belt. The account has faced many of rivals, there is no mark to show the endless numbers of people hitlisted with this account. Because it is just there to put them on the list
| Health | 286/286 | Cash | $165,618,353,979 | Favor Points | 1 |
| Energy | 25,198/20 | Cash Flow | $491,923,955 | Skill Points | 0 |
| Stamina | 28/28 | Bank | $23,048,780,000 |
| Level | 61 |
| Class | Soldato |
| Mob Size | 86 |
| Experience | 14352 |
| Experience to Next Level | 248 |
| Fights Won | 326 |
| Fights Lost | 1093 |
| Death | 208 |
| Mobsters Whacked | 18 |
There are other accounts that I am not willing to upkeep anymore such as .
| Health | 184/184 | Cash | $200,848,661,802 | Favor Points | 15 |
| Energy | 18,284/15 | Cash Flow | $381,670,835 | Skill Points | 3 |
| Stamina | 39/39 | Bank | $22,648,039,750 |
| Level | 56 |
| Class | Mogul |
| Mob Size | 82 |
| Experience | 12810 |
| Experience to Next Level | 290 |
| Fights Won | 155 |
| Fights Lost | 489 |
| Death | 86 |
| Mobsters Whacked | 6 |
And
| Health | 164/164 | Cash | $94,384,239,215 | Favor Points | 7 |
| Energy | 20,214/12 | Cash Flow | $246,418,685 | Skill Points | 0 |
| Stamina | 32/32 | Bank | $21,474,160,713 |
| Level | 44 |
| Class | Mogul |
| Mob Size | 81 |
| Experience | 9228 |
| Experience to Next Level | 272 |
| Fights Won | 159 |
| Fights Lost | 739 |
| Death | 257 |
| Mobsters Whacked | 7 |
My little demon in the making
| Health | 100/100 | Cash | $30,404,761,600 | Favor Points | 9 |
| Energy | 1,185/10 | Cash Flow | $196,469,100 | Skill Points | 0 |
| Stamina | 9/9 | Bank | $4,071,979,366 |
| Level | 5 |
| Class | Renegade |
| Mob Size | 4 |
| Experience | 94 |
| Experience to Next Level | 6 |
| Fights Won | 3 |
| Fights Lost | 25 |
| Death | 4 |
| Mobsters Whacked | 0 |
If I let go of something like these accounts, I would have to just say take the whole bunch for $300. I would be crippled without one.
These accounts are purely 100% legit. I never used a bot, I never used any kind of cheat other than an occasional trip to sumob so I could buy land on the property calculator.
Not sure what I would do with my level 400+
That one of course would go for no less than $200 it’s self.
I am not so sure I actually want to sell them. I have never had an offer. Nor am I requesting an offer. Simple truth I don’t know if playdom or myspace allow that kind of stuff. I would consider it if someone could show me that it is legal and probably placed an offer.
I dunno maybe this is just a rant of being tired of keeping up with the accounts.
Android Must Have Apps
Now these picks are not by some internet standards or by any other influence other than me seeing extreme use in them.
Shop Savvy Bar-code scanner. Yeah the results have not been up to what I expected but hey, they do offer a chance to look at the products on amazon and see what other people’s reviews are of the items.
Zxing scanner. Not near as good as shop savvy, but is another scanner so I have two to pick through. Choices are wonderful.
Cherry Rplayer – you can manually insert radio stations you like – I of course have ZRock in mine, because well they only have an iphone app and well I want to hear Zrock Dang it!
Opera Mini– because it does some stuff that google browser will not, like play myspace games right off their site, without need of an ap.
Pandora Radio – I love the way it lets you pick a music type and just ride with it. (audio out to audio in on my car, excellent sound.)
Digital Clock from Socialmobile , it’s like my back up alarm clock (only use it while it’s on the charger though)
Twit.tv by Mediafly – all the Leo Laporte podcasts I can listen to.
Pretty much everything I have found, are just trials or do not live up to what they charge you, or just plain ol toys.
still waiting for Myspace Mobsters Android ap. Or a nice pdf viewer that costs no money and does not have trial period.. like foxit for Droid would be real nice. Mozilla Firefox for android would be nice. Hulu would be good.
Tv.com player would fricken rock if it had shows i like in full episodes. like Smallville Two and Half Men. but seems like everything that I like, is just 1 minutes snippets, really how much bandwidth could 300×200 really be ? They could soooo make some money from the ads, kinda like hulu does, if they would just do it . Youtube ap is great, but don’t hit pause, you freaking video fail every-time you do hit pause.
A-online radio has great features but it does not make the list. It just does not buffer very well. See Pandora radio isn’t as free roam as Aonline, but I can plug my G1 into my car stereo, turn on Pandora radio and let it play all the way from work to home. I plug in A-online and it plays for all of about 20 seconds. If it is not a buffer issue then the garbage shuts off every time the back light turns off. I know it’s one of the two and I can do nothing about either.
A very good write up on ZdNet called 10 Must Have- Android Apps
Check Website Status
If you have been looking for a place to evaluate your website, or just looking for status on your website in google page rank or in alexa rank or dmoz rank, there is now a place to check this status Website Status, value and worth.
This should help with your seo (search engine optimization). Tell you what your current status is, and what tweaks you may need to better your position.
I myself got sick of running down the gauntlet of links in Google or Bing or even Yahoo.
The one Here you will find at Website Status, value and worth Did not give ME any pretty results and well that kinda is a bummer. but it tells me what I need to know. There are many sites out there that tell me my site is worth a few hundred thousand dollars, and there are a few sites out there that tell me it is worth less than fifty bucks. I love working on this site and all of the upgrades I do so to me it is priceless, kind of like the results I get (lol).
So go see what your website is worth and see what your page rank is in Google,dmoz, and Alexa. It can only give you an idea of what mechanical method people use before purchasing your established domain name. Don’t get mad if the value is not what you want it to be, it could very well be worth more in a sentimental way or a more logical manor than what this php script evaluates.
An SEO Person to Learn From
I thought I knew everything about search engine optimization, until I met Alicia Crowder. This lady schooled me in a flash.
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Kinda made me feel inadequate when I started reading her site for all of the tips she has on how to get seen in google for categories I want to fall under. I have been trying to pick her brain a bit over the last week or so, I mean come on this lady knows her stuff. She seems to be picking back from time to time, but I know I have been all over her sites. Her recent post on her seo tips site seems to nail out exactly what she does.
I follow her on twitter to get fresh updates. but I really try and not let her know of my sites to crawl and critique, it would slaughter my ego lol.
She does offer a service where she will do the work for you, but she also has tons and tons of free information on her sites. I actually have no products to market so I just use her free advice and tips to get an idea of what I need to tweak here and there to get my content read.
Running like 6 or seven sites I feel like I am a know it all. but really I do not. but hey, who does ?
I have been using her tips for about a week now and I have seen some real changes. a big hats off to Alicia and her SEO tips.
Online Dating Sites 09 Review
Actually, They are all scams and full of pervs, Piggies and F tards.
We have all come to know this over the past 16 years or so. In 09 one site popped up that seems to be full of rednecks and tardos. There are enough of them out there that the site actually gets plenty of traffic. So guys, gals, if you are hard up try that site. I will tell you the sites name in due time.
See there are cheap unscrupulous ways to advertise your domain. The method that i hate the most is where it is spammed out with completely unrelated topics to what the site has. see there was a site that sent out ” look how I got rich” links all over myspace and and all over facebook and in your email and every freaking place on the internet. The site did not have anything to do with getting rich, other than to say ” I placed advertisements on my social network and got millions of people on my site in one day, I am a millionaire”. The real people without sloping foreheads know darn well the guy who created that site probably had 50 legit users and maybe 300 fake accounts registered to one email address so he could maintain them all. People would click that “get rich quick ” link and find a “meet your love” website being referenced. we all know that society understands that people without money, are without love. or wanting out of the broke love they are in.So his scam worked. We all know that someone too stupid to see the scam would clearly be to stupid to to see what’s coming next.
Plenty Of Fish. The site has millions of advertisements on it. Placed in what the site owner would call “strategic” methods. I say it’s BS and completely disrespectful to put advertisements in the manor that site owner does. Sure it makes the site owner some money, but what does it do to the user? Depends on how stupid the user is.
Here is a list of bad things about that site that makes me thing of the old websites that used to bombard you in spam.
1. affiliate/advertisement links look exactly like site navigation links (yes you can design and color them as you wish)
2. Full page advertisements, Leaves you surfing a site that is not the site you where on. Disrespectful to your users
3. Not controlling advertisement content. I got hit 4 times with virus scan 2009 hijacker (it is a well known virus) plus adult friend finder links prove the site owner does not filter their ads, otherwise the ads would not compete with the site. Adult friend finder is a well known trash advertisement site that is filled with the same issues this site is showing. I would not doubt it’s the same people.
4. No adsense advertisement. Yeah I bash adsense but I have to say, once you are banned from adsense, it pretty much says you are pretty tricky.
I have a sense of feeling that the Method that site uses to select your suitable matches, is based on how long you wait for the next time you refresh while on that page. Oh and with the slight measure of adding whether you are a smoker or not.. it matches you to people who have answers similar to yours, how about do something better, people who have answers that cover what you lack and you cover what they lack.
The whole answering of the survey is BS, just another page for you to see more advertisements, and when you are done, be taken to more advertisements.
The page to see what you are about , the results of your surveys, is complete bs ” you are king of your domain, you are yourself and proud and eat food when needed” Oh come on it’s an ego petting, like getting your palm read.
The whole chemistry page, I have a feeling the people it sets as your highest match, are thepeople who get the highest votes in the “hot or not” rip off page.
Everything 75% and below is probably more like it.. yes the worn leather hand bag looking section. lol sit on that page five minutes or more without changing anything on the site… hit refresh and get a laugh as suddenly your matches change.. yeah I know people change their profiles and stuff, but COME ON!!!
I saw the site back when it was a get rich advertisement. I heard about it from my co-worker who met like 5 girls in a two week period ( I understand why now, Piggy farm). I stumbled across it last night while doing a search in google for “Houston Chatroom”. well Plenty of Fish came up everytime i searched in every way I tried. Well so i figured what the heck I signed up to use the chatroom. After fifteen minutes of their bombardment of profile crap, I forgot why i was there and started surfing the site. Gross. The women are nasty. Either super unattractive, or saddle bags for a harley ( I mean biker chicks with leather faces). or money hungry stripper trash with IN THEIR PROFILE it says ” you must make atleast XXX,XXX money to ride me” , or hot in model positions and never online I assume fake accounts.
Well never the less, I never found the chatroom. There is no chatroom on plenty of fish. I would give the place 80% higher value if they had what they meta tag their site with. it would actually be worth looking at and could potentially be ground moving if it allowed direct real time chatroom inter mingling like a chatroom, not that stupid messenger thing on all the other sites. real time chat conversation, that is where you actually get to know the wit of someone. Not some bs profile.
Burn it down. Plenty of fish is a bad place. The women are vultures. ” I don’t need a man to support me” and then the following line will say “must have good income and nice home” ok could somehow be innocent but I do not see it . Next line says “because I have needs and if you can’t be there for my needs then you are worthless to me”
What pathetic self hating dude can fall for that garbage ?
PS… Yes I named it stupid to prove a point about what they did.
E-harmony and Friend Finder and Match, have very limited social interface. They all offer you a chance to get a bigger account by paying more.. Why? so I can talk to no one, as freely as I can? I think those three sites lose bad to Plenty of Fish. And that is sad. it is truly sad that anything can lose to that garbage.
I deleted my accounts on all of them, There was one female there on plenty of fish who seemed worth talking to. But really, she came to my profile way to fast. I felt like a baby bunny getting swarmed by buzzards and vultures and eagles. And they all made me feel crappy about myself. I do not like feeling that way. I mean hey I just got here can you please not read me the fricken riot act ?????
If you want to know me talk to me. If you ask me anything about my income within the first 20 questions of conversation, I can only assume you are a gold digger. That to me makes you worthless.
AdSense Ain’t a Linear Game
Bullet Points to focus.
Good ol’ Zipf
You can’t predict.
Things change
Traffic has limits
Ad inventory has limits
Self-competition
High velocity means lousy control
Taken from here
Help in understanding why your income from adsense sucks
Really that was a great post about 5-6 years ago when he wrote it. but now you can’t say “Adsense” because, well no one uses adsense any-longer. There is no money in it, google has shut down the income as if they monopolize the internet. So the site designers go elsewhere.
But you can use his tips on other advertising companies, like adbrite
Here is someone who sees what I see
See I see these people talking about $500-$5000 a day in traffic. I think that is nuts. I don’t see that kind of money, that stuff is way way way deep in my adsense crushed dreams. One guy responds about bidvertiser, really, I never saw a dime from bidvertiser.
Comparing to affiliate companies to Adsense
Look at that pay out.
Is Internet Pirating Really Theft ?
If you see something that you are not willing to pay for, is that considered theft ?
There is a movie in the theater, and you really have no interest in that particular movie, you do not just jump on your bicycle and head up there to watch this movie. You never bother. One day it comes on cable or regular tv and there is nothing on, so you finally watch the dang thing. That is not pirating. If there is no access to this item other than pay, and you do not want to pay to see the movie, you do not see the movie, if the same person sees the movie for free, there is no actual loss to anyone. If anything, there is one more person on the street to say ” hey man I saw that dang movie and it really was a whole lot better than I expected.” Or the reverse. I can see how bad press from someone who has not completely earned and completely does not deserve the privilege to have an opinion of said film, could be offensive, but if you think about it ” yeah we know our film sucks, but we want people to pay for before they say anything”, is twice as offensive.
Is it bad to buy a $60 video game, install the game with your registration code and then turn around and download the pirated version and use the “no cd crack” that way you can leave the game disk in it’s case so that it will not get scratched? So you are not pulling the disk out every single time you want to play the game you paid for ?
Should purchasing be considered a gamble?
If one friend tells you the media you are interested in is garbage, while another friend tells you it is the best thing since gravity, would it be wrong for you to download the media and try it out so you can decide for yourself ? That is of course if you are in the position to not be able to try your friend’s copy.
As far as software goes, it’s kind of the same situation. How do you know if something is worth having without knowing if it will serve your needs?
I believe it is theft when you know the product that you are obtaining is going to suite a need for you and you still decide to not pay for this product. It is theft when you yourself pirate the item then turn around and sell your copy or sell duplicates of this product. You are then cutting into the profits of the original maker of the product. I believe it is theft when a manufacturer creates a product and tells you it will fullfill your needs in one specific area, and the product turns out to not serve the purpose stated. I believe it is theft when a manufacture creates a music cd and sells you this cd for $20+ and on the whole disk, only one song is worth listening to. I believe it is theft when a manufacturer creates a cd $20+ and it only has two or three songs on it total. I believe it is theft when a musician decides to not create a cd and use a professional label yet turns around and splits up all of their music on a media sell site, like itunes and sells the items at the price greater than what they would have made through a label, I mean really, we don’t even get a hard copy of the media and the quality is far to low. It is wrong to justify any of these earlier mentioned statements, to decide to download a copy of these items and not show your apreciation by giving the money required to obtain such media.
but everyone should be able to sample.
Ultimate Revenge On Spammers
See I have been getting tons of spammers to all of my sites.
I added an I.P. Ban program to my WordPress Scripts and put up an awesome Ban message for the bots that crawl my page.
Bot Redirect
Basically it’s a page that says ” you are banned” and then below it has link that says “sign in/sign up” with a link that takes them to the “stop forum spam” you just type in the spammer’s name on that page and their email addrerss and a couple other items, this of course in theory may lead the bot to accidentally registering it’s self as a spammer. Prevents me from having to do all of the foot work.
:-)
I really wish those guys would design a page named “fake forum log in” or “fake blog in page” and set it to request all the exact same information that wordpress asks for, I would link directly to it and let the spammers log themselves in.
If anyone knows the people on that site, let them know.. Because i surely do not see the contact page.
Question, why in the heck do they all use a russian email account, yet the trace routes all show it’s Israel or Virginia.