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Comment Re:And OP is retarded. (Score 5, Insightful) 335

by Culture20 (#49719145) Attached to: Stock Market Valuation Exceeds Its Components' Actual Value
Precious metals are only worth something because other people want them. Because they think the metals are worth something because other people want the metals because they think they're worth something because... They're pretty, they're partly lasting and they're rare. Until they're not: aluminum used to be a valuable metal. Now I coat my armpits with it every morning, and half the metal objects I own are aluminum.
If you're expecting a big crash, you're better off purchasing items of utility or improving your land for raising food.

Comment Re:Ad networks that "hack" are immoral. (Score 1) 618

by Culture20 (#49711329) Attached to: Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral
This is exactly the model newspapers and magazines use. TV and radio also use it when they aren't rebroadcasting national broadcast as a local affiliate. These media, no matter how small the companies involved, seem to have a way to communicate with advertisers. This is also the way we did web business 20 years ago. One of my jobs as a webmaster back then was to switch banner ads with a directory of images from the graphics guy. Five seconds with a script, complete with image renames. Easily automate-able. Of course vetting the images for security vulnerabilities might take slightly longer these days. Might be easier to process and resave them with imagemagick than run them through various security software (as long as imagemagick doesn't have a known exploit).

Comment Ad networks that "hack" are immoral. (Score 5, Insightful) 618

by Culture20 (#49710771) Attached to: Editor-in-Chief of the Next Web: Adblockers Are Immoral
Ad networks have lately been the largest vector for remote exploits. Some very ordinary and mainstream websites have been using ad networks that offer up images/flash with embedded exploits. I will block all ad networks due to this. You want to provide ads? Download the ads locally, vet and display them from your own server like we used to do in the good ol' days of the web. Then I can't block them.

Using an ad network as a webmaster is laziness and immoral.

Comment Re:Polygraph Sympathizers are Likely HOMOSEXUALS (Score 1) 246

The new default viewing method for the un-logged-in is helping to grow such beliefs. I've noticed that if I'm not logged in, it's impossible to view comments modded down to -1, even if I set the view slide-bar to show that level. For the accountless masses, it's like the comments are removed.

Comment Re:Teach the cyborg cockroaches a useful skill (Score 5, Funny) 43

by Culture20 (#49677085) Attached to: What's the Business Model For Commercializing Cyborgs?

Or a cyborg cockroach to go and eradicate the other cockroaches. RAID pesticide company might be interested.

What better way to kill cockroaches than having a terminator cockroach. And if you network then Worldwide, we could finally eradicate every living cockroach everywhere. And some fly, too! I really don't see any downside to it at all.

Send it back in time to kill the first cockroach.

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