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[Clips] Google Gets Ready to Test GBuy, A New Online-Payment Option
by R.A. Hettinga 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: rah(a)shipwright.com Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:59:41 -0400 To: Philodox Clips List <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Google Gets Ready to Test GBuy, A New Online-Payment Option Reply-To: clips-chat(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB115136840690491346.html> The Wall Street Journal Google Gets Ready to Test GBuy, A New Online-Payment Option By MYLENE MANGALINDAN June 27, 2006; Page D3 For years, consumers who didn't want to give Web merchants their credit-card information faced limited options when it came to making purchases online. This week, consumers could get access to another electronic-payment option -- and one that offers a mail-in rebate incentive to boot. Web-search giant Google Inc. is set to introduce a test version of its GBuy online-payment service as early as this week, according to people briefed on the situation. The service, which would challenge eBay Inc.'s PayPal online-payment service and others, has been expected for several months. To attract consumers, Google plans to offer an unspecified rebate to people who complete online purchases using GBuy, according to one person briefed on the company's plans. Here is how the service will work: Consumers who search for items like "shoes" or "strollers" on Google's search site will see text ads with a symbol or icon designating advertisers that accept GBuy payments. Shoppers normally would have clicked on an ad and been linked to that merchant's Web site. Now, while they will still be linked to the merchant's site, they will go through a different checkout process integrated with Google if they choose GBuy for their transaction. Details of the service could still change before Google's official GBuy announcement. The expected arrival of GBuy presages a shake-up in the online-payments market. Until now, consumers have only had payment options such as PayPal, which lets consumers pay using their credit card or a bank-account transfer without disclosing their account information to the merchant or individual receiving the payment. Consumers have also been able to use online checks and online credit options, such as Bill Me Later. Bill Me Later allows consumers to pay for purchases without disclosing their credit-card number, instead disclosing pieces of personal information that lets the company match up the person's identity with their credit information. Chris Mario, a Damascus, Md., resident, says he "would 100% use Google payments" because he likes the company's technology. He says he uses PayPal now but would prefer using an independent third-party payment service when making some online purchases, as opposed to the PayPal unit of eBay, which runs auction and other e-commerce Web sites. Though PayPal has more than 100 million users, it faces maturing growth and is now trying to expand its market from its payments business related to eBay purchases. A PayPal spokeswoman says the company doesn't comment on rivals' services and has managed to thrive despite strong competition. At the same time, Google's new payment service will be a test as to whether the company can be hugely successful outside its core search-technology market. A Google spokesman notes that billing and payments have been part of the company's services for some time and can be used in conjunction with several products now. Google plans to charge merchants a 2.2% commission on a sale, plus 30 cents per transaction using its payment service, according to people briefed on Google's pricing. That is higher than Pay-Pal's lowest published rate of a 1.9% commission plus 30 cents per transaction. Google's rate doesn't include the discount pricing that the company will give to merchants participating in its AdWords advertising program, according to these people. Merchants who spend money on Google's ad program could get the cost of payment processing through Google dropped to nothing, these people said. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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[Clips] That's Your Cue
by R.A. Hettinga 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: rah(a)shipwright.com Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:02:08 -0400 To: Philodox Clips List <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] That's Your Cue Reply-To: clips-chat(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com <http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=062706C> TCS Daily - That's Your Cue By Arnold Kling : BIO| 27 Jun 2006 "These sacred truths are unverifiable, and unfalsifiable, but the faithful nevertheless accept them to be unquestionable. In doing so, like assemblies of the faithful since the dawn of language, they bind themselves together for protection or common action against unbelievers and their lies." --Nicholas Wade, Before the Dawn, p. 165-166 When people in business meet for the first time to discuss a transaction, they often exchange what I call "trust cues" in order to reduce mutual suspicion. For example, they may recite empty phrases from popular business books, such as "win-win," "synergy," "principles," "customer-driven," or "raising the bar." Nicholas Wade provides a readable, wide-ranging survey of the impact of recent advances in genetics on anthropology. In one chapter, he argues that the origins of what I observe in business behavior can be found in early religious rituals. Religions produce trust cues. Trust cues are necessary for large societies and trade among strangers to emerge. They serve to protect people from cheaters and liars. What I am going to suggest in this essay is that political beliefs can serve the function of trust cues. Political beliefs may have at best a tenuous empirical basis, but they function to demonstrate one's membership in a trusted group. Wade says that the evolutionary value of trust cues is that they facilitate peaceful interactions among strangers. When I offer a trust cue, I am saying that even though we do not know one another, I am a member of a trustworthy group. I value my membership in that group, and I know that lying to or cheating another member of that group could cause me to be excommunicated from the group. Since you are also a member of the group, you can trust me not to lie to you or to cheat you. The most trustworthy groups are groups where membership is valuable and excommunication is costly. They are groups that monitor the behavior of their members closely. The most trustworthy individuals are individuals who regularly show a willingness to sacrifice for the group. Attending religious worship every week, paying a tithe, and participating in ritual fasts are examples of demonstrating religious loyalty. These sorts of sacrifices are indicators that the individual values membership in the group, and they show that the individual would fear excommunication from the group. The best trust cues are those that can be presented at low cost by members of the group but would be costly to fake for non-members. Thus, odd dialects and unusual phrases can serve as trust cues. Empiricism Empiricism is a rigorous approach to the subject of truth. Frederick Crews, author of Follies of the Wise, a book that attacks Freudian psychology and other weak intellectual fads, describes empiricism as "the ethic of respecting what is known, acknowledging what is still unknown, and acting as if one cared about the difference."(p. 305) In modern philosophy, the empiricist tradition is often traced to John Locke and David Hume. Hume argued that truths are either matters of logic (such as mathematical theorems) or matters of observation (such as the law of gravity). Beliefs that cannot be verified by examining data or by reference to logic constitute dogma. Although empiricism has become a standard philosophy in the West, dogma persists. I believe that the main reason that non-verifiable ideas survive is that they serve as trust cues. People still need to demonstrate their commitment to membership in groups, and recitation of dogma is a low-cost method of doing so. Political Trust Cues Wade writes, "Modern states now accomplish by other means many of the early roles performed by religion, which is why religion has become of less relevance in some societies. But because the propensity for religious belief is still wired into the human mind, religion continues to be a potent force in societies that still struggle for cohesion." (p. 164) This raises the possibility that political beliefs serve primarily as trust cues. For example, those who favor an increase in the minimum wage are sending trust cues to people on the Left, and those who oppose an increase in the minimum wage are sending trust cues to people on the Right. The actual consequences of raising the minimum wage are rarely discussed. In other words, political debates often ignore what I call Type C arguments (from empiricism) and turn instead to type M arguments, which accuse one's opponent of belonging to an outcast group. The reason for this is that people are not trying to persuade each other rationally. Instead, they are using trust cues to indicate that failure to agree implies excommunication from the group. Academic Trust Cues An empirical argument attempts to convince you using logic and observation. A trust cue threatens you with loss of membership in a valuable group unless you take a given position. One might hope that colleges and universities might espouse empiricism rather than excommunicate those who question dogma. However, the Lawrence Summers case offers a dramatic counter-example. His discussion of women in tenured positions in science seems reasonable from an empiricist standpoint. However, from the standpoint of trust cues, it was out of bounds. Both Crews and Wade cite examples of widespread use of trust cues rather than empiricism in academia. Crews describes the failure of the American Psychological Association to hold to empirical standards the practice of psychoanalysis as well as such fads as "recovered memory." On another topic, describing trends in humanities departments, Crews mentions "Marxism and psychoanalysis that acquired survival value from the passions they aroused and from the pliability of their concepts and propositions. Each has constituted what Michael Polanyi once termed a dynamo-objective coupling -- that is, a doctrine whose normative claims can always be invoked when its scientific claims appear threatened, and vice versa." (p. 300) Perhaps another example of dynamo-objective coupling is the statement "I believe that humans cause global warming." It serves both as an apparent empirical statement and a trust cue. The fact that opinions on global warming tend to align with political beliefs suggests that trust cues are playing a larger role than empirical research at this stage of the debate. Wade writes, "According to the American Sociological Association, race apparently does not even have a biological foundation, since it is a 'social construct.' The association's official statement on race warns that 'Although racial categories are legitimate subjects of empirical sociological investigation, it is important to recognize the danger of contributing to the popular conception of race as biological.'" (p. 191) "But," Wade continues, "people can now be objectively assigned to their continent of origin, in other words to their race, by genetic markers." However, because the scientific observation conflicts with an important trust cue, major academic disciplines choose to ignore the evidence. What is odd is that an association of academics should find it productive to take an "official position" on anything. I do not need an "official position" of physicists to convince me of the law of gravity. I do not believe in the laws of supply and demand because they are the "official position" of the American Economic Association (to my knowledge, the AEA has never stated an official position in favor of them). A book or article that reports observations and analysis is a scientific statement. An "official position" is a trust cue. In economics, the use of mathematical language has become a trust cue. Modern economists complain, rightly, that in the old days of "literary economics," a lot of muddled gibberish found its ways into economics journals. Today, journals publish muddled gibberish dressed up with mathematical symbols. I believe that societies need trust cues. I cannot imagine being able to get along without them. However, we also need empiricism. Progress comes from accepting empirical observations when they conflict with trust cues, while finding other ways to preserve social cohesion. Arnold Kling is a TCS contributing editor and adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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[Clips] Montana mother fights al-Qa'eda from her sitting room
by R.A. Hettinga 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: rah(a)shipwright.com Delivered-To: clips(a)philodox.com Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:12:37 -0400 To: Philodox Clips List <clips(a)philodox.com> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Montana mother who is fighting al-Qa'eda from her sitting room Reply-To: clips-chat(a)philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces(a)philodox.com <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/20…> The Telegraph Montana mother who is fighting al-Qa'eda from her sitting room By Francis Harris in Helena (Filed: 26/06/2006) Radical Islamists may not know it but their global jihad has more to fear from Shannen Rossmiller, an American mother-of-three, than from a squadron of F16s. The former cheerleader doesn't phrase it quite like that. That isn't her style. Shannen Rossmiller turned freelance spy after 9/11 Yet a summary of case histories and transcripts seen by The Daily Telegraph reveals that she has uncovered the whereabouts of al-Qa'eda fighters in the lawless highlands of Pakistan, shopped groups of would-be terrorists from Liverpool to Lebanon, tracked down an Islamist designing a nuclear device and much, much more. For four years, she has alternated her day jobs of mother and magistrate in the mountain state of Montana with a night-time role as a hunter of terrorists. Mrs Rossmiller first turned freelance spy after September 11. Donning a range of virtual disguises, she uses her functional, self-taught Arabic, and customised software that masks her true identity and whereabouts, to navigate into radical internet chat rooms frequented by real terrorists or any fanatic with a computer and a grudge. In her first interview with a British newspaper, the 37-year-old said that at first she kept her nocturnal sleuthing secret: "I didn't want my family to know because they'd call me crazy and this was just too damn interesting." Now she finds it hard to escape the world she has entered. Asked whether she seeks a way out, she said: "I've tried a couple of times to back off, but it just hasn't been the right time. "I remember the time I screamed 'Can't these guys take a weekend off?' But humanity is such a precious thing that you don't want to see [terrorist attacks] happen to anybody, to any country, any people." She has proved increasingly useful to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which now supplies her with handlers, Arabic translators and security, in case the terrorists seek revenge. They have reason to be angry: in America alone, the authorities have made several arrests based on Mrs Rossmiller's work. In her best known case, she secured a life sentence for a treacherous soldier, Pte Ryan Anderson, who was trying to transmit the weaknesses of the M1 Abrams tank to al-Qa'eda. It was when she was called to give evidence in that case that her cover was blown. "I didn't have the choice of remaining anonymous," she said, despite earlier pledges from the authorities that her name would never be made public. On many occasions she has encountered terrorists overseas. Three times she has lured young British Islamists into unmasking themselves, including one group in Liverpool. The FBI passed the material to British intelligence, after which she heard nothing more. She brushes off the possible threat to her and her family from terrorist reprisal. She pointed out that in Montana's little towns, strangers stick out and the locals are armed. "There have to be risks taken, otherwise you can't get anything done." The FBI refuses to comment on her work and she has not been offered public thanks by members of the Bush administration. Behind-the-scenes however, intelligence staffers acknowledge her role. One American newspaper reported that "federal intelligence sources confirmed that for several years she has provided the FBI and the CIA with useful information". Another was told "she's legitimate" by an unnamed FBI agent. That has helped to make Mrs Rossmiller a star of Right-wing internet sites, but she disavowed any political motivation beyond plain patriotism. "I'm not a Republican, I'll tell you that right now. But at the same time you get tired of seeing your government looking like a bunch of walking idiots." Mrs Rossmiller is understandably discreet about her current operations, but said that as the years have passed she has become more ambitious and made "her" fictional Islamists more senior. But when things get sticky she can be ruthless. "I kill off certain identities, make them martyrs, so [the radicals] think 'so-and-so is dead'. When I've had an idea that's worked well for some time but things are getting fishy, I'll move him into Ramadi or Basra and have him martyred." -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips(a)philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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