All that can be done by the site serving the ad through simple scripting - we know where the source address of the request is (well, roughly), and it's simple to serve a different image based on source IP address.
Oh, and good luck to the Shots for next season in the League:P
Do you think the non-profits have the resources to litigate this? What would they litigate exactly?
Litigation? I can see the likes of Michael Mansfield sharpening his pencil and accepting the case pro bono without a second thought.
As to what they would litigate, theft seems a good starting point - if I have paid for advertisements to be served from a site, and some Jumped-Up Fucking Marketing Shyster then intercepts those adverts before the user has a chance to accept or reject them, then the JUFMS has stolen some of my potential income.
I don't see it taking more than a couple of days argument, though the level of damage could be debatable.
I came up with this as a concept in 2000, when layer 7 switching was just becoming economically feasible for a startup ISP.
It never flew, because the people I was dealing with weren't complete cunts.
From the document: The advertisements were used to replaced [sic] a 'default' charity advertisement (one of Oxfam, Make Trade Fair or SOS Children's Villages) when a suitable contextual or behavioural match could be made by the PageSense system.
So not only are the bastards hijacking our traffic, they are overwriting paid-for charity ads as well.
Personally, I like to get the UI out of the way first - preferably via a mock-up generated by someone who knows their user base, and with a generalised script of how the app should run from the user's perspective.
I then have no problem with replicating the UI, and can concentrate on the interesting bits under the hood.
You should take the train, as it's better for the environment (the train would run anyway, and your weight is insignificant in terms of extra fuel costs).
one mathematician can work as a consultant to an organisation that develops some stress analysis package/library etc and thousands of structural engineers can use that work without having to personally crank the math.
Only if the mathematician is also a chartered engineer, or if a chartered engineer has certified his work - otherwise the thousands of structural engineers will complain that he's not qualified.
Trust me - I've been there (OK - it was 20 years ago, but I'm sure that structural engineers haven't got any less anal in the interim).
Add in the fact that the level of mathematical education has been dropping like a stone since the 1970s, and that many of these non-specialists are products of the last 20 years when A-levels (the final high school exams) have become roughly equivalent to the O-levels that I and my contemporaries took, and it's no surprise that these teachers can't teach - they simply do not have the breadth of knowledge that we were given.
There are several factors that have influenced the decline in mathematics in the UK, but the two most significant have been the expansion of 'university' to mean any form of higher education, and the New Labour obsession with targets and pseudo-quantifiable performance measures.
The Tories aren't blameless - the rot set in under Keith Joseph with the ludicrous GCSE course work system, where the pupils aren't actually required to remember anything long-term, which is why a 'C' grade can now be obtained while knowing only a fifth of what you were taught.
OK - my anti-Zionism is rooted in my upbringing (my great uncle lost numerous friends to Zionist terrorists - you can call them freedom fighters if I can call Hamas the same).
But I'm not antisemitic - hell, I went to a school that was about 1/4 Jewish, and had a lot of non-Zionist Jewish friends.
I have (had - he died in 1979) a great uncle that served as an intelligence officer in Palestine during the Mandate, and heard from him first hand about the terrorism conducted by Irgun, Rosh Haganah and their like.
Funnily enough, he was quite complimentary about the Arabs.
I think that may have coloured my opinion somewhat.
Thanks for your solicitude, though - if I fancy a warm death I will certainly consider your advice.
If you're going to reply to this post, please read it first!
Ok - read your post.
The solution is to get Mediadefender's provider(s) to block the packets at source or, as I suggested further up, to deploy a few ounces of Semtex (or C4 if you're that primitive) on the fibre from each of MD's colocation sites.
Realistically, if I was running a co-lo site and someone complained about a DOS attack, I'd block all outbound traffic from the relevant servers as a matter of courtesy until the owners explained themselves.
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I'd have to defrag mine first, though :P
damn - already commented on this thread, or you'd get a +1 - Asimov mod.
Brilliant neologism - I salute you :P
Oh, thankyou, and get off my lawn!
Oh, and good luck to the Shots for next season in the League :P
Litigation? I can see the likes of Michael Mansfield sharpening his pencil and accepting the case pro bono without a second thought.
As to what they would litigate, theft seems a good starting point - if I have paid for advertisements to be served from a site, and some Jumped-Up Fucking Marketing Shyster then intercepts those adverts before the user has a chance to accept or reject them, then the JUFMS has stolen some of my potential income.
I don't see it taking more than a couple of days argument, though the level of damage could be debatable.
It never flew, because the people I was dealing with weren't complete cunts.
From the document: The advertisements were used to replaced [sic] a 'default' charity advertisement (one of Oxfam, Make Trade Fair or SOS Children's Villages) when a suitable contextual or behavioural match could be made by the PageSense system.
So not only are the bastards hijacking our traffic, they are overwriting paid-for charity ads as well.
I repeat, CUNTS!
I then have no problem with replicating the UI, and can concentrate on the interesting bits under the hood.
Combine with Tom Lehrer (who dealt with the subject of New Math perfectly), and the possibilities for the pigeons are, well, interesting. :P
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Only if the mathematician is also a chartered engineer, or if a chartered engineer has certified his work - otherwise the thousands of structural engineers will complain that he's not qualified.
Trust me - I've been there (OK - it was 20 years ago, but I'm sure that structural engineers haven't got any less anal in the interim).
There are several factors that have influenced the decline in mathematics in the UK, but the two most significant have been the expansion of 'university' to mean any form of higher education, and the New Labour obsession with targets and pseudo-quantifiable performance measures.
The Tories aren't blameless - the rot set in under Keith Joseph with the ludicrous GCSE course work system, where the pupils aren't actually required to remember anything long-term, which is why a 'C' grade can now be obtained while knowing only a fifth of what you were taught.
Fuck, this situation depresses me.
Either that, or a pool of geniuses is Newtonian...
But I never wanted to be an accountant - I wanted to be a lion tamer!
Thankyou for your useful contribution to this discussion~
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screw that - mine just page faulted :-(
But I'm not antisemitic - hell, I went to a school that was about 1/4 Jewish, and had a lot of non-Zionist Jewish friends.
At least my moon tracks incorporated the requisite amount of cheese...
that's "seem's", you insensitive clod!
I have (had - he died in 1979) a great uncle that served as an intelligence officer in Palestine during the Mandate, and heard from him first hand about the terrorism conducted by Irgun, Rosh Haganah and their like.
Funnily enough, he was quite complimentary about the Arabs.
I think that may have coloured my opinion somewhat.
Thanks for your solicitude, though - if I fancy a warm death I will certainly consider your advice.
And Mark Thomas is far cooler than that fat Lebanese git who went to school with Osama bin Laden...
Thought so :P
Personally, I'd just cut the co-lo's pipes :P
Ok - read your post.
The solution is to get Mediadefender's provider(s) to block the packets at source or, as I suggested further up, to deploy a few ounces of Semtex (or C4 if you're that primitive) on the fibre from each of MD's colocation sites.
Realistically, if I was running a co-lo site and someone complained about a DOS attack, I'd block all outbound traffic from the relevant servers as a matter of courtesy until the owners explained themselves.