How are the google ad links created? Is there someone circulating a suite of templates or do companies which buy the ads simply provide a URL with which to link to?
What's the procedure for selecting which particular ad a user will see? I imagine it's a little more complex than a completely random selection from one massive repository.
Isn't there a way for Google to virus scan the ads before they're added to the potential pool and, if so, shouldn't there be a way for punishing advertisers who swap out a clean ad with a virus/malware laden one at a later date? Or is this a case of some malicious organizations actually hacking Google code?
There's a datestamp on nearly everything and I'm sure someone has network activity records someplace.
Or they realized that they don't need to pay Americans all that much. It's not just a salary vs. salary consideration. The relatively higher American salaries are offset by the feel-good increase in local stock prices which come with employing Americans. There's also a political consideration, as federal Senators and Representatives are more eager to share information with corporate heads who are employing their constituents.
Besides, there are now enough startups in India and China that the banks are virtually guaranteed an entirely new population of debt customers within the next generation. They can afford to back off and allow the businesses to reinvest in American shops. It's still profitable. With the oversea outsourcing scare firmly in mind the American job market is like a slave being dunked in barrel. It'll come up gasping for fresh air willing to accept whatever salaries they feel like handing out.
Is it worth noting that nearly everyone concentrated solely on the first line of OP's comment and, filled with uncontrollable rage and spite that anyone would dare say something like that, completely ignored the assertions which came afterwards?
I thought that _I_ had a knee-jerk response. The other readers have taught me the true meaning of knee-jerk.
Nobody said anyone was being cheated. I think you've somehow been hypersensitized to have a need to downplay anyone who thinks any deeper than the surface. As if by playing the "nope--you're wrong" card you somehow completely invalidate any possibility that numbers are ever spun. That's a troll tactic. Read saying and immediately begin with "No, you're wrong".
For those of us with natural skill it would be a hindrance which could not be mitigated by technique. Perfect stimulation requires an even contact surface which a tongue bar prohibits. The singularity in the contact surface provided by an artificial implant is only a benefit to those whose technique is insufficient to make use of an even and smooth contact surface. This deficiency in technique is likely a sign of a deeper neurological problem which prevents the proper muscular control of the lingual tissue.
Historically, in the furthest reaches of primitive history, a tongue bar served a social purpose as a mark. What that mark was for is infinitely debatable but the very first implementation of a tongue bar was only concomittantly related to s3xual performance and, more likely, symbolized a lack of self control (especially with respect to neurological control of lingual muscles). Even if mankind did start sticking needles in its tongue for no apparent reason the s3xual application would be, at best, secondary--an afterthought, an excuse to hide the shame of deficient neurological function.
I hadn't thought about counting it this way until this article appeared but, now that it's said, I'm not surprised. It doesn't matter what the consumer does. The business analysts will always find a way to spin it for their profit. Initially the business analysts thought that this would be a perfect way to track all of the visitors. When some of the visitors decided they didn't want to be tracked then the business analysts decided that, well, maybe tracking them (in that particularly way) wasn't the important metric for the shareholders to see. The more important number, obviously, is how many discrete visitors they have.
If your tongue is so average that you need a performance enhancing tool then it's amazing that any women would consider you, from a Darwinian aspect, as a suitable mate. Just goes to show how much the world has lowered its standards. It also illustrates quite nicely the utility of money to compensate for lack of endowment.
Just like people with fractured legs might need crutches to walk properly... Or someone with a hearing problem may need a hearing aid... Or an impotent man may need a penile implant...
The only difference is that, since tongue piercing is, like, _soooo_ counterculture, you get to have a rush trying to play "We know something you don't know" (complete with the knowing wink, smile, and nudge). In the end, though, if you need a tongue-bar to hit the heights that any properly performing s3xual human does you can be sure that you've got nothing but a crutch to augment your lack of skill.
You could say I live in La Jolla. I've been in San Diego for a year and in this area since mid-November. I was here for a few interviews circa '01 and, when my career tanked at the end of '05, saw nothing to prevent me from coming back. It is a really nice place.
Gosh. What an insightful load of crap from an AC. Nobody's looking for handouts and pity, but there you go insisting that they are. You're trying to create pity because it makes you feel better about yourself. You see a homeless person and the first thing which enters into your head is "They must want handouts and pity", because that's all you have to offer. Never once could you be bothered to think "He probably needs some social connections and a job", no, that would be too much to ask, because that would require some effort on your part--assuming you have any useful social connections which, since you're so ashamed of yourself that you post AC, you probably don't.
I'm fairly convinced that the whole MS vs. Google trip is, at the heart, no different than Democrats vs. Republicans trip. Just behind the media scene which the consumers see the same ten or twelve groups of old fogey investment bankers are funding both companies. The investment bankers are not in it for the technology, morals, ethics, values, or even society as a whole. The investment bankers are in it to propagate a dog'n'pony show which ensures that the consumers will keep spending.
The IT scene has become the Roman colosseum. MS is the current reigning victor whose popularity with the crowd was beginning to diminish so Google was allowed (pumped via the stock market) to become a measurable competitor. Every once in a while the Old Faithful crowd favorite Apple is brought out from the dungeons and Linux is the new gladiator whose main attraction is on the off days. While MS, Google, and Apple are sitting around playing cards in the lower dungeons Linux is in the gym, on the track, pumping iron, and keeping up appearances for the passerby on their way to the market--reminding them to keep coming back for more bread and peanuts next week.
This assumes a level of optical recognition that is missing in current robots Once the Borg assimilate everyone then the lines will become rather fuzzy. We've already taken the first few steps by RFID'ing everything, chipping our pets (I hear it's mandatory in California), and some companies have even chipped their employees.
You are an idiot See, there you go again. You're just bagging on the homeless guy because you automatically feel that you're somehow better than he is. You've been predictably conditioned to think,"Oh, look, it's a homeless guy--he can't possibly know anything. He's probably wrong. Let me see. *read read* Yep, look, here it is, right here, RIGHT HERE, he's wrong, he has to be wrong. I obviously know much more than he does. I'll sit down right now and point out all the little ways he's wrong. It doesn't matter if we're talking about the hypothetical future. He's black and I'm white and that makes him wrong!"
Please. Regale me with more of your superior knowledge and demonstrate to me just how wrong I am.
Does anyone really care about your opinion? You're just posting for shameless plugging of your website.
That's right. Pick on the homeless guy. Grrrrr. Those darn homeless people. We can't keep them off of our streets and now we have to put up with them on the 'net. Grrrrr. We'll just scrutinize them until they go away.
There are no other real meaningful headers. It's sent from a gmail account and gmail doesn't include an X-Originating-IP. Anything which comes out of gmail appears to originate from within the depths of google, and that's all the information we get.
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For pirates, streaming isn't important, bits-per-day is Who cares about arguing? It will play out the same. If you've been identified as an online pirate (right, wrong, or indifferent), you'll be relegated to heavily monitored and restricted ISPs. The GP was right--the ISPs aren't going to lose the customers, and all the more easy to fleece them with extra fees by playing the guilt trip,"Well, it says right here that you were identified by ARIA/RIAA/MPAA as an online pirate, so, we're sorry, but this enormous payment with a high interest loan for this five year old car with 85k miles on it is the best we can offer you. If you wanted to have more than 500k/day you should've thought about that before you started using KaZaa."
You just wanted to argue with the homeless guy because, like, of course you obviously know more than he does. You're white and he's black--that's all there is to it.
With the newly restructured internet those who have been identified as online pirates will only be eligible for ISPs which block all streaming media content.
The business is going to go the way of automobile sales. Bad credit? No broadband streaming media enabled ISP for you. You might do better at the used car lot down the street and you'll have to take the additional hit of a high interest network nanny so, over the course of five years, you'll pay just as much for that pirate ISP as you would for a new car.
It'll be the next wave of socially stigmatizing people. "Daddy, how come we can't download music for our iPod?" "Well, kids, a long time ago I was caught copying a floppy disk." *wailing and gnashing of teeth*
While, down the block, in the house with the gas-guzzling 10-ton SUV belonging to the guy whose second uncle works for MS, whose third nephew is an aide to a state Senator, and whose sister married a middle manager in an accounting firm which manages investments for RIAA lawyers, they'll be streaming Star Wars Episode 15 in hi-def.
We don't need due process in the US. The Patriot Act and the DMCA got rid of that pesky nuisance. You're a criminal if we say so and don't go deluding yourself thinking that we could be wrong. We have all the evidence that we need and, if we don't, we'll find it after we have you.
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How are the google ad links created? Is there someone circulating a suite of templates or do companies which buy the ads simply provide a URL with which to link to?
What's the procedure for selecting which particular ad a user will see? I imagine it's a little more complex than a completely random selection from one massive repository.
Isn't there a way for Google to virus scan the ads before they're added to the potential pool and, if so, shouldn't there be a way for punishing advertisers who swap out a clean ad with a virus/malware laden one at a later date? Or is this a case of some malicious organizations actually hacking Google code?
There's a datestamp on nearly everything and I'm sure someone has network activity records someplace.
Or they realized that they don't need to pay Americans all that much. It's not just a salary vs. salary consideration. The relatively higher American salaries are offset by the feel-good increase in local stock prices which come with employing Americans. There's also a political consideration, as federal Senators and Representatives are more eager to share information with corporate heads who are employing their constituents.
Besides, there are now enough startups in India and China that the banks are virtually guaranteed an entirely new population of debt customers within the next generation. They can afford to back off and allow the businesses to reinvest in American shops. It's still profitable. With the oversea outsourcing scare firmly in mind the American job market is like a slave being dunked in barrel. It'll come up gasping for fresh air willing to accept whatever salaries they feel like handing out.
Wait! Wait!
Ego-driven micromanager throws a chair at a user with four whole comments and then accuses them of being "hard to manage" when the chair misses.
Ballmer? Is that you?
Is it worth noting that nearly everyone concentrated solely on the first line of OP's comment and, filled with uncontrollable rage and spite that anyone would dare say something like that, completely ignored the assertions which came afterwards?
I thought that _I_ had a knee-jerk response. The other readers have taught me the true meaning of knee-jerk.
Nobody said anyone was being cheated. I think you've somehow been hypersensitized to have a need to downplay anyone who thinks any deeper than the surface. As if by playing the "nope--you're wrong" card you somehow completely invalidate any possibility that numbers are ever spun. That's a troll tactic. Read saying and immediately begin with "No, you're wrong".
For those of us with natural skill it would be a hindrance which could not be mitigated by technique. Perfect stimulation requires an even contact surface which a tongue bar prohibits. The singularity in the contact surface provided by an artificial implant is only a benefit to those whose technique is insufficient to make use of an even and smooth contact surface. This deficiency in technique is likely a sign of a deeper neurological problem which prevents the proper muscular control of the lingual tissue.
Historically, in the furthest reaches of primitive history, a tongue bar served a social purpose as a mark. What that mark was for is infinitely debatable but the very first implementation of a tongue bar was only concomittantly related to s3xual performance and, more likely, symbolized a lack of self control (especially with respect to neurological control of lingual muscles). Even if mankind did start sticking needles in its tongue for no apparent reason the s3xual application would be, at best, secondary--an afterthought, an excuse to hide the shame of deficient neurological function.
I hadn't thought about counting it this way until this article appeared but, now that it's said, I'm not surprised. It doesn't matter what the consumer does. The business analysts will always find a way to spin it for their profit. Initially the business analysts thought that this would be a perfect way to track all of the visitors. When some of the visitors decided they didn't want to be tracked then the business analysts decided that, well, maybe tracking them (in that particularly way) wasn't the important metric for the shareholders to see. The more important number, obviously, is how many discrete visitors they have.
Brilliant.
If your tongue is so average that you need a performance enhancing tool then it's amazing that any women would consider you, from a Darwinian aspect, as a suitable mate. Just goes to show how much the world has lowered its standards. It also illustrates quite nicely the utility of money to compensate for lack of endowment.
Just like people with fractured legs might need crutches to walk properly...
Or someone with a hearing problem may need a hearing aid...
Or an impotent man may need a penile implant...
The only difference is that, since tongue piercing is, like, _soooo_ counterculture, you get to have a rush trying to play "We know something you don't know" (complete with the knowing wink, smile, and nudge). In the end, though, if you need a tongue-bar to hit the heights that any properly performing s3xual human does you can be sure that you've got nothing but a crutch to augment your lack of skill.
You could say I live in La Jolla. I've been in San Diego for a year and in this area since mid-November. I was here for a few interviews circa '01 and, when my career tanked at the end of '05, saw nothing to prevent me from coming back. It is a really nice place.
So cry about it. Wah wah wah. He posted the same link. Wah wah wah.
Gosh. What an insightful load of crap from an AC. Nobody's looking for handouts and pity, but there you go insisting that they are. You're trying to create pity because it makes you feel better about yourself. You see a homeless person and the first thing which enters into your head is "They must want handouts and pity", because that's all you have to offer. Never once could you be bothered to think "He probably needs some social connections and a job", no, that would be too much to ask, because that would require some effort on your part--assuming you have any useful social connections which, since you're so ashamed of yourself that you post AC, you probably don't.
If we try to take their autonomy away they shoot us--just like politicians.
Do not resist. We will be assimilated.
I'm fairly convinced that the whole MS vs. Google trip is, at the heart, no different than Democrats vs. Republicans trip. Just behind the media scene which the consumers see the same ten or twelve groups of old fogey investment bankers are funding both companies. The investment bankers are not in it for the technology, morals, ethics, values, or even society as a whole. The investment bankers are in it to propagate a dog'n'pony show which ensures that the consumers will keep spending.
The IT scene has become the Roman colosseum. MS is the current reigning victor whose popularity with the crowd was beginning to diminish so Google was allowed (pumped via the stock market) to become a measurable competitor. Every once in a while the Old Faithful crowd favorite Apple is brought out from the dungeons and Linux is the new gladiator whose main attraction is on the off days. While MS, Google, and Apple are sitting around playing cards in the lower dungeons Linux is in the gym, on the track, pumping iron, and keeping up appearances for the passerby on their way to the market--reminding them to keep coming back for more bread and peanuts next week.
How is a robot supposed to know the difference?
Please. Regale me with more of your superior knowledge and demonstrate to me just how wrong I am.
Does anyone really care about your opinion? You're just posting for shameless plugging of your website.
That's right. Pick on the homeless guy. Grrrrr. Those darn homeless people. We can't keep them off of our streets and now we have to put up with them on the 'net. Grrrrr. We'll just scrutinize them until they go away.
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How come I don't see a References field with phx.gbl more often when people respond to e-mails which I send from my Hotmail accounts?
You just wanted to argue with the homeless guy because, like, of course you obviously know more than he does. You're white and he's black--that's all there is to it.
With the newly restructured internet those who have been identified as online pirates will only be eligible for ISPs which block all streaming media content.
The business is going to go the way of automobile sales. Bad credit? No broadband streaming media enabled ISP for you. You might do better at the used car lot down the street and you'll have to take the additional hit of a high interest network nanny so, over the course of five years, you'll pay just as much for that pirate ISP as you would for a new car.
It'll be the next wave of socially stigmatizing people. "Daddy, how come we can't download music for our iPod?" "Well, kids, a long time ago I was caught copying a floppy disk." *wailing and gnashing of teeth*
While, down the block, in the house with the gas-guzzling 10-ton SUV belonging to the guy whose second uncle works for MS, whose third nephew is an aide to a state Senator, and whose sister married a middle manager in an accounting firm which manages investments for RIAA lawyers, they'll be streaming Star Wars Episode 15 in hi-def.
We don't need due process in the US. The Patriot Act and the DMCA got rid of that pesky nuisance. You're a criminal if we say so and don't go deluding yourself thinking that we could be wrong. We have all the evidence that we need and, if we don't, we'll find it after we have you.
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