Most reputable affiliate networks have "PPA".. they call it "CPA" in this industry and it's been around for a long time.. Try commission junction for example.
People have dealt with fraud since the 90's and some companies who pioneered this long before overture/google have fixed things so they can detect most fraud.
I spent about an hour trying to figure out all the hacks that website was doing but after all was said and done it was frightening the lengths people go to in order to hack your browser, set your home page then get ad impressions and make revenue.... embeded java code with encrypted javascript with encrypted java code which printed out encrypted HTML which when decrypted had the browser load java code that used a browse helper object to set your homepage.
As always, commercial interests jump on after the R&D money has poured into it and proven it to work, without government handouts the internet as we know it wouldn't exist since no company would have wanted to invest the R&D expenditures to prove it may/may not work.
BitTorrent wasn't designed to hide your identity unfortunately.
It's only a matter of time until they seriously crack down on Bit Torrent which is too bad because it's the only p2p app that will pull down 160KB/sec for me.
The secret is to allow for unlimited d/l and u/l but then create a perl script to monitor netstat -na and kill those connections via iptables which have a high recv q. Otherwise they'll suck down all your upload bandwidth.
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So that raises this question. Why spend money researching something for 3 years when you cannot profit from it? Guess they shouldn't have researched it in the first place.
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The read only slave got corrupt and in order to create the replica apparantly you have to pretty much disable the master while it creates a new replica so it was unacceptable.
I have used Linux for years but I've also used Solaris. Solaris is simply more reliable and more fault tolerant hardware-wise. It's a fact and as Solaris is opened up and more people become aware of it, it will be obvious. Linux is a great OS and works wonders but it's not up to Solaris standards in many ways. Likewise, Solaris isn't as widely used as linux and doesn't support nearly as many peripherals and isn't as good on the desktop.
That said, Sun's cash cow or former cash cow was its hardware not software. Solaris was a nice OS that was icing on the cake. Now that their cash cow is gone, their emphasis will be on Solaris but there's less revenue here. I hope they go bankrupt and GPL solaris personally.:)
The rebuttal wasn't a rebuttal either. It didn't mention kgdb which allows you to debug kernels using source code.. it can also work with UML kernels. Also the rebuttal didn't address the points raised:
Reliability - Reliability is more than just "we're more stable than Windows." We need to be reliable in the face of hardware failure and service failure. If I get an uncorrectable error on a user process page, predictive self healing can re-start the service without rebooting the machine and without risking memory corruption. Fault Management Architecture can offline CPUs in reponse to hardware errors and retire pages based on the frequency of correctable errors. ZFS provides complete end-to-end checksums, capable of detecting phantom writes and firmware bugs, and automatically repair bad data without affecting the application. The service management facility can ensure that transient application failures do not result in a loss of availability.
Serviceability - When things go wrong (and trust me, they will go wrong), we need to be able to solve the problem in as little time as possible with the lowest cost to the customer and Sun. If the kernel crashes, we get a concise file that customers can send to support without having to reproduce the problem on an instrumented kernel or instruct support how to recreate my production environment. With the fault management architecture, an administrator can walk up to any Solaris machine, type a single command, and see a history of all faulty components in the system, when and how they were repaired, and the severity of the problems. All hardware failures are linked to an online knowledge base with recommended repair procedures and best practices. With ZFS, disks exhibiting questionable data integrity can automatically be removed from storage pools without interruption of normal service to prevent outright failure. Dynamic reconfiguration allows entire CPU boards can be removed from the system without rebooting.
Observability - DTrace allows real-world administrators (not kernel developers) to see exactly what is happening on their system, tracing arbitrary data from user applications and the kernel, aggregating it and coordinating with disjoint events. With kmdb, developers can examine the static state of the kernel, step through kernel functions, and modify kernel memory. Commands like trapstat provide hardware trap statistics, and CPU event counters can be used to gather hardware-assisted profiling data via libcpc.
Resource management - With Solaris resource management, users can control memory and CPU shares, IPC tunables, and a variety of other constraints on a per-process basis. Processes can be grouped into tasks to allow easy management of a class of applications. Zones allow a system to be partitioned and administrated from a central location, dividing the same physical resources amongst OS-like instances. With process rights management, users can be given individual privileges to manage privileged resources without having to have full root access.
reveltions, it's clear that America needs this unfortunately.
Now if they could review the gerrymandering which has resulted in democrats needing 57% of the vote in order to control the house of representatives then we'll be one step closer to a democratic republic.
The FDA has done a reasonably good job at protecting us, they have done a terrible job of OK'ing useless drug spinoffs while doing the pharmco's bidding. Of course we can only speculate what a libertarian society could bring us. Thousands dead is fine in the eyes of a corporation if the $1 billion lawsuit resulted in $3 billion in revenue for example. Money doesn't care about your health. Sounds simplistic but that is ultimately what this boils down to.
Yeah, it's a good thing we have government to prevent that sort of thing now. Else we might wind up with another Enron.
Oh, wait....
No system is perfect but the panacea offered by libertarians only looks great because it hasn't fully been adopted yet, no one talks about the issues I have brought up.. Greed has its place, when it comes to public health it has no place whatsoever. From pharmco's influencing the FDA to companies 'self-regulating' themselves, business is best left to other issues. The FDA is not perfect but could stand revision, what libertarians want for public health is on the other hand just plain wrong and unworkable and to the core anarchy, unworkable anarchy.
Do you think the shareholders of a pharmaceutical company are going to allow cuts in testing if they are going to be held responsible for the effects of such a move?
So a CEO who is facing going in the red won't, say, "cook the books," decrease QA spending while shareholders are happy that they're now seeing profits, glossing over the decrease? Everything is rosey when you are making money. I think you underestimate the power of greed and its ability to cloud judgement. And I don't think you can rely on lawsuits for public - ie the entire nation's - health.
Do you really think those companies are more afraid of the FDA than they are of ruinous lawsuits?
Ok so we rely on companies to police themselves. Economic times are good. Then a downturn happens, costs are cut. Hmm, take a loss or cut your testing costs banking on your history of safety. So the company cuts testing, release a bad batch, people die, they file a class action lawsuit and the company gets in line.. Times are good then they get bad, rinse repeat. Corporations don't have memories when it comes to the bottom line.
The FDA is inadequate in a lot of ways but public health is essential and at odds with profit maximization. Companies don't want to divulge whatever their drugs/foods are made up of if it impacts their bottom line, and if you say "Ok, you really should do this, if not we'll sue you!" then that's not really a good guarantee as a consumer. As a consumer I'd like my tax money spent on a stamp of quality.
Private industry can't do everything. Privatise the FDA and companies will rely on people dieing from lethal drugs and the class action lawsuits in order to get themselves together. When economic downtimes occur they will cut their testing costs and more will die until lawsuits keep them in line again.
Sure, FDA is a bureacracy blah blah blah. But we shouldn't rely on companies who care only about the bottom line to ensure public health.
The government isn't perfect but the libertarian view of the world is naive.
Slashdot Mirror
They don't have 'em in now but the EULA's allow this going forward.
These are the same guys who wrote Kazaa which installed 3rd party software which basically stole money from mom & pop websites in affiliate networks.
Most reputable affiliate networks have "PPA".. they call it "CPA" in this industry and it's been around for a long time.. Try commission junction for example.
People have dealt with fraud since the 90's and some companies who pioneered this long before overture/google have fixed things so they can detect most fraud.
Google is relatively new and is just learning.
since i might work with a competitor who actually is bigger than ad sense I can't talk about alternatives :)
.... none, nada, zip. Although pharm co's come close.
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http://okaygood.com/index.cgi?okay=get_topic&topi
All the gory details of how he does this are here:
p ic _id=433024&page=0
http://okaygood.com/index.cgi?okay=get_topic&to
passthison.com would set your homepage in order to generate impressions and get more revenue. The homepage would give you anti-virus/trojan ads.
I spent about an hour trying to figure out all the hacks that website was doing but after all was said and done it was frightening the lengths people go to in order to hack your browser, set your home page then get ad impressions and make revenue.... embeded java code with encrypted javascript with encrypted java code which printed out encrypted HTML which when decrypted had the browser load java code that used a browse helper object to set your homepage.
Found an old version but it should get you started, sorry about the lousy formatting:
c _id=1414503&flat=10739621#10739621e
http://okaygood.com/index.cgi?okay=get_topic&topi
Formatting is messed up but it should be while(<FD>) and replace ":frown:" with ":("
Slashdot didn't like me posting the code, it complained about weird characters.
sure, when I get home tonight I'll reply to this and post it.
The other secret is not really a secret, open up the ports BT uses so they can be access from the internets, this will make a dramatic difference.
As always, commercial interests jump on after the R&D money has poured into it and proven it to work, without government handouts the internet as we know it wouldn't exist since no company would have wanted to invest the R&D expenditures to prove it may/may not work.
BitTorrent wasn't designed to hide your identity unfortunately.
It's only a matter of time until they seriously crack down on Bit Torrent which is too bad because it's the only p2p app that will pull down 160KB/sec for me.
The secret is to allow for unlimited d/l and u/l but then create a perl script to monitor netstat -na and kill those connections via iptables which have a high recv q. Otherwise they'll suck down all your upload bandwidth.
Darpanet, HEARD OF IT?
Funded by the government. Precursor of the internet.
Government handout.
IS THAT A HAMMER AND SICKLE ON YOUR FOREHEAD?
DONT LIKE IT? LOG OFF.
Use a commercial network like X.25. Apply to Tymnet, Inc. and hope they'll accept your website.
>30 year old cat herding spinsters
So that raises this question. Why spend money researching something for 3 years when you cannot profit from it? Guess they shouldn't have researched it in the first place.
The read only slave got corrupt and in order to create the replica apparantly you have to pretty much disable the master while it creates a new replica so it was unacceptable.
I have used Linux for years but I've also used Solaris. Solaris is simply more reliable and more fault tolerant hardware-wise. It's a fact and as Solaris is opened up and more people become aware of it, it will be obvious. Linux is a great OS and works wonders but it's not up to Solaris standards in many ways. Likewise, Solaris isn't as widely used as linux and doesn't support nearly as many peripherals and isn't as good on the desktop.
:)
That said, Sun's cash cow or former cash cow was its hardware not software. Solaris was a nice OS that was icing on the cake. Now that their cash cow is gone, their emphasis will be on Solaris but there's less revenue here. I hope they go bankrupt and GPL solaris personally.
The rebuttal wasn't a rebuttal either. It didn't mention kgdb which allows you to debug kernels using source code.. it can also work with UML kernels. Also the rebuttal didn't address the points raised:
Reliability - Reliability is more than just "we're more stable than Windows." We need to be reliable in the face of hardware failure and service failure. If I get an uncorrectable error on a user process page, predictive self healing can re-start the service without rebooting the machine and without risking memory corruption. Fault Management Architecture can offline CPUs in reponse to hardware errors and retire pages based on the frequency of correctable errors. ZFS provides complete end-to-end checksums, capable of detecting phantom writes and firmware bugs, and automatically repair bad data without affecting the application. The service management facility can ensure that transient application failures do not result in a loss of availability.
Serviceability - When things go wrong (and trust me, they will go wrong), we need to be able to solve the problem in as little time as possible with the lowest cost to the customer and Sun. If the kernel crashes, we get a concise file that customers can send to support without having to reproduce the problem on an instrumented kernel or instruct support how to recreate my production environment. With the fault management architecture, an administrator can walk up to any Solaris machine, type a single command, and see a history of all faulty components in the system, when and how they were repaired, and the severity of the problems. All hardware failures are linked to an online knowledge base with recommended repair procedures and best practices. With ZFS, disks exhibiting questionable data integrity can automatically be removed from storage pools without interruption of normal service to prevent outright failure. Dynamic reconfiguration allows entire CPU boards can be removed from the system without rebooting.
Observability - DTrace allows real-world administrators (not kernel developers) to see exactly what is happening on their system, tracing arbitrary data from user applications and the kernel, aggregating it and coordinating with disjoint events. With kmdb, developers can examine the static state of the kernel, step through kernel functions, and modify kernel memory. Commands like trapstat provide hardware trap statistics, and CPU event counters can be used to gather hardware-assisted profiling data via libcpc.
Resource management - With Solaris resource management, users can control memory and CPU shares, IPC tunables, and a variety of other constraints on a per-process basis. Processes can be grouped into tasks to allow easy management of a class of applications. Zones allow a system to be partitioned and administrated from a central location, dividing the same physical resources amongst OS-like instances. With process rights management, users can be given individual privileges to manage privileged resources without having to have full root access.
And of course windows is but a Play Thing.
reveltions, it's clear that America needs this unfortunately.
Now if they could review the gerrymandering which has resulted in democrats needing 57% of the vote in order to control the house of representatives then we'll be one step closer to a democratic republic.
The FDA has done a reasonably good job at protecting us, they have done a terrible job of OK'ing useless drug spinoffs while doing the pharmco's bidding. Of course we can only speculate what a libertarian society could bring us. Thousands dead is fine in the eyes of a corporation if the $1 billion lawsuit resulted in $3 billion in revenue for example. Money doesn't care about your health. Sounds simplistic but that is ultimately what this boils down to.
Yeah, it's a good thing we have government to prevent that sort of thing now. Else we might wind up with another Enron.
Oh, wait....
No system is perfect but the panacea offered by libertarians only looks great because it hasn't fully been adopted yet, no one talks about the issues I have brought up.. Greed has its place, when it comes to public health it has no place whatsoever. From pharmco's influencing the FDA to companies 'self-regulating' themselves, business is best left to other issues. The FDA is not perfect but could stand revision, what libertarians want for public health is on the other hand just plain wrong and unworkable and to the core anarchy, unworkable anarchy.
Do you think the shareholders of a pharmaceutical company are going to allow cuts in testing if they are going to be held responsible for the effects of such a move?
So a CEO who is facing going in the red won't, say, "cook the books," decrease QA spending while shareholders are happy that they're now seeing profits, glossing over the decrease? Everything is rosey when you are making money. I think you underestimate the power of greed and its ability to cloud judgement. And I don't think you can rely on lawsuits for public - ie the entire nation's - health.
Do you really think those companies are more afraid of the FDA than they are of ruinous lawsuits?
Ok so we rely on companies to police themselves. Economic times are good. Then a downturn happens, costs are cut. Hmm, take a loss or cut your testing costs banking on your history of safety. So the company cuts testing, release a bad batch, people die, they file a class action lawsuit and the company gets in line.. Times are good then they get bad, rinse repeat. Corporations don't have memories when it comes to the bottom line.
The FDA is inadequate in a lot of ways but public health is essential and at odds with profit maximization. Companies don't want to divulge whatever their drugs/foods are made up of if it impacts their bottom line, and if you say "Ok, you really should do this, if not we'll sue you!" then that's not really a good guarantee as a consumer. As a consumer I'd like my tax money spent on a stamp of quality.
Please, mark this as flamebait, libertarians can't handle reality. Thanks.
Grow up.
Private industry can't do everything. Privatise the FDA and companies will rely on people dieing from lethal drugs and the class action lawsuits in order to get themselves together. When economic downtimes occur they will cut their testing costs and more will die until lawsuits keep them in line again.
Sure, FDA is a bureacracy blah blah blah. But we shouldn't rely on companies who care only about the bottom line to ensure public health.
The government isn't perfect but the libertarian view of the world is naive.