Let's think about this. We are looking at a screen shot of another monitor to see it's quality. Uhh, aren't we looking through our own monitor at a picture of another monitor?
So we are really just seeing the quality of the monitor we already have.
I'd wait before I heard an independent review from someone rather than going off of the hype from a company. I find that independent sources give you the real details on if something truly is a better product.
What happens to my domain names? I have many registered through netsol which is a pain in the arse to update, especially if I won't be able to send email from my @home address! Recently I started registering using GoDaddy because it is cheaper, and I believe I can change my email address in their database with a click of a button, but what about my other domains?
I can tell you that your statements may be true for some online communities, but those who have their act together will not die off.
I run ProBoards.com, we offer remotely hosted message boards where people can build their own community around their site. Currently the site hosts 32,000 separate message boards, has two servers, and the site is rapidly expanding.
It has been my experience over the last few years that yes, advertising revenue has decreased, but there are still many active advertisers who are looking for a way to effectively advertise their site to the masses. You may not get the crazy $1 CPM (cost per thousand impressions) you may have seen in 1998 for banner ads, and not the $5 CPM on popups, but you can still make good money.
ProBoards.com receives about 15 million monthly pageviews on our message boards that we host. From this, I make about 20 cents CPM on banner ads and a dollar CPM on popup ads (I don't put popups on every page). Overall the site makes around $2 - $3k a month right now, and server bills can go over a thousand dollars (especially bandwidth).
You ask, where is the cash? Well, first off our community based site has turned a profit every month for the last year - the site has not gone negative since going profitable. A smart person would have backup funds in the bank ready for any hard times. I keep a lot of backup money to pay server expenses. If I ever hit hard times (which I have not in that I have not gone negative), I have plenty of money to keep on pushing forward through those times and make it out without a sweat. So where is the cash? In the bank. At least for my service.
Major sites like EZ Board may have a much harder time through these market conditions because they have a full staff to employ. I don't believe that you can really employ a whole staff just by trying to make money from advertisements -- but this does not mean that community sites will die off. Others out there run sites like my own, and those are the ones that will thrive. It's not the big corporations that make communities, it's the little people who don't have to worry about the big corporation expenses.
The solution to all our problems... someone write a virus (eg Mellissa) that changes Windoze systems to support IPv6. That'll take care of over 50% of the computers just from morons opening attachments.
Just think of the possibilities of using gestures as commands.
You know on the windoze boot up screen you see that annoying M$ logo, why not have flicking off the screen simulate "ESC" to make it go away? That's useful, don't you think?
The article doesn't have a link to the program anywhere, and neither does the/. story. Where is this guy's Web site so that we can download and try out the program?
I'm a webmaster running a site that gets 7 million monthly pageviews. I've been running banner ads on my site for over a year and a half now trying to generate revenue, but it just never makes enough. That's why I personally have moved to popup ads - to get enough money to pay for my server, and hopefully sometimes get some more money that month.
What have other/. webmasters done to get revenue? Are there any of you out there getting decent money from ad agencies? If so, which ones? Have you been able to avoid using popups and still make good money? What other types of advertising would you suggest using on Web sites besides standard banners and popups (eg: opt in mailing lists, etc)?
I can just see it now, some little l33t h4x0r script kiddie with a linux box out there will actually try this program out thinking it's some wonderful tool. "Wh47 7h3 h311?! wh3r3'd my pr0n and h4x0r t00lz g0?!" oops...
Who is to say that God did not create man(/animals) in such a way that they could evolve? Everything came from somewhere, there has to be a beginning. People who talk about the big bang and that huge mass exploding, well where did it come from? Hmm... perhaps a higher being?
The submitter was correct. Google only has the archives from August of 2000 and after up on the Web at the moment. Currently the archives going all the way back to 1995 are offline.
Let's see. They want *outdated* browsers to run a *javascript* code to tell them to upgrade.
But what if their browser is so old it doesn't support JavaScript?
This year, my high school (Sorry, not yet in college) received a grant from the State of California to buy new computers (I believe they received about $300k). Since they got all these new computers, they decided to implement a whole new system for the computers so that they could invade students privacy as much as possible. Every student is required to login to the computer with their username and password. The school tells all students straight out that they will be monitored, but not to what extent. They also tell us that the student is responsible for any activity that happens on their account, even if someone steals their password.
And here comes a nice twist. The geniuses that my high school hired to setup this whole elaborate system left a batch file (that anyone could access) on the network for weeks that contained every single username and password for teachers and students. Now, my question is this: How can I be responsible for what someone does with my account if the school's lack of security is the reason they obtained my password?
I notified the sys admin at my school of the problem and he blocked access to the directory with the batch file, but there's no telling how many people downloaded it. And now if someone uses my account for something malicious, it is my fault, of course.
I have been told by the sysadmin that all the new computers the school got have key loggers on them as well, or at least the "ability to log all keystrokes." They haven't necessarily implemented them. So if I want to check my email at Hotmail or something, they will have my private username and password on file.
Every student at school who accesses the Internet also has every Web site they visit logged to a file specific to their username. So the school can easily go through and see what Web sites specific students are visiting. I'm sure the school watches me pretty closely, the sys admin considers me to be a cracker, when I only consider myself to be a hacker of sorts.
It's the price we pay for having access to these resources: give up your privacy. The bottom line is, you have none when you are on a public terminal.
If people have such hard times getting these rebates, why aren't these companies being sued for the rebates?
It is their obligation to provide these rebates to their customers. Why are these companies even allowed, LEGALLY, to advertise rebates when it is impossible for people to get them with any speed or diligence on the part of the rebate company?
I received specific permission from the network administrator to hack the network at the school. I made it specifically clear what my intentions were (to get all the passwords of staff, students, etc). He gave me the OK.
Well, within a couple days I told him what the passwords were for all the teachers and students at the school. He was kinda shocked at how easy it was for me to do that. The fact of the matter is, though, that any script kiddie out there in the world could have broken my high school's security.
I mean, come on, what do you expect from a Microsoft product?
Too bad I couldn't convince him to switch all the computers to linux. Guess I can't expect much out of incompetant people.
It would be a lot more helpful if you did reviews on movies that are just released, not ones that are two weeks old. It's really pointless, people have already seen this movie if they want to.
Unlike The 6th Day, Vertical Limit, Proof of Life, and D&D just came out on Friday. These movies are what people may actually care about.
Slashdot Mirror
"as well as covering a ton of screens"
Let's think about this. We are looking at a screen shot of another monitor to see it's quality. Uhh, aren't we looking through our own monitor at a picture of another monitor?
So we are really just seeing the quality of the monitor we already have.
I'd wait before I heard an independent review from someone rather than going off of the hype from a company. I find that independent sources give you the real details on if something truly is a better product.
What happens to my domain names? I have many registered through netsol which is a pain in the arse to update, especially if I won't be able to send email from my @home address! Recently I started registering using GoDaddy because it is cheaper, and I believe I can change my email address in their database with a click of a button, but what about my other domains?
Patrick Clinger
I can tell you that your statements may be true for some online communities, but those who have their act together will not die off.
I run ProBoards.com, we offer remotely hosted message boards where people can build their own community around their site. Currently the site hosts 32,000 separate message boards, has two servers, and the site is rapidly expanding.
It has been my experience over the last few years that yes, advertising revenue has decreased, but there are still many active advertisers who are looking for a way to effectively advertise their site to the masses. You may not get the crazy $1 CPM (cost per thousand impressions) you may have seen in 1998 for banner ads, and not the $5 CPM on popups, but you can still make good money.
ProBoards.com receives about 15 million monthly pageviews on our message boards that we host. From this, I make about 20 cents CPM on banner ads and a dollar CPM on popup ads (I don't put popups on every page). Overall the site makes around $2 - $3k a month right now, and server bills can go over a thousand dollars (especially bandwidth).
You ask, where is the cash? Well, first off our community based site has turned a profit every month for the last year - the site has not gone negative since going profitable. A smart person would have backup funds in the bank ready for any hard times. I keep a lot of backup money to pay server expenses. If I ever hit hard times (which I have not in that I have not gone negative), I have plenty of money to keep on pushing forward through those times and make it out without a sweat. So where is the cash? In the bank. At least for my service.
Major sites like EZ Board may have a much harder time through these market conditions because they have a full staff to employ. I don't believe that you can really employ a whole staff just by trying to make money from advertisements -- but this does not mean that community sites will die off. Others out there run sites like my own, and those are the ones that will thrive. It's not the big corporations that make communities, it's the little people who don't have to worry about the big corporation expenses.
Patrick Clinger
ProBoards.com
Well I Want a National ID Card, Powered By MySQL.
Mr. Ellison just wants to expand his pocketbook.
"Brith Canada is stepping up its efforts to get legislation passed to ban such Web activity"
Uhh, isn't terrorism activities banned already? How will making this a law change anything? Terrorists don't care what the laws are, they ignore them.
There are 50,000 workers at the WTO. I don't see how 60,000 can die from this unfortunate disaster (include the plaines you add another 150 or so).
This is a national tragedy, I think I speak for all of us when we say that our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.
The solution to all our problems... someone write a virus (eg Mellissa) that changes Windoze systems to support IPv6. That'll take care of over 50% of the computers just from morons opening attachments.
Mr. Wally Burchett has some serious issues, and
/. are for, remember to only write well thought out letters. Don't send "j00 4r3 l4m3r5" letters, they don't help.
the Poteau Daily News has something coming to them if they think they can get away with this.
Everyone should start writing letters, call the editor, etc. From their Web site:
Address:
Poteau Daily News & Sun
P.O. Box 1237
804 N. Broadway
Poteau, OK 74953
Office Hours:
7a.m. - 6p.m. Mon.-Fri.
8a.m. to Noon Sat.
Phone Numbers:
(918) 647-3188
(918) 647-8198 Fax
Email:
pdns@pdns.com
publisher@pdns.com
If you write letters, direct them to Mr. Wally Burchett.
As with all the causes we at
For all the security holes I've pointed out to various sites, if people called the FBI on me I would be in jail for the rest of my life.
Just think of the possibilities of using gestures as commands.
You know on the windoze boot up screen you see that annoying M$ logo, why not have flicking off the screen simulate "ESC" to make it go away? That's useful, don't you think?
No no no, it's called called C-hash (no silent H). All that the people designing this could see was hash since they were smoking so damn much of it.
The article doesn't have a link to the program anywhere, and neither does the /. story. Where is this guy's Web site so that we can download and try out the program?
This just in...
Australia's government just arrested all workers in the IT field for hacking. The only official comment from the head of ASIS was, "Uhh, oops."
In other news, crackers defaced the government's Web site with some form of an encrypted message reading "j00 g07 0wn3d".
Hello,
/. webmasters done to get revenue? Are there any of you out there getting decent money from ad agencies? If so, which ones? Have you been able to avoid using popups and still make good money? What other types of advertising would you suggest using on Web sites besides standard banners and popups (eg: opt in mailing lists, etc)?
I'm a webmaster running a site that gets 7 million monthly pageviews. I've been running banner ads on my site for over a year and a half now trying to generate revenue, but it just never makes enough. That's why I personally have moved to popup ads - to get enough money to pay for my server, and hopefully sometimes get some more money that month.
What have other
I can just see it now, some little l33t h4x0r script kiddie with a linux box out there will actually try this program out thinking it's some wonderful tool. "Wh47 7h3 h311?! wh3r3'd my pr0n and h4x0r t00lz g0?!" oops...
Russia will see this as an attack from the USA, and now we're back into the Cold War. Thanks a lot /. !
Who is to say that God did not create man(/animals) in such a way that they could evolve? Everything came from somewhere, there has to be a beginning. People who talk about the big bang and that huge mass exploding, well where did it come from? Hmm... perhaps a higher being?
The submitter was correct. Google only has the archives from August of 2000 and after up on the Web at the moment. Currently the archives going all the way back to 1995 are offline.
Let's see. They want *outdated* browsers to run a *javascript* code to tell them to upgrade. But what if their browser is so old it doesn't support JavaScript?
This year, my high school (Sorry, not yet in college) received a grant from the State of California to buy new computers (I believe they received about $300k). Since they got all these new computers, they decided to implement a whole new system for the computers so that they could invade students privacy as much as possible. Every student is required to login to the computer with their username and password. The school tells all students straight out that they will be monitored, but not to what extent. They also tell us that the student is responsible for any activity that happens on their account, even if someone steals their password.
And here comes a nice twist. The geniuses that my high school hired to setup this whole elaborate system left a batch file (that anyone could access) on the network for weeks that contained every single username and password for teachers and students. Now, my question is this: How can I be responsible for what someone does with my account if the school's lack of security is the reason they obtained my password?
I notified the sys admin at my school of the problem and he blocked access to the directory with the batch file, but there's no telling how many people downloaded it. And now if someone uses my account for something malicious, it is my fault, of course.
I have been told by the sysadmin that all the new computers the school got have key loggers on them as well, or at least the "ability to log all keystrokes." They haven't necessarily implemented them. So if I want to check my email at Hotmail or something, they will have my private username and password on file.
Every student at school who accesses the Internet also has every Web site they visit logged to a file specific to their username. So the school can easily go through and see what Web sites specific students are visiting. I'm sure the school watches me pretty closely, the sys admin considers me to be a cracker, when I only consider myself to be a hacker of sorts.
It's the price we pay for having access to these resources: give up your privacy. The bottom line is, you have none when you are on a public terminal.
Any UK /.ers want to call up the "Managing Director" of this project? Maybe ask him a few questions about it to see just how vapor this ware is?
Tel: 44 171 636 1744 (in the UK)
Got the phone number from this page.
If people have such hard times getting these rebates, why aren't these companies being sued for the rebates?
It is their obligation to provide these rebates to their customers. Why are these companies even allowed, LEGALLY, to advertise rebates when it is impossible for people to get them with any speed or diligence on the part of the rebate company?
I received specific permission from the network administrator to hack the network at the school. I made it specifically clear what my intentions were (to get all the passwords of staff, students, etc). He gave me the OK.
Well, within a couple days I told him what the passwords were for all the teachers and students at the school. He was kinda shocked at how easy it was for me to do that. The fact of the matter is, though, that any script kiddie out there in the world could have broken my high school's security.
I mean, come on, what do you expect from a Microsoft product?
Too bad I couldn't convince him to switch all the computers to linux. Guess I can't expect much out of incompetant people.
It would be a lot more helpful if you did reviews on movies that are just released, not ones that are two weeks old. It's really pointless, people have already seen this movie if they want to.
Unlike The 6th Day, Vertical Limit, Proof of Life, and D&D just came out on Friday. These movies are what people may actually care about.
Bush thinks there is too much violence on TV.
Gore thinks there is too much sex on TV.
So basically Bush thinks there's too much gore and Gore thinks there's too much bush.