I tend to agree with this user. There are a lot of acronyms used on this site. I'm sure they make perfect sense to someone who's used this site for a while, but to a newcomer they're very confusing. Slashdot has it's own little language, like IMing. It really could use a list of acronyms to help newcomers like the list for aim that is helpful to all the clueless parents.
From the horse's mouth on their techniques (emphasis mine).
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on Facebook are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. See original here.
How does it make sense that this person is a score of '1' when he/she is actually reporting on hard information when other people are just throwing random conjectures out and they get a '5'?
Very brief summary of article Each process has their own instance of the generator, and the refresh of the internal state is done after 128 kbs of output from the generator (roughly 600-1200 SSL connections with IE). Not only that, it is run in the userspace so it is not a security violation to examine the internal state of the generator. The function used is not one-way which provides a means looking at past transactions of a user (within the 128 kbs of data).
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I tend to agree with this user. There are a lot of acronyms used on this site. I'm sure they make perfect sense to someone who's used this site for a while, but to a newcomer they're very confusing. Slashdot has it's own little language, like IMing. It really could use a list of acronyms to help newcomers like the list for aim that is helpful to all the clueless parents.
Advertisements that appear on Facebook are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content.
See original here.
here it is.
How does it make sense that this person is a score of '1' when he/she is actually reporting on hard information when other people are just throwing random conjectures out and they get a '5'?
Here is the original article on the ACM.
Very brief summary of article
Each process has their own instance of the generator, and the refresh of the internal state is done after 128 kbs of output from the generator (roughly 600-1200 SSL connections with IE). Not only that, it is run in the userspace so it is not a security violation to examine the internal state of the generator. The function used is not one-way which provides a means looking at past transactions of a user (within the 128 kbs of data).