I think it's there as a catch-all for intentionally hitting someone who just made a minor traffic violation (like in a typical road-rage incident or something). Imagine Florida-man driving his $500 beater truck when somebody in a new BMW pulls out in front of him. Instead of slowing down to avoid it, Florida-man stomps the gas because he technically has the right of way and wants to teach the other driver an expensive lesson.
You don't really know exactly what will stick and what will fade into obscurity until you give it a try.
That's kind of true, but you seem to be treating it like some sort of mystical unknowable thing. It's generally pretty easy to tell the winners and losers beforehand when it comes to these kinds of things, at least as far as things that are supposed to serve a functional purpose. Using your CueCat example, did anyone other than advertisers, marketers, and the development team behind it actually think that CueCat would take off? Short of some really specialized applications (e.g. reading a printed medium with embedded sources) it seems marginally useless, even considering the rest of the technology at the time. A 1d barcode scanner would be more than capable of doing the same thing without being proprietary, and would have been able to use any existing scanners.
Having it "punch" the guy pushing it in the face would be a great visual gag. Multiple camera angles + non-contact punch + cut some frames out to accentuate the impact looks convincing enough to get the joke across and is pretty simple to do.
Unfortunately you are traveling faster than escape velocity. Therefore you CANNOT "enter orbit".
Did you forget about aerocapture? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It would probably be about as viable as building giant lasers to propel a spacecraft.
There has been zero reason to upgrade a phone for the last three years at least.
That's sort of what I'm getting at. I still have my nexus4, which is the first smartphone I ever bought. It does everything I usually do just fine, though lately it's been running hot and the ability to use wifi becomes more and more degraded with each new android update. At this point I'm sure it'll be a software update obsoleting some component of my phone rather than a hardware failure that causes me to replace it. The ability to replace individual components would solve that, as I could just replace the one module instead of the entire phone.
I couldn't care less about all of the "fair trade minerals" or "conflict free tungsten" or whatever. Not that I'm for using slave labor in mines or against having livable wages at factories that aren't deathtraps, but I think promoting that through buying an expensive phone is a useless feel-good measure best left for hipsters trying to assuage their 1st world guilt.
That said, I really hate how the current phone market is trying to make phones into fashion accessories that you throw out after you get tired of them in 6 months. I build my own PCs to last through several upgrades before they get to the point where I feel the need to scrap the entire thing and get a new one. My current motherboard and case are bordering on 6 years old, ram was 4 years old when I last upgraded, I'm on my 2nd CPU, 3rd video card, and 4th primary hdd. I upgrade often enough that almost all of the parts that didn't flat out fail have filtered down to other systems (and often other systems after that). I see no reason why cell phones can't work the same way, and think it's great that fairphone is attempting to make something that's modular and easily fixable/upgradable. Hopefully it'll take off enough that it encourages other manufacturers to do similar things with modular phone design.
When I browse Slashdot, requests are attempted to "Taboola"
My first encounter with those guys was when something broke and every time I visited the slashdot I got redirected to some taboola sponsored job offerings webpage (completely different domain). On the plus side, it also made me aware that adblock doesn't block taboola, so I was able to add that filter in pretty quickly to get slashdot working again.
How do you propose funding websites, if not with ads?
Use ads on your site, just host the content yourself. That way if I get a virus from it I can bitch at you for hosting malicious content and you can clean it off your server instead of washing your hands on it and blaming the 3rd party ad provider (who will then wash their hands of it and blame the client that gave them the ad and a bogus return address). If you refuse to clean it, then I block your ads specifically (that's the cool thing about hosting them yourself, it's harder to maintain a global list of domains to block) and/or quit going to your site (either way, you and only you pay for your negligence; as opposed to the current system in which everyone is hurt by a few bad apples).
There's no reason for ad bidding to take more than a few milliseconds.
Actually there is. If the request needs to be sent somewhere, that's around 80-200ms round trip depending on how far away the server is. Quite a bit more than "a few milliseconds", on the order of seconds even if it has to happen multiple times.
If it takes longer, then the intermediary supplying the ad has broken software. I'm pretty sure this is a complete non-issue.
Measure it for yourself. Time how long it takes a page to load without and then with adblocking + tracker blocking software installed.
That seems really weird to me, because in my experience playing EVE Online as a scammer (the gain-your-trust-and-exploit-it type scams, not the spam-contracts-in-local type scams), my female avatar had a 99.9% better success rate than my male avatar ever did. Granted I never did a remotely scientific comparison between the two (I used my male main character for a few days at first with no success, then switched over to the female alt, had success in the first hour, never looked back), but I always assumed after that that people who at least appeared to be female in a mildly convincing manner online had an advantage in online transactions.
I was about to disagree and bring up sites without abusive ads being affected, but as I was typing it out I think you're actually right. If a site needs the revenue it can put an adblock blocker and make their case as to why I shouldn't block their ads. If the ads aren't abusive I'll leave it unblocked. Otherwise they get no views from me.
The only lingering issue though is that if enough sites do it without other options (e.g. donate button), it'll force those of us who use adblock to chose between security or a usable internet.
I think a reply got hidden so I'm a bit fuzzy on who's saying what without the missing context, but I'm pretty sure the main advantage of the content provider hosting the ad on their own server is that it provides incentive to vet the ad, as well as tools for the content provider to manage what ads are displayed (e.g. they can run some basic scans and weed out the obviously bad stuff). Even if the ad-company is just pushing ads into some cache somewhere on wired servers, if one of those ads happens to be malicious it's now because the wired.com domain was hosting malware. It's a bit harder for the site admins to hide behind the "we don't have any control or visibility into what our ad provider displays to you" excuse when their own servers were hosting it.
The ad providers don't trust the content producers not to fleece them. How are they going to know? And how are they going go back to the widget seller and prove the ad was seen and worked?
Fine. Then the provider can host the ads but let the website owner vet a pool of ads they'll will allow displayed to users on their site. The ad provider should also enforce some kind of identifier on their ads (e.g. all image ads are watermarked with a human readable serial number by the ad provider) to facilitate user reporting of abusive ads.
Have you ever tried to report a malicious or abusive ad to a website owner under the current system? On the off-chance the site owner doesn't wash their hands of it tell you to go pound sand, it's nearly impossible to figure out which ad contained the malicious/abusive script. Since they're selected pseudo-randomly it's not repeatable on my end (and I don't really want to reload the page 500 times hoping for a malicious ad to show up again). On top of that, even if I can work with the site owner to find the thing and report it to the advertiser, the advertiser generally won't do anything about it. And on the off-chance the advertiser does pull the ad, great, but there are thousands more malicious ads where the original one came from, and playing malicious ad whack-a-mole for somebody elses website isn't really a way that I want to spend my time. Especially when I can have adblock up and running in less than a minute.
I know in radio they actually have people who vet the ads and try really hard to not pass some threshold of annoying because otherwise people will flip the station, and I'd assume TV and print work similarly. Having some way in internet advertising to hold the site owner and/or the advertiser responsible for what they show would go a long way towards working out a solution.
However, that 1 dollar a week thing... isn't it exactly what people here and elsewhere asked for? Like, for so long?
Kind of, but I doubt that wired ever made $5/week from ad revenue from me visiting the site. Charging that much seems more like greed than wanting to keep the site going. Maybe if they charged 10 cents/week it might be seen as more reasonable.
The other option would be to host the ads themselves (that would be a real pain to block) such that they can vet the things for malware and other abusive and undesirable behavior. The main reason that I use adblock and don't feel bad about it is because of abusive ads. I've tried taking it to various website owners before, but the response is always "I don't have any control over the content, deal with it".
We're still 50 years out. This is like every other fusion reactor that's made fusion: An experiment for one part of a proof of concept for a proof of concept for a proof of concept of the real thing.
Something like a 1 in 64 chance right? But then if you factor in Hillarys reputation, the odds that something shady wasn't going on are probably about the same as the odds of winning 6 fair coin tosses in a row.
If there was cheating, I doubt they'd have been so dumb as to rig it that obviously. Which leads to option 3: The people doing the coin tosses were in favor of Hillary and reported a pro-Hillary flip independent of any direction from the Hillary campaign
heh, some of the best fun I ever had on the internet was participating in one of the big anti-cheat communities for that game. I tried really hard to keep us from becoming like the power tripping asshats that the other big anti-cheat community was known for being. It was really sad to see the game start on a downhill slide firsthand after the 2.1 patch.
Wait, last I knew you're allowed to unlock the bootloader if you own the phone. If you decide to make monthly payments on it instead of buying it outright, then you made your choice to deal with a locked bootloader.
Er, TFA said it was a global hawk? The global hawk and the predator are two completely different aircraft made by two completely different companies. That's like saying the A320 and the 737 use the same platform.
"That's a nice website you have, shame if something were to happen to your ad revenue. Care to purchase some ad-revenue insurance from us? We specialize in making sure peoples ad revenue doesn't dry up."
Small-scale communism can work reasonably well, though it requires a charismatic leader and a strong belief system.
Similar goes for basically any form of "government" though, even a total anarchy or a full blown dictatorship. It'll last as long as a significant portion of individuals (and/or the correct specific individuals, depending on what form is being used) in the community in question are on board with making whatever flavor of "government" or lack thereof work well.
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I think it's there as a catch-all for intentionally hitting someone who just made a minor traffic violation (like in a typical road-rage incident or something). Imagine Florida-man driving his $500 beater truck when somebody in a new BMW pulls out in front of him. Instead of slowing down to avoid it, Florida-man stomps the gas because he technically has the right of way and wants to teach the other driver an expensive lesson.
You don't really know exactly what will stick and what will fade into obscurity until you give it a try.
That's kind of true, but you seem to be treating it like some sort of mystical unknowable thing. It's generally pretty easy to tell the winners and losers beforehand when it comes to these kinds of things, at least as far as things that are supposed to serve a functional purpose. Using your CueCat example, did anyone other than advertisers, marketers, and the development team behind it actually think that CueCat would take off? Short of some really specialized applications (e.g. reading a printed medium with embedded sources) it seems marginally useless, even considering the rest of the technology at the time. A 1d barcode scanner would be more than capable of doing the same thing without being proprietary, and would have been able to use any existing scanners.
So how many times has your M16 and/or M4 jammed on you in the field? Could you give us an estimation of the ratio of jams to bullets fired?
Having it "punch" the guy pushing it in the face would be a great visual gag. Multiple camera angles + non-contact punch + cut some frames out to accentuate the impact looks convincing enough to get the joke across and is pretty simple to do.
Unfortunately you are traveling faster than escape velocity. Therefore you CANNOT "enter orbit".
Did you forget about aerocapture? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It would probably be about as viable as building giant lasers to propel a spacecraft.
There has been zero reason to upgrade a phone for the last three years at least.
That's sort of what I'm getting at. I still have my nexus4, which is the first smartphone I ever bought. It does everything I usually do just fine, though lately it's been running hot and the ability to use wifi becomes more and more degraded with each new android update. At this point I'm sure it'll be a software update obsoleting some component of my phone rather than a hardware failure that causes me to replace it. The ability to replace individual components would solve that, as I could just replace the one module instead of the entire phone.
Your opinion is fascinating, but appears to have no basis in the post you're responding to.
I couldn't care less about all of the "fair trade minerals" or "conflict free tungsten" or whatever. Not that I'm for using slave labor in mines or against having livable wages at factories that aren't deathtraps, but I think promoting that through buying an expensive phone is a useless feel-good measure best left for hipsters trying to assuage their 1st world guilt.
That said, I really hate how the current phone market is trying to make phones into fashion accessories that you throw out after you get tired of them in 6 months. I build my own PCs to last through several upgrades before they get to the point where I feel the need to scrap the entire thing and get a new one. My current motherboard and case are bordering on 6 years old, ram was 4 years old when I last upgraded, I'm on my 2nd CPU, 3rd video card, and 4th primary hdd. I upgrade often enough that almost all of the parts that didn't flat out fail have filtered down to other systems (and often other systems after that). I see no reason why cell phones can't work the same way, and think it's great that fairphone is attempting to make something that's modular and easily fixable/upgradable. Hopefully it'll take off enough that it encourages other manufacturers to do similar things with modular phone design.
When I browse Slashdot, requests are attempted to "Taboola"
My first encounter with those guys was when something broke and every time I visited the slashdot I got redirected to some taboola sponsored job offerings webpage (completely different domain). On the plus side, it also made me aware that adblock doesn't block taboola, so I was able to add that filter in pretty quickly to get slashdot working again.
How do you propose funding websites, if not with ads?
Use ads on your site, just host the content yourself. That way if I get a virus from it I can bitch at you for hosting malicious content and you can clean it off your server instead of washing your hands on it and blaming the 3rd party ad provider (who will then wash their hands of it and blame the client that gave them the ad and a bogus return address). If you refuse to clean it, then I block your ads specifically (that's the cool thing about hosting them yourself, it's harder to maintain a global list of domains to block) and/or quit going to your site (either way, you and only you pay for your negligence; as opposed to the current system in which everyone is hurt by a few bad apples).
There's no reason for ad bidding to take more than a few milliseconds.
Actually there is. If the request needs to be sent somewhere, that's around 80-200ms round trip depending on how far away the server is. Quite a bit more than "a few milliseconds", on the order of seconds even if it has to happen multiple times.
If it takes longer, then the intermediary supplying the ad has broken software. I'm pretty sure this is a complete non-issue.
Measure it for yourself. Time how long it takes a page to load without and then with adblocking + tracker blocking software installed.
That seems really weird to me, because in my experience playing EVE Online as a scammer (the gain-your-trust-and-exploit-it type scams, not the spam-contracts-in-local type scams), my female avatar had a 99.9% better success rate than my male avatar ever did. Granted I never did a remotely scientific comparison between the two (I used my male main character for a few days at first with no success, then switched over to the female alt, had success in the first hour, never looked back), but I always assumed after that that people who at least appeared to be female in a mildly convincing manner online had an advantage in online transactions.
Because with the million-doller-cluster, the victim never will know what hit him.
The same could potentially be said for the wrench method though if the wrench operator has brushed up on their ninja skills.
I was about to disagree and bring up sites without abusive ads being affected, but as I was typing it out I think you're actually right. If a site needs the revenue it can put an adblock blocker and make their case as to why I shouldn't block their ads. If the ads aren't abusive I'll leave it unblocked. Otherwise they get no views from me.
The only lingering issue though is that if enough sites do it without other options (e.g. donate button), it'll force those of us who use adblock to chose between security or a usable internet.
I think a reply got hidden so I'm a bit fuzzy on who's saying what without the missing context, but I'm pretty sure the main advantage of the content provider hosting the ad on their own server is that it provides incentive to vet the ad, as well as tools for the content provider to manage what ads are displayed (e.g. they can run some basic scans and weed out the obviously bad stuff). Even if the ad-company is just pushing ads into some cache somewhere on wired servers, if one of those ads happens to be malicious it's now because the wired.com domain was hosting malware. It's a bit harder for the site admins to hide behind the "we don't have any control or visibility into what our ad provider displays to you" excuse when their own servers were hosting it.
The ad providers don't trust the content producers not to fleece them. How are they going to know? And how are they going go back to the widget seller and prove the ad was seen and worked?
Fine. Then the provider can host the ads but let the website owner vet a pool of ads they'll will allow displayed to users on their site. The ad provider should also enforce some kind of identifier on their ads (e.g. all image ads are watermarked with a human readable serial number by the ad provider) to facilitate user reporting of abusive ads.
Have you ever tried to report a malicious or abusive ad to a website owner under the current system? On the off-chance the site owner doesn't wash their hands of it tell you to go pound sand, it's nearly impossible to figure out which ad contained the malicious/abusive script. Since they're selected pseudo-randomly it's not repeatable on my end (and I don't really want to reload the page 500 times hoping for a malicious ad to show up again). On top of that, even if I can work with the site owner to find the thing and report it to the advertiser, the advertiser generally won't do anything about it. And on the off-chance the advertiser does pull the ad, great, but there are thousands more malicious ads where the original one came from, and playing malicious ad whack-a-mole for somebody elses website isn't really a way that I want to spend my time. Especially when I can have adblock up and running in less than a minute.
I know in radio they actually have people who vet the ads and try really hard to not pass some threshold of annoying because otherwise people will flip the station, and I'd assume TV and print work similarly. Having some way in internet advertising to hold the site owner and/or the advertiser responsible for what they show would go a long way towards working out a solution.
However, that 1 dollar a week thing... isn't it exactly what people here and elsewhere asked for? Like, for so long?
Kind of, but I doubt that wired ever made $5/week from ad revenue from me visiting the site. Charging that much seems more like greed than wanting to keep the site going. Maybe if they charged 10 cents/week it might be seen as more reasonable.
The other option would be to host the ads themselves (that would be a real pain to block) such that they can vet the things for malware and other abusive and undesirable behavior. The main reason that I use adblock and don't feel bad about it is because of abusive ads. I've tried taking it to various website owners before, but the response is always "I don't have any control over the content, deal with it".
Implanting doubts, uncertainty, and fear in the minds of readers is so much harder nowadays.
hahahaha
We're still 50 years out. This is like every other fusion reactor that's made fusion: An experiment for one part of a proof of concept for a proof of concept for a proof of concept of the real thing.
Something like a 1 in 64 chance right? But then if you factor in Hillarys reputation, the odds that something shady wasn't going on are probably about the same as the odds of winning 6 fair coin tosses in a row.
If there was cheating, I doubt they'd have been so dumb as to rig it that obviously. Which leads to option 3: The people doing the coin tosses were in favor of Hillary and reported a pro-Hillary flip independent of any direction from the Hillary campaign
heh, some of the best fun I ever had on the internet was participating in one of the big anti-cheat communities for that game. I tried really hard to keep us from becoming like the power tripping asshats that the other big anti-cheat community was known for being. It was really sad to see the game start on a downhill slide firsthand after the 2.1 patch.
Wait, last I knew you're allowed to unlock the bootloader if you own the phone. If you decide to make monthly payments on it instead of buying it outright, then you made your choice to deal with a locked bootloader.
Er, TFA said it was a global hawk? The global hawk and the predator are two completely different aircraft made by two completely different companies. That's like saying the A320 and the 737 use the same platform.
"That's a nice website you have, shame if something were to happen to your ad revenue. Care to purchase some ad-revenue insurance from us? We specialize in making sure peoples ad revenue doesn't dry up."
Small-scale communism can work reasonably well, though it requires a charismatic leader and a strong belief system.
Similar goes for basically any form of "government" though, even a total anarchy or a full blown dictatorship. It'll last as long as a significant portion of individuals (and/or the correct specific individuals, depending on what form is being used) in the community in question are on board with making whatever flavor of "government" or lack thereof work well.