I'll bite. Ever done a technical integration for a gambling site? It's a little bit more than putting a box online, writing a PHP Poker script and making cash. Depending where you setup (The majority are hosted in the Northern Territory, Australia, for its very, very gambling-friendly taxes) - every single piece of hardware and software you put online is scrutinised and tested by the government - yes, hardware as well (so you can't shave with a dodgy FPU, etc)
All hardware must be contained in the equivalent of a fire / waterproof bunker, and unaccessible to outsiders. All hardware must be audited by the watchdog. All software must be audited by the watchdog.
These policies are naturally invisible to those that don't know, so one may be forgiven for posting flippantly on an forum that cheating is almost 100% certain.
..or building a tunnel under the entire terrain, which cost so much it overflowed the signed register, and ended up giving you a few billion dollars..
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OpenTTD 1.0.0 Released
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(Open)TTD focuses its scope on trains: road/sea/air transport exist, but the main thrust is rail. Remarkably, while the signaling dynamics are incredibly intricate (most 'real world' rail systems can be duplicated), for those who aren't trainspotters, or don't have days to burn on one single section of rail, simple signalling is still possible, and quite easy to roll in.
There are literally scores of sites a google-hop away explaining all sorts of systems, from one-to-one single and dual gauge systems, right up to 4x4 rolling junctions (nuts) The general rule of thumb is: imagine you're a train, and follow the rails and signals. Place a signal before a split. Make a split long enough for your longest train, and then some. Place a signal before the end of the siding. Repeat the operation for the other direction.
While I admit that getting solid signalling + junctioning going for me remains on of the biggest challenges, it's also the most fun.
I'm sorry, but like most people that don't work in the industry, you don't have a clue how it operates, the margins it runs, the advertising structures, etc etc.
The largest tube sites are either owned by the latest porn sites (brazzers, etc) - or make huge amounts from selling ad spots (Redtube: minimum 150k for a well placed 30 day spot). Guess what - they're 'making money out of porn' - just not in the older constructs of a paysite.
I personally dropped $125,000 on highly-niched domain a few months back, and we're already at 85% ROI. Interesting factoid: Both youporn and persiankitty, and hundreds more 'free porn sites' promote it, and make quite nice sums off it too.
In brief: Your understanding of how the market works even on a fundamental level is completely flawed.
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Sex.com is Going Down
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Woops! Wrong window, I thought was my blog that noone read. My bad.
This domain has been bungled every single time someone has owned it. Either a) corporate types get hold of if, and having no clue about the adult industry, make it a banner farm, or b) Shady types get it and use it to suck Capital Investors dry.
Meanwhile on the rest of the internet, the pornographers are making more money of standard domains than one could ever hope to off sex.com How do you make bank off 100M in a 5 year plan?
I might have to - running Win 7 here, decent spec'd system. I've trawled the bug report forums and haven't seen anything similar, so just assumed that it was something particular to me, or to chrome. Either way, I figure a future update or a future format will do the trick..
I do love a post dripping with sarcasm. I gave as much merit to the 480p youtube video as I gave to the links you'd provided, and thusly posted my summary: the PS version seems to produce better results.
I'm not sure if you were trolling or not, but you could disable access to all of those sites, and the only people that would care in china would be the expats.
Things have indeed changed: posting with the attitude that sloppy practices are the only vector for attacks is dated. I recently had my laptop (OEM fresh, everything updated, running chrome) owned by something nasty. MalwareBytes, WebRoot, etc etc - all turn up blank.
How it got on remains a mystery - and the only fix seems to be the mentioned nuke-from-orbit.
Not only that, the one thing this jackass fails to consider is how easy it would be to frame people. Wear a clean suit, drop someone else's skin cells, get them arrested.
I guess it depends on the language a lot. I've found that japanese translations are often awkward, and you have to 'force' a correct translation by changing context, structure, etc.
Alternatively, the french translation is very, very good, picking up subtleties of formal / informal speech, slang and abbreviations.
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Mariposa Botnet Beheaded
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Which is done, of course, with the understanding that these people are again innocent as they have not been proven otherwise. Since they are innocent, there is nothing for them to be embarrassed about, and no reason not to publish their names.
Unless they stand accused of something embarassing, like: rape, paedophelia, fraud, beating up grandmas, etc.
Sounds like we're in accordance except for a few things. Other fringe benefits of having anonymised info:
1- Easier to manage (data, versus physical drop box) 2- The mailbox method isn't so anonymous: Say you have 10 domains, all with your PO box in the whois info. Say on one of your sites, you have your name / email. Suddenly, you've just revealed yourself as the person who owns all those domains. With domainsbyproxy / etc - you're one of x million people using it - anonymous:)
Slashdot Mirror
I'll bite.
Ever done a technical integration for a gambling site? It's a little bit more than putting a box online, writing a PHP Poker script and making cash.
Depending where you setup (The majority are hosted in the Northern Territory, Australia, for its very, very gambling-friendly taxes) - every single piece of hardware and software you put online is scrutinised and tested by the government - yes, hardware as well (so you can't shave with a dodgy FPU, etc)
All hardware must be contained in the equivalent of a fire / waterproof bunker, and unaccessible to outsiders.
All hardware must be audited by the watchdog.
All software must be audited by the watchdog.
These policies are naturally invisible to those that don't know, so one may be forgiven for posting flippantly on an forum that cheating is almost 100% certain.
..or building a tunnel under the entire terrain, which cost so much it overflowed the signed register, and ended up giving you a few billion dollars..
(Open)TTD focuses its scope on trains: road/sea/air transport exist, but the main thrust is rail.
Remarkably, while the signaling dynamics are incredibly intricate (most 'real world' rail systems can be duplicated), for those who aren't trainspotters, or don't have days to burn on one single section of rail, simple signalling is still possible, and quite easy to roll in.
There are literally scores of sites a google-hop away explaining all sorts of systems, from one-to-one single and dual gauge systems, right up to 4x4 rolling junctions (nuts)
The general rule of thumb is: imagine you're a train, and follow the rails and signals. Place a signal before a split. Make a split long enough for your longest train, and then some.
Place a signal before the end of the siding. Repeat the operation for the other direction.
While I admit that getting solid signalling + junctioning going for me remains on of the biggest challenges, it's also the most fun.
I'm sorry, but like most people that don't work in the industry, you don't have a clue how it operates, the margins it runs, the advertising structures, etc etc.
The largest tube sites are either owned by the latest porn sites (brazzers, etc) - or make huge amounts from selling ad spots (Redtube: minimum 150k for a well placed 30 day spot). Guess what - they're 'making money out of porn' - just not in the older constructs of a paysite.
I personally dropped $125,000 on highly-niched domain a few months back, and we're already at 85% ROI. Interesting factoid: Both youporn and persiankitty, and hundreds more 'free porn sites' promote it, and make quite nice sums off it too.
In brief: Your understanding of how the market works even on a fundamental level is completely flawed.
Woops! Wrong window, I thought was my blog that noone read. My bad.
This domain has been bungled every single time someone has owned it.
Either
a) corporate types get hold of if, and having no clue about the adult industry, make it a banner farm, or
b) Shady types get it and use it to suck Capital Investors dry.
Meanwhile on the rest of the internet, the pornographers are making more money of standard domains than one could ever hope to off sex.com
How do you make bank off 100M in a 5 year plan?
I might have to - running Win 7 here, decent spec'd system.
I've trawled the bug report forums and haven't seen anything similar, so just assumed that it was something particular to me, or to chrome.
Either way, I figure a future update or a future format will do the trick..
They cross-check against a powerpoint presentation, of course.
Might be my machine, definitely not my connection. Downloading via wget maxes out my connection - downloading via chrome maxes out my CPU.
Now, with a bit of luck, Chrome won't become unresponsive when it stumbles across flash applets.
I love Chrome, but its poor flash handling (and stalling when downloading) drives me bonkers.
Exactly.
Yawn
I do love a post dripping with sarcasm.
I gave as much merit to the 480p youtube video as I gave to the links you'd provided, and thusly posted my summary: the PS version seems to produce better results.
Yeah, and their quality is terrible compared to the demo.
Just saying.
I'm not sure if you were trolling or not, but you could disable access to all of those sites, and the only people that would care in china would be the expats.
Things have indeed changed: posting with the attitude that sloppy practices are the only vector for attacks is dated.
I recently had my laptop (OEM fresh, everything updated, running chrome) owned by something nasty. MalwareBytes, WebRoot, etc etc - all turn up blank.
How it got on remains a mystery - and the only fix seems to be the mentioned nuke-from-orbit.
Depends on the card, really, but in a perfect world, line-in is 75ohm/150mv and mic.is 600ohm/2.5mv.
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_power
Problem is old chap, that they've already sold the data, from Dec 2009 onwards.
Facebook data on InfoChimps
Twitter data on InfoChimps
LastFM data on InfoChimps
The only reason google doesn't need to sell user data is because it uses it internally for its money making processes.
Not only that, the one thing this jackass fails to consider is how easy it would be to frame people.
Wear a clean suit, drop someone else's skin cells, get them arrested.
Google's french translations are very strong:
- Give us our daily bread (unsure what the catch is w/ this phrase, but)
- Donnez-nous notre pain quotidien
- Sharks are predatory carnivores
- Les requins sont des carnivores prédateurs
- The loanshark wants his bread
- L'usurier veut son pain
All translated with the correct context
I guess it depends on the language a lot.
I've found that japanese translations are often awkward, and you have to 'force' a correct translation by changing context, structure, etc.
Alternatively, the french translation is very, very good, picking up subtleties of formal / informal speech, slang and abbreviations.
Unless they stand accused of something embarassing, like: rape, paedophelia, fraud, beating up grandmas, etc.
'How quaint' that you're innocent until proven guilty?
Am I the only one that is getting tired more and more frequently by juvenile editorial quips?
I used to come here for impartial, to the minute news - neither of which seem to exist in any great quantity anymore.
Sounds like we're in accordance except for a few things. Other fringe benefits of having anonymised info:
1- Easier to manage (data, versus physical drop box) :)
2- The mailbox method isn't so anonymous: Say you have 10 domains, all with your PO box in the whois info.
Say on one of your sites, you have your name / email. Suddenly, you've just revealed yourself as the person who owns all those domains.
With domainsbyproxy / etc - you're one of x million people using it - anonymous