It's been just over a year since the login-without-a-password dropbox security breach... Where they said "a few hundred" accounts were accessed, but had no way of verifying how many were actually accessed.
It's all just so incredibly sloppy.
Why are they still in business? They obviously don't know what they are doing. I have no idea how can anyone trust them with their data.
No, this is an example where they understand technology perfectly. You'll install the app to hear his VP announcement, and in the meantime you'll get push notifications to donate to his campaign, the latest anti-Obama ad message, and more notifications to donate to his campaign.
The poor response rate on the content network is well known. Which is why the recommended advice, even from google, is to bid substantially lower on the content network.
The lower bid amount compensates for the low response rate.. so the cost per acquisition is similar to the search network.
I've advertised on quite a few platforms (although have yet to try Facebook), and this is a common problem. In 2006, there were lawsuits against Yahoo and Google for click-fraud.. both were settled (I was included in the settlement for both.... got virtually nothing.. something like $20 refund for $100k in clicks.) http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/10294.asp
Google does a pretty good job, which is probably a large reason why they control such a large portion of the online ad market. Yahoo, depending on their platform of the week, can be hit-or-miss. They usually do a good job, but there have been a few times when it is just terrible. When Yahoo announces a change to their search.. watch out. (Bing's ad performance has been pretty good over the past couple of years at least)
I've seen some ad platforms that just ignore the problem, and it's easy to spend several thousand dollars and not get a single customer from it on those platforms. If facebook does nothing to control the problem, I'm sure there will be another class action.. probably won't cost them much to settle it, but might destroy the trust they have with advertisers, their stock price, and business.
sort by date will not matter if google is gone. people will use whatever is good enough.. and bing (with 30% marketshare) will probably be it.
btw, sort by date is fairly new feature for google. they made it all the way to the top without sort by date. I think that says everything about how "essential" it is.
On paper, performance was impressive for a single-chip solution; however, real-world performance was anything but. One problem, perhaps unrecognized at the time, was that runtime code paths are difficult to predict, meaning that it becomes exceedingly difficult to order instructions properly at compile time.
Yes, I know what Prodigy was. You clearly missed the point of my post. Ads have been around since the earliest days the public connected.
Even if you don't consider Prodigy part of the internet, Yahoo (1994), Hotwired (1994.. had the first banner (an AT&T ad)), Altavista, and others were right around the corner.
So if you're going to pretend that there was this time when there were no ads and lots of content.. it's worth asking when that was, so we can objectively compare the level of content to today.
What do you think.. was there more content on the internet in the 70s and 80s than today?
The pioneer of online advertising was Prodigy, a company owned by IBM and Sears at the time. Prodigy used online advertising first to promote Sears products in the 1980s, and then other advertisers, including AOL, one of Prodigy's direct competitors.
So when you say "the content was actually better before it was add [sic] supported," you're talking about the 1970's?
Yes.. lots of very interesting content on the internet in the 70's. Much better than today [/sarcasm]
Did you read the links you posted? The first link has NO FIGURES at all. The second says this:
This year alone, the iOS App Store has provided developers with $3.4 billion in revenues, while the Android Market has delivered only $240 million to its developers.
That's way off from your "750 million and 500 million".
Why bother posting links if you're just going to make up the numbers anyway?!
I put my date a few weeks out. Airlines charge more for an immediate flight.. why would you assume it's different for amtrak? They aren't running a charity.
The internet was not invented by Zuckerberg. It was clearly invented by Steve Jobs. He made the first phone that could be used on the internet. Previous "internet" tech does not count because it used wires.
In 20 years when your kids say this to you.. remember where you heard it first.
US manufacturing jobs have been lost to China and technology. It's the job loss that causes people to say US manufacturing is declining.. and robots and 3d printing changes nothing on that front. Fact is, US factories are already full of robots
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A small company isn't likely to have security experts on staff, and even if they do there's no guarantee those experts will catch every break-in.
Dropbox is not exactly a small company.. They had $240 million in revenue in 2011 entirely from storing customer data.. Seems like they could spend 1% or 2% of that on security. http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbox-the-inside-story-of-techs-hottest-startup/
It's been just over a year since the login-without-a-password dropbox security breach... Where they said "a few hundred" accounts were accessed, but had no way of verifying how many were actually accessed.
It's all just so incredibly sloppy.
Why are they still in business? They obviously don't know what they are doing. I have no idea how can anyone trust them with their data.
Huh??? Are you saying that previously you could tether a device and it would not have counted? Yeah right...
You were going to get charged for the bandwidth either way. Previously it would have count against the smartphones data usage.
your post really doesn't make any sense.
No, this is an example where they understand technology perfectly. You'll install the app to hear his VP announcement, and in the meantime you'll get push notifications to donate to his campaign, the latest anti-Obama ad message, and more notifications to donate to his campaign.
sloccount will give you the same count, even if you use completely different formatting.
you're guessing at the number of lines? too lazy to run sloccount? It's in the packages repository on a lot of distros.
$3.9 billion in revenue last year
The poor response rate on the content network is well known. Which is why the recommended advice, even from google, is to bid substantially lower on the content network.
The lower bid amount compensates for the low response rate.. so the cost per acquisition is similar to the search network.
I've advertised on quite a few platforms (although have yet to try Facebook), and this is a common problem. In 2006, there were lawsuits against Yahoo and Google for click-fraud.. both were settled (I was included in the settlement for both.... got virtually nothing.. something like $20 refund for $100k in clicks.)
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/10294.asp
Google does a pretty good job, which is probably a large reason why they control such a large portion of the online ad market. Yahoo, depending on their platform of the week, can be hit-or-miss. They usually do a good job, but there have been a few times when it is just terrible. When Yahoo announces a change to their search.. watch out. (Bing's ad performance has been pretty good over the past couple of years at least)
I've seen some ad platforms that just ignore the problem, and it's easy to spend several thousand dollars and not get a single customer from it on those platforms. If facebook does nothing to control the problem, I'm sure there will be another class action.. probably won't cost them much to settle it, but might destroy the trust they have with advertisers, their stock price, and business.
sort by date will not matter if google is gone. people will use whatever is good enough.. and bing (with 30% marketshare) will probably be it.
btw, sort by date is fairly new feature for google. they made it all the way to the top without sort by date. I think that says everything about how "essential" it is.
OMG.. without sort by date, what would you ever do? I mean, that's like the end of the world!
I'm glad I don't work with you.. if services you use are missing the tiniest thing, apparently you just stop functioning and give up entirely.
You're definitely a moron. You've had way too much Google-aid.
There are easy replacements for all of those.
Webmasters will have to update their site to use Bing ads instead of AdSense.
JQuery can be downloaded from a number of places, and served from the website instead of google's servers.
And analytics, while very nice, is easily replaced by a dozen similar services.
A lot to change? Yes..
But it would take all of a day to do it.
bullshit. If google disappears, people will just type bing.com and go on with their day.
You might want to read the article again. It says it is Europe's fastest supercomputer AND the worlds fastest x86 supercomputer.
It's #4 on the top500, and the other 3 are not x86 (POWER BQC for #1 and #2, and SPARC VIIIfx for #3).
wow.. you're right. The i860 had 1 whole core and ran at up to 50mhz.
Imagine if they built this supercomputer out of those. Instead of 155,000, it would only need 8,370,000.
Now THAT's a super computer.
On a serious note, wikipedia says:
On paper, performance was impressive for a single-chip solution; however, real-world performance was anything but. One problem, perhaps unrecognized at the time, was that runtime code paths are difficult to predict, meaning that it becomes exceedingly difficult to order instructions properly at compile time.
Sounds like an earlier version of Itanium
Yes, I know what Prodigy was. You clearly missed the point of my post. Ads have been around since the earliest days the public connected.
Even if you don't consider Prodigy part of the internet, Yahoo (1994), Hotwired (1994.. had the first banner (an AT&T ad)), Altavista, and others were right around the corner.
So if you're going to pretend that there was this time when there were no ads and lots of content.. it's worth asking when that was, so we can objectively compare the level of content to today.
What do you think.. was there more content on the internet in the 70s and 80s than today?
If you said yes.. then you're full of shit
I've never had anyone say they had ever.
And I once had an argument with an uncle that insisted that there are no ads on Google at all.
In fact, 45.5% of people cannot identify ads on the google search results page:
http://venturefizz.com/blog/war-free-clicks-think-nobody-clicks-google-ads-think-again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_banner
The pioneer of online advertising was Prodigy, a company owned by IBM and Sears at the time. Prodigy used online advertising first to promote Sears products in the 1980s, and then other advertisers, including AOL, one of Prodigy's direct competitors.
So when you say "the content was actually better before it was add [sic] supported," you're talking about the 1970's?
Yes.. lots of very interesting content on the internet in the 70's. Much better than today [/sarcasm]
Did you read the links you posted? The first link has NO FIGURES at all. The second says this:
This year alone, the iOS App Store has provided developers with $3.4 billion in revenues, while the Android Market has delivered only $240 million to its developers.
That's way off from your "750 million and 500 million".
Why bother posting links if you're just going to make up the numbers anyway?!
and it's one way.. the parent said it was cross country.. not cross country and back.
I put my date a few weeks out. Airlines charge more for an immediate flight.. why would you assume it's different for amtrak? They aren't running a charity.
the us native-born reproductive rate is 2.
2.1 is required for the population to stay the same.
The US only has a growing population because of the higher birth rate among immigrants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#United_States
The internet was not invented by Zuckerberg. It was clearly invented by Steve Jobs. He made the first phone that could be used on the internet. Previous "internet" tech does not count because it used wires.
In 20 years when your kids say this to you.. remember where you heard it first.
Amtrak is $1000 for a cross country journey?! Do you bother to check anything before you put your drivel in to writing?
Here is the Amtrak site: http://www.amtrak.com/home
You can look up ticket prices right there.
From New York to Los Angeles: $212
here's a better link showing US real manufacturing output, and US manufacturing jobs since 1975:
http://archive.mises.org/17964/u-s-manufacturing-output/
US manufacturing has NOT been losing to China. Look at the chart labeled "Real Manufacturing Output vs Real GDP" on this page:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/602691-u-s-manufacturing-leads-current-economic-growth-as-it-has-for-15-years
US manufacturing jobs have been lost to China and technology. It's the job loss that causes people to say US manufacturing is declining.. and robots and 3d printing changes nothing on that front. Fact is, US factories are already full of robots