you can only look at your own logs to see that Yahoo sends you 10,000 people a day after paying them substantial money for what they said should average 20,000 people a day
In the example you provided of 10K clicks when 20K were expected, this can be chalked up to a crappy banners by your graphic artists. However, there are brokers out there who buy ad space from many websites and sell it at a reduced rate to companies, some of these brokers buy space from the companies that pay their users to click on banners, in which case you'll get a high clickthrough but nobody who clicks through is interested in your website and will click the back button immediately. If you are contacted by a broker, ask them what websites your banner will be on, if they do not mention any of the websites where people are compensated for banner clicks, and it turns out that the majority of the banners are going to these companies, contact the broker and tell them to pull your ad then contact your credit card company and dispute the charge. This has happened to my company several times, the brokers have never attempted to get their money after being told the charge was disputed.
An ad that's being viewed by 4 million people has significantly more value, and thus has a higher cost, than one that's only being viewed by 2 million people
Unlike a television ad, in which an advertiser pays a large amount for one ad, banner ads are charged per impression. So whether a banner is served up 4 million times or 2 million times, the advertiser is charged the same per impression (well, assuming it's on the same site, and assuming no volume discount for the additional 2 million impressions, but you get my point).
can anbody present an example of legitimate use of two files in the same directory named identically save for case?
One of the naming conventions for a C++ source file is.C, for C source it is.c so someone could reasonably have a foo.C and foo.c in the same directory.
When I want to turn something off in/etc/rc.d, I will change the first letter to lowercase, this is a somewhat common technique. Although this isn't an example of two files identical save for case, it is an example of where case sensitivity is desired.
I assume Apple calls it Oh Ess Ten since the X stands for 10, but everyone I know calls it Oh Ess Ex, since that's how it's written. I suspect the next version will be called 11 instead of XI and we'll be done with this roman numeral silliness.
Wouldn't there need to be some wrapper in the form of source code around the linux kernel driver in order to make it work with Solaris? What I mean is that there would need to some means to translate hooks between the Solaris kernel and the linux driver. In that case wouldn't the resulting object could be considered a derived work?
There wouldn't necessarily need to be a wrapper around the driver, the kit could translate it before compiling. But, if it did, and if your definition of derivative is one that would make it a derivative work, it still would not be GPL'd. The GPL states that you do not have to agree to the terms of the GPL, only if this wrapper contained GPL'd code (which they would not be able to distribute unless they agreed to the terms of the GPL, or negotiated a license from the copyright holder) would there be a chance of it being GPL'd.
They may say regardless of age, but try getting any of the signatories on that to give an eight year old boy access to the stack of Playboys behind the counter...
I worked at a library, we allowed children to view playboy when they asked for it. I had a parent try to get me fired once because I didn't do anything about her children reading playboy, but that's not my responsibility and all of the librarians agreed with me.
The fact is that children are subordniate to their parents. If a parent wishes the kid to have access then the kid should have it. If not, then not.
If a parent wishes a kid not to have access, the parent should not give the child access, abandoning your child at a library is giving them access to everything in the library. There are many places parent would never think of abandoning their children for hours on end, but for some reason they feel very comfortable leaving their children at a library, if the parent doesn't like what's in the library, that's their problem -- the parent is smart enough to know that they don't know everything that is in the library so they should be smart enough to come to the conclusion that if there is anything they might not want their children to see, they should be with their children, a lot of parents treat the library as a free babysitting service.
require a parent to be present in the library. Another--IMHO the best--is simply to turn the monitors towards the librarians.
I don't think parents should be required to be present, but they should understand that they are responsible for what their child does when unsupervised -- if the child picks up a rock and throws it at a car while unsupervised, it's the parent's fault (well, legally speaking, morally the child is certainly to blame as well), if a child picks up a playboy while unsupervised, it's the parent's fault as well. The problem with turning the monitors towards the librarians is that this would seriously slow down the work that can get done. At the library I worked at there were about 30 computers and two or three librarians on staff, most of the time 15 to 20 computers were in use at once, so either we would need 15 to 20 librarians on staff helping people out, actually, more, since it's faster to find information yourself when you know what you're doing than it is to convey to someone what you're looking for and negotiate with them about whether a match is a good match, or we could have only 3 computers which the librarians could use and have lines a mile long leading to the desk. Neither of these is a good solution. The way libraries currently work is great for everyone except negligent parents.
Without a good faith attempt at filtering, the library system could be open to lawsuits from irate parents.
Libraries have had books and magazines with nudity in them and books and magazines with violent pictures in them, many parents have complained, a few have sued, I don't know of anybody who has won a lawsuit (the library is, afterall, not a babysitting service, though some parents treat it as such).
The Library Bill of Rights, created by the American Library Association states in part:
Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas. A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
Their "cloaking" includes filtering all ports, nmap's tcp/ip fingerprinting is much less effective if it can't connect to a port. nmap 2.53 is unable to determine the OS of my windows 98 box without an open port and has 12 guesses about my linux x86 box (11 of them are linux guesses, but all are incorrect versions, one of them the wrong architecture).
For general searches, I use google. Sometimes I'm looking for some technical information and I can't get google to find it for me and I'll use raging or deja. If I'm looking for a place which sells an item, I use goto. Occasionally I'll use askjeeves when I have a question I think it would know.
has anyone thought to ask compaq about this before launchin into "jihad" mode?
You can bet that if another company was violating one of compaq's licenses, compaq's lawyers would be in jihad mode before you could blink. By not being aggressive towards companies which violate the GPL, the message sent to companies is that it's okay to violate the GPL and if you're caught all you have to do is comply with it once caught. If any other law were being broken, a simple "okay, I'll stop" would not suffice, and if compaq caught you violating their license I doubt they'd settle for a simple "I'm sorry".
Some ISPs (cough) with policy routing to the caching HTTP proxies have such bad routing that news sites like Slashdot have day-old headlines.
Not to say that having 24 hour old documents by default is the best thing to do, but if slashdot used the Expires header the age of the document in the AOL proxy could be controlled. mod_expires can be quite useful in setting the expiration of a document.
[The MPAA] believes an open signal to a VCR would make the risk of widespread copying of hot movies far outweigh the potential profit from broadcasting the material.
If this were true, there wouldn't be any movie studios which would put movies out on pay per view. The fact that they do put them out on pay per view shows that they think the risk of loss from widespread copying is less than the potential profit from broadcasting it (unless their goal with pay per view is to lose money, if that is the case then the MPAA is correct).
If you take your CueCat and scan something, you'll notice that you can scan forwards, backwards, sideways, upside-down, flipped to the right, to the left, and so forth. All of these methods work really well, and that obviously took a _lot_ of talent
I used to work at a library, our barcode scanners could do the same thing, this was about five years ago, so this technology existed before the CueCat people even began developing the CueCat.
on the Linux boxes I used, X windows had a tendency to crash and take the whole system with it.
It probably didn't take the whole system with it, at most it probably locked up the keyboard and mouse, but you should still have been able to telnet/ssh in and kill the X server.
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Or maybe you just disallow remote root logins (which I never understood).
If you allow root logins, anyone can attempt to brute-force the password, if you disallow root logins then someone needs to brute-force two passwords, or if it's a local user who is attempting to crack the password you have a log of which user it is if they're required to su.
This reminds me, why doesn't someone come up with a mainstream VCR that automatically edits out commmercials? I think I saw one once that did it on the basis of volume levels, since ads are usually several decibels louder than the actual program, but I haven't seen one since.
My VCR edits out commercials. It's manufactured by General Electric and has VG4267 on the front which I assume is the model number. After it records a show (commercials and all), it goes back and marks the beginning and end of commercials, then when you're watching the show and it hits a commercial start, it shows a blue screen for a couple of seconds while it's fast forwarding through the commercials. I'd say it's about 99% accurate, false positives probably occur twice as much as false negatives. The false positives are particularly annoying since you have to rewind to before it showed the blue screen and then fast forward to a point just after it so that it won't hit the start point again, but this is similar to the inconvenience you faced when you fast forward through commercials manually and wind up fast forwarding through a few seconds of show so you then have to rewind back to before the show starts.
flatplanet.net wrote a program which spams gnutella. When you perform a search for anything, the flatplanet program returns half a dozen results saying things like F.L.A.T.P.L.A.N.E.T.N.E.T. - [word you searched for here]. They sell the software that they use so that anyone can spam gnutella. Some clients have spam filters and are set to filter out flatplanet by default.
If I remember correctly from my stats class the general rule for margin of error is actually 1/sqrt(n). Common sense says that as the sample size increases, the margin of error should decrease, so sqrt(n) doesn't seem right.
1/sqrt(n) gives you the margin of error as a percentage, to figure out the number of IP addresses which this accounts for, the calculation is 1/sqrt(n) * n which becomes sqrt(n) which is what he was talking about.
Anyway, a sample size of 150,000 is incredibly good, and I think margin of error will be so small that it's not worth calculating
> Um, maybe if you're interested in > privacy you shouldn't be on IRC?
That's a clever thing to say, emmett. Following the logic, if you're interested in privacy you shouldn't go on the Internet, register with any kind of authority and instead live a sheltered isolated existance in a bomb shelter on an island off the coast of a 3rd world country.
What logic are you following? Emmett's point was if you say something in a public forum, you shouldn't expect it to be private.
This message is meant for santan and santan only, if you are reading it and are not santan, you have just violated my privacy. If you are Google's web spider and have just stored a copy of this message, oh boy you have really violated my privacy.
I have a 10 dollar bill. Should you or should you not be allowed to make a copy of it?
You should be allowed to make a copy of it, you should not be able to pass the copy off as an official ten dollar bill. Similarly, you may also make a cologne which looks and smells like (insert expensive cologne here) and sell it under a unique name, but if you pass it off as (insert same name of expensive cologne here) you are breaking the law. The same applies to generic clothes, they can copy the appearance of an expensive brand, but they can't claim to be made by the company which makes the expensive brand.
I'm sure I don't need to describe the conditions under which these animals live and die.
Obviously I can't speak for every company which kills animals, but the pigs I've seen are put in a shallow pool of water and an electrified prod is put in the water, the pigs die instantly. I've heard plenty of herbivores imply that animals are basically tortured to death. What would be the advantage of prolonging the death of an animal? Companies strive to be as efficient as possible, and a quick death is more efficient than a slow drawn out death (the exception is, of course, when a slow drawn out death is important, such as with veal). I'm sure there are some small farms out there who can't afford anything better than a knife to kill their animals with, but I would expect that the majority of animals killed by humans die a better death than they would if they were killed by any other predator.
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you can only look at your own logs to see that Yahoo sends you 10,000 people a day after paying them substantial money for what they said should average 20,000 people a day
In the example you provided of 10K clicks when 20K were expected, this can be chalked up to a crappy banners by your graphic artists. However, there are brokers out there who buy ad space from many websites and sell it at a reduced rate to companies, some of these brokers buy space from the companies that pay their users to click on banners, in which case you'll get a high clickthrough but nobody who clicks through is interested in your website and will click the back button immediately. If you are contacted by a broker, ask them what websites your banner will be on, if they do not mention any of the websites where people are compensated for banner clicks, and it turns out that the majority of the banners are going to these companies, contact the broker and tell them to pull your ad then contact your credit card company and dispute the charge. This has happened to my company several times, the brokers have never attempted to get their money after being told the charge was disputed.
An ad that's being viewed by 4 million people has significantly more value, and thus has a higher cost, than one that's only being viewed by 2 million people
Unlike a television ad, in which an advertiser pays a large amount for one ad, banner ads are charged per impression. So whether a banner is served up 4 million times or 2 million times, the advertiser is charged the same per impression (well, assuming it's on the same site, and assuming no volume discount for the additional 2 million impressions, but you get my point).
Geeze, my Ask Slashdot submission on the upcoming soundcard monopoly is about ten thousand times more relevant than this.
Your story submission hasn't been approved, you have my deepest of condolences.
it seems as though CmdrTaco is scraping off the bottom of the news barrel right now.
CmdrTaco didn't post this story, nor does he handle Ask Slashdot.
can anbody present an example of legitimate use of two files in the same directory named identically save for case?
.C, for C source it is .c so someone could reasonably have a foo.C and foo.c in the same directory.
/etc/rc.d, I will change the first letter to lowercase, this is a somewhat common technique. Although this isn't an example of two files identical save for case, it is an example of where case sensitivity is desired.
One of the naming conventions for a C++ source file is
When I want to turn something off in
ln -s quake2/quake2 quake2
Since quake2 is a directory, you're not going to be able to make a symlink with that same name.
in the case of MP3s I think a vast majority of people KNOW they are stealing but don't feel bad about it.
I think the vast majority of people in jail for theft knew they were stealing but didn't feel bad about it.
I assume Apple calls it Oh Ess Ten since the X stands for 10, but everyone I know calls it Oh Ess Ex, since that's how it's written. I suspect the next version will be called 11 instead of XI and we'll be done with this roman numeral silliness.
Wouldn't there need to be some wrapper in the form of source code around the linux kernel driver in order to make it work with Solaris? What I mean is that there would need to some means to translate hooks between the Solaris kernel and the linux driver. In that case wouldn't the resulting object could be considered a derived work?
There wouldn't necessarily need to be a wrapper around the driver, the kit could translate it before compiling. But, if it did, and if your definition of derivative is one that would make it a derivative work, it still would not be GPL'd. The GPL states that you do not have to agree to the terms of the GPL, only if this wrapper contained GPL'd code (which they would not be able to distribute unless they agreed to the terms of the GPL, or negotiated a license from the copyright holder) would there be a chance of it being GPL'd.
They may say regardless of age, but try getting any of the signatories on that to give an eight year old boy access to the stack of Playboys behind the counter...
I worked at a library, we allowed children to view playboy when they asked for it. I had a parent try to get me fired once because I didn't do anything about her children reading playboy, but that's not my responsibility and all of the librarians agreed with me.
The fact is that children are subordniate to their parents. If a parent wishes the kid to have access then the kid should have it. If not, then not.
If a parent wishes a kid not to have access, the parent should not give the child access, abandoning your child at a library is giving them access to everything in the library. There are many places parent would never think of abandoning their children for hours on end, but for some reason they feel very comfortable leaving their children at a library, if the parent doesn't like what's in the library, that's their problem -- the parent is smart enough to know that they don't know everything that is in the library so they should be smart enough to come to the conclusion that if there is anything they might not want their children to see, they should be with their children, a lot of parents treat the library as a free babysitting service.
require a parent to be present in the library. Another--IMHO the best--is simply to turn the monitors towards the librarians.
I don't think parents should be required to be present, but they should understand that they are responsible for what their child does when unsupervised -- if the child picks up a rock and throws it at a car while unsupervised, it's the parent's fault (well, legally speaking, morally the child is certainly to blame as well), if a child picks up a playboy while unsupervised, it's the parent's fault as well. The problem with turning the monitors towards the librarians is that this would seriously slow down the work that can get done. At the library I worked at there were about 30 computers and two or three librarians on staff, most of the time 15 to 20 computers were in use at once, so either we would need 15 to 20 librarians on staff helping people out, actually, more, since it's faster to find information yourself when you know what you're doing than it is to convey to someone what you're looking for and negotiate with them about whether a match is a good match, or we could have only 3 computers which the librarians could use and have lines a mile long leading to the desk. Neither of these is a good solution. The way libraries currently work is great for everyone except negligent parents.
Without a good faith attempt at filtering, the library system could be open to lawsuits from irate parents.
Libraries have had books and magazines with nudity in them and books and magazines with violent pictures in them, many parents have complained, a few have sued, I don't know of anybody who has won a lawsuit (the library is, afterall, not a babysitting service, though some parents treat it as such).
The Library Bill of Rights, created by the American Library Association states in part:
Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas. A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.
Their "cloaking" includes filtering all ports, nmap's tcp/ip fingerprinting is much less effective if it can't connect to a port. nmap 2.53 is unable to determine the OS of my windows 98 box without an open port and has 12 guesses about my linux x86 box (11 of them are linux guesses, but all are incorrect versions, one of them the wrong architecture).
For general searches, I use google. Sometimes I'm looking for some technical information and I can't get google to find it for me and I'll use raging or deja. If I'm looking for a place which sells an item, I use goto. Occasionally I'll use askjeeves when I have a question I think it would know.
has anyone thought to ask compaq about this before launchin into "jihad" mode?
You can bet that if another company was violating one of compaq's licenses, compaq's lawyers would be in jihad mode before you could blink. By not being aggressive towards companies which violate the GPL, the message sent to companies is that it's okay to violate the GPL and if you're caught all you have to do is comply with it once caught. If any other law were being broken, a simple "okay, I'll stop" would not suffice, and if compaq caught you violating their license I doubt they'd settle for a simple "I'm sorry".
You can use moviefone.com to find out where This is Spinal Tap is playing
Some ISPs (cough) with policy routing to the caching HTTP proxies have such bad routing that news sites like Slashdot have day-old headlines.
Not to say that having 24 hour old documents by default is the best thing to do, but if slashdot used the Expires header the age of the document in the AOL proxy could be controlled. mod_expires can be quite useful in setting the expiration of a document.
[The MPAA] believes an open signal to a VCR would make the risk of widespread copying of hot movies far outweigh the potential profit from broadcasting the material.
If this were true, there wouldn't be any movie studios which would put movies out on pay per view. The fact that they do put them out on pay per view shows that they think the risk of loss from widespread copying is less than the potential profit from broadcasting it (unless their goal with pay per view is to lose money, if that is the case then the MPAA is correct).
If you take your CueCat and scan something, you'll notice that you can scan forwards, backwards, sideways, upside-down, flipped to the right, to the left, and so forth. All of these methods work really well, and that obviously took a _lot_ of talent
I used to work at a library, our barcode scanners could do the same thing, this was about five years ago, so this technology existed before the CueCat people even began developing the CueCat.
on the Linux boxes I used, X windows had a tendency to crash and take the whole system with it.
It probably didn't take the whole system with it, at most it probably locked up the keyboard and mouse, but you should still have been able to telnet/ssh in and kill the X server.
Or maybe you just disallow remote root logins (which I never understood).
If you allow root logins, anyone can attempt to brute-force the password, if you disallow root logins then someone needs to brute-force two passwords, or if it's a local user who is attempting to crack the password you have a log of which user it is if they're required to su.
This reminds me, why doesn't someone come up with a mainstream VCR that automatically edits out commmercials? I think I saw one once that did it on the basis of volume levels, since ads are usually several decibels louder than the actual program, but I haven't seen one since.
My VCR edits out commercials. It's manufactured by General Electric and has VG4267 on the front which I assume is the model number. After it records a show (commercials and all), it goes back and marks the beginning and end of commercials, then when you're watching the show and it hits a commercial start, it shows a blue screen for a couple of seconds while it's fast forwarding through the commercials. I'd say it's about 99% accurate, false positives probably occur twice as much as false negatives. The false positives are particularly annoying since you have to rewind to before it showed the blue screen and then fast forward to a point just after it so that it won't hit the start point again, but this is similar to the inconvenience you faced when you fast forward through commercials manually and wind up fast forwarding through a few seconds of show so you then have to rewind back to before the show starts.
flatplanet.net wrote a program which spams gnutella. When you perform a search for anything, the flatplanet program returns half a dozen results saying things like F.L.A.T.P.L.A.N.E.T.N.E.T. - [word you searched for here]. They sell the software that they use so that anyone can spam gnutella. Some clients have spam filters and are set to filter out flatplanet by default.
If I remember correctly from my stats class the general rule for margin of error is actually 1/sqrt(n). Common sense says that as the sample size increases, the margin of error should decrease, so sqrt(n) doesn't seem right.
1/sqrt(n) gives you the margin of error as a percentage, to figure out the number of IP addresses which this accounts for, the calculation is 1/sqrt(n) * n which becomes sqrt(n) which is what he was talking about.
Anyway, a sample size of 150,000 is incredibly good, and I think margin of error will be so small that it's not worth calculating
It's 0.258%
> Um, maybe if you're interested in
> privacy you shouldn't be on IRC?
That's a clever thing to say, emmett. Following the logic, if you're interested in privacy you shouldn't go on the Internet, register with any kind of authority and instead live a sheltered isolated existance in a bomb shelter on an island off the coast of a 3rd world country.
What logic are you following? Emmett's point was if you say something in a public forum, you shouldn't expect it to be private.
This message is meant for santan and santan only, if you are reading it and are not santan, you have just violated my privacy. If you are Google's web spider and have just stored a copy of this message, oh boy you have really violated my privacy.
I have a 10 dollar bill. Should you or should you not be allowed to make a copy of it?
You should be allowed to make a copy of it, you should not be able to pass the copy off as an official ten dollar bill. Similarly, you may also make a cologne which looks and smells like (insert expensive cologne here) and sell it under a unique name, but if you pass it off as (insert same name of expensive cologne here) you are breaking the law. The same applies to generic clothes, they can copy the appearance of an expensive brand, but they can't claim to be made by the company which makes the expensive brand.
I'm sure I don't need to describe the conditions under which these animals live and die.
Obviously I can't speak for every company which kills animals, but the pigs I've seen are put in a shallow pool of water and an electrified prod is put in the water, the pigs die instantly. I've heard plenty of herbivores imply that animals are basically tortured to death. What would be the advantage of prolonging the death of an animal? Companies strive to be as efficient as possible, and a quick death is more efficient than a slow drawn out death (the exception is, of course, when a slow drawn out death is important, such as with veal). I'm sure there are some small farms out there who can't afford anything better than a knife to kill their animals with, but I would expect that the majority of animals killed by humans die a better death than they would if they were killed by any other predator.