The Rendezvous story on Google now has Slashdot as the top article, which of course, is amusing in it's own right, since the Slashdot story is a pointer to the PR Newswire story.
The more advanced Google's news page becomes, the less useful/.'s "news" is going to be. I mean,/. isn't groundbreaking journalism and exclusives. It's links to other people's stories for God's sake, but the hit-refresh-for-a-new-story crowd is going to find they've read all the "news" on Google already.
No, you can get all that for the price of a GREAT video card. For the price of a GOOD video card, you can get one new PS2 game and have enough change to buy yourself some snacks.
First, people complained that ads were only good if they were targetted, and if you were able to serve A LOT of them to people.
Then, people said, we'll I'd just block them anyway - because I'm a thief, and despite knowing the TOS for the free wireless connection, I'd do my best to break it becuase it's not "convenient" for me to look at ads.
Then people said they'd bypass the free network completely, use AIM to chat without ads and use VNC or their own proxy to surf from remote.
Don't you people get it? It's not your network. Since we're building it from the ground up (it doesn't exist yet) we have 100% control on the services and ports we offer.
All web-content goes through our transparent proxy and it serves random auto-forwarding dummy pages with click-through ads. You ask for http://ask.slashdot.org and you get http://freedowntownnetwork/localclickthrough1.htm on your screen. That page has ads for local resurants and shops. Heck, when our programmers get better, they'll notice you've been connected for an hour and send you the "Aren't you getting hungry?" click through page next time. Enjoy it. As a matter of fact, the first request from ANY new MAC gets the TOS sent to it. Don't agree to the TOS and no soup for you.
All "frivilous" ports are closed. Don't bother firing up Napster or whatever it is you kids are using to steal music these days. Just be lucky we're providing web surfing.
Sure. Someone will be ultra-cool and be able to steal some wireless. We'll find you and turn you off, and we'll waste just as much time as you do changing your MAC all day long, but we still don't care, because WE CONTROL THE CONTENT. You can "steal" all the ads you want.
Thanks Russ.
I build the 2000 images for our company, and frankly anyone who bothered to run the MBSA (despite it being a "dot zero" release) or at least check to see what updates were available from the Windows Updater service after installing SP2 or SP3 shouldn't be building machines for deployment.
The MBSA has suggestsed RestrictAnonymous=2 for some time, and the WU now includes the Roll-Up.
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The Rendezvous story on Google now has Slashdot as the top article, which of course, is amusing in it's own right, since the Slashdot story is a pointer to the PR Newswire story.
/.'s "news" is going to be. I mean, /. isn't groundbreaking journalism and exclusives. It's links to other people's stories for God's sake, but the hit-refresh-for-a-new-story crowd is going to find they've read all the "news" on Google already.
The more advanced Google's news page becomes, the less useful
...in an ironic twist of fate /. reports that Google News is up and running, and then proceeds to only post news items from the main Google News page.
Well, I guess Ask Slashdot will still have new content for people to flame each other over.
No, you can get all that for the price of a GREAT video card. For the price of a GOOD video card, you can get one new PS2 game and have enough change to buy yourself some snacks.
A half a million replies to this thread will get posted next time the EverQuest servers go down.
The maricle that is the internet can now provide us with movie reviews a mere 2,920 hours after a film is released.
With some luck, Slashdot can give us a review of the new Monster's Inc. DVD release in early Janurary 2003.
First, people complained that ads were only good if they were targetted, and if you were able to serve A LOT of them to people.
Then, people said, we'll I'd just block them anyway - because I'm a thief, and despite knowing the TOS for the free wireless connection, I'd do my best to break it becuase it's not "convenient" for me to look at ads.
Then people said they'd bypass the free network completely, use AIM to chat without ads and use VNC or their own proxy to surf from remote.
Don't you people get it? It's not your network. Since we're building it from the ground up (it doesn't exist yet) we have 100% control on the services and ports we offer.
All web-content goes through our transparent proxy and it serves random auto-forwarding dummy pages with click-through ads. You ask for http://ask.slashdot.org and you get http://freedowntownnetwork/localclickthrough1.htm on your screen. That page has ads for local resurants and shops. Heck, when our programmers get better, they'll notice you've been connected for an hour and send you the "Aren't you getting hungry?" click through page next time. Enjoy it. As a matter of fact, the first request from ANY new MAC gets the TOS sent to it. Don't agree to the TOS and no soup for you.
All "frivilous" ports are closed. Don't bother firing up Napster or whatever it is you kids are using to steal music these days. Just be lucky we're providing web surfing.
Sure. Someone will be ultra-cool and be able to steal some wireless. We'll find you and turn you off, and we'll waste just as much time as you do changing your MAC all day long, but we still don't care, because WE CONTROL THE CONTENT. You can "steal" all the ads you want.
Thanks Russ. I build the 2000 images for our company, and frankly anyone who bothered to run the MBSA (despite it being a "dot zero" release) or at least check to see what updates were available from the Windows Updater service after installing SP2 or SP3 shouldn't be building machines for deployment. The MBSA has suggestsed RestrictAnonymous=2 for some time, and the WU now includes the Roll-Up.
So, the "big problems" were untrained staff turned some machines on in the wrong mode? Oh no... How will these "big problems" ever be solved?
Gator also has affiliate relationships with many sites, which it pays $1 every time a visitor downloads its software.
...70 or 80 times each to all of our machines.
I think it's great software, and we should all download it...