It could be considered click fraud if you used it against your own website that you have advertising on.
But I do agree, if I was an advertiser, and this caught on, they could see a potential spike in clicks, and therefore a big jump in advertisement expenditures.
That might lead to drastically reduced payments per click for websites, or maybe the end of pay-per-click, or who knows what else?
For now, it's filenames. Next will be screenshots. After that, reverse-netflix?
What we need is for the protocol to be reverse-engineered, and then just start posting all sorts of randomized information to the servers, effectively making it useless. Advertisers won't pay for garbage data.
Of course, once LG notices, the protocol will be encrypted...
Yes, yes they do. I am confident that it COSTS BELL more money to maintain their old pulse dialing systems. But those bastards just see it as a 'free' source of revenue.
I am using an admittedly older MythDora (umm, 10?) system with MythWelcome set up to use the alarm to wake it up when it needs to record something, and power it off when idle.
It usually decides to act up when I am away for a week on business or something, and then everyone's mad at me when I get back! So I finally added a "mysqlcheck --autorepair" to the bootup sequence.
As a complete aside, I just ran out of disk space while still having 100GB free... ran out of inodes. Some cron job was periodically sending emails, and I had over 500,000 unsent emails in/var/spool. Took a good while to delete all those emails.
I have my mythtv box all set up with mythwelcome; it wakes up when it needs to record something, and powers off when it's done, provided I'm not actually watching something at the time.
The video shows a number of ways that MySQL seems to insert questionable data; ignoring NOT NULL, inserting default values when no default is specified, etc...
There are two databases that I have had to repair... Hypersonic and MySQL. MySQL I have to repair regularly in my MythTV box. Hypersonic states it should not be used in a production system. I have never had to repair Postgres, MSSQL, or Oracle.
There is no way to gather a significant amount of data to suggest that we're doing anything "bad"
The amount of carbon (and pollution) we sending into the atmosphere is staggering, and currently accelerating. Do you like the earth's atmosphere as it is now? Do you think we can just carry on going in this direction, without adversely affecting it?
Serious question, why do you discount Apache Open Office? I haven't used it yet, but I was assuming that Apache will fix whatever was wrong with the Oracle Open Office license, and whatever else is wrong with OOO.
Now I am in danger if I activate SSL on my website? Why didn't Apple grind them to dust? Are their lawyers too busy duking it out with Samsung? C'mon Google, take aim and give 'em both barrels!
Very interesting end to the video, where the scammer realizes that he's dealing with someone who knows something about computers, and starts to try to... what.... do some damage?
Today, Apple launched a lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming infringement on their patent on "Telling the Sheep, I mean Userbase, What They Will Like(tm)".
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Could you imagine if the patch bricked the system, ON MARS? Do not unplug device during firmware update.
It could be considered click fraud if you used it against your own website that you have advertising on.
But I do agree, if I was an advertiser, and this caught on, they could see a potential spike in clicks, and therefore a big jump in advertisement expenditures.
That might lead to drastically reduced payments per click for websites, or maybe the end of pay-per-click, or who knows what else?
With all that BS at the bottom, it casts doubt in my mind on the actual article.
Verizon is not ransoming special groups.
No, this is Racketeering if I've ever seen it!
and take your charge pad with you on vacation...
For now, it's filenames. Next will be screenshots. After that, reverse-netflix?
What we need is for the protocol to be reverse-engineered, and then just start posting all sorts of randomized information to the servers, effectively making it useless. Advertisers won't pay for garbage data.
Of course, once LG notices, the protocol will be encrypted...
Yes, yes they do.
I am confident that it COSTS BELL more money to maintain their old pulse dialing systems.
But those bastards just see it as a 'free' source of revenue.
Long ropes made out of carbon nanotubes or something?
Astronaut Psychiatric Self Evaluation Questionaire
Please mark all that apply with an X
1) [ ] I am crazy enough to want to go to Mars
Thank you for completing this questionaire.
I can't figure out why Windows lets a program remove itself from the list of programs in the task list. WTF!
I wonder if windows fudges the task list CPU numbers to add up to 100%?
Tell that to these guys...
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvRvGmJAuNc)
I am using an admittedly older MythDora (umm, 10?) system with MythWelcome set up to use the alarm to wake it up when it needs to record something, and power it off when idle.
It usually decides to act up when I am away for a week on business or something, and then everyone's mad at me when I get back!
So I finally added a "mysqlcheck --autorepair" to the bootup sequence.
As a complete aside, I just ran out of disk space while still having 100GB free... ran out of inodes. Some cron job was periodically sending emails, and I had over 500,000 unsent emails in /var/spool. Took a good while to delete all those emails.
I have my mythtv box all set up with mythwelcome; it wakes up when it needs to record something, and powers off when it's done, provided I'm not actually watching something at the time.
Maybe that's the difference?
The video shows a number of ways that MySQL seems to insert questionable data; ignoring NOT NULL, inserting default values when no default is specified, etc...
There are two databases that I have had to repair... Hypersonic and MySQL. MySQL I have to repair regularly in my MythTV box. Hypersonic states it should not be used in a production system. I have never had to repair Postgres, MSSQL, or Oracle.
+1 outstanding!
There is no way to gather a significant amount of data to suggest that we're doing anything "bad"
The amount of carbon (and pollution) we sending into the atmosphere is staggering, and currently accelerating.
Do you like the earth's atmosphere as it is now? Do you think we can just carry on going in this direction, without adversely affecting it?
I can see two outcomes...
- One kid left in class, carrying 20 badges...
- Kids swap badges constantly, rendering the system useless...
s'fun!
Does it run Netflix in Ubuntu??? If Chrome OS can do it...
nm, I am sure I know the answer.
Serious question, why do you discount Apache Open Office?
I haven't used it yet, but I was assuming that Apache will fix whatever was wrong with the Oracle Open Office license, and whatever else is wrong with OOO.
Now I am in danger if I activate SSL on my website? Why didn't Apple grind them to dust? Are their lawyers too busy duking it out with Samsung?
C'mon Google, take aim and give 'em both barrels!
It must be the fairly common misuse, Here comes an 's'!
Bushnell Trail Sentry 5MP Digital Camera
Seems like it's packed with features.
http://www.opticsplanet.com/bushnell-trail-sentry-5mp-trail-night-vision-camera-119305.html
Very interesting end to the video, where the scammer realizes that he's dealing with someone who knows something about computers, and starts to try to... what.... do some damage?
> they would eventually learn to like the new OS.
Today, Apple launched a lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming infringement on their patent on "Telling the Sheep, I mean Userbase, What They Will Like(tm)".
Who's gonna notice when the Earth becomes unliveable due to climate change?
* Tornadoes... Droughts... Floods...
* Bacon Shortage, like OMG???