While google may not be doing the math. I (and other advertisers) most certainly do. I'm paying X for a click, %0.5 of clicks result in a sale, with a profit of X. If cost per click > profit per sale * percentage of sales, I stop buying.
Fraudlent clicks lower the percentage of clicks that result in sales. So the value of a click decreases, along with Google's margin on the transaction.
It's in their own best interest in the long run to combat this sort of thing.
This (and other) article mentions that Tridge was reading data off the wire in an attempt to reverse the protocol. They also mention that Tridge does not use the software so he isn't bound by it's license agreement.
If he doesn't have the software, whose wire is he getting the data off of?
To be honest, from an ethical standpoint, I would be pretty pissed if a company freely accepted my software and licensing terms, then sat people around the guy who was using the program who did nothing but watch the data going out the wire in attempt to reverse engineer the protocoll. It would seem to me like at the very least they accepted the no-reverse-engineering clause in bad faith.
Google's income, or lack there of, is irrelevant. If you steal my car, and let all your friends drive it for free, but by doing so prevent me from going to work I can sue you for damages, my lost wages.
What is important is the preceived lost income by AFP, not Google's possible income by replicating the news.
A possible leverage point for litigation may be if AFP photos were being used beside a headline from another news source. In which case AFP may argue (and IMHO rightfully so) that their photography enticed the user to investigate the story, but they were not the recipiants of the revenue generating click.
Isn't Earth Reactor an Earth Station 5 satelite site? With all the unsubstantiated anonimity claims (amid clients with remote file deletion exploits), and a long history of mud slinging. Why are they a credible news source?
I really don't think it's that simple. By mirroring the entire series of images elsewhere they would have likely surpassed fair use rights, and opened/. to law suits.
I don't see a creative commons release on that page.
I don't really feel that the implied mechanics of a rubber band system qualify as anything new. Many (if not most) arcade based racers have been doing this for a long time. Back when Rush 2020 was big in the arcades I can clearly recall turning off 'Catch Up' before a big grudge match.
How will this defeat piracy? Unless the price point is $0.00 an economic reason to steal the movies will exist. Even if the price point was at nothing, there are those who will remain unable to view the films on their desired architecture and will still need to find an 'alternate' method to acquire the fims.
Perhapps a good thing
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This may be a blessing in disguise for productivity in the world. World of Warcraft has destroyed me, missed deadlines, angry phonecalls from editors etc. I ended up emailing the.exe to a friend, gave the CDs to another and begged them both not to give them back for at least a fortnight. Then wasted 2 hrs trying to crack her gmail password.
The lack of another MMORPG out there may just mean I get this book out on time:).
I will tell you what, once he manages to drag the American government and populace over to the metric system (kicking and screaming no doubt), then maybe, just maybe the world can have a listen. But realistically I don't see this ever happening, for a few reasons: 1) It being the same time and day everywhere still isn't that useful. Sure it's 3:00pm over in China right now, because it's 3:00pm here, but that doesn't tell me that the people there are in fact awake? 2) Frequent use of the term 'forever more' on his website. I think a lot of the problems we have with systems today are caused by the failure of the original designers to see A) any other possible use or improvement for the system, and B) Not designing the system to allow for other uses or improvements because of A. Perhaps once we are jumping from one planet to another in our space ships some changes will need to be made, who knows? Will this require a change to the calendar? Will it always be the same time on this other planet that has a shorter day, shorter year?
I'm a Canadian, and up untill today I have been buying songs from iTunes USA with my US credit card, so I can only assume that the reverse is also possible. Should the slide of the US greenback continue (the canadian dollar is already at a 10+ year high against the USD) and CDN$ > USD$ I will just switch back.
If only I could return all my music bought under the US account for a refund and re-purchase at the lower currency price.
Getting a Canadian CC isn't as easy as it was to get an American one. In the US your (my?) bank card also functions as a debit card from visa/mastercard. So merely having a bank card generally means you can buy stuff online because it functions as a visa/mastercard. Not so in Canada. Your bank card is not affiliated with a credit card company, instead it is part of the Interac network, which allows you to make purchases with it everywhere that accepts Interac (which is everywhere (except Tim Hortons)). So you would need to procure a Canadian billing address, a Canadian bank account, then a Canadian credit card.
I'm Canadian, I would object to a statement that the game was available in 'America' when it is indeed available for sale here. However, I (and I would assume most of my fellow Canadians) have no objection to being refered to as a part of 'North America', which is merely a geographical fact.
One, " North America, Canada," Canada is part of North America, likely it was intended to state the USA & Canada (if Mexico is out), or simply North America (Canada does not need to be stated seperatly).
Two: "Servers are available in the four time zones represented on the North American continent." Canada has six timezones, and as mentioned above, is part of north america. The six time zones are (west to east): Newfoundland, Atlantic, Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific. With Newfoundland being UTC -3.5, Atlantic being UTC -3, and the rest progressing at 1 hour each.
This kind of news kind of makes me wish for white knight virus's that run out there and plug the wholes (carefully) before the bot net virus's attack. Possibly even faking a Microsoft message requesting the use download all the newest patches from windowsupdate.com
With the recent news that lycos has publicaly released a DDOS (mince words if you want to, that's what it is) tool to use on spammers, I wonder if a corporate sponsored virus of this type is far off.
Sorry for the Star Trek question, but it is something that I have wondered for quite a while. With your character in ST:TNG, he(/you) left the ship with 'the traveler' to do great and wondrous things. I always wondered when you were going to come back and save the ship from some otherwise horrible fate, it of course, never happened. At the time, did you see that exit for your character as an easy way to write you out of the script for good, or as a combination of plot advancement for your character, while still allowing you to work on other projects?
Headed into the local Zellers to pick up Halo 2, and got ID'd. I'm 24, this isn't a common occurance, I don't get ID'd at the beer or liquer store. I don't smoke so I can't compare in that respect.
Did anyone bother to train all these employees in reading IDs and identifying fake ones? It isn't part of the standard training to work at Walmart methinks.
Having been on the wrong end of a spam cop report several times, I feel for the innocents who are about to start having their mail blocked AND get bombarded with extra traffic. Just how many lawsuits will ensue?
Dune buggy sequence, where you use the crane on your own to pick the dune buggy up and move it (using the crane is pretty neat btw)
Drive the dune buggy into the middle of the pond (this is pretty easy while driving quickly and not expecting a pond to show up in the middle of the available driving area).
You are out of reach for the crane to pick you up, and the grav gun refuses to pull/push the submerged buggy from any location (submerged, above the water line, shore).
So was this whole evil-government-controlled-cities thing in the first game as well? I'm not sure how much of what is going on is 'new bad stuff' or 'existing bad stuff that I should know about'. The initial city sequence was pretty cool. I think adding in more city-like sequences into FPS would be a good thing, especially if you could stow your weapons and blend in with the crowd to lose certain types of enemies.
The loading issue is really annoying, there was one place in the airboat sequence when I was driving in reverse and shooting when it froze to load the next section. The loading after death is also quite a pain in the butt, especially since I don't usually click the mouse button right away after I die, the game doesn't even put those few moments to good use (in pre-loading the next checkpoint assuming I will continue), nothing happens untill after I click, go figgure.
I will admit that Bungie has a slight advantage when it comes to loading, predictable hardware. They know while programming exactly what resources are available, and don't have to worry about other applications in the background stealing them. Still, the 20 second load times for some sections show that Valve is a still a long ways off.
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While google may not be doing the math. I (and other advertisers) most certainly do. I'm paying X for a click, %0.5 of clicks result in a sale, with a profit of X. If cost per click > profit per sale * percentage of sales, I stop buying.
Fraudlent clicks lower the percentage of clicks that result in sales. So the value of a click decreases, along with Google's margin on the transaction.
It's in their own best interest in the long run to combat this sort of thing.
Anti Open-Source groups are going to have a feild day with this one. Time to batten down the hatches.
Lunch hours? 20% rule for personal projects like Google has? After work? Before work? Weekends?
This (and other) article mentions that Tridge was reading data off the wire in an attempt to reverse the protocol. They also mention that Tridge does not use the software so he isn't bound by it's license agreement.
If he doesn't have the software, whose wire is he getting the data off of?
To be honest, from an ethical standpoint, I would be pretty pissed if a company freely accepted my software and licensing terms, then sat people around the guy who was using the program who did nothing but watch the data going out the wire in attempt to reverse engineer the protocoll. It would seem to me like at the very least they accepted the no-reverse-engineering clause in bad faith.
I think at least half the words in there had to be made up. :)
Google's income, or lack there of, is irrelevant. If you steal my car, and let all your friends drive it for free, but by doing so prevent me from going to work I can sue you for damages, my lost wages.
What is important is the preceived lost income by AFP, not Google's possible income by replicating the news.
A possible leverage point for litigation may be if AFP photos were being used beside a headline from another news source. In which case AFP may argue (and IMHO rightfully so) that their photography enticed the user to investigate the story, but they were not the recipiants of the revenue generating click.
Isn't Earth Reactor an Earth Station 5 satelite site? With all the unsubstantiated anonimity claims (amid clients with remote file deletion exploits), and a long history of mud slinging. Why are they a credible news source?
I really don't think it's that simple. By mirroring the entire series of images elsewhere they would have likely surpassed fair use rights, and opened /. to law suits.
I don't see a creative commons release on that page.
I don't really feel that the implied mechanics of a rubber band system qualify as anything new. Many (if not most) arcade based racers have been doing this for a long time. Back when Rush 2020 was big in the arcades I can clearly recall turning off 'Catch Up' before a big grudge match.
Terminology != Innovation
And I usually collect in the bedroom.
:)
It's okay though, I've only got one client
http://www.preinheimer.com/1984macintro.mov
Good Luck fair box
My attempt at a mirror:
http://www.preinheimer.com/1984macintro.mov
Decent box, I say odds are good it makes it, if not, no worries.
How will this defeat piracy? Unless the price point is $0.00 an economic reason to steal the movies will exist. Even if the price point was at nothing, there are those who will remain unable to view the films on their desired architecture and will still need to find an 'alternate' method to acquire the fims.
This may be a blessing in disguise for productivity in the world. World of Warcraft has destroyed me, missed deadlines, angry phonecalls from editors etc. I ended up emailing the .exe to a friend, gave the CDs to another and begged them both not to give them back for at least a fortnight. Then wasted 2 hrs trying to crack her gmail password.
:).
The lack of another MMORPG out there may just mean I get this book out on time
I will tell you what, once he manages to drag the American government and populace over to the metric system (kicking and screaming no doubt), then maybe, just maybe the world can have a listen. But realistically I don't see this ever happening, for a few reasons:
1) It being the same time and day everywhere still isn't that useful. Sure it's 3:00pm over in China right now, because it's 3:00pm here, but that doesn't tell me that the people there are in fact awake?
2) Frequent use of the term 'forever more' on his website. I think a lot of the problems we have with systems today are caused by the failure of the original designers to see A) any other possible use or improvement for the system, and B) Not designing the system to allow for other uses or improvements because of A. Perhaps once we are jumping from one planet to another in our space ships some changes will need to be made, who knows? Will this require a change to the calendar? Will it always be the same time on this other planet that has a shorter day, shorter year?
And finally, the big one
3) People don't like change.
I'm a Canadian, and up untill today I have been buying songs from iTunes USA with my US credit card, so I can only assume that the reverse is also possible. Should the slide of the US greenback continue (the canadian dollar is already at a 10+ year high against the USD) and CDN$ > USD$ I will just switch back.
:)
If only I could return all my music bought under the US account for a refund and re-purchase at the lower currency price.
Getting a Canadian CC isn't as easy as it was to get an American one. In the US your (my?) bank card also functions as a debit card from visa/mastercard. So merely having a bank card generally means you can buy stuff online because it functions as a visa/mastercard. Not so in Canada. Your bank card is not affiliated with a credit card company, instead it is part of the Interac network, which allows you to make purchases with it everywhere that accepts Interac (which is everywhere (except Tim Hortons)). So you would need to procure a Canadian billing address, a Canadian bank account, then a Canadian credit card.
good luck
I'm Canadian, I would object to a statement that the game was available in 'America' when it is indeed available for sale here. However, I (and I would assume most of my fellow Canadians) have no objection to being refered to as a part of 'North America', which is merely a geographical fact.
dag nab it
One, " North America, Canada," Canada is part of North America, likely it was intended to state the USA & Canada (if Mexico is out), or simply North America (Canada does not need to be stated seperatly).
Two: "Servers are available in the four time zones represented on the North American continent."
Canada has six timezones, and as mentioned above, is part of north america. The six time zones are (west to east): Newfoundland, Atlantic, Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific. With Newfoundland being UTC -3.5, Atlantic being UTC -3, and the rest progressing at 1 hour each.
Other than that, great review!
This kind of news kind of makes me wish for white knight virus's that run out there and plug the wholes (carefully) before the bot net virus's attack. Possibly even faking a Microsoft message requesting the use download all the newest patches from windowsupdate.com
With the recent news that lycos has publicaly released a DDOS (mince words if you want to, that's what it is) tool to use on spammers, I wonder if a corporate sponsored virus of this type is far off.
Sorry for the Star Trek question, but it is something that I have wondered for quite a while. With your character in ST:TNG, he(/you) left the ship with 'the traveler' to do great and wondrous things. I always wondered when you were going to come back and save the ship from some otherwise horrible fate, it of course, never happened. At the time, did you see that exit for your character as an easy way to write you out of the script for good, or as a combination of plot advancement for your character, while still allowing you to work on other projects?
Headed into the local Zellers to pick up Halo 2, and got ID'd. I'm 24, this isn't a common occurance, I don't get ID'd at the beer or liquer store. I don't smoke so I can't compare in that respect.
Did anyone bother to train all these employees in reading IDs and identifying fake ones? It isn't part of the standard training to work at Walmart methinks.
Having been on the wrong end of a spam cop report several times, I feel for the innocents who are about to start having their mail blocked AND get bombarded with extra traffic. Just how many lawsuits will ensue?
Will anyone win but the laywers?
Dune buggy sequence, where you use the crane on your own to pick the dune buggy up and move it (using the crane is pretty neat btw)
Drive the dune buggy into the middle of the pond (this is pretty easy while driving quickly and not expecting a pond to show up in the middle of the available driving area).
You are out of reach for the crane to pick you up, and the grav gun refuses to pull/push the submerged buggy from any location (submerged, above the water line, shore).
Thanks!
I would mod you up id I could.
So was this whole evil-government-controlled-cities thing in the first game as well? I'm not sure how much of what is going on is 'new bad stuff' or 'existing bad stuff that I should know about'. The initial city sequence was pretty cool. I think adding in more city-like sequences into FPS would be a good thing, especially if you could stow your weapons and blend in with the crowd to lose certain types of enemies.
The loading issue is really annoying, there was one place in the airboat sequence when I was driving in reverse and shooting when it froze to load the next section. The loading after death is also quite a pain in the butt, especially since I don't usually click the mouse button right away after I die, the game doesn't even put those few moments to good use (in pre-loading the next checkpoint assuming I will continue), nothing happens untill after I click, go figgure.
I will admit that Bungie has a slight advantage when it comes to loading, predictable hardware. They know while programming exactly what resources are available, and don't have to worry about other applications in the background stealing them. Still, the 20 second load times for some sections show that Valve is a still a long ways off.