It is not gambling if someone does not have to risk money in order to win it. That is the definition of gambling.
AdSense and AdWords are quite unrelated in this aspect.
Google opens themselves up to liability by allowing its advertisements to be shown on potentially illegal (in your region_of_choice) adult/gambling sites.
A crackdown has already begun on gambling affiliates, Google wants no part of that.
Secondly, Google does not allow gambling and adult ads to be shown in the content network. This means that properly targeted adult/gambling sites publishing AdSense would *have no ads to show anyway*.
OK, that is perfectly understandable. Do you have any idea of how these companies "OWN" these domain names? Of course you do as you are trying to use/justify this same model to make money for yourself. For others here that may not know, they buy them up in bulk and find any and all possible relevant combinations of names in the hopes that someone will find a need for that name and then exchange again, more money to buy that domain name at a later date. Simple parasitic business with no real contribution to anything other than lining their own pockets.
So the thing that you so emphatically show your disdain for is in fact a timeless trade:
Land Development.
People are buying up previously unused spaces, and adding some or no value to them - in hopes that their value will exceed the purchase price plus carrying costs at some point in the future.
People who have no idea HOW SOMETHING WORKS, are no longer allowed to use Slashdot as an outlet for their ignorant ranting.
Those domains displaying domain parking pages are OWNED. That means someone exchanged goods, services, or currency for property. The property was the registration of the domain name. Still with me?
These domains end up "parked" two ways.
A) 1. After registering a domain, your nameservers typically default to some that the registrar provides.
2. These at-the-moment "unused" domains, which number in the millions, get between a little and a LOT of traffic that would otherwise go nowhere.
3. An enterprising registrar sees this as an opportunity for offsetting costs, and profit (see: capitalism). So they decide to use something like AdSense for Domains to drive revenue.
B) 1. Someone registers a domain, and puts a program like the aforementioned on it to drive revenue - either while developing a site for it, or they simply are doing so well with it that it is "maximized". (Lingerei.com is an example)
Perhaps Google could reallocate some of this labor to fixing AdWords so advertisers can more easily spend money. Some of my client accounts take weeks to get new creatives approved. And right now the TrafficEstimatorService in the API is *DOWN*.
wow.. not even trolling. thats what the article originally said.. my original comment should be modded down since its no longer accurate, but when the article was posted thats what it said.. the part you bolded was a direct copy and paste. beware eweek. =\
FTA: "I know many users within my former organization who felt that anti-virus and spyware scanning would save them," Di Mino said. "However, now I see how many malicious files tied to major botnets remain undetected" by the most popular anti-virus programs.
This, unfortunately, is the most common viewpoint from end-users and IT alike.
It's unfortunate because it's so dangerously inaccurate. Lots (LOTS) of spyware is not detected by any of the mainstream detection applications. The best solution I've found is using HijackThis to manually remove suspicious entries, but this is hardly a feasible solution for the average user.
FTA:
Asked where Microsoft had gotten those specific numbers, Gavin said they represented the number of "successful migrations completed in partnership with Quest Software in 2005," but he was unable to immediately provide eWEEK with information on whether these numbers represented individual customers or total users or what versions of NetWare they were running.
Half of these users were probably running DOS-based NetWare, and were due for ANY kind of an upgrade; they took what was cheapest.
This isn't news.
FTA: And we found that some oddly innocent images--in particular, "head shots" of pumpkins from last Halloween--were blocked. But overall, of blocking the images you'd want blocked.
This thing won't be deployed en masse with problems like that.. it quickly becomes uneconomical for admins to be whitelisting pictures of pumpkins.
Airbrushed to keep the site as "family-safe" as it could possibly be, given the nature. Some of the venues we advertise on would not allow it, otherwise.
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
Noam Chomsky
When we were assigning alarm codes at our new office, we realized that all 3 of us had the same ATM PIN, because we all tried to choose it for our alarm code but it errored because someone else had already claimed the code.
It's a common 4-digit code among the tech community. =(
All changed now.
Actually they owe adult webmasters [from my understanding] several million dollars in held funds (they process CCs, then pay out to webmasters after X days.. well, they just didn't pay out). So now they keep bouncing around until they're finished. Steer clear.
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It is not gambling if someone does not have to risk money in order to win it. That is the definition of gambling.
AdSense and AdWords are quite unrelated in this aspect.
Google opens themselves up to liability by allowing its advertisements to be shown on potentially illegal (in your region_of_choice) adult/gambling sites.
A crackdown has already begun on gambling affiliates, Google wants no part of that.
Secondly, Google does not allow gambling and adult ads to be shown in the content network. This means that properly targeted adult/gambling sites publishing AdSense would *have no ads to show anyway*.
Makes sense, right?
Excellent post.
I now require two things:
- An example of an ad for gambling. Instructional material, and play money sites don't count.
- A citation for Google having a policy against Adult ("porn") ads.
thanks.
Oh. You don't have these? Oh.
OK, that is perfectly understandable. Do you have any idea of how these companies "OWN" these domain names? Of course you do as you are trying to use/justify this same model to make money for yourself. For others here that may not know, they buy them up in bulk and find any and all possible relevant combinations of names in the hopes that someone will find a need for that name and then exchange again, more money to buy that domain name at a later date. Simple parasitic business with no real contribution to anything other than lining their own pockets.
So the thing that you so emphatically show your disdain for is in fact a timeless trade:
Land Development.
People are buying up previously unused spaces, and adding some or no value to them - in hopes that their value will exceed the purchase price plus carrying costs at some point in the future.
Welcome to Earth.
Okay. New rule.
People who have no idea HOW SOMETHING WORKS, are no longer allowed to use Slashdot as an outlet for their ignorant ranting.
Those domains displaying domain parking pages are OWNED. That means someone exchanged goods, services, or currency for property. The property was the registration of the domain name. Still with me?
These domains end up "parked" two ways.
A) 1. After registering a domain, your nameservers typically default to some that the registrar provides.
2. These at-the-moment "unused" domains, which number in the millions, get between a little and a LOT of traffic that would otherwise go nowhere.
3. An enterprising registrar sees this as an opportunity for offsetting costs, and profit (see: capitalism). So they decide to use something like AdSense for Domains to drive revenue.
B) 1. Someone registers a domain, and puts a program like the aforementioned on it to drive revenue - either while developing a site for it, or they simply are doing so well with it that it is "maximized". (Lingerei.com is an example)
Policy and practice are often quite distant from each other in reality. Especially in government; military or otherwise.
Next time someone gets carjacked, lets sue Toyota.. after all, they should have mounted machine guns to take care of any intruders.
Dumbass.
Perhaps Google could reallocate some of this labor to fixing AdWords so advertisers can more easily spend money. Some of my client accounts take weeks to get new creatives approved. And right now the TrafficEstimatorService in the API is *DOWN*.
I was promised a holodeck many, many years ago. What gives?
Why hasn't "3D" technology advanced in the last 15 years?
It's severely lagging behind all the other technologies. Where are holograms?
This is no different than the 911 service on PSTN (regular phone service).
I've been put on hold at least 50-60% of the time I've called.
They're understaffed.
wow.. not even trolling. thats what the article originally said.. my original comment should be modded down since its no longer accurate, but when the article was posted thats what it said.. the part you bolded was a direct copy and paste. beware eweek. =\
FTA: "I know many users within my former organization who felt that anti-virus and spyware scanning would save them," Di Mino said. "However, now I see how many malicious files tied to major botnets remain undetected" by the most popular anti-virus programs.
This, unfortunately, is the most common viewpoint from end-users and IT alike.
It's unfortunate because it's so dangerously inaccurate. Lots (LOTS) of spyware is not detected by any of the mainstream detection applications. The best solution I've found is using HijackThis to manually remove suspicious entries, but this is hardly a feasible solution for the average user.
FTA: Asked where Microsoft had gotten those specific numbers, Gavin said they represented the number of "successful migrations completed in partnership with Quest Software in 2005," but he was unable to immediately provide eWEEK with information on whether these numbers represented individual customers or total users or what versions of NetWare they were running. Half of these users were probably running DOS-based NetWare, and were due for ANY kind of an upgrade; they took what was cheapest. This isn't news.
www.digg.com
Estimated 5,873,100 visitor sessions in the last 30 days.
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www.slashdot.org
Estimated 7,797,900 visitor sessions in the last 30 days.
(Source: metricsmarket.com)
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Looks to me like they're doing a-okay. Stop feeding trolls, you're no better with your weak attacks.
FTA: And we found that some oddly innocent images--in particular, "head shots" of pumpkins from last Halloween--were blocked. But overall, of blocking the images you'd want blocked.
This thing won't be deployed en masse with problems like that.. it quickly becomes uneconomical for admins to be whitelisting pictures of pumpkins.
This thing will be ruined with false positives. Swimsuit photos, maybe pictures of animals (similar color tones), etc.
This won't go anywhere for a long time, until image recognition technology catches up.
Why is it a surprise that a business should be run any differently just because they are focused on open source, or open source centric?
Of course you have to stick to a rigid business-like organizational structure.
Airbrushed to keep the site as "family-safe" as it could possibly be, given the nature. Some of the venues we advertise on would not allow it, otherwise.
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate." Noam Chomsky
Freedom of Speech isn't very useful when you no longer know what to say.
Yep.. =(
lol.. it's just that we're all lazy and figure losing a bank PIN is the least of our worries.
When we were assigning alarm codes at our new office, we realized that all 3 of us had the same ATM PIN, because we all tried to choose it for our alarm code but it errored because someone else had already claimed the code. It's a common 4-digit code among the tech community. =( All changed now.
Actually they owe adult webmasters [from my understanding] several million dollars in held funds (they process CCs, then pay out to webmasters after X days.. well, they just didn't pay out). So now they keep bouncing around until they're finished. Steer clear.
No one who operates a legitimate (profit-turning) business will do anything like you just suggested. Get real.