If you had any respect for your friends over there, you wouldn't be making the comments you have. I deal with active and retired military people all day long. I've learned that when it comes to OPSEC and PERSEC, you ALWAYS err on the side of caution because their lives are on the line. Since you're interested, here's the email I received. He seems to like me and my site more than you. As for me not posting my site URL, that's slashdot 101.
Recently one of my soldiers put a *deleted* video on your website. Specialist *deleted* is his name. He neglected to comply with Operational Security standards set fourth by his chain of command and the Geneva Convention laws of war. He is in severe trouble, and our *deleted* soldiers are in grave danger if your website does not remove that video. I know this website is very responsible and a patriotic link to the war, but I must beg you to remove the *deleted* video or lives are risked when the wrong people learn how we do things. Please help me with this.
I'll leave you be, to live in a world where uninformed people are the ones who decide what happens to you, where the people in charge of the Internet think it's a "series of tubes", and where people think that all military related intelligence is "obvious" and therefore "information wants to be free man!" Hell, let's have no secrets at all and just invite the insurgents to the daily briefings with Geraldo working the powerpoint slides.
I know that people who do this for a living know a helluva lot more about such things concerning what they deal with on a daily basis than armchair quarterbacks such as you.
I run a military videos website as well, and was asked to remove a video that was submitted by an army reservist as it showed his team doing IED clearing operations and occasional destruction of vehicles when one wasn't found ahead of time. That type of information is very sensitive to these guys. The guys on ogrish.com say that they're just showing the truth, but it's a fine line between showing the truth, and being enablers of the terrorist machine.
There's a big difference between something that requires user intervention to get going, and something which blocks all ads when you install the main browser.
Indeed I missed the hypothetical setup, but you're talking about a situation that would never happen. Any browser that shipped with an ad blocker (other than pop-ups or malware stopping) would immediately get pummeled into the ground. One could argue that anyone who installs ad blocking software on their machine isn't in the 2-3% demographic that clicks ads anyway. I dunno.. Google is an advertising and search company. If you told some of the top advertising companies in New York City that you worry about their future because they're a one trick pony, you'd probably be escorted out.
Yeesh, run like it's the plague. I had run amazon/eb games/linkshare and various other incentive or pay per lead/purchase advertising models for several years and you know how much money I made from it? Almost nothing. The reasons mentioned above concerning you not getting properly compensated for delayed purchases puts this one in the dumpster for me. As a site hoster, I make worlds more money off pay per click.
The scary part about Yahoo's video site upon further inspection, is that they're actually hotlinking a lot of those videos to the originating site, instead of being hosted locally by Yahoo. So they're "stealing" that site's bandwidth while not giving them any ad revenue by sending you to their site instead. This issue of hotlinking images is definitely in the grey area of legality, but now imagine it on the scale of Yahoo popularity, and with videos so the amount of bandwidth used skyrockets. It's definitely morally wrong.
Well that's the real problem right there. How do you call your ISP for network outage support when your phone lines (skype controlled) are down also. Suddenly people start reaching for cell phones.
Pretty much. What they do is hit you with a 20 grand bill for a 50 dollar a month account in the case of an overage, and then when you mention lawyer, they'll settle for 5 grand which is probably what it would cost to fight them in court. It's a well oiled scam.
AIT is already pretty sleazy. Although not directly related to this adwords issue, on their 50 dollar a month dedicated server hosting, they give you 1000 gigs of transfer per month. In the fine print is a 40 cent per megabyte of overage cost. This is 10 times what all of the other discount hosting providers charge like servermatrix or serverbeach. Going over by a few hundred gigs which they original only charged 50 bucks for, nets tens of thousands of dollars in overages according to their scale.
I haven't experienced this, all my drives go into sleep mode without a problem. I wonder if this happens because of some other additional factor in the case you're mentioning.
Been using Skype for a while now and it still beats everyone else for 2 simple reasons: All advanced features work through a firewall with zero configuration, and it's fully encrypted. Yahoo, MSN, etc, talk to us again when you can boast these 2 features.
I'm surprised to see an Alienware machine at #6 seeing as their post-sales support has been atrocious for as long as they've been around. I know a good number of people who've bought machines from them; none of them would ever do it again. I guess this goes along with Cnet giving the Maxtor 250 external firewire drives their highest rating, while they have a 90% failure rate within the first 6-8 months.
Well, even after attempting the false credit card info, I wasn't able to get in; although not for the reason I thought it would be:
Registration Error
An error occurred while processing your registration.
The following is the DEBUG error (you'll want to remove debug for production releases):
EXCEPTION FROM System.Drawing: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Timestamp (UTC): 12/01/2005 13:12:56 AppDomain:/LM/W3SVC/251460291/Root-2-127779294409519363 Calling Assembly: c:\winnt\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\tempora ry asp.net files\root\6affd2d6\ef5c2d2b\assembly\dl2\cc224206 \6b4c05ce_b9f5c501\transmedia.dll TransMedia, Version=1.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a841b3caad74b8d8 Operating System: Win32NT 5.2.3790.0
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Jeez, so much negativity around these parts. The truth of the matter, is that this is a SIP (read "non-proprietary") format service that just licenses that the rather well working eyeBeam product that is indeed cross platform. Normally you'd have to pay for the client, but this way you're getting it for free if you're doing PC to PC calls.
The big problem with all of these video sites, which you don't seem to see with the photo ones, is that all they ever do is steal videos from each other and slap their own website url on the video. ebaumsworld, big-boys, collegehumor, etc etc.. I can't remember the others, but there's TONS. Now there's google video and these other guys. I've seen a mass amount of copyrighted video being hosted by all of them also. ebaumsworld and somethingawful had a forum invasion war just this last month because ebaums took tons of the photoshop phriday contest content and put it up on their own site after slapping their name on it. How many more of these sites do we need? Bandwidth is cheap.. I get it already.
There's nothing wrong with selling a product below the cost of producing it, Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's Playstation 2 are or have been selling below production cost since their first release. I guess the question is, would that change if they said it was free. Technically people won't be getting it for free though, as they'll be subjected to ads or whatnot.
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If you had any respect for your friends over there, you wouldn't be making the comments you have. I deal with active and retired military people all day long. I've learned that when it comes to OPSEC and PERSEC, you ALWAYS err on the side of caution because their lives are on the line. Since you're interested, here's the email I received. He seems to like me and my site more than you. As for me not posting my site URL, that's slashdot 101.
Recently one of my soldiers put a *deleted* video on your website. Specialist *deleted* is his name. He neglected to comply with
Operational Security standards set fourth by his chain of command and the Geneva Convention laws of war. He is in severe trouble,
and our *deleted* soldiers are in grave danger if your website does not remove that video. I know this website is very
responsible and a patriotic link to the war, but I must beg you to remove the *deleted* video or lives are risked when the
wrong people learn how we do things. Please help me with this.
Thank you
SSG *deleted*
I'll leave you be, to live in a world where uninformed people are the ones who decide what happens to you, where the people in charge of the Internet think it's a "series of tubes", and where people think that all military related intelligence is "obvious" and therefore "information wants to be free man!" Hell, let's have no secrets at all and just invite the insurgents to the daily briefings with Geraldo working the powerpoint slides.
I know that people who do this for a living know a helluva lot more about such things concerning what they deal with on a daily basis than armchair quarterbacks such as you.
Yeah, this one: http://militaryvideos.net/videos.php?videonum=7
I run a military videos website as well, and was asked to remove a video that was submitted by an army reservist as it showed his team doing IED clearing operations and occasional destruction of vehicles when one wasn't found ahead of time. That type of information is very sensitive to these guys. The guys on ogrish.com say that they're just showing the truth, but it's a fine line between showing the truth, and being enablers of the terrorist machine.
There's a big difference between something that requires user intervention to get going, and something which blocks all ads when you install the main browser.
Indeed I missed the hypothetical setup, but you're talking about a situation that would never happen. Any browser that shipped with an ad blocker (other than pop-ups or malware stopping) would immediately get pummeled into the ground. One could argue that anyone who installs ad blocking software on their machine isn't in the 2-3% demographic that clicks ads anyway. I dunno.. Google is an advertising and search company. If you told some of the top advertising companies in New York City that you worry about their future because they're a one trick pony, you'd probably be escorted out.
Microsoft bundles an adblocker with IE
Err... they do? I haven't seen this feature; where's it located?
Yeesh, run like it's the plague. I had run amazon/eb games/linkshare and various other incentive or pay per lead/purchase advertising models for several years and you know how much money I made from it? Almost nothing. The reasons mentioned above concerning you not getting properly compensated for delayed purchases puts this one in the dumpster for me. As a site hoster, I make worlds more money off pay per click.
They bring up the video file directly. The link was: http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=AthqI1IYF9Kv2bVQAYKgNwQB P88F/SIG=127g325vf/**http%3A//www.xhaven.net/prism aticlabs/Downloads/FamilyGuy-50Cent.wmv
If you notice, that's linking directly to the wmv file, not an html or other site page. Xhaven.net in this case gets nothing for this except a big bandwidth bill.
The scary part about Yahoo's video site upon further inspection, is that they're actually hotlinking a lot of those videos to the originating site, instead of being hosted locally by Yahoo. So they're "stealing" that site's bandwidth while not giving them any ad revenue by sending you to their site instead. This issue of hotlinking images is definitely in the grey area of legality, but now imagine it on the scale of Yahoo popularity, and with videos so the amount of bandwidth used skyrockets. It's definitely morally wrong.
:) It would seem to have an extra bit of meaningfulness after tonight's conference.
It didn't take long for this pic to surface: http://hood.filefu.com/sonysteals5dq.jpg
Well that's the real problem right there. How do you call your ISP for network outage support when your phone lines (skype controlled) are down also. Suddenly people start reaching for cell phones.
Yeah, this is where MS ISA server comes in. It's working rather well for us. http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/default.mspx
Pretty much. What they do is hit you with a 20 grand bill for a 50 dollar a month account in the case of an overage, and then when you mention lawyer, they'll settle for 5 grand which is probably what it would cost to fight them in court. It's a well oiled scam.
AIT is already pretty sleazy. Although not directly related to this adwords issue, on their 50 dollar a month dedicated server hosting, they give you 1000 gigs of transfer per month. In the fine print is a 40 cent per megabyte of overage cost. This is 10 times what all of the other discount hosting providers charge like servermatrix or serverbeach. Going over by a few hundred gigs which they original only charged 50 bucks for, nets tens of thousands of dollars in overages according to their scale.
I haven't experienced this, all my drives go into sleep mode without a problem. I wonder if this happens because of some other additional factor in the case you're mentioning.
Been using Skype for a while now and it still beats everyone else for 2 simple reasons: All advanced features work through a firewall with zero configuration, and it's fully encrypted. Yahoo, MSN, etc, talk to us again when you can boast these 2 features.
I'm surprised to see an Alienware machine at #6 seeing as their post-sales support has been atrocious for as long as they've been around. I know a good number of people who've bought machines from them; none of them would ever do it again. I guess this goes along with Cnet giving the Maxtor 250 external firewire drives their highest rating, while they have a 90% failure rate within the first 6-8 months.
Mod the parent up. I'm definitely on board for this.
Jeez, so much negativity around these parts. The truth of the matter, is that this is a SIP (read "non-proprietary") format service that just licenses that the rather well working eyeBeam product that is indeed cross platform. Normally you'd have to pay for the client, but this way you're getting it for free if you're doing PC to PC calls.
The big problem with all of these video sites, which you don't seem to see with the photo ones, is that all they ever do is steal videos from each other and slap their own website url on the video. ebaumsworld, big-boys, collegehumor, etc etc.. I can't remember the others, but there's TONS. Now there's google video and these other guys. I've seen a mass amount of copyrighted video being hosted by all of them also. ebaumsworld and somethingawful had a forum invasion war just this last month because ebaums took tons of the photoshop phriday contest content and put it up on their own site after slapping their name on it. How many more of these sites do we need? Bandwidth is cheap.. I get it already.
There's nothing wrong with selling a product below the cost of producing it, Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's Playstation 2 are or have been selling below production cost since their first release. I guess the question is, would that change if they said it was free. Technically people won't be getting it for free though, as they'll be subjected to ads or whatnot.