tell us the company, so the dutch readers can find the company if it ever does this again. We do have an anti spyware commnuity over at the netherlands.
RealTracker specialises in analysing visitors, but our innovative software goes further. We offer high-quality information, such as a detailed description of surfing behaviour, browser and computer settings, geographic information, origin and the key words used for search engines. 1.001.271 companies already use our marketing tools worldwide.
So they give away a "free" toolbar and then sell your web surfing information and put pop-ups, desktop links, and banners on your computer. The links installed on my desktop had plenty of porn links mixed in as well. This appears to be their entire business model.
RealTracker recoups expenses by placing mini-banners on users homepages. The revenue generated is split between the service provider and RealTracker. It is an innovative business model.
I once stumbled across a spyware installation program (about a year ago) that was launched by a site counter! Some poor person had put the counter into their web site because they wanted a free counter. Everyone who visited got spyware installed... everyone using IE with default security settings, that is.
Sad thing was the company was based in the Netherlands so it wasn't even worth pursuing legally... but if you are on the net, you aren't safe. MS products are more insecure, but you should always take steps to protect yourself, like keep the OS and applications up to date, etc etc
1) Only applies to motion pictures (ie: movies)
2) Prevents any commercial skippage... so when they show a movie on TV, you are legally required to not skip them?
From here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:5:./tem p/~c10864QF67:e20039:`(B) no changes, deletions or additions are made by such computer program or other technology to commercial advertisements, or to network or station promotional announcements, that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture.';
Why should I bother about China or India's pollution problems? They are local to China and India (he said, pragmatically and hard-heartedly).
Now if China started dumping its waste in my backyard then I would get interested. In the same way that I am interested in the U.S and Europe dumping their waste into the global atmospheric system.
What are you, dumb or trolling?
How do you figure that both the United States and Europe are in your backyard but China isn't?
Does Western air pollution magically drift across borders while Indian and Chinese pollutions doesn't?
With a decent amount of water in the system, you get several hours before significant heat buildup occurs... and of course when the system is idle, you aren't generating heat. So you if you are at home, using the system and the fan fails, you'll notice it. If it fails when you are away, hopefully you'll be back before it's a problem!;)
but that would need a small fan to help the airflow and i wanted too keep it as noiseless as possible
Not a problem... just wire your radiator fan to run at 7 volts and you'll hardly be able to hear it. 5 volts tends to not get enough air flow... 12 volts is too loud. I had one beside my desk for a year or two...
In other news, it was announced that speeding was primarily due to long roads. Starting next year, all roads will be shortened by 10% and this should achieve a 10% slowdown in highway speeds.
It was an infrequent write scenario... we built it for customers and they (from time to time) added their data, so backups were just copying off the database when it was offline.
However, if memory serves, (and it's been 2 years), I think that an Innnodb database format let's MySql do backups on the fly.
I worked at a bio-tech and we used MySql to store bio data because it blew MS-Sql Server and Oracle out of the water in terms of raw performance. (No, we never benched against Postgres)...
When I left the company, the database was ~80 gigs and had nearly a quarter billion entries.
You may need tinker with the memory settings after you reach a certain size, but MySql can handle it.
I'm not familiar with the technology, but could I put the collectors on my roof and juice up the car before I go to work in the morning? That would give you a lot more surface area for energy collection.
Might not get me 30 miles, but for a closer commute would this be feasible?
No this is not news. It's the desparate tactics of the people whose candidate is starting to slide, so their house of cards is starting to fall apart.
Assuming that staff at the Whitehouse did assist him "write" his speech (quite a stretch already), then it was an assist. He's the leader of the free country. I say he asked for help polishing the speach; we have people here who do that... they'll help you! Your side says he came her as a lap dog to do his master's bidding? Was given a statement read like a puppet before being cast out of the great White House?
One side is quite reasonable... the other side has team members who are missing the meds!
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Every contracting gig I've ever been involved with involved deception. Some were mild, some were outright liars.
Go full-time if you can get it... if not, maybe this will the be exception to the rule! ;)
So you assume that you can steal any game that doesn't have a EULA on the outside of the box?
Also has cool lava lamp sections! ;) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/26/155025 5
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Good point...
The toolbar being installed was the http://www.dotcomtoolbar.com/
The toolbars install was launched from a page counter. The toolbar is well known spyware... http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=62 8 and http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc /data/spyware.dotcomtoolbar.html
This is the company that made the "free" page counter http://www.realtracker.com/
Here's a quote from their website http://business.realtracker.com/index.asp?reseller =RTUS
RealTracker specialises in analysing visitors, but our innovative software goes further. We offer high-quality information, such as a detailed description of surfing behaviour, browser and computer settings, geographic information, origin and the key words used for search engines. 1.001.271 companies already use our marketing tools worldwide.
So they give away a "free" toolbar and then sell your web surfing information and put pop-ups, desktop links, and banners on your computer. The links installed on my desktop had plenty of porn links mixed in as well. This appears to be their entire business model.
Here's a snippet from an "article" by the founder http://www.theezine.net/articles/44/RealTracker-On -USA-Market.html
RealTracker recoups expenses by placing mini-banners on users homepages. The revenue generated is split between the service provider and RealTracker. It is an innovative business model.
They are based out of Amsterdam. Have at them! :)
Sad thing was the company was based in the Netherlands so it wasn't even worth pursuing legally... but if you are on the net, you aren't safe. MS products are more insecure, but you should always take steps to protect yourself, like keep the OS and applications up to date, etc etc
Why aren't they just plugging into the existing project? It's got PR, momentum, etc
I would think they could easily brand Mozilla without branching it...
1) Only applies to motion pictures (ie: movies) 2) Prevents any commercial skippage... so when they show a movie on TV, you are legally required to not skip them? From here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:5:./tem p/~c10864QF67:e20039:
`(B) no changes, deletions or additions are made by such computer program or other technology to commercial advertisements, or to network or station promotional announcements, that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture.';
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=t
Market Cap: 2.13B
Innocent until proven guilty, despite what our newspaper editors or television reporters would have you believe.
Sensational sells...
It must be sad to be so desperate that you have to resort to stealing signs, hate speech and telling everyone that your opponent is purely evil.
Here's one about Kerry and Heinz...
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/200 4/04/19/editorial2.html
What are you, dumb or trolling?
How do you figure that both the United States and Europe are in your backyard but China isn't?
Does Western air pollution magically drift across borders while Indian and Chinese pollutions doesn't?
With a decent amount of water in the system, you get several hours before significant heat buildup occurs... and of course when the system is idle, you aren't generating heat. So you if you are at home, using the system and the fan fails, you'll notice it. If it fails when you are away, hopefully you'll be back before it's a problem! ;)
Not a problem... just wire your radiator fan to run at 7 volts and you'll hardly be able to hear it. 5 volts tends to not get enough air flow... 12 volts is too loud. I had one beside my desk for a year or two...
http://www.7volts.com/
In other news, it was announced that speeding was primarily due to long roads. Starting next year, all roads will be shortened by 10% and this should achieve a 10% slowdown in highway speeds.
However, if memory serves, (and it's been 2 years), I think that an Innnodb database format let's MySql do backups on the fly.
When I left the company, the database was ~80 gigs and had nearly a quarter billion entries.
You may need tinker with the memory settings after you reach a certain size, but MySql can handle it.
Anyone else notice that all the contestants were on Windows boxes? I thought Google was a Linux oriented shop.... There's a picture on the blog
Might not get me 30 miles, but for a closer commute would this be feasible?
Because it is a technical product that many technically minded people would care about...
Assuming that staff at the Whitehouse did assist him "write" his speech (quite a stretch already), then it was an assist. He's the leader of the free country. I say he asked for help polishing the speach; we have people here who do that... they'll help you! Your side says he came her as a lap dog to do his master's bidding? Was given a statement read like a puppet before being cast out of the great White House?
One side is quite reasonable... the other side has team members who are missing the meds!
Kidding! ;)
But we love Google... Google always good...
Feeling like a James T. Kirk versus Robot logic issue.. head will blow up soon! Cannot resolve conflicting Slashdot logic!
KHaaaaaaaaaaannnn (just for effect)
Leaving the caching service available would simply get Google banned too. No point.