"When a TrueView ad unit begins playing, you'll notice a five second countdown timer — as soon as that's up, you'll see an arrow that will let you skip the remainder of the ad and get back to the content you wanted to see, or you can choose to keep on watching the ad."
So at 5 seconds everyone participates in a no-opt-out survey on whether or not the ad interests them. No wonder advertisers like it! They get to sell their products to everyone for 5 seconds at a cut rate, to known-interested parties for X seconds at a normal rate, PLUS info on which ads get the most dropouts, least dropouts, and presumably WHEN they drop out.
So he committed a crime and tweeted about it. Stupid, but helpful for law enforcement. Durrrr....
The Internet has made stupid drunken or braggy confessions to one's pals even easier for cops to overhear. No longer does a cop or an informant have to be in physical proximity to the moron! Oddly exactly what it was made for: Easier communication!
Didn't read TFA, but maybe it's not a list. An HTTP header announcing the preference for not being tracked would do the trick, as long as the other party were obliged to actually listen to your setting.
When I got my iPhone, I asked to read the contract.
The store workers had never had anyone ask, so they didn't know where it was.
Took them a long time to find a copy.
A scene I've seen played out a few times for a few different companies. No one expects me to ask to see the contract I'm agreeing to. And no one lets me keep the thing either.
(There was a big uproar a couple decades ago about fencing/gating off all the tracks, which is hardly practical, nor would it stop the determined "user". This was adequately proven when the next suicide by car-vs-train took place at a fenced and gated "safety intersection".
Heh. That junk only keeps absolute blundering idiots off. Anyone with an ounce of brain would avoid it even without fences and anyone with a death wish will get around anything up to and including armed patrols.
And yeah, it's pretty damned hard on the engineer, who has absolutely no way to stop a zillion tons of train (120-240 tons for the locomotive alone; 40-60 tons apiece for loaded freight cars; even if it's moving very slowly, it takes TIME to halt it) in anywhere near the few seconds it takes someone to place themselves in harm's way.
I gather the worst ones are when there's a long straightaway and you can SEE the person who's in harm's way from far enough that it takes time to get there but not far enough that stopping is viable. Nothing to do but lean on the brake and horn while you realize the futility of both acts. And the hell of it? The engineer has to be the one to call it in, and in some situations, he's also the first responder once he gets the train stopped. Imagine coming up on that scene after having had a front-row seat for it happening.:(
Consider that the total mass of all the cars and trucks was what, maybe 1-2% of that of the train?? and cease to wonder why the train barely NOTICED.
I don't think most people have any idea how much sheer metal is in even light rail.
Me and my truck, we respect those 'do not stop on tracks' signs, thank you very much.
Yeah, a couple of teenagers up here in Edmonton died recently because they were screwing about on the tracks. But there's conflicting reports on if it was an accident or a murder-suicide, so might've been deliberate.
I recall seeing a TV show as a kid about some company that had a lot of trains and engineers. One of the show's segments was about the support group they had for engineers who'd been driving a train during a fatal accident. The most experienced engineer who WASN'T eligible for the group had only about a year under his belt. It seemed a frighteningly common thing.
Apparently you can no longer carry the boarding pass. I was sent back to the conveyor belt to put the boarding pass through the x-ray in San Diego. Yes a boarding pass is the new threat.
Hey, man, you get a crazy threatening to give YOU paper cuts and see how fast you give up your paper!
No jury in this country would convict a parent of this kid from clocking the Gestapo agent... um, TSA "agent"... for such a pervy thing.
Suspected terrorist parent vs. suspected pedophile TSA screener? Actually, that could go either way, depending on whether an IED detonation or an Amber Alert was the front runner on the local news the night before the decision.
I hesitate to reveal that the whole Slashdot site is a fake, designed to get insightful comments from you. Everyone else is an AI, including me.
What makes you feel like you must hesitate to reveal that the whole Slashdot site is a fake, designed to get insightful comments from me. Everyone else is an AI, including you?
Wow. This explains why people keep typing racist and sexist posts just to see what response they get.
I imagine people go into a serpentarium and the lights are low. Everyone sits down, reclines their seat back and stares upward. Then the lights come up to reveal thousands of serpents suspended from the ceiling, writhing around. People ooh and aah.
And the guy sitting under the spitting cobra just screams a lot.
It'd be interesting to see a manufactured virtual scandal for publicity. Like claim that rogue disgruntled employees broke in and made a sex tape starring the virtual celebrity.
No. The sun does not have sufficient mass to overcome degeneracy pressure and collapse into a black hole.
And even if it did, the resulting black hole would be the same mass as the sun, so the Earth would maintain orbit. People tend to think black holes are cosmic vacuum cleaners and just grab anything and everything; they're not.
I have to wonder if they are also banning microwave ovens. The ISM frequency range used by WiFi is unlicensed because it is the same frequency used by microwave ovens, and so is full of junk and interference.
Actually, one of the mantras of the anti-WiFi people is that it IS the same frequency, and using a wireless device is just like sticking your head in a microwave. (No, really.)
That Slashdot "social" icon of the two hands shaking has gotta go. Maybe it applied to LinkedIn but not Facebook, etc. How about an image of somebody taking a photo of them self.
Slashdot Mirror
So at 5 seconds everyone participates in a no-opt-out survey on whether or not the ad interests them. No wonder advertisers like it! They get to sell their products to everyone for 5 seconds at a cut rate, to known-interested parties for X seconds at a normal rate, PLUS info on which ads get the most dropouts, least dropouts, and presumably WHEN they drop out.
So he committed a crime and tweeted about it. Stupid, but helpful for law enforcement. Durrrr....
The Internet has made stupid drunken or braggy confessions to one's pals even easier for cops to overhear. No longer does a cop or an informant have to be in physical proximity to the moron! Oddly exactly what it was made for: Easier communication!
Didn't read TFA, but maybe it's not a list. An HTTP header announcing the preference for not being tracked would do the trick, as long as the other party were obliged to actually listen to your setting.
Setting the evil bit, huh?
When I got my iPhone, I asked to read the contract. The store workers had never had anyone ask, so they didn't know where it was. Took them a long time to find a copy.
A scene I've seen played out a few times for a few different companies. No one expects me to ask to see the contract I'm agreeing to. And no one lets me keep the thing either.
(There was a big uproar a couple decades ago about fencing/gating off all the tracks, which is hardly practical, nor would it stop the determined "user". This was adequately proven when the next suicide by car-vs-train took place at a fenced and gated "safety intersection".
Heh. That junk only keeps absolute blundering idiots off. Anyone with an ounce of brain would avoid it even without fences and anyone with a death wish will get around anything up to and including armed patrols.
And yeah, it's pretty damned hard on the engineer, who has absolutely no way to stop a zillion tons of train (120-240 tons for the locomotive alone; 40-60 tons apiece for loaded freight cars; even if it's moving very slowly, it takes TIME to halt it) in anywhere near the few seconds it takes someone to place themselves in harm's way.
I gather the worst ones are when there's a long straightaway and you can SEE the person who's in harm's way from far enough that it takes time to get there but not far enough that stopping is viable. Nothing to do but lean on the brake and horn while you realize the futility of both acts. And the hell of it? The engineer has to be the one to call it in, and in some situations, he's also the first responder once he gets the train stopped. Imagine coming up on that scene after having had a front-row seat for it happening.:(
pissing off one's oppressors is a good thing in itself.
So if you're getting beat up by a cop with a nightstick, the best thing to do is scream at him "YOU CALL THAT A SWING? WHAT KIND OF PANSY ARE YOU?" ??
Consider that the total mass of all the cars and trucks was what, maybe 1-2% of that of the train?? and cease to wonder why the train barely NOTICED.
I don't think most people have any idea how much sheer metal is in even light rail.
Me and my truck, we respect those 'do not stop on tracks' signs, thank you very much.
Yeah, a couple of teenagers up here in Edmonton died recently because they were screwing about on the tracks. But there's conflicting reports on if it was an accident or a murder-suicide, so might've been deliberate.
I recall seeing a TV show as a kid about some company that had a lot of trains and engineers. One of the show's segments was about the support group they had for engineers who'd been driving a train during a fatal accident. The most experienced engineer who WASN'T eligible for the group had only about a year under his belt. It seemed a frighteningly common thing.
I initially read your post as "dismantle a cat"
until I read the "being young enough to actually sleep in it" did I realize I was in error.
Maybe it was a large cat and an ill-advised attempt to recreate the Tauntaun scene.
I told them I had a rocket in my pocket, and they had me arrested.
Shoulda told them it was your magic pocket. That only merits public humiliation.
(Seriously, though, who tagged this article "magic pocket"?)
A bigger Rubik's Cube? Rubik's Hypercube?
1 U.S. dollar = 1.01820033 Canadian dollars
> Although since it's Canada, it's really only monopoly money.
Thank you for your insightful and succinct critique of the state of the American economy.
Taking all the cars off the road will save lives as well. Is he all for that, too?
Apparently you can no longer carry the boarding pass. I was sent back to the conveyor belt to put the boarding pass through the x-ray in San Diego. Yes a boarding pass is the new threat.
Hey, man, you get a crazy threatening to give YOU paper cuts and see how fast you give up your paper!
No jury in this country would convict a parent of this kid from clocking the Gestapo agent ... um, TSA "agent" ... for such a pervy thing.
Suspected terrorist parent vs. suspected pedophile TSA screener? Actually, that could go either way, depending on whether an IED detonation or an Amber Alert was the front runner on the local news the night before the decision.
What makes you feel like you must hesitate to reveal that the whole Slashdot site is a fake, designed to get insightful comments from me. Everyone else is an AI, including you?
Wow. This explains why people keep typing racist and sexist posts just to see what response they get.
I imagine people go into a serpentarium and the lights are low. Everyone sits down, reclines their seat back and stares upward. Then the lights come up to reveal thousands of serpents suspended from the ceiling, writhing around. People ooh and aah.
And the guy sitting under the spitting cobra just screams a lot.
Doesn't have the same dramatic kick as it did in the late 1700s.
So why isn't Zynga being punished?
How do you punish the biggest game company on the planet? That's like trying to punish Microsoft because your webpage doesn't render well in IE.
What???? You can't read with your butt? Of course I expect to be taken a face value.
"a face value"? HA! Typo! You mean "butt value".
Oh, beehave.
Thet's whare bies go efter vesiting tha fluwers?
It'd be interesting to see a manufactured virtual scandal for publicity. Like claim that rogue disgruntled employees broke in and made a sex tape starring the virtual celebrity.
Rule34 is WAAAAAAY ahead of you on this one.
Typo in summary,
ATI makes Radeon. Not AMD.
Posting anonymous for obvious reasons.
Because otherwise everyone would laugh at you for not realizing AMD's ATI brand is on the way out? Don't worry, we'll do that anyway.
No. The sun does not have sufficient mass to overcome degeneracy pressure and collapse into a black hole.
And even if it did, the resulting black hole would be the same mass as the sun, so the Earth would maintain orbit. People tend to think black holes are cosmic vacuum cleaners and just grab anything and everything; they're not.
I have to wonder if they are also banning microwave ovens. The ISM frequency range used by WiFi is unlicensed because it is the same frequency used by microwave ovens, and so is full of junk and interference.
Actually, one of the mantras of the anti-WiFi people is that it IS the same frequency, and using a wireless device is just like sticking your head in a microwave. (No, really.)
That Slashdot "social" icon of the two hands shaking has gotta go. Maybe it applied to LinkedIn but not Facebook, etc. How about an image of somebody taking a photo of them self.
With duckface.