I can't comment on the site in question, but in general AdSense and web forums are not always
a good match. Forums often get a fairly small number of highly active viewers, which
give rise to one of two phenomena: a) they don't click on the ads much (low clickthru rate),
and when they do it sticks out statistically like a sore thumb, leading to possible
(mis)interpretation regarding click fraud; or b) the more enthusiastic users take it upon
themselves to click regularly on ads to support their forum, which will also raise a few
red flags.
Forums can sometimes do well with AdSense if they have a high ratio of "read only" users and
take steps such as not showing ads to logged in users.
"A second new crime would threaten with imprisonment Web site operators who mislead visitors about sex with deceptive 'words or digital images' in their source code--for instance, a site that might pop up in searches for Barbie dolls or Teletubbies but actually features sexually explicit photographs"
One of my sites features prominent images of "Tinky Winky getting it on with the Noo-Noo", "Tubby Custard Full Facials", "Over the Hills and Far Away, Hot Barely Legal Teletubbies Come to Play - With Each Other and Also With a Mysterious Large Cylindrical Object" etc. etc.
I hope that will not lead to legal misunderstandings which would put me in line for a stint of federally sponsored rectal enlargement.
Says here
that the marketing VP quoted in TFA, Paola Lubet, used to work for Oracle.
Now I wouldn't want to read anything into that, I'm guessing there's a lot of rotation
between database companies, and it's a private company held by
a bevvy of investors, so Larry Ellision presumably won't be able to drop it in his shopping
basket when he pops out for some milk. On the other hand the investors sound like venture
capitalists (I may be wrong, corporate finance is not my field) who might be interested in any
short-term returns on their investment that a large, cash-rich company could offer.
Whacked out after just a few comments. No doubt a cardiac arrest team is applying electro-shocks to its chest this very minute, and it is regretting taking the lift every day instead of the stairs to the server room.
Seriously though, it's been a long cold winter where I am and I was starting to notice that the lack of outdoor activity, combined with too much computer time, is starting to eat in to whatever health karma I established when I was younger. Now the snow and ice has gone I've started cycling to work, and I feel so much better for it.
... Even though JBoss brings in only $50 million a year in revenue...
Sounds like a respectable sum to me. Where are the figures that show this
is costing IBM and BEA "some hundreds of millions" in market value?
The TFA doesn't say.
Err, shouldn't the Iraqi government have all these documents? You know, the democratically elected sovereign body which the US and its allies went to all that trouble of having installed, and who I gather has access to a large number of Arabic speakers.
"However, You may accurately disclose the amount of Google's gross payments to You pursuant to the Program." (from the Terms and Conditions, point 9 "Confidentiality").
... and cameras too, similar to the suggestion in this recent story. Hey presto, you have a closed propaganda loop with instant feedback running 24 hours a day, and a good chance of catching some evil terrorists plotting to fly a plane into $insert_name_of_tall_building_here.
In Germany, broadband (DSL) usually comes with a flatrate plan (10 a month is typical),
whereas dialup is generally metered, which makes DSL much more attractive for most people.
If dialup is available with some kind of flatrate plan in the US, that might explain why
many stick with it, if they don't need the speed.
Let's just say it felt like we were floating on cloud nine afterwards (although when I woke up I had a good look and the clouds did not seem to bear any visible numeric markings or other forms of a systematic classification system).
Every time you connect to the Internet, send email or access a web site, you are broadcasting this unique address. With this address, someone can immediately begin attacking your computer. Aware of this, reputable software manufacturers such as Microsoft have taken steps to mitigate this issue by making it more difficult to access the internet. However there are still many sites which use deceptive techniques such as "rewards" of "interesting information" to persuade innocent surfers to reveal their IP address and thus open themselves up to "hacking" attacks.
As a responsible Slashdotter I'd therefore like to proposed a new community-based "vigilante scheme" to tackle such sites. If everyone who is confident their IP address is invulnerable to hacks accesses this kind of site all at once, we can put them out of action and thus protect innocent web surfers with weaker or lower-quality IP addresses. We could call this action "Slashdotting".
In many ways it's a pity this is not a Uranus Probe - the headlines would have been fantastic. However
we've been there with Voyager 2, so that'll
probably have to wait until somone finds a way of mining the helium 3 [PDF] in Uranus's
atmosphere.
Seriously though: this mission is great stuff, this pixelized ball
is the best picture we've got of Pluto, and it would have been a shame if we couldn't spare a few million
dollars to improve it, and get some data on the Kuiper Belt
at the same time.
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I'm sitting in front of a nascent project right now which is suffering exactly this problem. The main developer is hot onf AJAX-enabled forms and the management are lapping them up like they're the best thing since sliced bread. Only thing is, the time he's spending fiddling with the forms isn't being spent taking care of boring, Web 1.0 things like the DB backend, which will ultimately make or break the application.
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I can't comment on the site in question, but in general AdSense and web forums are not always a good match. Forums often get a fairly small number of highly active viewers, which give rise to one of two phenomena: a) they don't click on the ads much (low clickthru rate), and when they do it sticks out statistically like a sore thumb, leading to possible (mis)interpretation regarding click fraud; or b) the more enthusiastic users take it upon themselves to click regularly on ads to support their forum, which will also raise a few red flags.
Forums can sometimes do well with AdSense if they have a high ratio of "read only" users and take steps such as not showing ads to logged in users.
Am I the only one who read the story title as Dilbert New Comic-in-Chief ?
One of my sites features prominent images of "Tinky Winky getting it on with the Noo-Noo", "Tubby Custard Full Facials", "Over the Hills and Far Away, Hot Barely Legal Teletubbies Come to Play - With Each Other and Also With a Mysterious Large Cylindrical Object" etc. etc.
I hope that will not lead to legal misunderstandings which would put me in line for a stint of federally sponsored rectal enlargement.
Adding new stuff all the time? Have a look at the website, it's very informative: What's New in 8.1.
Personally I always use the syntax ENGINE=BLACKHOLE .
Says here that the marketing VP quoted in TFA, Paola Lubet, used to work for Oracle.
Now I wouldn't want to read anything into that, I'm guessing there's a lot of rotation between database companies, and it's a private company held by a bevvy of investors, so Larry Ellision presumably won't be able to drop it in his shopping basket when he pops out for some milk. On the other hand the investors sound like venture capitalists (I may be wrong, corporate finance is not my field) who might be interested in any short-term returns on their investment that a large, cash-rich company could offer.
If you need to ssh out into the command-line-enabled world of real OSes, Putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty /) will be your best friend.
I have reverse-engineered the virus and discovered an insiduous distribution mechanism:
"... but we know how to put them in their place when it comes to Golden Penguin Bowls".
Me, I've switched to Postgres.
Whacked out after just a few comments. No doubt a cardiac arrest team is applying electro-shocks to its chest this very minute, and it is regretting taking the lift every day instead of the stairs to the server room.
Seriously though, it's been a long cold winter where I am and I was starting to notice that the lack of outdoor activity, combined with too much computer time, is starting to eat in to whatever health karma I established when I was younger. Now the snow and ice has gone I've started cycling to work, and I feel so much better for it.
Sounds like a respectable sum to me. Where are the figures that show this is costing IBM and BEA "some hundreds of millions" in market value? The TFA doesn't say.
Err, shouldn't the Iraqi government have all these documents? You know, the democratically elected sovereign body which the US and its allies went to all that trouble of having installed, and who I gather has access to a large number of Arabic speakers.
"However, You may accurately disclose the amount of Google's gross payments to You pursuant to the Program." (from the Terms and Conditions, point 9 "Confidentiality").
Slightly off-topic (but only slightly, it's European): has anyone noticed the emergence of the .cat tld? As in barcelona.cat?
(I'd call dibs on cool.cat but I can't find any registrar offering it).
I've done a brief survey of the jobs on offer and for your convenience here is a summary of the main qualifications being looked for this time round:
and most importantly:
10 Euros a month it should say, but the US-centric Slashcode swallowed my € (Euro) character.
In Germany, broadband (DSL) usually comes with a flatrate plan (10 a month is typical), whereas dialup is generally metered, which makes DSL much more attractive for most people.
If dialup is available with some kind of flatrate plan in the US, that might explain why many stick with it, if they don't need the speed.
Let's just say it felt like we were floating on cloud nine afterwards (although when I woke up I had a good look and the clouds did not seem to bear any visible numeric markings or other forms of a systematic classification system).
For those who have not experienced this particular pleasure: the obligatory Wikipedia reference.
Hop along to http://search.yahoo.com/ and tell me whether those results are also hand picked. And if you have access to web server logs, have a look for the user agent "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)".
Every time you connect to the Internet, send email or access a web site, you are broadcasting this unique address. With this address, someone can immediately begin attacking your computer. Aware of this, reputable software manufacturers such as Microsoft have taken steps to mitigate this issue by making it more difficult to access the internet. However there are still many sites which use deceptive techniques such as "rewards" of "interesting information" to persuade innocent surfers to reveal their IP address and thus open themselves up to "hacking" attacks.
As a responsible Slashdotter I'd therefore like to proposed a new community-based "vigilante scheme" to tackle such sites. If everyone who is confident their IP address is invulnerable to hacks accesses this kind of site all at once, we can put them out of action and thus protect innocent web surfers with weaker or lower-quality IP addresses. We could call this action "Slashdotting".
Whoops, I had it in my little head that Pluto was the 10th planet, and just counted two planets back. Uranus is of course the 7th planet.
In many ways it's a pity this is not a Uranus Probe - the headlines would have been fantastic. However we've been there with Voyager 2, so that'll probably have to wait until somone finds a way of mining the helium 3 [PDF] in Uranus's atmosphere.
Seriously though: this mission is great stuff, this pixelized ball is the best picture we've got of Pluto, and it would have been a shame if we couldn't spare a few million dollars to improve it, and get some data on the Kuiper Belt at the same time.
I'm sitting in front of a nascent project right now which is suffering exactly this problem. The main developer is hot onf AJAX-enabled forms and the management are lapping them up like they're the best thing since sliced bread. Only thing is, the time he's spending fiddling with the forms isn't being spent taking care of boring, Web 1.0 things like the DB backend, which will ultimately make or break the application.