Fairly sure this can be done other ways... Allakhazam (which has game info for many popular MMO's) auto-loads advertisements every few minutes, regardless of the users browser state.
My wife frequently walks away for 20+ minutes, only to have her computer randomly start playing an advertisement.. I suppose it isn't a "pop up", but clearly "auto refreshing for advertisement fraud" is possible and in use... And Allakhazam's method works on Firefox and Chrome from our experiences
To clarify, Browser state being "on and at their website", but otherwise irrespective (minimized, not in focus, not interacted with for many minutes, etc.)
Fairly sure this can be done other ways... Allakhazam (which has game info for many popular MMO's) auto-loads advertisements every few minutes, regardless of the users browser state.
My wife frequently walks away for 20+ minutes, only to have her computer randomly start playing an advertisement.. I suppose it isn't a "pop up", but clearly "auto refreshing for advertisement fraud" is possible and in use... And Allakhazam's method works on Firefox and Chrome from our experiences
Really disappointment seeing Android going places, but my phone still stuck with essentially the factory OS version installed..
Going to wait for the next great Nexus phone.... My (relatively) ancient nexus tablet and phone both got marshmellow... Samsung Note 4? Nope. No OS updates beyond security patches.
The issue is... Classification is commonly retro-active.
Let me pre-face by saying, I don't like Hilary. However, I do understand some of the craziness that IT folks deal with in classified documents.
I worked for a government contractor, and in several cases the government's "contract admin" for a project would change. The new Contract Admin might decide that, UNLIKE the last 5 years... you can no longer have a document with both "Contract number: C1234-56H-789" AND "Project Nighthawk" AND "NSA" on the same document, unless that document is now marked as non-public classified material. (And this is entirely subjective, up to the contract admin... a different admin might deem simply having 2 of the 3 is enough.. or perhaps you need another piece of information... like an address.. to make it classified information)
This means that 5 years of e-mails, databases, website entries, lead-generation software, EVERYTHING... may need to be updated to ensure these entities no longer exist in relation to each-other.
So, when they say her e-mail has classified information... I say: No doubt! Now, if they say she sent information that was MARKED as classified at the time she sent it... Yes, that's bad! She should be penalized for that.
It's good for nonfinancial/pii websites that can't afford SSL certs, but may have contact forms, website logins, etc. Where users may type in their (hopefully different from their banks) user name and passwords... Or email address, or plaintext commentary in a forum that they may not necessarily care if it's encrypted or not.
Is not intended for sites you really need or want security. I really see this as a benefit to helping protect people who use the same password for everything -- helping, in this case, just delaying the inevitable.
I wouldn't mind this kind of thing for my own website, where only a handful of people will ever have accounts, and the only thing I need to protect is their login info. I set their passwords currently, but if I left them choose, I wouldn't mind extra security on their form data when they log in
The personal gain is the recording of them breaking the law being deleted, ensuring they keep their job. In many cases the recordings being deleted show violent acts against their policies.
The alternative is to allow the recording, with a very minor possibility of losing their job...
So they gain something for their acts, this is the equivalent of keeping the amin password to yourself... It's ethically wrong, probably illegal, and a poor war to ensure job security, unless you are a police officer... In which case you can probably get away with murder.......
Yes, but at the same time, paying for an internet line to be run to your house can actually cost more than your house in rural areas... Note: The price of the work, and for the final service, is often determined by the monopoly carrier for your area.
My grandfather was quoted $4000 to run a coax cable 500 feet to the street (which was up and running) to his home. His only other option was 36k dial up (too far north, and too many trees, for satellite). He's retired now (has been for decades), and while he lives comfortably in his home on his retirement, he can't afford an extra "luxury" expense like this.
Recently, my co-worker was quoted $60,000 to get internet brought to his rural community... per home... and required 2 dozen people within a 3-mile radius to sign a 3-year contract and agree to also pay that 'set up fee'. Their other option? Satellite (which has a 25GB download limit). The area is sanctioned monopoly.
Now, if you are ALSO living in a rural area where the average ~5 yr experience IT/programming/database job is $45-55,000, spending $60,000 for internet is a bit ridiculous... and not offset by your 'city wages in a rural area'
The problem is the range of the transponder broadcast is roughly 100 miles (1ghz frequency). When a plane goes off the coast, they quickly go out of range off any listening posts...
The US and Europe are both working on a new system for taking over water... Using satellite support probably... But for now, after 100 miles out to sea, radar is the primary method of tracking
I'm house hunting, and it's very hard to find a place that has 2 ISP options. So it's either:
1) Fiber-optic, 50Mbps/sec service for $90/month, offered by 2-3 different providers or 2) Thicknet Coax shared cable connection with a theoretical allotment of 30-50Mbps but probably a realistic Friday night@7pm limitation of1Mbps connection. No other providers operate in the area. Costs twice as much as fiber.
easier than manipulating the price of Oil.. Free of any sort of real protections.. seems like an amazing market for those with money, equipment, and desire to manipulate for greed
If the manufacturer is not a US company, the FCC can't do much to stop them directly.
Yes, they could go after other places that use the bulbs, but it could also be a factor of: 1. Bad batch 2. Interaction with local device/electricity 3. age-related
Either way, the manf. will know there is a problem, and will likely address it since they may get bad publicity in the circles that matter to them (business building owners) much like a bad HDD story would circle around slashdot, I'm sure the people owning buildings communicate as well... Or own a few dozen other buildings....
Ultimately, I think the "Fine Owner" solution is great.. There is an immediate requirement to fix an issue, and costs/blame is done after. Much better then assign blame then work on a solution!
We need to stop this education-for-profit business model that is encouraging schools to over-populate classrooms by providing very small scholarships and encouraging loans. Pointless required classes are another great thing to trash (I'm not talking Gen Ed, I'm talking 2-3 classes that could be merged into 1).
When I went to school for IT, I had 3 classes that discussed (in roughly the same detail) the *theory* and *standards* of how various communication mediums worked. Pointless. Make 1 of them a hands-on class at least!
You realize you're arguing, on SLASHDOT, about how people live in TV fantasy worlds?
TV Fantasy/SciFi encouraged a heck of a lot of technology development over the last few decades. TV Crime Drama's are only a few years ahead of us with their crazy non-sense. 5x enhance (i.e. zooming in) is the future when we can mount 100MP cameras at intersections, or on buildings. Modern consumer cameras take pictures you can't even view on a 1080p desktop at their actual resolution.. (41 MP = 7264 x 5440... you could 'enhance' (zoom) this 3-4 times in photoshop before you got to the actual native resolution on your monitor)
Instead of pointing out what is wrong with the proposed law(s), the article jumps to name calling and insult throwing.
I suppose they could not be bothered to read the law and provide a meaningful response... Must not be a bad law if they can't provide an example of abuse, or problems, the law would create.
TV can show us what may be the future all the time. Everyone on slashdot (should) appreciate this concept, Star Trek/Star Wars, and many Sci-Fi programs. TV may blow it out of proportion, but not always. Sometimes shows us what, ideally, would happen. Crime happens in the middle of nowhere? Dump the cell tower for the 5 names on the list. Presto, you may have solved an otherwise unsolvable crime because they had a cell phone on them. (Yes, serious criminals may turn off their phone, or use burners, but there are solutions to that too)
However, if you were doing a study on the effects of Drug X on Pigs (or any other animal).. having a dozen genetically identical pigs would be a huge benefit. I imagine it would make the statistical margins smaller.
The free market, especially in the broadband sector, has shown time and again, across all state lines, through cities, and in local neighborhoods, to be a fair, equal-service provider to all customers.
When I had Cox Cable, and they were the only provider available other than Dial Up, i was treated with respect, my calls were answered promptly, and my network node was NOT overloaded for months.
As soon as Verizon FIOS moved in, however, it was hell. Prices doubled, speeds were cut to 1/5th what they used to be, and service calls took 2 weeks longer to get answers on...
I, for one, wish they'd bring back the monopoly carrier. At least then I was treated fairly. I mean, just look at what Google is doing -- they moved in, and prices went up 3-4x ! and the speeds are 10x slower!
In theory it's possible to provide more bandwith if there's more revene coming in topay for the infrastructure.
Since the wireless market is a cartel enforced by licensing AT&T has little to no incentive to behave well.
Well, if companies would fight back it would overpower the cartel.
IMO, Google should have youtube throttle and only play at 240 to AT&T Wireless customers (including laptop broadband). Claim it is to "Assist AT&T customers in reducing wireless bandwidth"
That might interfere with net-neutrality.. even if it's a stab back at someone else trying to destroy it too.
So instead, offer a toggle checkbox that lets customers limit their bandwidth to mobile devices (either by kbps or MB/month).. with a YouTube on-page pop-up asking users if they want to enable this (For people it knows use AT&T phones, suggest on by default, for everyone else, off)
I'm also curous what "Liberal Media" outlets exist. PBS or my super-local news station are the most "liberal" stations I've seen... I think they are closer to Independents (which, actually, I prefer), but it would be nice to get a polar to Faux news on some stories, as opposed to a completely middle of the road story to combat a purely one-party "opinion piece" (since, it really can't be called a journalist news article anymore.. They cite sources of opinion quotes but never of scientific data...)
That's a good point. I'm sure the feds would still have a problem if banks trade IOU's and dont actually move the money, but do it entirely in not-dollar-values...
Bank A: I'll pay you 500 Monopoly bitmoney for that loan package. But lets leave it to monopoly money so there's less taxes Bank B: Okay. Sounds Good. Here.. have a 'free' gift. Bank B: I want to cash in my 500 Monopoly bitmoney for your Widgets and such. Bank A: Sure, here, have them for 'free'.
Seems fair that he has to play by the same rules. I dont care about bitcoins, but people claiming bitcoins are above any and all laws (including laws of the country they are being used in, and converted to physical objects in) is plain silly.
If he sold wallets, he wouldn't have issues. He's selling wallets with other peoples money in it, or could be (the no one knows, there is no oversight... and that's the problem). And he's not keeping track of who gave him the money, or where it's going, and he's not providing the information to authorities. It's possible he's pre-loading these coins with values (e.g. $25, 50), and mailing them to people after he takes his fee.
It's basically the formula for money laundering, as the bitcoin trail ends with him, and 'clean' money can come out.
it could have also paid for the software... and probably be a lot cheaper then $50 million on open source...
I only say this because there is an obvious 'zomg go open source' vibe to the post... Obviously, it would be nice id governments threw money at open source software development, but then o then taxpayers would probably complain since it doesn't directly benefit them in a way their minds can comprehend
The value in lyrics is their ability to pull in customers to identify a song and, hopefully, convert them to a customer. They want to steer customers to their 100% legal platform, that encourages customers to purchase the song legally through approved* channels. (* = Big corporations)
Unfortunately, it costs money to make such a website, and the music industry can't afford to create a website to promote their business! They'll probably spend $400 million on lobbyists (& congressmen.. er.. as a DONATION.. to their private anonymous funds.. not to the congressmen.. this isn't a BRIBE... No no no.. that's unethical...) and ask congress for a tax on Flash drives instead.
I for one look forward to hear how--after 90% of the sites go offline--there is a 20% drop in music industry sales due to ""pirating"". Most songs on the radio are unannounced (or are announced 12 minutes later in a string of band names and song titles), so casual listeners type in lyrics to find songs.
No lyrics sites? Average Joe's like me that listen to the music radio stations for 10 minutes a day don't buy the songs they are playing on the radio.
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Fairly sure this can be done other ways... Allakhazam (which has game info for many popular MMO's) auto-loads advertisements every few minutes, regardless of the users browser state.
My wife frequently walks away for 20+ minutes, only to have her computer randomly start playing an advertisement.. I suppose it isn't a "pop up", but clearly "auto refreshing for advertisement fraud" is possible and in use... And Allakhazam's method works on Firefox and Chrome from our experiences
To clarify, Browser state being "on and at their website", but otherwise irrespective (minimized, not in focus, not interacted with for many minutes, etc.)
Fairly sure this can be done other ways... Allakhazam (which has game info for many popular MMO's) auto-loads advertisements every few minutes, regardless of the users browser state.
My wife frequently walks away for 20+ minutes, only to have her computer randomly start playing an advertisement.. I suppose it isn't a "pop up", but clearly "auto refreshing for advertisement fraud" is possible and in use... And Allakhazam's method works on Firefox and Chrome from our experiences
Really disappointment seeing Android going places, but my phone still stuck with essentially the factory OS version installed..
Going to wait for the next great Nexus phone.... My (relatively) ancient nexus tablet and phone both got marshmellow... Samsung Note 4? Nope. No OS updates beyond security patches.
What if the company cut your salary before firing you?
"Hey Bill, you've had your salary reduced to minimum wage, but don't worry, we're firing you!"
Non-compete for 1 year price: ~$8,000
Or even better:
"Hey bill, we'll give you severance pay of $X, but you have to sign these papers..."
Included in that pile is an agreement to take a lower base salary for your last pay check, which is then used for non-compete salary calculations.
The issue is... Classification is commonly retro-active.
Let me pre-face by saying, I don't like Hilary. However, I do understand some of the craziness that IT folks deal with in classified documents.
I worked for a government contractor, and in several cases the government's "contract admin" for a project would change. The new Contract Admin might decide that, UNLIKE the last 5 years... you can no longer have a document with both "Contract number: C1234-56H-789" AND "Project Nighthawk" AND "NSA" on the same document, unless that document is now marked as non-public classified material. (And this is entirely subjective, up to the contract admin... a different admin might deem simply having 2 of the 3 is enough.. or perhaps you need another piece of information... like an address.. to make it classified information)
This means that 5 years of e-mails, databases, website entries, lead-generation software, EVERYTHING... may need to be updated to ensure these entities no longer exist in relation to each-other.
So, when they say her e-mail has classified information... I say: No doubt!
Now, if they say she sent information that was MARKED as classified at the time she sent it... Yes, that's bad! She should be penalized for that.
It's good for nonfinancial/pii websites that can't afford SSL certs, but may have contact forms, website logins, etc. Where users may type in their (hopefully different from their banks) user name and passwords... Or email address, or plaintext commentary in a forum that they may not necessarily care if it's encrypted or not.
Is not intended for sites you really need or want security. I really see this as a benefit to helping protect people who use the same password for everything -- helping, in this case, just delaying the inevitable.
I wouldn't mind this kind of thing for my own website, where only a handful of people will ever have accounts, and the only thing I need to protect is their login info. I set their passwords currently, but if I left them choose, I wouldn't mind extra security on their form data when they log in
The personal gain is the recording of them breaking the law being deleted, ensuring they keep their job. In many cases the recordings being deleted show violent acts against their policies.
The alternative is to allow the recording, with a very minor possibility of losing their job...
So they gain something for their acts, this is the equivalent of keeping the amin password to yourself... It's ethically wrong, probably illegal, and a poor war to ensure job security, unless you are a police officer... In which case you can probably get away with murder.......
Yes, but at the same time, paying for an internet line to be run to your house can actually cost more than your house in rural areas... Note: The price of the work, and for the final service, is often determined by the monopoly carrier for your area.
My grandfather was quoted $4000 to run a coax cable 500 feet to the street (which was up and running) to his home. His only other option was 36k dial up (too far north, and too many trees, for satellite). He's retired now (has been for decades), and while he lives comfortably in his home on his retirement, he can't afford an extra "luxury" expense like this.
Recently, my co-worker was quoted $60,000 to get internet brought to his rural community... per home... and required 2 dozen people within a 3-mile radius to sign a 3-year contract and agree to also pay that 'set up fee'. Their other option? Satellite (which has a 25GB download limit). The area is sanctioned monopoly.
Now, if you are ALSO living in a rural area where the average ~5 yr experience IT/programming/database job is $45-55,000, spending $60,000 for internet is a bit ridiculous... and not offset by your 'city wages in a rural area'
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It does...
The problem is the range of the transponder broadcast is roughly 100 miles (1ghz frequency). When a plane goes off the coast, they quickly go out of range off any listening posts...
The US and Europe are both working on a new system for taking over water... Using satellite support probably... But for now, after 100 miles out to sea, radar is the primary method of tracking
Basically this. And Oligarchy's..
I'm house hunting, and it's very hard to find a place that has 2 ISP options. So it's either:
1) Fiber-optic, 50Mbps/sec service for $90/month, offered by 2-3 different providers
or
2) Thicknet Coax shared cable connection with a theoretical allotment of 30-50Mbps but probably a realistic Friday night@7pm limitation of1Mbps connection. No other providers operate in the area. Costs twice as much as fiber.
easier than manipulating the price of Oil.. Free of any sort of real protections.. seems like an amazing market for those with money, equipment, and desire to manipulate for greed
If the manufacturer is not a US company, the FCC can't do much to stop them directly.
Yes, they could go after other places that use the bulbs, but it could also be a factor of:
1. Bad batch
2. Interaction with local device/electricity
3. age-related
Either way, the manf. will know there is a problem, and will likely address it since they may get bad publicity in the circles that matter to them (business building owners) much like a bad HDD story would circle around slashdot, I'm sure the people owning buildings communicate as well... Or own a few dozen other buildings....
Ultimately, I think the "Fine Owner" solution is great.. There is an immediate requirement to fix an issue, and costs/blame is done after. Much better then assign blame then work on a solution!
along the same lines..
We need to stop this education-for-profit business model that is encouraging schools to over-populate classrooms by providing very small scholarships and encouraging loans. Pointless required classes are another great thing to trash (I'm not talking Gen Ed, I'm talking 2-3 classes that could be merged into 1).
When I went to school for IT, I had 3 classes that discussed (in roughly the same detail) the *theory* and *standards* of how various communication mediums worked. Pointless. Make 1 of them a hands-on class at least!
You realize you're arguing, on SLASHDOT, about how people live in TV fantasy worlds?
TV Fantasy/SciFi encouraged a heck of a lot of technology development over the last few decades. TV Crime Drama's are only a few years ahead of us with their crazy non-sense. 5x enhance (i.e. zooming in) is the future when we can mount 100MP cameras at intersections, or on buildings. Modern consumer cameras take pictures you can't even view on a 1080p desktop at their actual resolution.. (41 MP = 7264 x 5440 ... you could 'enhance' (zoom) this 3-4 times in photoshop before you got to the actual native resolution on your monitor)
Instead of pointing out what is wrong with the proposed law(s), the article jumps to name calling and insult throwing.
I suppose they could not be bothered to read the law and provide a meaningful response... Must not be a bad law if they can't provide an example of abuse, or problems, the law would create.
TV can show us what may be the future all the time. Everyone on slashdot (should) appreciate this concept, Star Trek/Star Wars, and many Sci-Fi programs. TV may blow it out of proportion, but not always. Sometimes shows us what, ideally, would happen. Crime happens in the middle of nowhere? Dump the cell tower for the 5 names on the list. Presto, you may have solved an otherwise unsolvable crime because they had a cell phone on them. (Yes, serious criminals may turn off their phone, or use burners, but there are solutions to that too)
However, if you were doing a study on the effects of Drug X on Pigs (or any other animal).. having a dozen genetically identical pigs would be a huge benefit. I imagine it would make the statistical margins smaller.
The free market, especially in the broadband sector, has shown time and again, across all state lines, through cities, and in local neighborhoods, to be a fair, equal-service provider to all customers.
When I had Cox Cable, and they were the only provider available other than Dial Up, i was treated with respect, my calls were answered promptly, and my network node was NOT overloaded for months.
As soon as Verizon FIOS moved in, however, it was hell. Prices doubled, speeds were cut to 1/5th what they used to be, and service calls took 2 weeks longer to get answers on...
I, for one, wish they'd bring back the monopoly carrier. At least then I was treated fairly. I mean, just look at what Google is doing -- they moved in, and prices went up 3-4x ! and the speeds are 10x slower!
In theory it's possible to provide more bandwith if there's more revene coming in topay for the infrastructure.
Since the wireless market is a cartel enforced by licensing AT&T has little to no incentive to behave well.
Well, if companies would fight back it would overpower the cartel.
IMO, Google should have youtube throttle and only play at 240 to AT&T Wireless customers (including laptop broadband). Claim it is to "Assist AT&T customers in reducing wireless bandwidth"
That might interfere with net-neutrality.. even if it's a stab back at someone else trying to destroy it too.
So instead, offer a toggle checkbox that lets customers limit their bandwidth to mobile devices (either by kbps or MB/month).. with a YouTube on-page pop-up asking users if they want to enable this (For people it knows use AT&T phones, suggest on by default, for everyone else, off)
I'm also curous what "Liberal Media" outlets exist. PBS or my super-local news station are the most "liberal" stations I've seen... I think they are closer to Independents (which, actually, I prefer), but it would be nice to get a polar to Faux news on some stories, as opposed to a completely middle of the road story to combat a purely one-party "opinion piece" (since, it really can't be called a journalist news article anymore.. They cite sources of opinion quotes but never of scientific data...)
That's a good point. I'm sure the feds would still have a problem if banks trade IOU's and dont actually move the money, but do it entirely in not-dollar-values...
Bank A: I'll pay you 500 Monopoly bitmoney for that loan package. But lets leave it to monopoly money so there's less taxes
Bank B: Okay. Sounds Good. Here.. have a 'free' gift.
Bank B: I want to cash in my 500 Monopoly bitmoney for your Widgets and such.
Bank A: Sure, here, have them for 'free'.
Seems fair that he has to play by the same rules. I dont care about bitcoins, but people claiming bitcoins are above any and all laws (including laws of the country they are being used in, and converted to physical objects in) is plain silly.
If he sold wallets, he wouldn't have issues. He's selling wallets with other peoples money in it, or could be (the no one knows, there is no oversight... and that's the problem). And he's not keeping track of who gave him the money, or where it's going, and he's not providing the information to authorities. It's possible he's pre-loading these coins with values (e.g. $25, 50), and mailing them to people after he takes his fee.
It's basically the formula for money laundering, as the bitcoin trail ends with him, and 'clean' money can come out.
it could have also paid for the software... and probably be a lot cheaper then $50 million on open source...
I only say this because there is an obvious 'zomg go open source' vibe to the post... Obviously, it would be nice id governments threw money at open source software development, but then o then taxpayers would probably complain since it doesn't directly benefit them in a way their minds can comprehend
Why not just follow the bitcoin trail? Perhaps call the local authorities and ask them for help?
>.>
Actually, I do feel sorry... Just had to say it.
(Assume sarcastic tone for this post)
The value in lyrics is their ability to pull in customers to identify a song and, hopefully, convert them to a customer. They want to steer customers to their 100% legal platform, that encourages customers to purchase the song legally through approved* channels. (* = Big corporations)
Unfortunately, it costs money to make such a website, and the music industry can't afford to create a website to promote their business! They'll probably spend $400 million on lobbyists (& congressmen.. er.. as a DONATION.. to their private anonymous funds.. not to the congressmen.. this isn't a BRIBE... No no no.. that's unethical...) and ask congress for a tax on Flash drives instead.
I for one look forward to hear how--after 90% of the sites go offline--there is a 20% drop in music industry sales due to ""pirating"". Most songs on the radio are unannounced (or are announced 12 minutes later in a string of band names and song titles), so casual listeners type in lyrics to find songs.
No lyrics sites? Average Joe's like me that listen to the music radio stations for 10 minutes a day don't buy the songs they are playing on the radio.