The article is based on the assumption that the total ad revenue of the industry would not be significantly less even if they have to show random ads to everybody again. The author thinks that the ad budgets does not really change, only they are spent on different methods. I have my experience which contradicts this assumption. We had a paid product and tested Google Adwords. The result was not good enough. We only managed to have a zero balance: the money we spent on ad was about the same as the additional revenue we got. At the end we have not started a real campaign. If the effectiveness of the ads were only a bit better, than obviously we were able to allocate a significant amount of money. So no, the assumption is not valid, the ad budgets does depend and may hugely depend on the effectiveness of the ad systems.
I remember the internet before all you scumbag advertisers showed up.
There is a psychological phenomenon which shows past events in better light. First, the internet without advertisements never existed. There were ads on Arpanet. Second, you would feel less nostalgy for the internet of the eighties or nineies if you actually have to use that nowdays.
They can throw it to the cloud, but I can also say "Kill all connections that don't return within 20ms". This is a move, which I think is anticipating the bluff called. Good thing I have popcorn.
It will be indeed interesting. Latency between USA and EU is about 120 ms...
How can this be insightful?
Yes, you should do whatever you want with your hardware. Because that is your property. But a web site is the property of somebody else. It is copyrighted. You must follow his rule if you want to use it. If you dont want to follow his rules, do not use his property, and nobody will be hurt.
I visited the page you linked in, and it says that I do receive targeted ads. I am sure that I never opted in for targeted ads at Microsoft. It is opt-out. Exactly like Google. There is a link on each and every ad from Google where you can opt out.l So what are you talking about? Who is the troll?
Not that it would really count, even if Microsoft does opt-in now. Microsoft is mostly unsuccessful in the online world. Their profit does not depend on the internet business (actually, Bing reduces their profit). So it is great for them, if they can hurt their online competitors by undermining their targeted ad model, which is obviously much more effective than random ads. I am sure Microsoft in this case does not care about privacy at all, the only thing they consider is the damage they can do to their competitors.
Why do you think that they intentionally break laws? On our website there are visitors from all over the world, including the most exotic countries too. I guess from each and every country. Do you think that I have even the slightest idea about the pre-election and other rules and laws of 200 countries? I am sure there is no single university professor who knows all of that, even if we consider only the pre-election rules. Not to mention that these are changing continuously. What I am supposed to do? Firewall the servers and allow only countries where we have a legal representative? (Assuming that it would be possible, but it is not, there is no precise, stable IP address list about the countries.)
I work for a site with about 1 million monthly visitors. I know from experience that 1-3% of the visitors are notorious troublemakers and they do ruin the online life of the other 99% if they are not controlled. This is a continuous fight, they put huge efforts into evading our rules and we also spend huge effort into stopping them. For example we know about a user who spent about 2 months working on a software tool. I am not talking about hacking, that is another front. And this is a mostly free service, no money involved, and not attractive to spammers. Yes, the internet (specifically the part of it which has user user generated content) is not a complete anarchy now, exactly because there are some (rather unreliable and poor) way to track visitors.
You can have the same level privacy as you had with a local application and that is almost reasonable... but internet applications are more and more frequently social applications, where the consequences of your actions are not local.
Moreover, internet applications work on a different scale, with many users and small income/users, so they must be much more efficient than traditional (paid) local applicatons. If we want even more services for free, then we must allow those "awful" providers to become even more efficient, for example to track whether we scroll down to the bottom of a page or not. Why is that so horrible?
I like that I get targeted advertisement instead of random advertisement recently. (There is still place to enhance them though, I frequently get ads about products I already bought or services I already use). Targeted ads are better for all participants, internet industry and visitors too. The only participant which does not like advancements in advertising is Microsoft - for obvious reasons. Have you ever hurt by a targeted ad?
This new fixation on privacy becomes absurd. I hope that the commenters are not a representative subset of the population, even here on Slashdot. Do you recognize that complete privacy on the Internet means complete anarchy?
Do you recognize how small privacy you have when you step out of your home? You become uniquely identifiable immediately.
In a small town everybody will know me by my face. Oh my god, how can we live in such a rude word? I should put a sack on my head. But no, my shoes identify me too. Not to mention my fingerpring and DNS. I had to use a hermetic space suit if I go out. Yes, everybody should wear a space suit with black windows. But that may be too expensive for the entire population. Thanks God, there is a good solution, some of our muslim friends already use the burka. Well only for womens, but we can enhance the idea. Let's everyone wear burka. And only visit web sites which are made in the 1990, no login, no custom content, no Javascript, no user generated content, only HTML 3.0.
According to the article, it is a DDOS, not a hack. And GoDaddy indeed has a very bad name, at least here on Slashdot. I never made business with them, once I checked their domain registration offer, but it contained some obviously (for IT pros) misleading sales pitch, and that was enough for me one.
There are two misunderstanding in the replies. The submitter has no knowledge about programming, operating system, likely not in electronics. A 7 year old will be interested in those things which his parents do. Or at least in something in which he gets very strong guidance. So he will not start to code, install systems etc.
On the other hand a 7 years old will likely get homework which can be completed using the internet. This should be done on his parent's computer with their help. But he will likely want to play old games too, so at least a 3 years old desktop will be useful.
The second misunderstanding is the horrible, unbelievable underestimation of children. If he does get help, and I mean real help, several hours / day if necessary, then a child can do almost anything, which does not require prolonged attention. My son understood electronics when he was about 3-4-5 years old. This is not my profession, it was only a hobby at my childhood, therefore I spent 2 hours with reading and searching on the internet almost every day, in order to be able to answer to his questions. When he was 7 years old he wrote 100-200 lines programs in C and Java.
Maybe it is not an upgrade for you, but it is definitely an upgrade for the driver behind you, who has to stop accelerating each time you switch gears manually. At least 3 times after a red lamp.
I am yet to understand why it is better if the password is hashed. If the attacker gains access to the password database, then he can do anything with the server and the data of the users. He does not need the password of individual users at all.
Encryption of non-password data does not help anything, because the server must be able to decrypt those data. If the server is able to decrypt them, than the attacker on the server will also be able to decrypt them easily.
The attacker can only use the user password for one purpose: he can use it to enter other accounts of the user. But only if the user has the same password everywhere. In which case the user has already given up any security. That is the same as having a password of 123456. If the attacker is on the server he can eavesdrop on the communication and slowly retrieve the passwords of all users anyway, regardless of hashing, within a few days.
When Intel produced laughable chips for years they still remain the absolute market leader, because of their unethical tactics. Therefore AMD was not able to collect its well earned profit, so they had no resources to improve faster.
This is the classical case of monopoly, the resources cannot go to the better company, like they would on a free market.
I believe that anybody not totally illiterate (yes, for example RTFA), with at least some small amount of ethics, will not buy anything from Intel in the foreseeable future.
Why SEARCH for applications rather than hierarchical menus grouped logically by task?
Because it is much faster, if you know what you are looking for. I am on Windows 7, I tried Unity in a virtual machine for a few minutes, but I do not remember if its search function was fast enough or not.
I have recently contributed a few answers to stackoverflow in a language independent subject. I did notice that PHP programmers asks the most obvious questions, immediately after C# programmers. Based on my experience the statistics on stackoverflow show one thing: popularity of a language in the group of wanna-be programmers (maybe they do not even want to be programmers).
Yes, that is true, a small C application requires much less memory than a small Java. On the plus side it does not require much more memory even after it starts to serve ten thousands users.
By the way the Java apps open: an IDE, a text editor, a personal time keeper, an app server. Occassionally a casual game. The biggest memory hog on my machine is Opera, which was - as I know - written in C.
We are a small casual game site only, but we have a several hundred thousands regular user base, and we are using Java applets. No, it is not Runescape.
In the last ten years I only remember about two or three really critical Java exploits. Please show me a similar or even much simpler software with a security track better than Java.
I would add that this is a TLS vulnerability, it has almost nothing to do with Java. The exploit was written in Java, because it was comfortable. The authors mention on their YouTube video, that they could equally well use Javascript. I assume that they could have used Flash too.
Flast does not help if you try to do more complex things and in one of our projects it turned out that the same thing runs significantly slower in Flash than in Java.
I do not know a solution. But I know that Apache Tomcat developers made an effort to eliminate all class loading leaks from Tomcat itself, moreover in the last versions there is a mechanism in Tomcat which tries to detect and log possible class leak issues. It indeed show a few problems in my code.
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The article is based on the assumption that the total ad revenue of the industry would not be significantly less even if they have to show random ads to everybody again. The author thinks that the ad budgets does not really change, only they are spent on different methods. I have my experience which contradicts this assumption. We had a paid product and tested Google Adwords. The result was not good enough. We only managed to have a zero balance: the money we spent on ad was about the same as the additional revenue we got. At the end we have not started a real campaign. If the effectiveness of the ads were only a bit better, than obviously we were able to allocate a significant amount of money. So no, the assumption is not valid, the ad budgets does depend and may hugely depend on the effectiveness of the ad systems.
I remember the internet before all you scumbag advertisers showed up.
There is a psychological phenomenon which shows past events in better light. First, the internet without advertisements never existed. There were ads on Arpanet. Second, you would feel less nostalgy for the internet of the eighties or nineies if you actually have to use that nowdays.
They can throw it to the cloud, but I can also say "Kill all connections that don't return within 20ms". This is a move, which I think is anticipating the bluff called. Good thing I have popcorn.
It will be indeed interesting. Latency between USA and EU is about 120 ms...
How can this be insightful? Yes, you should do whatever you want with your hardware. Because that is your property. But a web site is the property of somebody else. It is copyrighted. You must follow his rule if you want to use it. If you dont want to follow his rules, do not use his property, and nobody will be hurt.
Advertisers on TV manage to work without any tracking, it should work on the internet too.
As far as I know, TV is not a great business nowdays. Actually, the growing industry is the internet industry with their targeted ads...
I visited the page you linked in, and it says that I do receive targeted ads. I am sure that I never opted in for targeted ads at Microsoft. It is opt-out. Exactly like Google. There is a link on each and every ad from Google where you can opt out.l So what are you talking about? Who is the troll?
Not that it would really count, even if Microsoft does opt-in now. Microsoft is mostly unsuccessful in the online world. Their profit does not depend on the internet business (actually, Bing reduces their profit). So it is great for them, if they can hurt their online competitors by undermining their targeted ad model, which is obviously much more effective than random ads. I am sure Microsoft in this case does not care about privacy at all, the only thing they consider is the damage they can do to their competitors.
Why do you think that they intentionally break laws? On our website there are visitors from all over the world, including the most exotic countries too. I guess from each and every country. Do you think that I have even the slightest idea about the pre-election and other rules and laws of 200 countries? I am sure there is no single university professor who knows all of that, even if we consider only the pre-election rules. Not to mention that these are changing continuously. What I am supposed to do? Firewall the servers and allow only countries where we have a legal representative? (Assuming that it would be possible, but it is not, there is no precise, stable IP address list about the countries.)
I work for a site with about 1 million monthly visitors. I know from experience that 1-3% of the visitors are notorious troublemakers and they do ruin the online life of the other 99% if they are not controlled. This is a continuous fight, they put huge efforts into evading our rules and we also spend huge effort into stopping them. For example we know about a user who spent about 2 months working on a software tool. I am not talking about hacking, that is another front. And this is a mostly free service, no money involved, and not attractive to spammers. Yes, the internet (specifically the part of it which has user user generated content) is not a complete anarchy now, exactly because there are some (rather unreliable and poor) way to track visitors.
You can have the same level privacy as you had with a local application and that is almost reasonable ... but internet applications are more and more frequently social applications, where the consequences of your actions are not local.
Moreover, internet applications work on a different scale, with many users and small income/users, so they must be much more efficient than traditional (paid) local applicatons. If we want even more services for free, then we must allow those "awful" providers to become even more efficient, for example to track whether we scroll down to the bottom of a page or not. Why is that so horrible?
I like that I get targeted advertisement instead of random advertisement recently. (There is still place to enhance them though, I frequently get ads about products I already bought or services I already use). Targeted ads are better for all participants, internet industry and visitors too. The only participant which does not like advancements in advertising is Microsoft - for obvious reasons. Have you ever hurt by a targeted ad?
This new fixation on privacy becomes absurd. I hope that the commenters are not a representative subset of the population, even here on Slashdot. Do you recognize that complete privacy on the Internet means complete anarchy?
Do you recognize how small privacy you have when you step out of your home? You become uniquely identifiable immediately.
In a small town everybody will know me by my face. Oh my god, how can we live in such a rude word? I should put a sack on my head. But no, my shoes identify me too. Not to mention my fingerpring and DNS. I had to use a hermetic space suit if I go out. Yes, everybody should wear a space suit with black windows. But that may be too expensive for the entire population. Thanks God, there is a good solution, some of our muslim friends already use the burka. Well only for womens, but we can enhance the idea. Let's everyone wear burka. And only visit web sites which are made in the 1990, no login, no custom content, no Javascript, no user generated content, only HTML 3.0.
According to the article, it is a DDOS, not a hack. And GoDaddy indeed has a very bad name, at least here on Slashdot. I never made business with them, once I checked their domain registration offer, but it contained some obviously (for IT pros) misleading sales pitch, and that was enough for me one.
Mod parent up! That is the most important issue with the question, and it is the least discussed in the replies.
There are two misunderstanding in the replies. The submitter has no knowledge about programming, operating system, likely not in electronics. A 7 year old will be interested in those things which his parents do. Or at least in something in which he gets very strong guidance. So he will not start to code, install systems etc.
On the other hand a 7 years old will likely get homework which can be completed using the internet. This should be done on his parent's computer with their help. But he will likely want to play old games too, so at least a 3 years old desktop will be useful.
The second misunderstanding is the horrible, unbelievable underestimation of children. If he does get help, and I mean real help, several hours / day if necessary, then a child can do almost anything, which does not require prolonged attention. My son understood electronics when he was about 3-4-5 years old. This is not my profession, it was only a hobby at my childhood, therefore I spent 2 hours with reading and searching on the internet almost every day, in order to be able to answer to his questions. When he was 7 years old he wrote 100-200 lines programs in C and Java.
Maybe it is not an upgrade for you, but it is definitely an upgrade for the driver behind you, who has to stop accelerating each time you switch gears manually. At least 3 times after a red lamp.
I am yet to understand why it is better if the password is hashed. If the attacker gains access to the password database, then he can do anything with the server and the data of the users. He does not need the password of individual users at all.
Encryption of non-password data does not help anything, because the server must be able to decrypt those data. If the server is able to decrypt them, than the attacker on the server will also be able to decrypt them easily.
The attacker can only use the user password for one purpose: he can use it to enter other accounts of the user. But only if the user has the same password everywhere. In which case the user has already given up any security. That is the same as having a password of 123456. If the attacker is on the server he can eavesdrop on the communication and slowly retrieve the passwords of all users anyway, regardless of hashing, within a few days.
When Intel produced laughable chips for years they still remain the absolute market leader, because of their unethical tactics. Therefore AMD was not able to collect its well earned profit, so they had no resources to improve faster.
This is the classical case of monopoly, the resources cannot go to the better company, like they would on a free market.
I believe that anybody not totally illiterate (yes, for example RTFA), with at least some small amount of ethics, will not buy anything from Intel in the foreseeable future.
Why SEARCH for applications rather than hierarchical menus grouped logically by task?
Because it is much faster, if you know what you are looking for. I am on Windows 7, I tried Unity in a virtual machine for a few minutes, but I do not remember if its search function was fast enough or not.
I would add that mobile programming also seems to be very popular among beginners.
I have recently contributed a few answers to stackoverflow in a language independent subject. I did notice that PHP programmers asks the most obvious questions, immediately after C# programmers. Based on my experience the statistics on stackoverflow show one thing: popularity of a language in the group of wanna-be programmers (maybe they do not even want to be programmers).
Yes, that is true, a small C application requires much less memory than a small Java. On the plus side it does not require much more memory even after it starts to serve ten thousands users.
By the way the Java apps open: an IDE, a text editor, a personal time keeper, an app server. Occassionally a casual game. The biggest memory hog on my machine is Opera, which was - as I know - written in C.
I had exactly 5 running Java applications 2 minutes ago, but since then I closed one after I won that chess match.
OK, one is not an application but an Apache Tomcat server I use for development.
They also wrote that they could have used Javascript as well, and even call for a Javascript version.
We are a small casual game site only, but we have a several hundred thousands regular user base, and we are using Java applets. No, it is not Runescape.
In the last ten years I only remember about two or three really critical Java exploits. Please show me a similar or even much simpler software with a security track better than Java.
I would add that this is a TLS vulnerability, it has almost nothing to do with Java. The exploit was written in Java, because it was comfortable. The authors mention on their YouTube video, that they could equally well use Javascript. I assume that they could have used Flash too.
Flast does not help if you try to do more complex things and in one of our projects it turned out that the same thing runs significantly slower in Flash than in Java.
I do not know a solution. But I know that Apache Tomcat developers made an effort to eliminate all class loading leaks from Tomcat itself, moreover in the last versions there is a mechanism in Tomcat which tries to detect and log possible class leak issues. It indeed show a few problems in my code.