Are they in addition to the existing ads on the page, thus ruining the layout of the site you're viewing, or do they replace existing ads, thus depriving the site of its income stream?
Barring them from computer access will hurt them most
As I commented upthread, the guy who has been caught and is in the dock is most likely a middle-manager type who hired programmers anonymously to write a "turnkey" system. He could keep on running this from a simple office with a typewriter and a 'phone. Everyone assumes the person who got caught was some sort of "super-hacker". He wasn't, necessarily - he ran the company. Despite popular preconceptions it's still possible to run a company without a computer.
THe guy obviously has a skill that could easily be converted to something a little more useful in society.
Chances are that the guy in the dock is a mediocre manager at best who anonymously hired a squad of programmers. Would you really consider more managers useful?
While the impact of an individual SPAM message is less than that of being a victim of violence you must remember to multiply this by the number of offences.
I would sentence egregious and repeated SPAMming with no hint of remorse on a par with manslaughter.
1) Fit all their logging machines with state-of-the-art public key/private key encryption in hardware.
2) Generate a key pair and *destroy* the private key so that no-one knows it.
3) When logging, concatenate the IP address with the browser ID string and then *encrypt* it before logging it.
Thus:
They have a trail of user ID that works for their purposes just as well as the unencrypted stuff would, in that the same unique user generates the same encrypted ID and thus can be used to pull up the same ads.
If the logs get out into the public domain, by lawsuit, accident or malice, there is no way to identify an individual user with a specific transaction unless you already know it was them - you can encrypt a user's IP and browser string to prove that it matches, but you can't look at a transaction and work backwards to the ID and browser string.
A decent bit of overkill, say a 512 byte key, and everybody's happy but Viacom. Result.
I would guess the reason the choreography is identical is that the advertising agency went ahead and filmed the commercial while they were still negotiating with OK GO, assuming that in the end they would be allowed to use the music. When they found out they weren't they dubbed another track over it and hoped nobody would watch too closely.
Maybe I'm just naturally suspicious, but a site like this that seems to have *some* of the data wrong about *everybody* sounds like a SPAMmer's dream - you see yourself, correct the info (or request that it be removed) and POW! you have verified that your details are, at least in part, genuine, thus making them more valuable for the site owner to sell on.
...given that neither side of the argument is likely to under-report the figures, whether the RIAA trying to scare the industry, or the WareZ groups showing off, is there anyone still surprised that this is being over-reported? Can anyone think of a single group who would benefit from under-reporting. or even accurately reporting the figures?
WisconsinGod, a complaint against a cop to their department is generally not made public knowledge. Thus, without sites like this the public wouldn't know if one or two cops in a district were attracting 90% or more of the "negative ratings"...
Why would you think such knowledge was a bad thing?
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These ads they're injecting...
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More than one wife, perhaps?
I feel sorry for his family, but not for him. I'm sure many people would have offered to wield the gun in his case.
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Re: Re: Easy enough, buy used
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As I commented upthread, the guy who has been caught and is in the dock is most likely a middle-manager type who hired programmers anonymously to write a "turnkey" system. He could keep on running this from a simple office with a typewriter and a 'phone. Everyone assumes the person who got caught was some sort of "super-hacker". He wasn't, necessarily - he ran the company. Despite popular preconceptions it's still possible to run a company without a computer.
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Re: Fines and community service
Chances are that the guy in the dock is a mediocre manager at best who anonymously hired a squad of programmers. Would you really consider more managers useful?
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Excessive? 9 Years? Not at all.
I would sentence egregious and repeated SPAMming with no hint of remorse on a par with manslaughter.
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OK, here's what Google *should* do in future...
2) Generate a key pair and *destroy* the private key so that no-one knows it.
3) When logging, concatenate the IP address with the browser ID string and then *encrypt* it before logging it.
Thus:
They have a trail of user ID that works for their purposes just as well as the unencrypted stuff would, in that the same unique user generates the same encrypted ID and thus can be used to pull up the same ads.
If the logs get out into the public domain, by lawsuit, accident or malice, there is no way to identify an individual user with a specific transaction unless you already know it was them - you can encrypt a user's IP and browser string to prove that it matches, but you can't look at a transaction and work backwards to the ID and browser string.
A decent bit of overkill, say a 512 byte key, and everybody's happy but Viacom. Result.
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Caps in the UK
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Re: I did not know ether.
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Perhaps they don't mean it...
Only seems fair.
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Questionable business practices
"Up to 8Mb/s", "Unlimited downloads", "Only $6.99 month!!! (for first 3 months)"...
'Nuff said?
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Mmmmmm. Tasty.
2) Sell their carcasses to Hormel.
3) ...
4) Profit!
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My uninformed speculation...
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Re: driver
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Re: Bilski
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Maybe I'm just naturally suspicious, but a site like this that seems to have *some* of the data wrong about *everybody* sounds like a SPAMmer's dream - you see yourself, correct the info (or request that it be removed) and POW! you have verified that your details are, at least in part, genuine, thus making them more valuable for the site owner to sell on.
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Just out of idle curiosity...
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Re: It is not the same
Why would you think such knowledge was a bad thing?
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Re: ADVERT TARGETING
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Re: ADVERT TARGETING
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