Look dumasses the proper moderation on this post is either "funny" or "flamebait" not "interesting. Seriously, what turnip truck did you all fall off of? Were your irony genes mutated by cosmic rays or microwave ovens?

Really, here on Slashdot you assert that a modern centralized datacenter is unneeded? You think that maintaining myriad and inconsistent IT systems is a good use of state funds. Really?

Yeah, but this article is discussing the state if the industry, not how an expert user can avoid popups and other scareware/malware.
There are loads of machines out there being infected today by doing normal browsing on reputable sites. With the current industry practice of n-number of redirects through n-number of networks for 3rd party ad serving it makes it near impossible to track down those of nefarious intent on an incident level.

Once again it is not the .01% of us slashdotters that are the problem with malware infections, it is the millions of joe sixpacks that care not to go through the trouble that it takes to install and then browse with these specialized browsers and plugins.

I for one agree, something must be done; and "open letters" like this are often how the conversation starts.

Remember that TFA stated the ~50% of *users* clicked thru to articles, which would only amount to 1 click for the ~200 or so headlines to choose from on a given google news page. This makes a click thru rate of about 1 in 400 impressions or 0.25%

Which is still considered a miracle click thru rate for banner display media tha advertisers pay for.

So considering they are getting this trafic for FREE it seems like a pretty god deal to me.

There's a difference between attacking the arguer alongside the argument and attacking only the arguer. You were doing the latter: the post was an ad hominem.

I gave my reasons criticising your position, and then in addition slung some dung at the class of argument you used. I didn't even mention you.

I only hate it when the arguer is exclusively criticised because it's a fallacy and I'm sick of hearing the same shit from grade school to government. But I haven't made that error here, and even if I had, my hypocrisy wouldn't make my arguing against it invalid. It would just make me annoying.

Even with ABP disabled for wired.com NoScript doesn't report a tynt.com script.

I've remapped my capslock to ctrl for gaming purposes. Much easier to hit ctrl/shift when they're up a little higher relatively.

1% of Americans owned about 35% of the stock market in 2004. If one includes them in the top 10% of Americans, they owned 80% of the stock market. That leaves 20% of the stock market for the other 90% of the population.

But don't let reality get in the way of your preconceived notions and anecdotes. Common sense is, after all, "the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

UFO's aren't a very good analogy because there usually is an alternate explanation (weather balloons, secret military experiments, gullible people), not to mention that "OMG ALIENS" isn't a scientific explanation. In the worst case, "unexplained phenomenon" is still a more accurate explanation than "aliens".

From the discussions, it sounds like these people actually do have some decent evidence for what they're claiming, and while they may never be able to prove 100% that they're right, it's not like we can prove anything 100%.

The 100% mechanical, non-electric typewriter that I learned to type on had a caps-lock key. It worked like a car's parking brake pedal.

Really? do you consider iTunes to be a non-crappy user interface?

It is worth noting that the Venetian is also an official CES venue in their convention space so CEA is not just a big pull on the industry, but a big pull on the Venetian for some pretty hefty revenue. This does not take conspiracy theory, this is a corporate entity throwing a small client under the bus to make a gigantic client happy. Standard procedure in big business.

neither do I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester_(Leonardo_da_Vinci)

When I got My iPhone from AT+T I was told that the iPhone data plan is required for all iPhones on the AT+T network, regardless if they are in contract or owned outright. So AFAIK there is no way to have an IPhone without the AT+T data charge without jailbreaking it and violating my TOS with both Apple and AT+T.

So in effect, yes all iPhones are subsidized by the plans.

no kidding, that headline is retarded and misleading, even for /.