Comment Re:Time crysals. What Timecubes are made of (Score 1) 153
What the HELL is this website about?!
Comment Powered slingshot around a black hole? (Score 1) 130
IANAP but would a a powered slingshot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_slingshot#Powered_slingshots) through the zone between the Event Horizon and the Point Of No Return of a Black Hole could theoretically facilitate achieving enormous speeds enabling fast deep space travel? Or would you have to do it outside of the Point Of No Return?
Comment Re:Other Minor Aristocrats (Score 1) 218
IANABL too but maybe 200 years ago it was a fraud... nowdays such titles have little meaning
Comment Bad Example (Score 1) 678
I googled around after that judo player - she was the first woman from SA to ever compete in the Olympics, girls arent even allowed to PE classes in SA. Thats probably why she was crap too, but it looks like her appearance on the mat was political but for the reasons of gender equality.
Comment Re:Other Minor Aristocrats (Score 1) 218
I see, it makes sense after reading their ads as well. Still, the banks are cool enough with it to let you put "Lord" on your debit card, which has the desired effect when paying for stuff I guess.
Comment Re:Other Minor Aristocrats (Score 1) 218
I have a few friends who are Lords in Scotland. Neither are even Scottish citizens (one is Columbian in fact), but the Scottish law allows you to call yourself Lord legally if you haven even so much as a square foot of land. So you can buy a piece of swamp up in the highlands as a novelty gift and your friend can now change his title to Lord (on bank cards, official letters etc).
Comment Re:The problem is not with Javascript (Score 1) 488
What is the difference between having a new language for "Flash-like" features instead of extending an existing one?
- Both require the browser binary to parse the script and execute it, but if you have two languages you need two scripting engines.
- With two engines web developers need to take more care because the user ecosystem is more fragmented (this guy has a browser with recent JS but older RichStuffWhateverVM for some reason).
- How exactly do you distinguish the use cases? Several years ago, an HTML Div that 'animates' by sliding up when you click a button would have been considered rich stuff. Now its pretty straightforward and the "rich stuff" is something else.
In summary, things change, HTML5's Cavas and Websocket may not be ready to completely replace what we got used to with Flash, but they are pretty damn close and it didn't take them all that long (actually these standards are moving forward incredibly fast).
Comment Re:Where's China and Russia? THEY ARE EVEN WORSE. (Score 1) 132
- a major university in ukraine that i know of has on its campus intranet a 400+TB system exclusively for piracy. I mean, university set up, where people upload movies, music, games, software, etc. this is actually a university function that they figure saves them on outgoing bandwidth.
Ooh I remember the times of FTP hubs on all uni networks in Poland. All administered by students on the uni WAN. They only forbid it like 5 years ago. Those were the days...
Submission + - 80% of paid clicks on Facebook ads are from bots. (facebook.com)
Dreen writes: The link describes an interesting discovery made by a company called Limited Run during their experience with Facebook Advertisement Programme. In case they do, as stated, delete their page here is the full content of their post:
Hey everyone, we're going to be deleting our Facebook page in the next couple of weeks, but we wanted to explain why before we do. A couple months ago, when we were preparing to launch the new Limited Run, we started to experiment with Facebook ads. Unfortunately, while testing their ad system, we noticed some very strange things. Facebook was charging us for clicks, yet we could only verify about 20% of them actually showing up on our site. At first, we thought it was our analytics service. We tried signing up for a handful of other big name companies, and still, we couldn't verify more than 15-20% of clicks. So we did what any good developers would do. We built our own analytic software. Here's what we found: on about 80% of the clicks Facebook was charging us for, JavaScript wasn't on. And if the person clicking the ad doesn't have JavaScript, it's very difficult for an analytics service to verify the click. What's important here is that in all of our years of experience, only about 1-2% of people coming to us have JavaScript disabled, not 80% like these clicks coming from Facebook. So we did what any good developers would do. We built a page logger. Any time a page was loaded, we'd keep track of it. You know what we found? The 80% of clicks we were paying for were from bots. That's correct. Bots were loading pages and driving up our advertising costs. So we tried contacting Facebook about this. Unfortunately, they wouldn't reply. Do we know who the bots belong too? No. Are we accusing Facebook of using bots to drive up advertising revenue. No. Is it strange? Yes. But let's move on, because who the bots belong to isn't provable.
While we were testing Facebook ads, we were also trying to get Facebook to let us change our name, because we're not Limited Pressing anymore. We contacted them on many occasions about this. Finally, we got a call from someone at Facebook. They said they would allow us to change our name. NICE! But only if we agreed to spend $2000 or more in advertising a month. That's correct. Facebook was holding our name hostage. So we did what any good hardcore kids would do. We cursed that piece of shit out! Damn we were so pissed. We still are. This is why we need to delete this page and move away from Facebook. They're scumbags and we just don't have the patience for scumbags.
Thanks to everyone who has supported this page and liked our posts. We really appreciate it. If you'd like to follow us on Twitter, where we don't get shaken down, you can do so here: http://twitter.com/limitedrun
Hey everyone, we're going to be deleting our Facebook page in the next couple of weeks, but we wanted to explain why before we do. A couple months ago, when we were preparing to launch the new Limited Run, we started to experiment with Facebook ads. Unfortunately, while testing their ad system, we noticed some very strange things. Facebook was charging us for clicks, yet we could only verify about 20% of them actually showing up on our site. At first, we thought it was our analytics service. We tried signing up for a handful of other big name companies, and still, we couldn't verify more than 15-20% of clicks. So we did what any good developers would do. We built our own analytic software. Here's what we found: on about 80% of the clicks Facebook was charging us for, JavaScript wasn't on. And if the person clicking the ad doesn't have JavaScript, it's very difficult for an analytics service to verify the click. What's important here is that in all of our years of experience, only about 1-2% of people coming to us have JavaScript disabled, not 80% like these clicks coming from Facebook. So we did what any good developers would do. We built a page logger. Any time a page was loaded, we'd keep track of it. You know what we found? The 80% of clicks we were paying for were from bots. That's correct. Bots were loading pages and driving up our advertising costs. So we tried contacting Facebook about this. Unfortunately, they wouldn't reply. Do we know who the bots belong too? No. Are we accusing Facebook of using bots to drive up advertising revenue. No. Is it strange? Yes. But let's move on, because who the bots belong to isn't provable.
While we were testing Facebook ads, we were also trying to get Facebook to let us change our name, because we're not Limited Pressing anymore. We contacted them on many occasions about this. Finally, we got a call from someone at Facebook. They said they would allow us to change our name. NICE! But only if we agreed to spend $2000 or more in advertising a month. That's correct. Facebook was holding our name hostage. So we did what any good hardcore kids would do. We cursed that piece of shit out! Damn we were so pissed. We still are. This is why we need to delete this page and move away from Facebook. They're scumbags and we just don't have the patience for scumbags.
Thanks to everyone who has supported this page and liked our posts. We really appreciate it. If you'd like to follow us on Twitter, where we don't get shaken down, you can do so here: http://twitter.com/limitedrun
Comment Re:Have a great trip! (Score 1) 1095
Unless he has some very old gear there is a voltage converter built in. Buy plug converters in any electronic store on the spot.
Submission + - IFPI riles Anonymous; cannons fired. (theregister.co.uk)
vox writes: Angered Internet denizens Anonymous who are known for their wild antics and occasionally cringe-worthy crusades have struck again, coming out in support of ThePirateBay. The register reports "Hacktivists have launched denial of service attacks against music industry association ifpi.org and lawyers" .. "The assault has rendered ifpi.org — the main Website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry — intermittently unavailable or sluggish for a time on Monday morning." Are actions like this a step in the wrong direction, or is this the only way to make our voices heard?
Comment I have an idea (Score 1) 76
And it involves sending a lot of baseball players to space, with steady supplies of baseball bats.
Comment VAT (Score 1) 913
Value Added Tax would have been an excellent solution - if only it was the only solution used.
Submission + - Soldat 1.5.0 Released!
FliesLikeABrick writes: "Soldat 1.5.0 has officially been released by the independent game development group TransHuman Design. Soldat is a fast-paced 2D side-scrolling shooter that everyone should play at least once, though it is highly addictive and has an amazing international following that really has shaped the game into what it is today. This new version includes loads of bug fixes, lobby chat, updated maps, new effects and more! While as of right now it is not open-source or cross-platform, it has growing support through Wine. TransHuman Design's future games are planned to be completely cross-platform. This is the first version of Soldat to be publicly beta-tested. Find bugs/need help/got comments/questions? Head to the forums"
Comment Re:The official post (Score 1) 98
Not nearly all Wikimedia domains are included there, for example only handful of wikipedia.* is that because the other ones are only redirects or something?
