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Comment Re:Deal with it, advertisers (Score 1) 699

Advertisement / marketing organizations that want the status quo to remain should not press the issue. Some simple facts are going to come out of any meaningful conversation on the topic:

1) we don't want your cookies. we didn't ask for them, and we don't like them.
2) we'll be happy to pay a small fee to not see your ads, and you won't see any of that $.

I have a stupid 4 second video that was part of a much longer post; Posted to a MineCraft website my son and I played on.

I had forgotten all about it till the e-mail started to come in, at this time it's seen around 430,000 unique views and nobody likes it (go figure), It's being seen out of conetxt.

I refuse to put any ads on it or screw with it in any way, it's as it was when it was first posted (other than it's description).

If you want to hunt it down, search for badactorep on youtube - of all my Gmail accounts that's the handle Google (gmail) stuck me with (and the worst of em all).

The demographics one can get from that amount of views is just amazing, one can really zero in on their visitors - and why I don't log onto sites unless I have a real need, like posting a new video to another account that is my main site (also no ads or overlays, just videos),

Trax3001bbs - always ad free :}

Submission + - AdNauseam browser extension quietly clicks on blocked ads

stephenpeters writes: The AdNauseam browser extension claims to click on each ad you have blocked with AdBlock in an attempt to obsfucate your browsing data. Officially launched mid November at the Digital Labour conference in New York, the authors hope this extension will register with advertisers as a protest against their pervasive monitoring of users online activities.

It will be interesting to see how automated ad click browser extensions will affect the online ad arms race. Especially as french publishers are currently planning to sue Eyeo GmbH the publishers of Adblock.

Comment Re:From as young as 17? (Score 1) 102

Man, those were my prime hacking years. If I was getting started that late, I wouldn't be any good until I was 30.

I started late as well (30 something) I was learning assemble language on the TRS-80 3, The AmigA while a great system stopped me cold (no programs, even the basic was very broken).

I tried to get my son to learn hacking or at the least assemble language he had no interest.

So tried hard, failed due to the system I was using.

Submission + - Facebook founder presents vision for New Republic and (nearly) everyone resigns (nytimes.com)

SkiTee94 writes: Chris Hughes, one of the original founders of Facebook, is in damage control mode to save his recently acquired century old publication The New Republic. In response to Hughes' vision to turn the highly respected, and most would say old school, publication into a "digital media company" dozens of senior editors and writers simply quit. As a, likely now former, reader myself it seems Hughes doesn't understand that the publication's edge in the market is precisely that it isn't a fluffy clickbait "digital media company." Is simply Hughes a visionary cleaning out dead wood or a clueless one-hit wonder tech star now leaving destruction in his wake? More from the NY Times: http://nyti.ms/1FZs2zL

Comment Too lazy to protect themselves (Score 2) 528

"In the letter, Sony defended its decision to wait five days to admit its security had been compromised and called on the government to help make the internet safer."

They asked for outside help (expected the government to stop it) and apparently took security a bit lax in one area.
"In the letter, Sony defended its decision to wait five days to admit its security had been compromised and called on the government to help make the internet safer." http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomgar...

I did get two free simple games over that one, I expect money this time they need to take their security a bit more serious. I mean even shutting down the gym (who knows why, terminals?

Once burnt twice shy, not something Sony is familiar with.

Comment Re:Sauce for the goose; sauce for the gander (Score 2) 528

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

TL, DNR: 9 years ago, Sony was root kitting the machines of people who bought their CDs, and living about it.

Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals (at the time) has a very good article on this. You can learn a lot through it, least I did.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mar...

His first post I can't find in the time I have, is intense as well as much longer.

Comment Re:required e-mail (Score 1) 37

I couldn't get on unless I entered my e-mail to be spammed. WTF slashdot?? Poor form for a, usually, very respectable site

apparently my new e-mail is f**K@off.com

Agreed, I don't post a real e-mail address just to enter someplace. Sry /.

Comment Or wait for the Government to start a project (Score 2) 139

Get picked off the street and made a certified nuclear reactor operator in 18 months. They will do all of the training required, you just need to be serious in your studies. Especially when you haven't clue one on the subject :}

I do qualify it as a tech job, I could write much to back that up but it'd be just be a lot of junk you wouldn't wish to read.

Just saying fate works in odd ways. I was unemployed for close to two years prior.

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