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Submission + - AVG causing false web analytics 1

Submitted by frovingslosh on Saturday June 14, 2008 @02:50PM

frovingslosh writes: A story at The Register is reporting that the new version of AVG anti-virus scanner is causing major problems for websites, it adds "a tool that automatically scans search engine results before you click on them. If you search Google, for instance, and ten results turn up, it visits all ten links to ensure they're malware free." This is throwing website statistics way off, as well as burning through bandwidth for small sites that happen to hit high on a Google search for a particular term. Also from the article: "If AVG does mask its user agent — and fails to provide another workaround — its ghost traffic looks exactly like real traffic. And then the web is in trouble. After all, 50 million AVG users have yet to upgrade." And no mention that the very popular AVG Free seems to be going away, to be replaced by a for pay only version.

Submission + - Pope warns of danger of rational thought

Submitted by frovingslosh on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @04:12PM

frovingslosh writes: Hot on the heals of La Sapienza university protests reported here perviously, the Pope now comes out and warns us about the danger of rational thought. Gems include "Scientific investigation should be accompanied by research into ... theology", but RTFA for all of the infalable wisdom.

Submission + - Radio Shack Layoffs by e-mail

Submitted by frovingslosh on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @03:26PM

frovingslosh writes: AP is reporting that Radio Shack has laid off about 400 people by e-mail.

I personally see it as a good thing that no one in the company has any technical skills or knowledge of the Internet, otherwise some employee who took offence at the way this was done could easily send out e-mail with forged headers and lay off the rest of the company too. I'm not advocating that, of course, that would be wrong.

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