SOOPRcow - Slashdot User

Comment I gotta be honest... (Score 5, Funny) 91

by SOOPRcow on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @03:20PM (#27333807) Attached to: Google Apps Deciphered

I was so distraught after reading that summary that my co-workers had to put me in a mental rehab facility. They now have me posting here to tell you this so I can overcome my fears and once again enter society as a normal person.

Submission + - Valve engineers weed out bad 'lying' game servers (teamfortress.com) 1

Submitted by

billlava

on Friday March 13, 2009 @12:24PM

billlava writes: "Tired of Team Fortress 2 servers that lie in order to attract players, engineers at Valve (creators of the Half Life franchise) have come up with a way to weed out servers that give false information about the number of players online, or custom server options.

After kicking around some proposals, we came up with a simple system built around the theory that player time on a server is a useful metric for how happy the player is with that server. It's game rules agnostic, and we can measure it on our steam backend entirely from steam client data, so servers can't interfere with it. We already had this data for all the TF2 servers in the world, allowing us to try several different scoring formulas out before settling on this simple one that successfully identified good & bad servers...

Of course, this only works with their games running on Steam."

Submission + - AdSense Users Asked to Update Their Privacy Policy (circleid.com)

Submitted by Netzer on Friday March 13, 2009 @12:14PM

Netzer writes: CircleID has a post by Dhaval Doshi mentioning that he received an email from Google AdSense asking publishers to change their websites' privacy policy in preparation for Google's new interest-based advertising. According to Google, 'Interest-based advertising enables advertisers to reach users based on their interests (e.g. 'sports enthusiasts'), and allows them to show ads based on a user's previous interactions with them, such as visits to advertiser websites.' In order to do this, Google requires to place a cookie in the computer of the user and Google AdSense now requires publishers to change their website's privacy policy accordingly.

Submission + - Argument About Streaming to be Streamed (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Friday March 13, 2009 @11:49AM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "You may recall that in an RIAA case, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the district court ruled that an oral argument about the constitutionality of statutory damages could be streamed, and the RIAA has been fighting that with a petition for 'mandamus or prohibition' in the appeals court, which is opposed by the press. Interestingly, it now turns out that the appeals court's oral argument about the streaming will itself be recorded and then streamed. It is hard to imagine how a court which routinely streams its own oral arguments can rule that it is somehow inappropriate for similar oral arguments in the district court to be streamed as well."

Comment Real Cost? (Score 2, Insightful) 410

by SOOPRcow on Monday May 12, 2008 @11:07AM (#23378358) Attached to: SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble

Is that the real cost of sending a text msg or just the average rate charged per msg? One has got to think its cheaper for phone companies to send a text msg then it is to make a phone call, but I don't know.

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