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Submission + - Study Says Targeted Ads Gettin' A Lil' Creepy (physorg.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: Ever load up a completely random webpage to see an advertisement at the top for products related to what you're reading about? What about the advertisement with binoculars that says your green denim jacket doesn't really go with your eyes? Well, a recent marketing study is saying that making a highly visible advertisement content aware is too much for consumers. It seems that to optimize clicks and purchases you should use a highly visible ad or a more diminutive ad that is content aware but not both. For marketers, this report talks about the consumer having this crazy notion of privacy and at some point they start to feel like you're crossing the line.
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Submission + - Porn sites more infected than thought (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by nk497
nk497 writes: Porn sites are five times as likely to host malware as previously thought, with 3.6% offering up a digital infection of some sort, according to a researchers who set up their very own adult sites for a new study. One reason for the high rate of malware is that the online porn industry makes use of affiliate programmes, where one site will drive traffic to another in exchange for links, cash or simply free pornographic material to use. Because such programmes don’t check who they’re doing business with, and sites use disguised links and other clandestine methods to drive people to different pages, it’s easy for criminals to abuse the system to spread malware. Researcher Gilbert Wondracek said: “They inadvertently have created an ecosystem that can easily be abused on a large scale by cyber criminals, and that’s worrying.”

Submission + - 'Innocent infringement' to go to Supreme Court? (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: Several years ago a federal court in Texas ordered the RIAA, in an 'innocent infringement' case against a teenager, to either accept $200 per infringed work, or to go to trial over the 'innocent infringement' issue, in Maverick Recording Co v. Harper. Recently, an appeals court reversed, saying that the defendant could not avail herself of the 'innocent infringement' defense since there were CD's, bearing copyright notices, available in stores, even though the copies she had made were from mp3 files which bore no such notice. Now, a petition for certiorari has been filed on the defendant's behalf, arguing that the 5th Circuit's ruling would make it impossible for anyone to interpose an innocent infringement case, even where they had never seen a copyright notice. The lawyers filing the petition on defendant's behalf are the same firm that represented Jammie Thomas in her second trial, and the motion which resulted in her verdict being reduced from $1.92 million to $54,000.

Comment Re:society isn't benefiting (Score 1) 651

by r00t (#31403346) Attached to: Lessons of a $618,616 Death

Mental abilities are largely genetic. The environment can make you dumb, but it can't ensure you will be smart.

If she's busy unlocking the secrets of the universe or finding cures for cancer, then she is genetically superior in at least one way. That can make up for her defects.

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