Posts by quattroprorocked 132 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Aug 2015
"Meetrics uses the ad industry (IAB) measure of viewability: "At least 50 per cent of the surface of an online ad have to appear in the visible area of the browser for at least one second (50/1)"
Bloody hell. I doubt that an ad is viewable unless 100% appears for at least 10 seconds, but if they measured that then all the ad buyers would wonder why "viewability" was around 5%.
Publishers should simply say that they will only deal with the client/agency, and vet all ads for being sensible. All ads to be served from the publishers servers.
At the risk of sounding poetical - show me a beautiful snowflake or two and I'll give you some attention, but serve me up a blizzard and I'm ignoring all of it.
Is what people really want.
At the moment the jurisdictional tax arbitrage games that multinationals plan means that they can have the same real costs as a small local business but magical lunacy like deciding that it's IP is in a Dutch Sandwich allows it to undercut the local company AND make it's profits go phut. (Not they do, they miraculously reappear in a tax haven).
The Google deal has about as much to do with rigorous math as Jack's beanstalk has to do with careful gardening.
@anonymous coward
Your L'burg lawyer thing is irrelevent. In fact it's worse than that because right now they can, and do Uk co legal work for MORE than a Uk lawyer, but the tax advantage of funnelling millions/billions through L'burg makes it sensible to hire them.
Any accountant can make profits dance anywhere they like, for a multinational.
You can reduce profits in the UK by charging the UK firm a fee for use of IP, but ensure that said fee winds up in a place not taxed.
Google's global margins are around 27%.
Any sensible tax system would look at the UK sales, and if the company was declaring lower margins, simply tax the company as if it's UK margins reflected the global ones.
At a stroke this would remove any incentive for companies to structure in ways that focused on tax, but would have no effect on structure for logical business purposes. E.g. if Ireland has the best sales staff or L'burg the best IP lawyers, keep using them.
It's also something that every other country could implement as well.
Hardly forgotten for a a 100 years. Simply 100 years ahead of the curve for general appreciation. That she was rediscovered only after the work had been done from scratch simply shows how good she was.
Computer programs need computers. Until practical computers existed computer programming was as useless as prime number stuff but with even less scope for intellectual fun.
Prime number factorization dates back to Gauss and had damn all use until there were practical computers. However it wasn't forgotten because math types can do shit for fun with paper and pencil :-)
Backdoors to encryption would (be a bad idea but) deal with ciphers.
To tackle codes, you need humint. Codes are harder to use, but that hasn't stopped clandestine orgs using them for hundreds of years. We used them to talk to the resistance in plain english radio in WW2 and we didn't give a shit that the Germans were listening, because unless they knew what "Joe is walking the dog" REALLY meant, hearing it did them no good.
Backdooring won't protect anyone, but will damage many.
Returning as soon as it goes wrong for X times previous salary.
Saw it happen to a neighbour. He had coded nuclear power station stuff for Magnox facilities in some 50's language and 6 months later got a begging letter and and an invitation to write his own cheque until he had either delivered "start from scratch documentation" or the station was shut down, which was on the cards then and has happened now.
When he first retired he had a nice pension and his house paid off. When he next retired a few years later he also had a place in Spain, a narrowboat, and the resources to flit between them as the mood took.
Bought one because my Galaxy2 was on the way out.
Great. It's a phone, it makes calls, it does txt, it has google maps, internet and my email/calender. And a keyboard big enough for my fingers to do emails. Short ones, if I absolutely have to.
130 all in I think.
Pay more than 200 for a phone? Why? Really, just why?
Er, no, the Bible (I can't quite believe I'm writing this) doesn't say that Pi is 3. You have inferred this by calculating back from the fact that the story only reports the diameter, height and circumference to an accuracy of one significant figure.
While ONE significant figure is probably a little on the vague side at least the Biblical reporter is consistent. A modern day one writing for a popular publication for the masses would have probably opted to define it as a circle with an area as a fraction of a football pitch, height in full grown men and a volume to the nearest Elephant. Probably thinking that all football pitches are the same size and ditto full grown men and elephants.
The trusty Galaxy Series 2 (owned from new) was starting to glitch and I wanted to turn three phones in to two. Dual SIM looked useful.
I am very happy with the Swift. I use it as a phone, for getting txts (no one ever expects one back) and Gmail and Google Maps. Both SIMs work fine and the battery life is fine.
I like it.
They do this when pushed.
After I wrote some ground up maths modelling of a bird flu pandemic and how it would interact with the insurance/pensions business the Regulators went from "don't worry about it, all under control, and no, we won't tell you what the plans are" to suddenly requesting full detailed plans from the insurers (when they realised I'd be publishing and that there would be questions) to a full scale resilience test within weeks of publication
I think that somewhere, someone who knows both the regulators and the practical side of banking infrastructure has done something similar and got their attention.
If you want people busy people to be secure, don't let them use their phone. Telling them to use a specific app on their phone isn't good enough as it won't be an app they use often enough to be an automatic reaction.
There is a case for giving all staff their own device For Medical Use. Maybe in a nice medical Red colour.
Medical staff will be much more attuned to a Device/Task link than an App/Task one.
This allows training / memos along the lines "Business Matter? Business Phone. Personal matter, personal phone" and then have a swear box that miscreants have to donate to every time they get caught flinging Business stuff to personal phones. And then also have the Uniforms and White Coats incorporate Phone Pockets. The one at the front for the Medifone (TM, me), and a buttoned up one under the armpit for the - deliberately hard to reach - Personal Phone
Bitcoin wanted to be taken seriously as money, they can't start whining when it is.
As to that Japanese Judge, he clearly missed out on his basic "what is money" lessons. Money has always been intangible. Coin etc is simply a representation, (try spending a few francs). How would he rule on a mining rights issue? the RIGHT to mine is an intangible, even if the ground under discussion is made of solid gold.
It's not an irrational fear of loss of control. It's a rational fear of handing control to large organisations with poor records re security and fault acceptance.
With aircraft, the pilot has skin in the game. If his pilot error kills you, he kills himself.
If Google's error kills you, it's just you what's dead.
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