Chrome Browser Usage Artificially Boosted

okayUK · 1 day

I don't know how reddit breaks up and serves the data. Hopefully a refresh is little more than a http head checking expiration and some interim data. But I imagine voting, and RES doing incremental updates, and RES pulling the up/downs adds up quick.

What do you mean by '"g" -> google and "f" -> facebook and "t" -> twitter.'?

humortogo · 1 day

I really do hope Google uses it not to reap profit from others by further miring the system, but to stake a claim and tell others "piss off with the bullshit or we'll crush you." I don't want them to be a whipping boy, I hope they use it to make it easier to make money actually bringing cool shit to market unencumbered.

The underlying question all comes back to: what should and should not be patented. Patents are supposed to protect innovative ideas and the investment made behind developing stuff. A large portion of what's patented these days rewards the first person to think of patenting something logical. For example; IIRC there was an article last week about how Samsung or HTC took out the popup that asked which app you wanted to share a link with because of an Apple claim.

It's not like Apple spent millions developing the idea, it's not like they're the first one to say, if I'm sharing a link, should I ask the user how they want to share it. It's part and parcel to a simple concept.

I say this as someone with his name on 4 bullshit patents that are more complex than a system of sharing something asking someone how they want to share it.

okayUK · 1 day

I was looking for that article and couldn't find it, thanks. I'm not sure it proves my point, but it does correlate with my guess.

I wonder how many individual requests the average page takes to load and how many additional RES adds. I personally don't understand why reddit hasn't added some of the RES features to the site, the cost of doing up/down votes on the backend has to be cheaper than RES hammering away with additional requests.

chase2020 · 1 day

I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'm not saying your friend invented the idea or that the people who build them enjoy making them. Just that the first person to make an 8 bit soda display had the idea and did it on a whim and possibly caught flak for it. I'm sure at this point it's simply work to those who build them.

chase2020 · 1 day

I'm going to say there's a 50/50 chance that the first person to build one of these displays got in trouble with their boss for it being a waste of time.

(I'd also say it's 50/50 that the first guy to do it was stoned when he got the idea)

Flowtos · 1 day

I believe this is the testing method outlined in ASTM I-D107 for unexploded ordinances.

If you need further information I found a training video for reference.

humortogo · 1 day

Did I say that what Moto did before the acquisition reflected on Google?

What was inferring is now that Google has acquired Moto, their 15K patents and whatever litigation in progress and/or planned, what they do with it will say a lot about Google.

I'm not saying they'll do bad with it, I'm actually hoping that maybe they'll use some of that IP/power to convince others to ease up on the pointless patent bullshit that goes on. But ultimately what they acquired in Moto is a tempting ammunition to seek retribution on others who use their IP as a weapon.

(I still kind of hope that the big dogs get into a massive IP war that shows just how unsustainable and stupid some of the infringement claims out there are)

okayUK · 2 days

I bet a significant portion of reddit users are using Chrome. Factor in F5, F5, F5, F5 and reddit enhancement suite, you end up with probably 30% of total web traffic globally (ok so maybe I'm exaggerating a bit).

humortogo · 2 days

I guess now we see just how far Google has strayed from the Don't Be Evil philosophy.

Personally, I'm hoping for a Wargames resolution. At some point they realize that playing tic-tac-toe with patents only leads to full on war which ends in mutually assured destruction, so don't play.

nomdeweb · 4 days

It's a bending unit, it's a cnc, it's a rapid prototyping machine, they don't need to be mutually exclusive.

raniel_dadcliffe · 4 days

And don't call him WTF.

nightwood · 4 days

well duh, lock the door before beating off,

ColtPale · 4 days

holy shit, finally found a subreddit that gives me the heebee jeebies

KillerG · 5 days

Can someone again explain to me how the manufacturers who MAKE the fucking phones and employ dedicated developers, take longer to release ICS builds than the community who is cobbling shit together without documentation on the hardware in their spare time?

ProjectStormy · 5 days

Just as many? Highly doubtful.

A significant portion that removes the novelty of a girl gamer, I can buy that.

DrJulianBashir · 6 days

Is it even remotely possible that this does not already exist in enterprise/network operations? I would imagine, Amazon, Google, Level 3, Verizon, whoever already have something like this, if not for actual usability, at least for a light show the big bosses use to blow customers and look like they have a handle on things.

In smaller scale applications I don't see what value the visual representation has. If you're planning an upgrade, you're probably building usage metrics over average periods, the instant visualization isn't super useful except in trouble shooting, and maybe new roll outs. I also don't understand what value it would have putting it physically on a router.

Don't get me wrong, if I had a software program that let me connect to dd-wrt and put that visualization up, I would use the shit out of it and it would probably end up my desktop wallpaper just for the nifty factor.

HandsOfNod · 6 days

I understand the value behind consistency, and the soft costs in going back. If you have reasonable expectation that the site may or is likely to grow, then sure do it once and be done. If you're managing 200 sites and 195 of them all justify the big router, then sure, throw it in the other 5 because you'll likely save more just in having a consistent environment to administrate.

But I'm willing to bet that in this case half of the 1,064 routers are justified and the other might have done fine with a $2K unit, and the $5mil savings ($12,600 - $2000 x 500) could have been put to better use and would have been more cost effective.

HandsOfNod · 6 days

A $12,600 router does probably do more than a $900 router (one would hope).

What the politician failed to realize in their knee-jerk response was that using a $900 router for two computers DOES provide the same opportunity to those two students as does the $12,600 router to the 1500 students it services.

OfficerPaulBlart · 6 days

I'm willing to bet that the people in the neighborhood wish this particular location was a Trader Joe's instead of an Aldi as much as reddit would.

(yes, I mean change Aldi to Trader Joe's on the sign)

Trishlovesdolphins · 6 days

She worked hard for the money.

Jimusey · 6 days

I'm going to guess, he didn't contemplate that part before doing it.

b0red · 6 days

Yes and dammit, I've beaten off to Bernadette in the past, now it feels all awkward.

otiose321 · 6 days

Because if it is a real receipt, it was likely actually a check pre-written based on a statement that included the 30 cents.

otiose321 · 6 days

Probably because it was a cashier/certified check written for the payoff amount on a statement and it was too late to change it when the system brought up a even dollar amount (I've seen some registers call checks cash since they're functionally equivalent compared to say a credit card).

If it's not just a fake receipt, there's no way they would accept $114K in currency and then let them overpay the 30 cents.

otiose321 · 6 days

Depends on how much the car is and the dealership, a $9K used car, probably/possibly, trying to buy a $35K Nissan, probably not, a $400K Lamborghini, well they don't ask a lot of questions about where the $400K in cash comes from.

I have also seen registers ring up checks as cash, so I'm going to guess that if it's not as you said, someone fucking around with a receipt printer, it was a cashier/certified check, which is what you would get if you were taking out a second mortgage or doing some kind of debt consolidation.

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