[QUOTE=Zephyrs;50626612]Going beyond this, don't even click on any links, and don't show any external pictures in the email. I'm not aware of anyone using this in copyright notices yet, legitimate ones or otherwise, but they will use unique identifiers to keep track of which emails got, and looked at, the notice. By not going to any links, or loading any pictures, it's just a black hole. They don't know if you looked at the email, or not. They do use codes to validate things, but embedded images aren't being used from what I know.
This has an extra legal implication besides just validating the email address for more spam. If and when you actually get sued for something like this, they can use these as a sort of circumstantial proof that you viewed the email. Think of it as the email equivalent to registered/certified mail with return receipt. They have some form of validation that the letter was received.
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Yeah, you fucked up really badly if you did this. NEVER respond to anything you aren't willing to pay unless it's an actual summons to court. Doesn't matter what it is. People send threats all the fucking time. It's just fishing for low hanging fruit. People threaten to sue all the time too. Rarely does anyone actually follow through. Same applies to debt collectors in general. If you don't want to pay the debt, even if it's valid, don't fucking talk to them. It's like talking to the police. It CANNOT help you.
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Just going to quote myself from a month ago.
You fed the troll. You're probably going to get bombarded with notices now, and might actually get sued. Well that and your email is probably being sold to spammers now.
Bunker down, and hope you don't get sued.[/QUOTE]
Welp. Let's see how it goes. They will probably send another notice before "their due date" for settlement or some shit like that through my ISP.
[QUOTE=Shadaez;50628398]i was agreeing with you, the knob and tumor ruin it[/QUOTE]
Oh, I misread then. (Which happens pretty much all the time.) :v:
[QUOTE=garychencool;50628417]Welp. Let's see how it goes. They will probably send another notice before "their due date" for settlement or some shit like that through my ISP.[/QUOTE]
You got gmail? Cause if so Google blocks the tags and triggers that show you looked at the email or loaded the pictures.
Granted you then went to the link, but many do.
Honestly, you'll be fine. You -might- get another notice, but it again has no worth.
[I]just don't click the damn links again.[/I]
Nice, I'm on the bus on my way to but a 1070, but they just sold out. They must have only ordered like one or two, that's shitty
The heat output from the shitty Founders Edition cooler on my 1080 inflicted heat damage on my active adapter
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;50628353]got an exam in a few hours
coffee isn't doing shit
I should just upgrade to cocaine :vs:[/QUOTE]
Meth.
my 1080 should have arrived today but there was some fuckery with the transport :cry:
now I have to wait until Monday, these next two days will be painful
[QUOTE=kaukassus;50628113]Is that still a problem? I mean all of the diagrams I see in unveils by big companies do this.
Obviously it might skew things at first glance, but everything is properly labeled.
Taken from the /g/ thread:
[t]https://files.catbox.moe/qbssrc.jpg[/t]
This one starts from 0, but also takes up way more space and the whole thing looks a lot more cluttered. 80% of that chart is just a waste of space.[/QUOTE]
The issue is that at a glance it looks like they're advertising twice the performance and more.
It's meant to mislead.
[QUOTE=paul simon;50628880]The issue is that at a glance it looks like they're advertising twice the performance and more.
It's meant to mislead.[/QUOTE]
Isn't that always the case when you are meant to show off how good your product is?
I mean, what would please your higher-ups and stakeholders more, a Competely honest diagram that shows your product is only ahead of the competition by a small margin, or one that is factually correct, but at first glance shows that your product is a lot more impressive than the competition.
Also isn't the concept of marketing partially based around deception? As in make your product seem more impressive than it actually is, without actually lying? Seems like the marketing people are just doing their job.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;50629187]Isn't that always the case when you are meant to show off how good your product is?
I mean, what would please your higher-ups and stakeholders more, a Competely honest diagram that shows your product is only ahead of the competition by a small margin, or one that is factually correct, but at first glance shows that your product is a lot more impressive than the competition.
Also isn't the concept of marketing partially based around deception? As in make your product seem more impressive than it actually is, without actually lying? Seems like the marketing people are just doing their job.[/QUOTE]
All this has accomplished is making any information from a corporate marketing department basically meaningless
[editline]1st July 2016[/editline]
Corporate marketing is essentially a shareholder jerk off session
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;50628485]You got gmail? Cause if so Google blocks the tags and triggers that show you looked at the email or loaded the pictures.
Granted you then went to the link, but many do.
Honestly, you'll be fine. You -might- get another notice, but it again has no worth.
[I]just don't click the damn links again.[/I][/QUOTE]
Using gmail.
The notice was all text and had links so I'm pretty sure by clicking on it, it indicates that someone actually looked at the message (although I'm not the account holder so whatever) and logged into the thing with the code to see it and such.
But yeah, if they send it to me, I'm going to flat out ignore it. They only have IP address and no email, no physical address/location, etc. on it so I should be fine.
Probably. If anything, not account holder, not my problem.
So, I'm about to build myself a new system (partly due to wanting new toys like M.2 SSDs and partly to give my old to my GF to replace her terribad HP laptop) and I have to make a decision.
I currently have 3 1080p 60 Hz monitors and will be giving one to my GF.
My budget allows me to get either a 1080p 144Hz monitor [I]or[/I] a 2k/1440p 60 Hz monitor. I can't afford G-Sync or a 1440p 144 Hz monitor.
Right now I'm looking at this one: [url]https://www.amazon.com/Asus-VG248QE-24-inch-Ergonomic-Back-lit/dp/B00B2HH7G0[/url]
If you already have 2 1080p monitors, the 1080 144hz might be a good choice. Keeps the desktop space uniform, and you get 144 hz in games.
Okay so I work in the IT group at a financial services company in my area, and for the LONGEST time my boss has been fighting with our Marketing department because they're all using bandwidth listening to Pandora.
Long story short, they created and paid for (using company resources and convincing their supervisor) ads on fucking Pandora for our company (which is decent sized in our county/surrounding counties but probably not big enough to warrant targeted ads on Pandora of all things) and so now they say they need to have Pandora open so that they can, "make sure the ads are playing correctly." :v::v::v:
I'm seriously too impressed with their scheme to be upset, my boss is pissed but everyone else in our department busted up laughing when he told us. And it had to be recent, because this fight has been going on for nearly 2 years, and they only just now mentioned the adds. It was always some other BS excuse to get my boss of their back until this point.
[QUOTE=hippowombat;50629913]Okay so I work in the IT group at a financial services company in my area, and for the LONGEST time my boss has been fighting with our Marketing department because they're all using bandwidth listening to Pandora.
Long story short, they created and paid for (using company resources and convincing their supervisor) ads on fucking Pandora for our company (which is decent sized in our county/surrounding counties but probably not big enough to warrant targeted ads on Pandora of all things) and so now they say they need to have Pandora open so that they can, "make sure the ads are playing correctly." :v::v::v:
I'm seriously too impressed with their scheme to be upset, my boss is pissed but everyone else in our department busted up laughing when he told us. And it had to be recent, because this fight has been going on for nearly 2 years, and they only just now mentioned the adds. It was always some other BS excuse to get my boss of their back until this point.[/QUOTE]
How many Pandora streams do they have open? :v:
Just QoS the shit out of pandora so "they know when the ad is playing on one stream" but it fucks their actual listening up.
[QUOTE=Revenge282;50629962]How many Pandora streams do they have open? :v:[/QUOTE]
At least 4, one at every desk, open from the moment they sit down until the moment they leave for the day.
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[QUOTE=Levelog;50629990]Just QoS the shit out of pandora so "they know when the ad is playing on one stream" but it fucks their actual listening up.[/QUOTE]
That was one of my co-worker's first suggestion.
i know that at least for google
clicking on your own ads is a bad thing
check the pandora ad agreement and see if listening to your own ads is also a bad thing
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;50630005]i know that at least for google
clicking on your own ads is a bad thing
check the pandora ad agreement and see if listening to your own ads is also a bad thing[/QUOTE]
Eh, if they're fucking that up that's their business, I highly doubt they're actually utilizing the ad services to further our business, I'm convinced it was just a tactic to get my boss off their back.
[QUOTE=hippowombat;50630044]Eh, if they're fucking that up that's their business, I highly doubt they're actually utilizing the ad services to further our business, I'm convinced it was just a tactic to get my boss off their back.[/QUOTE]
you can use that to flip it around and tell them to stop
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;50630105]you can use that to flip it around and tell them to stop[/QUOTE]
Oh jeez I totally didn't even think of it like that. That's a great idea! Thanks :)
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;50630005]check the pandora ad agreement and see if listening to your own ads is also a bad thing[/QUOTE]
I doubt that is a thing. The only thing they can go off of is possibly an IP address connected, and even then there is no way for them to prove it was someone affiliated to the company listening to the stream.
Just looked into it, and since Pandora runs their billing based on CPM, they're actually costing the company more by, "proof-listening" to their own ads.
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[QUOTE=BackSapper;50630170]I doubt that is a thing. The only thing they can go off of is possibly an IP address connected, and even then there is no way for them to prove it was someone affiliated to the company listening to the stream.[/QUOTE]
Yeah there's likely not a way to trace it back to their IPs, etc, but just by listening to the ads, they're racking up more CPM counts and incurring more costs as a result.
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Added it up, they're incurring an extra $250ish per year on the very low end by, "proofing" their own ads. That's just the costs incurred from the 4 of them listening. Which isn't that bad, but it's annoying when you consider that our accounting head had a fucking aneurysm and temporarily banned sticky notes because they were getting to be too big of a cost.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;50628113]
Taken from the /g/ thread:
[t]https://files.catbox.moe/qbssrc.jpg[/t]
This one starts from 0, but also takes up way more space and the whole thing looks a lot more cluttered. 80% of that chart is just a waste of space.[/QUOTE]
I don't understand the waste of space thing. It's just a graph that shows you the performance comparison better.
Lol. When you run advertising on a CPM billing (which is cost per THOUSAND) one or two clicks to make sure the link is working properly is a completely negligible effect
[QUOTE=DanTehMan;50630349]Lol. When you run advertising on a CPM billing (which is cost per THOUSAND) one or two clicks to make sure the link is working properly is a completely negligible effect[/QUOTE]
Right but when there's 4 of them getting those views 7 times per listener hour (which is where the CPM is counted) times 8 working hours a day times 22 average working days per month times 12 working months per year, it adds up. Again, not to anything monumental, but when they're being this petty about it instead of just using the WiFi we provide and listening to music on their phones, and when cost concerns are so intense that post-it notes are banned from company expenses, it falls within that scope.
Honestly I'm probably being equally petty looking this far into it, but frankly they're very snippy on a regular basis and it's not that big of a deal to just use your phone + WiFi.
Here are two UPlay keys if anyone wants it:
Far Cry 3: NH4A-C83E-CC4U-MLLL
FC3 Blood Dragon: B3NH-F46L-4737-UAER
[t]http://i.imgur.com/iCf64CE.png[/t]
Here, I made a graph that'll make everyone happy.
Not "too big", it's more representative of the performance at a glance, and there's no more JPEG.
EDIT: Yeah except for the fact that the data is questionable.
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;50630674]Yeah except for the fact that the [B]imaginary unitless numbers[/B] are questionable.[/QUOTE]
ftfy
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;50630674][t]http://i.imgur.com/iCf64CE.png[/t]
Here, I made a graph that'll make everyone happy.
Not "too big", it's more representative of the performance at a glance, and there's no more JPEG.
EDIT: Yeah except for the fact that the data is questionable.[/QUOTE]
If I was a marketing guy, and used "A bit faster than <competing product>", I'd be polishing my resume about now.
But yes, the data that this charts provides is essentually useless, since it does not provide information on what was used to compare the hardware.
General rule is to ignore such charts, and wait for charts from independent people, since the manufacturer will obviously always be biased towards it's own product, and thus will always make his product look superior.
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