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Comment: Reminds me of the Adult online market (Score 1) 115

by PktLoss (#46963289) Attached to: How Free-To-Play Is Constricting Mobile Games

I used to work for a very large player in the adult online space, video content and the like.

Their research showed that customers who signed up had a window, measured in weeks, in which they'd blow a bunch of cash, then stop. This is why if you do sign up for an adult site you'll see their content, and ads for content from other sites (some they own, some their competitors). The links to competitors surprised me, but it makes sense. There's a very high Cost-Per-Action (CPA) in that space, and the window to get that user to spend money is closing, so any opportunity is worth looking into. You make less money sending them to your competitors, anything > 0.


Comment: Doesn't solve fundamental problem (Score 1) 273

by PktLoss (#46660979) Attached to: Algorithm Challenge: Burning Man Vehicle Exodus

The fundamental problem seems to be the bottleneck of cars getting onto the highway. By creating a priority lane you'll be reducing the number of cars/minute that are able to leave via the regular lane. Additionally there will likely be some switching inefficiencies introduced with the new lane merge.

So some cars will get out faster, other cars will get out slower (as the non-priority cars wait for the priority cars to pass them and leave), I think we'll see average car wait time increase here. The extra labour used to manage entrance to the express lane could probably be better spent on highway flagging or looking to optimize the highway merge for more vehicles/minute.

Comment: Security Breaches (Score 2) 171

by PktLoss (#45807811) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Getting an Uncooperative Website To Delete One's Account?

I'm often interested in deleting accounts I don't use to avoid handing over my data to attackers when their systems are breached. The more sites I've given my data to, the more likely some random attack that grabs a DB dump is to have a copy of my Name, Email, (hashed)? password, etc. Depending on the type of site it may even get some bonus data in the form of answers to security questions.

This sounds lame, but the amount of spam currently directed at the accounts I used on: the motley fool, eharmony, Adobe, is quite high. Just putting my name at the top makes it that much more likely I'll be scammed by some phishing email.

Comment: Re:use wifi (Score 4, Informative) 250








Turn your office ceiling into a pacman arena!










Comment: Problems? (Score 1) 119

So, this presents some challenges to me.







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