Google doesn't state the specifics of how they prevent click fraud because doing so would create more click fraud.

There are awful businesses making a lot of money to perform click fraud, and they'll take anything they can to learn ways to do so effectively. If Google makes a complete list of how they prevent click fraud, there's a chance their clients will feel a little more at least having a list of technical details that, as business people, they don't really understand. But who will absolutely eat that document up is the click fraud teams who are technical, and looking for every last ounce of detail they can get.

Google is doing the right thing for its customers by not offering professional frauds a virtual manual on how to circumvent click fraud protections. Google's customers need to get this message rather than complain about the inevitable nature of the anonymous web.

If the "Google Pack" is any indication, probably a Google-branded Firefox would serve the ads... .

Or perhaps the Google Sidebar would be locked in place at right with an ads plugin running, that you can't remove while connected.

It will be interesting to see how Google attempts to implement what's going to be a very difficult thing to do - force a user's computer to do something based on system-level information. Many companies have tried (anyone ever use that AllAdvantage paid browsing?) and ended up having to invade user's PCs and cause instability or accept that everyone disables their ads but receives the benefits... .

I'm with JS as well - as much of our daily lives as possible should be wasted on tasks like parking and getting to where we want to go. Screw that Roomba too! What am I gonna do with those hours I used to spend vacuuming? OMG

Ummmmmm - hello, that laptop scored badly because its graphics are a joke. People should be thanking Microsoft for releasing a tool that calls crippled machines out on their crippling features.

Nearly every PC comes with a cripplingly low amount of RAM even though RAM is cheap, and a joke for 3D and sound, and sometimes even a crippled ethernet card, when the latter 2 can be had for just a few dollars more - because most consumers don't know what to look for. This tool will hopefully put a number on these crippled PCs and people will finally see them for what they are.

Vista's numerous 3D and vector capabilities basically work best on a gaming machine, and I'm willing to bet my moderate $1500 gaming machine sitting in my room now would rate a 4 or 5 on this system. The one crappy thing about Vista is that your 3D card's fan is going to spin up nearly all of the time, which is going to create a serious noise issue on Vista PCs - and a serious battery issue on Vista laptops.

Don't diss LED, the difference in the color quality and energy savings is a big step.

Dissing taglines that are too long is the kind of ignorant attitude that let Intel outsell AMD for the 5 years that AMD had them beat hands-down: The explanation was too long. If you want crappy products, stick to that motto and you'll get what you ask for.

Screen! Too small!

It's been admitted on the floor of Congress that the sole legitimate reason for keeping cell phones off on a plane is to prevent the annoyance of people making calls. The idea that they'll send the plane careening to the ground is just a scare tactic - "We're not asking you to be polite - people could die".

This article states this scare tactic again but again provides no proof for it - as usual, there isn't any.

The only legitimate technical concern I've read on cells being used on a plane is that they would connect to more cell towers, weakly. On a grand scale this unusual usage of the cell towers may cause disruption of the cell network in general, as the software managing the towers doesn't know quite what to do with that kind of signal.

This scare tactic is crap, and we should demand we stop being lied to.

If someone breaks into your house and steals your TV, do they deserve it because you poorly attempted to stop them? No.

Since the USPTO is a (recovering) mess and the US thinks it's leading the "Information Age" yet can't figure out how to legislate anything about intellectual property, what the judge ought to do is review the patent invalidation proceedings, and recognize NTP doesn't have a leg to stand on. He can't decide to just wait until the invalidation process is complete, so he ought to declare himself too biased after reviewing the ongoing invalidations, and excuse himself from the case. That can throw the case back into the long queue, hopefully giving it all enough time for NTP to be proven fraudulent on all counts, and the whole thing can be handled properly at last.

I'll take battery life over running Skype man.

Besides, that TI OMAP CPU is ARM isn't it? That's a very popular and widely-used architecture. I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of common apps like Skype migrate there in time anyway. And isn't the OMAP multi-threaded? Seems like that'd give you a smoother experience. I've read a review with the Intel XScale that said there was lag in switching modes and apps. After the way the Pentium 4 has been put to shame by anything made by AMD and even Intel's own Pentium M's, I rather an ARM chip any day over what they've got.

That's the stupidest idea for a keyboard I've ever seen.

If that's real, they should save their user's frustration and not bring that thing to market. If it's not real, then future SmartPhone Designers: You now have one more perfect example of what NOT to do when designing new phones.