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Comment by bugsbunnyak | Hacker News Reader

I thought this sounded familiar - AlexMuir called it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2902749

and score one for Larry Ellison: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051730

Haha. Here's another one I am skeptical about - BlinkX.

Edit: I just went to check their stock price - it's down 12%. Hmmm, I thought, has Autonomy cast a shadow on UK techs? Wait a minute - who's this grimmacing at me down the bottom?

http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Summary?s=...

It's only Dr Mike Lynch, Non-Executive Director. Who'd have thunk it?

We at OpenDNS have believed BlinkX to have something less than above board going on based on some VERY UNUSUAL traffic patterns that we started to notice a couple years ago related to ad clicks. Ad clicks that we couldn't explain in any legitimate way.

We never dived too deep, and never pursued, so no evidence to present, just a theory we had internally.

If you don't mind, could you perhaps shed a bit of light on this (or if not on this situation in particular, on the type of data to which you're referring)? I've often thought of DNS-derived data as a potential source of independent info on traffic patterns, fraudulent clicks, etc., so I'm particularly curious.

halfwit, you appear to be hellbanned on HN. You might want to take that up with pg.

Do to the frequency with which I see people attempting to alert a hell banned party (which obviously defeats its purpose), I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the hell banned can't see any post that contains the word 'hell banned'.

Sorry continuing this off-topic thread, but I'm actually curious what it takes to become 'hell banned'. I've noticed several banned users lately, and this is another case where none of the user's comments/submissions seem overly trollish or offensive.

Unfortunately I can't seem to find it, but I thought there was a quote from Larry in all the HP/Oracle mudslinging about Autonomy barely being worth $1Billion. That's pretty impressive forecasting given that HP now values them at about 1.5B (10.3B purchase price minus the 8.8B write-down).

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