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Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking
naught writes "Fuddruckers, a hamburger chain, hotlinked to a flash game developer's Burgertime clone on their 'Fuddrockers' page. When the developer noticed an abnormal amount of traffic coming from their website, he decided to let the company know how he felt -- and maybe teach them about hotlinking.." From the post: "So, I redirected everything coming from Fuddruckers.com. (learned all about .htaccess files also... neat!) Wrote a nice little message pointing out how incredibly stupid their web developer is. And then redirected the main page to a pleasant little website showing photographs of slaughterhouses. And also opened up some more popups, for those that don't have popup blockers."
In days with people suffering because of Katrina, this guy wants to cause a little more suffering.
Bzzt! You lose.
Every day thousands of people die of starvation. Tens of thousands die from "preventable" diseases. Playing the "Katrina card" is just self-aggrandizement. "Oooh look at me, I have more pathos than the other guy, so my argument must be correct!"
Fuddruckers was stupid, and they got slapped for it. So what else is new in the world?
Besides, have you eaten at Fuddruckers? It is the biggest freaking greasebomb I've ever seen, yeech. The links to slaughterhouse pics are appropriate.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Unfortunately, courtesy is in short supply these days, especially from companies. And corporate webdesigners are not known for their technical etiquette.
Translation for all of us out here who don't speak European Dickwad:
I'm not in the US, so people here aren't suffering the kind of moral panic you seem to have succumbed to.
I'm snobbish about not being from the USA. Because my country isn't nearly as important, powerful, or rich I achieve this snobbery by claiming the US suffers from things like "moral panic" or "not enough boobies". In reality, I just have a small penis.
Television serves up sex and violence on a daily basis and children are exposed to many of the things the "guardians of morality" are decrying. Society hasn't broken down, my country has very low teenage pregnancy rates and a low crime rate. Children do get to see the bad / strange side of the world and that tends to make them more socially engaged, more tolerant and better informed.
My TV has boobies and yours doesn't. I think this makes me special. I reject guidelines of decency on a general principle because I think it's cool and it lets me feel superior to the US. Society in my country hasn't broken down because it wasn't there to begin with. Teenage pregnancy is low because everyone is fucking each other up the ass. I like to claim crime rate is low, but thats just because we legalized fucking everything, even murder. Hey, thats the third world for you. I like to claim children are more tolerant and better informed because they see bad things on TV, but really you just can't avoid it because my country is so fucking poor.
There is nothing wrong with showing the customers where meat comes from, even the children. If they can't handle that truth, they shouldn't be eating meat in the first place. I'm not a vegetarian, I eat meat on a daily basis, but I believe in treating the animals well in life, killing them quickly and slaughtering them efficiently.
Well, everyone on slashdot eats meat and is generally environmentally concious... so I'm just gonna kind of rant about random shit that has no bearing in the current context. To make me feel better I'm going to make the wild assumption that people not wanting to be surprised by shit they normally see means they never want to see it... yeah! That'll show those rich and powerful Americans!
Oh and by the way, the word 'cunt' is the most widely used expletive in my language (only it's an adjective around here) it's bandied about by everybody both in real life and on television day and night, even in polite conversation. It lost it's power to shock twenty years ago.
Oh yeah! I play the pussy game! It's a lot like the penis game, only European! I think it makes me cool! Shelly on the school bus thinks it's gross, but when she touches my hand it makes my peepee feel funny, so I like to brush up against here while yelling "CUNT!" on the school bus.
SUMMARY:I have a small penis and wish I was an American.
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