Aha, so this only affects web browsers. Other ports besides 80 are somehow ignored...at least that is what happens on this end.
So perhaps it's not that bad. Port designations aren't sent with DNS queries, though, which makes this a bit puzzling. At least if it's true your mail queue wont' clog. Anyone with more experience in the area care to elaborate/prove it wrong? Not looking for a flame war, but a little scientific method.
Sometimes when I mistype a URL I get pages which say "BUY THIS DOMAIN - CHEAP!", and they usually have some kind of lame search/portal page as well, with links to say, insurance sites, or online auto sales or auctions.
VeriSign might have taken all the extra domains, which is lame, but this is far from the first we've seen of this.
I imagine that will be the day that America collapses on itself and the world laughs a collective "I told you so, assholes."
I'd really like America to straighten the fsck out, it has so much going for it. It seems we can't go one day, however, without inching ourselves closer to the brink in the name of making America a better place, and I can't understand why no one can see it.
If only someone could come up with a society where you get rich for doing GOOD things for people and trying to screw people over or make a grab for power never works out advantageously...imagine if everyone was trying to get good things done all the time instead of doing shady things behind everyone's back...
As long as I'm dreaming, I'd like a dual G5.....</CALVINANDHOBBESREFERENCE>
Most call center type places buy a block of phone numbers in a row, for example 555-4700 through 555-4775. They then have a number of phone lines (or perhaps a big fat pipe and their own relay circuits?) to the office. Anyways, the way it's usually set up, if you call the 555-4700 number and it's busy, you're automatically transfered to 555-4701, and if that's busy 555-4702, and so an and so forth. If people where calling, you'd only need as many people as there are telemarketers calling at once to jam the lines. It's not like just their secretary's number was ringing and all the sales people continued to make calls.
The RIAA has invested millions into this guy: If he succeeds in his research, the RIAA can continue their practice of being raving, jealous alcoholics and the expense can be written off for business; The beer was to foil computer CD-ROM drives to not play the discs.
I bought a car alarm for my car. If I find that someone has taped a note to my steering wheel telling me that my car alarm is wired incorrectly, and lists ways to fix it, can I charge the cost of the burglar for the costs of the new alarm AND a the time and effort it takes to inventory my car to see if he took anything while he was in there?
We're in the largest deficit ever, Bush is fucking up the world and we didn't even elect the fucker, there are no jobs and there are new laws everyday that place restrictions on things so seemingly insignificant we took them for granted before. People are so desperate to make a quick buck so they'll have something to put away, because no one knows if these hard times are gonna end. Some play the Lottery, some file lawsuits for any ridiculous thing they can.
America is falling apart and we need a fix-it. Fast.
In that if it's not already a feature the obvious first feature to add would be for comparator to have the option of ignoring variable names, function names, and comments.
Consider then things like that malloc example SCO gave: suppose an acedemic implementation of a certain code snippet is used by two programmers in two different projects. Each has different variables, but the lines of code are syntactically exact in some places. This would throw off the ESR checker as well.
That being said, it's stilla good idea to have this feature in there. This will be more of a lie detector than anything: Lie detectors need people to operate them and interpret their readings. There won't ever be a "guilty" light.
But isn't that the whole reason it's on their servers, out in the open? So anyone who wants to can access it at anytime? That is pretty much the point of the Web, after all...
What I don't understand is the fact that in these deep link cases, the sites didn't take any steps to prevent the deep linking through passwords ro REFERER checks...that's akin to putting a poster of information near a window in your house and suing people who walk by the window and see it. How any judge could rule in their favor is beyond me.
Metacrawler is still good sometmes when Google isn't returning completely desirable results (hey, it happens), but other than that, I didn't even know any of these searches where still active. I wonder if they all use Google software now?;-)
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OK fellow geeks, I am seeing alot of ranting about clogging mail server queues with typos and the like, let's go over this a little more in depth:
- http://aldvhlddvhlsdfvh.com - Verisign'd
- http://www.aldvhlddvhlsdfvh.com - Verisign'd
- http://aldvhlddvhlsdfvh.com:69 - DNS Error (immidiately)
Aha, so this only affects web browsers. Other ports besides 80 are somehow ignored...at least that is what happens on this end.So perhaps it's not that bad. Port designations aren't sent with DNS queries, though, which makes this a bit puzzling. At least if it's true your mail queue wont' clog. Anyone with more experience in the area care to elaborate/prove it wrong? Not looking for a flame war, but a little scientific method.
Still propegating?
Expect nothing less from the capitain of the gravy train.
Sometimes when I mistype a URL I get pages which say "BUY THIS DOMAIN - CHEAP!", and they usually have some kind of lame search/portal page as well, with links to say, insurance sites, or online auto sales or auctions.
VeriSign might have taken all the extra domains, which is lame, but this is far from the first we've seen of this.
I was doing a variation of this letter-mixing fun on a messageboard yesterday:
Wenea tie plike iyam nowis muchardur teuwreed lessis redoutel oud.
I imagine that will be the day that America collapses on itself and the world laughs a collective "I told you so, assholes."
I'd really like America to straighten the fsck out, it has so much going for it. It seems we can't go one day, however, without inching ourselves closer to the brink in the name of making America a better place, and I can't understand why no one can see it.
If only someone could come up with a society where you get rich for doing GOOD things for people and trying to screw people over or make a grab for power never works out advantageously...imagine if everyone was trying to get good things done all the time instead of doing shady things behind everyone's back...
As long as I'm dreaming, I'd like a dual G5.....</CALVINANDHOBBESREFERENCE>
A place I work at has a call center and a bill processing/junk mail reply processing center.
The mail processing center generates between 9 and 20 fifty-five gallon trash bags of paper waste, every single day. They don't re-use a thing.
Most call center type places buy a block of phone numbers in a row, for example 555-4700 through 555-4775. They then have a number of phone lines (or perhaps a big fat pipe and their own relay circuits?) to the office. Anyways, the way it's usually set up, if you call the 555-4700 number and it's busy, you're automatically transfered to 555-4701, and if that's busy 555-4702, and so an and so forth. If people where calling, you'd only need as many people as there are telemarketers calling at once to jam the lines. It's not like just their secretary's number was ringing and all the sales people continued to make calls.
What the hell are you talking about? Last time I checked, the Earth has been rotating around the same axis since....the beginning of time?
Disable them?
The RIAA has invested millions into this guy: If he succeeds in his research, the RIAA can continue their practice of being raving, jealous alcoholics and the expense can be written off for business; The beer was to foil computer CD-ROM drives to not play the discs.
Wow... I never thought I'd see anyone make an intelligent "In soviet russia" style joke, especially on
Congradualtions, +1 Vitrual Mod Point for you
We're in the largest deficit ever, Bush is fucking up the world and we didn't even elect the fucker, there are no jobs and there are new laws everyday that place restrictions on things so seemingly insignificant we took them for granted before. People are so desperate to make a quick buck so they'll have something to put away, because no one knows if these hard times are gonna end. Some play the Lottery, some file lawsuits for any ridiculous thing they can.
America is falling apart and we need a fix-it. Fast.
That being said, it's stilla good idea to have this feature in there. This will be more of a lie detector than anything: Lie detectors need people to operate them and interpret their readings. There won't ever be a "guilty" light.
But isn't that the whole reason it's on their servers, out in the open? So anyone who wants to can access it at anytime? That is pretty much the point of the Web, after all...
What I don't understand is the fact that in these deep link cases, the sites didn't take any steps to prevent the deep linking through passwords ro REFERER checks...that's akin to putting a poster of information near a window in your house and suing people who walk by the window and see it. How any judge could rule in their favor is beyond me.
Damn, what a cunt. Oh well, at least it was still informative.
I had a hard time remmebering, but before Google I always used:
- WebCrawler
- MetaCrawler
- AltaVista
- InfoSeek
Metacrawler is still good sometmes when Google isn't returning completely desirable results (hey, it happens), but other than that, I didn't even know any of these searches where still active. I wonder if they all use Google software now?