They seem to try (and of course fail) to detect robots: browsing their site with OmniWeb and Safari on a Mac, you'll see a banner at the top of the pages which says: "This banner is used to kill robots if you see it on a web page please advise technical@beweb.com".
Changing the User Agent in Safari displays a "normal" banner.
I wonder what the genious who has set up this had in mind?
Anyway, I reported to technical@beweb.com, and I'll see what they mean.
20 or so companies whose profits are directly linked to creating fear in their customers, who have to keep discovering new sources of fear to improve their bottom line - or in the absence of new discoveries, keep inventing new sources of fear.
Well, it seems like a lot of/.ers think they are the greatests coders on earth and that Evil Google will pay their talent for only 10K? Go ahead, just do it! Find the best idea on earth (that hasnt been done before), code it, and sell it for a googol $ to the world. Then come back to this thread and you'll be granted eternal respect.
Or why dont we create a company, start a contest "Come with your idea and your code", so we can rip naive coders from their immense talent?
So easy to talk, so hard to code...
I could come with a good idea, code it, but for $10K, it's not worth my ego. I better stay in this thread and compare Google to M$.
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They seem to try (and of course fail) to detect robots: browsing their site with OmniWeb and Safari on a Mac, you'll see a banner at the top of the pages which says:
"This banner is used to kill robots if you see it on a web page please advise technical@beweb.com".
Changing the User Agent in Safari displays a "normal" banner.
I wonder what the genious who has set up this had in mind?
Anyway, I reported to technical@beweb.com, and I'll see what they mean.
Do they know LWP::UserAgent? Guess not!
Mitnick just received his Alubook from Woz, and here's the result... ;)
20 or so companies whose profits are directly linked to creating fear in their customers, who have to keep discovering new sources of fear to improve their bottom line - or in the absence of new discoveries, keep inventing new sources of fear.
Does it include the FBI, the CIA, the Govt?
Well, it seems like a lot of /.ers think they are the greatests coders on earth and that Evil Google will pay their talent for only 10K? Go ahead, just do it! Find the best idea on earth (that hasnt been done before), code it, and sell it for a googol $ to the world. Then come back to this thread and you'll be granted eternal respect.
Or why dont we create a company, start a contest "Come with your idea and your code", so we can rip naive coders from their immense talent?
So easy to talk, so hard to code...
I could come with a good idea, code it, but for $10K, it's not worth my ego. I better stay in this thread and compare Google to M$.
Get a life.