This is why. I cannot get to drudge or to stupidvideos.com. Many other sites as well - but those are the two which caused me to look into it a bit closer.
Back in the dark ages (when I was an auto mechanic), we had a guy who used to like to tell customers that their exhaust system was load because the "muffler bearings" had seized.
This guy felt that most people are too cheap to fix a small exhaust leak under the floor boards - but tell them they've got a bad bearing and they'll pawn their own grandmother to get it fixed.
I don't feel sorry for the spammers. However, I do feel sorry for the legitimate businesses which may be trying to use the same network that the spammer's site resides on.
No. Actually, he was they guy they turned to and said: "Dude, hold our beers and watch this..."
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Google is returning results for pages that are OVER A YEAR OLD
Sometimes 1-year old pages are the most relevant results for a particular search. The fact that a document is less than 2-weeks old only means that the document is "new". Unless you're searching for information about the latest & greatest cutting edge technology... $NEW !== $RELEVANT.
I have a list of 500 adjectives & another list of 500 nouns. I randomly grab an adjective and a noun and slap a 2-digit number in between them. The result looks like this: "blue48fish".
Assuming that somebody knew a valid username AND that they knew all of the adjectives/nouns in my lists, they would still have 25 million combinations to wade through. Using a 3-4 digit number would provide increased complexity.
The end result is a fairly memorable (and sometimes quite comical) password (for instance "hot69pants" was one of my faviorites!).
I take it you haven't actually used Safari in a looong time. "COMMAND-/" toggles the status bar on/off.
Now, here's what ticked me off. They changed the "View Source" command from "COM-OPT-V" to "COM-OPT-U" for no apparent reason. That one had me really stumped for about 3 seconds this morning. Damn you Apple!!!!!
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Wow - it's much zippier now. Thanks!
Most of the stats here seem to be from sites which are skewed heavily towards us computer geeks.
I just checked stats from a half dozen sites I manage. The sites include:
130,798 user session over 7 days ... here's what I am seeing:
This is why. I cannot get to drudge or to stupidvideos.com. Many other sites as well - but those are the two which caused me to look into it a bit closer.
Back in the dark ages (when I was an auto mechanic), we had a guy who used to like to tell customers that their exhaust system was load because the "muffler bearings" had seized.
This guy felt that most people are too cheap to fix a small exhaust leak under the floor boards - but tell them they've got a bad bearing and they'll pawn their own grandmother to get it fixed.
Surprisingly - he was right 99% of the time.
... but then I'd be repeating myself ... again.
This study assumes that both Yahoo! & Google rank pages the same way. WRONG!
Google's methods for determining a page's relevancy to a search term varies widely from Yahoo's methods.
In order for this type of study to have any validity, identical ranking methods would need to be employed over both indexes.
We've been duped
No .. the "dupe" will apear here next Tuesday.
Typically, in a Hollywood movie, the hero ends up in bed with a beautiful woman. :)
The gov't wants "science" NOT "Science fiction"
To bad the site's been /.'ed. Maybe they shouldn't be running this thing on IIS after all.
Great idea ... now all I have to do is open up about 473 gmail accounts.
I don't feel sorry for the spammers. However, I do feel sorry for the legitimate businesses which may be trying to use the same network that the spammer's site resides on.
Um ... have you seen the parking lots at your local McDonald' and/or Wal*Mart lately?
In my experience, people ... especially American People ... LOVE to buy "crap".
Spoken like a true "Anonymous Coward" :)
This is like deja vu all over again.
Wow. And I thought Howard Dean was nuts.
:)
Ballmer should be runing the DNC
Make the offending user listen to 2 Britney Spears CD's.
That would cure me in a hurry ... but would it be considered "cruel & unusual"?
Better check w/ the boys down in Legal first.
No. Actually, he was they guy they turned to and said: "Dude, hold our beers and watch this ..."
Google is returning results for pages that are OVER A YEAR OLD
Sometimes 1-year old pages are the most relevant results for a particular search. The fact that a document is less than 2-weeks old only means that the document is "new". Unless you're searching for information about the latest & greatest cutting edge technology ... $NEW !== $RELEVANT.
I have a list of 500 adjectives & another list of 500 nouns. I randomly grab an adjective and a noun and slap a 2-digit number in between them. The result looks like this: "blue48fish".
Assuming that somebody knew a valid username AND that they knew all of the adjectives/nouns in my lists, they would still have 25 million combinations to wade through. Using a 3-4 digit number would provide increased complexity.
The end result is a fairly memorable (and sometimes quite comical) password (for instance "hot69pants" was one of my faviorites!).
No. COM-U on Mac.
This is a big iprovement, as I see it. M$ has been using a bug (butterfly) as their "mascot" for years.
I take it you haven't actually used Safari in a looong time. "COMMAND-/" toggles the status bar on/off.
Now, here's what ticked me off. They changed the "View Source" command from "COM-OPT-V" to "COM-OPT-U" for no apparent reason. That one had me really stumped for about 3 seconds this morning. Damn you Apple!!!!!