If a computer is lost, the school system can disable it, rendering it useless, Langford said. Great that they've evidently implemented that with such finality, but isn't using remotely-controlled explosives a little dangerous?
If http://whatsmyip.org/ is his site, as indeed sumdumass thinks, according to his post, then my take on this is a variant of the aforementioned poster: there are tons of clients available for whatismyip, including ones written in Java. I can't imagine your friend is perplexed by this, since it's almost certainly a result of his site providing too good a service, i.e. servicing requests from clients (that are configured too greedily) too often. The solution is not to block Java user-agents, but to configure the site such that too frequent requests from any client are ignored.
Anybody who looks at the source i'd take a guess is soon going to suffer from a headache. Surely this announcement is along the lines of "Joyce's publishers make Volapuk translation of Finnegan's Wake available to select readership"?
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If http://whatsmyip.org/ is his site, as indeed sumdumass thinks, according to his post, then my take on this is a variant of the aforementioned poster: there are tons of clients available for whatismyip, including ones written in Java. I can't imagine your friend is perplexed by this, since it's almost certainly a result of his site providing too good a service, i.e. servicing requests from clients (that are configured too greedily) too often. The solution is not to block Java user-agents, but to configure the site such that too frequent requests from any client are ignored.
Anybody who looks at the source i'd take a guess is soon going to suffer from a headache. Surely this announcement is along the lines of "Joyce's publishers make Volapuk translation of Finnegan's Wake available to select readership"?