Re: security quirk

2013-01-31 Thread Gandalf Parker
RichD r_delaney2...@yahoo.com contributed wisdom to news:badd4188-196b- 45e3-ba8a-511d47128...@nh8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com: On Jan 30, Gandalf Parker gand...@the.dead.isp.of.community.net wrote: Web gurus, what's going on? That is the fault of the site itself. If they are going to block

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Martin Musatov
On Jan 29, 8:55 pm, RichD r_delaney2...@yahoo.com wrote: I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally checkNotepadPlus UserLang name=MUSATOV ext=.myl udlVersion=2.0 Settings Global caseIgnored=no allowFoldOfComments=no forceLineCommentsAtBOL=no foldCompact=yes /

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Gandalf Parker
RichD r_delaney2...@yahoo.com contributed wisdom to news:b968c6c6-5aa9- 4584-bd7a-5b097f17c...@pu9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com: Web gurus, what's going on? That is the fault of the site itself. If they are going to block access to users then they should also block access to the automated

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread RichD
On Jan 30, Gandalf Parker gand...@the.dead.isp.of.community.net wrote: Web gurus, what's going on? That is the fault of the site itself. If they are going to block access to users then they should also block access to the automated spiders that hit the site to collect data. well yeah, but

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:39 PM, RichD r_delaney2...@yahoo.com wrote: On Jan 30, Gandalf Parker gand...@the.dead.isp.of.community.net wrote: Web gurus, what's going on? That is the fault of the site itself. If they are going to block access to users then they should also block

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Big Bad Bob
On 01/29/13 20:55, RichD so wittily quipped: I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones they block, about 20%. Anywho, sometimes I use their search utility, the

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Auric__
Martin Musatov wrote: On Jan 29, 8:55 pm, RichD r_delaney2...@yahoo.com wrote: I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally checkNotepadPlus UserLang name=MUSATOV ext=.myl udlVersion=2.0 [snip] /UserLang /NotepadPlus Ignoring the big ol' unneccessary crosspost... What the fuck? --

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread alex23
On Jan 31, 5:39 am, RichD r_delaney2...@yahoo.com wrote: well yeah, but what's going on, under the hood? How does it get confused?  How could this happen?  I'm looking for some insight, regarding a hypothetical programmimg glitch - As has been stated, this has nothing to do with Python, so

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Arne Vajhøj
On 1/29/2013 11:55 PM, RichD wrote: I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones they block, about 20%. Anywho, sometimes I use their search utility, the usual author

security quirk

2013-01-29 Thread RichD
I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones they block, about 20%. Anywho, sometimes I use their search utility, the usual author or title search, and it blocks, then

Signal versus noise (was: security quirk)

2013-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
RichD r_delaney2...@yahoo.com writes: Anywho, sometimes I use their search utility, the usual author or title search, and it blocks, then I look it up on Google, and link from there, and it loads! ok, Web gurus, what's going on? That evidently has nothing in particular to do with the topic

Re: security quirk

2013-01-29 Thread Rodrick Brown
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:55 PM, RichD r_delaney2...@yahoo.com wrote: I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones they block, about 20%. Anywho, sometimes I use

Re: security quirk

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Rebert
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:55 PM, RichD r_delaney2...@yahoo.com wrote: I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones they block, about 20%. Anywho, sometimes I use