Comments | notabouthim: Google turns Evil (capital E)

notabouthim

Google turns Evil (capital E)

Dec 20, 2005 13:56

further to the other day:

have a read of this. It's ok, I'll wait. So Google buys 5% of AOL, no biggie. However, read the fine print of the agreement a bit closer, and it becomes apparent: Google has become more evil than Microsoft (in this arena, at least - and unlike their much vaunted principles). (more on their evilness here, and hereso how to ( Read more... )

google, evil

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anonymous December 19 2005, 18:12:19 UTC

Nice work - its annoying that they 404 wget, I didn't know about -dump from lynx.

-fw

notabouthim December 19 2005, 18:26:01 UTC

403 forbidden.. but yeah amounts to the same. tis prolly to stop smartalecs

hesperus December 19 2005, 18:53:32 UTC

Interesting stuff. btw, this post is very wide. has reformated my friends page.

notabouthim December 19 2005, 19:06:49 UTC

yeah, the
tag will do that. have screwed the script up to save your friends page. I hope you're happy now. meanie. just download the damn thing and run it, already :)

hesperus December 20 2005, 14:20:51 UTC

you could throw "\"s at the end of the lines to make bash interpret as one whole line. :)

notabouthim December 20 2005, 14:32:08 UTC

smartass :)

it's correct in the downloading script.. anyone who's c&ping off the page can just jolly well fix it themselves :)

killifish December 19 2005, 18:55:00 UTC

find a way to filter it through a laundry site to prevent IP blocking?

notabouthim December 19 2005, 19:29:52 UTC

well, there's always ip spoofing, but that's quite a lot more complicated. depends how much effort you want to go to, really.

I figure the important thing is to get the message through to google - so ridiculously spamming them from one address is less important than a sizeable blip from many addressses..

Note.... anonymous December 20 2005, 01:10:11 UTC

Note that:

You can use links instead of lynx, if that is also installed.
The wait does nothing, as the bash script will not reach it until after the previous command has finished, and wait will wait for the backgrounded tasks (all none of them) to finish before continuing. You could reasonably well replace it with "sleep 1" (also a shell builtin) or something equivalent, as you're not paying any attention to the return value../

I believe, although I might be mistaken, that links2 also works, although the parameters will be different.

llearch, helpful as ever...

Re: Note.... notabouthim December 20 2005, 13:04:10 UTC

awesome, thanks. fixed (both counts).