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In one of the even more absurd cases: According to an AP report (cited in Slashdot), Intentia International has filed criminal charges against Reuters PLC, alleging that the news service illegally obtained an earnings report that the company had not yet released, by guessing the URL at which it had been posted on Intentia's public web site. Intentia claims that the report was "not available through normal channels," according to AP. (Also see Financial Times and CNET News.com reports.) DES

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[–] Selmafudd 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Man the guessing the url part just trigger a memory for me but I can't remember what the site was... Was a website back in early/mid 2000s that used to do a girl of the day post, it was originally a clothed and naked shot but for some reason around 2006 that stopped having the links for the naked shots, you used to have to manually add a N to the end of the url... Anyone remember what that site was, page style was heavily black with fluro green accents

[–] bobbytables 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I don't know that specific site but lots of porn sites used to do those "preview of the day" things with a date or iterator in the URL.

I remember writing a simple script/page (must have been around 2002) where you could just paste a URL with wildcards and the wildcards could be iterated from x to y. It even checked if the generated linked page existed or threw http errors. It was amazing, how many links I collected and never visited again. The things you do for porn...

[–] Tangent5280 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Nothing can stand between a horny teenager and his porn.

PS How did you get the monospace username display? How do I get the same? Can we do this for any font?

[–] bobbytables 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can set a displayed name in your profile and you can use Unicode characters for it. I use an Android app called "Stylish Text" for conversion but I am sure there are countless other options out there.

[–] rob_t_firefly 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those fancy fonts use extended Unicode sets which can look cute but which are really bad for accessibility. (sound on)

[–] bobbytables 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, wow, thanks for bringing this to my attention! I had no idea. I mean now that I know it, it seems kinda logical... The classic mistake of a person not dependent on accessibility tech.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just see a row of 'missing character' glyphs

[–] bobbytables 3 points 1 year ago

I changed it back to the standard font. If it's more accessible that way I'm all for it.

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