Even better - the "related story" at the bottom says -

Submission: 4chan has been DDOSed by Anonymous Coward

Yep, the US military should have watched more Si-Fi movies - then they'd know that the (evil?) empire with all the cool tech always gets beaten in the end by the brave underdog (freedom fighter/guerrilla - take you pick) fighting with whatever old crap they can beg, borrow or steal.

Having followed my own link and gone back to the page it worked as I presume it should and gave me black text on a white background.

I'm on the latest Chrome dev build (9.0.597.0) and I've not got images turned off.

I don't understand,why are some of us seeing these pages wrong sometimes - is it crappy css?

The linked article http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/09/14/111-8th-avenue-carrier-hotel-is-for-sale/ ends up as dark gray on black in Chrome though .

(Guess who actually RTA?)

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  Because pasting into a completely empty box works. Try typing a href=" and pasting a link.

Yep that seems to work - so this is fixed in Chrome 9 then? One more bug quashed !

And how do you explain that copy/pasting your comment just worked for me on XP? ( Chrome 9.0.597.0)

It's a shame you posted that as an AC - it would be a waste of my mod points to mod it "funny but all too true".

That is if I had any mod points.....

But then that's another truism of the web - lots of people promising things the can't deliver.

  I wonder Google does not have some simple way for those of us who are savvy enough to recognise span or malware sites to indicate so in the search results. Those results so indicated could be have their page ranking reduced or be hidden until they were checked.

I realize this could be abused and have no idea what the signal to noise ratio would be but it would be interesting to see how this worked..

Interestingly enough the original complaint mentions the infringing web site by the right url - see section 8, but then goes on to accuse the other website !

So if I write a program to produce every possible combination of words in the English language with a total number of words in each between say 30,000 and 600,000 , I will have my own copyright free version of every English language novel ever written including all the Harry Potter series? Come to think of it I will have the copyright on every English novel yet to be written.

Better get started on that plan now, shame the number of possible combinations is probably more that the total number of atoms in the universe but I'm sure we'll find a work round for that.

I wonder if this could be as big and as interesting(for the geek community) a fight as SCO v Novell

There's an interesting comment on James Gosling's blog http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/the_shit_finally_hits_the

"Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle"

And yet more money get syphoned out of the IT industry into the lawyers pockets. Sigh

But that does rather rely on there being some downside to making the mistake. The current corporate culture of " we need someone to blame for this. You are the sacrificial goat. But here is $200 mil so you don't sue us and bring the real culprit out in court" is hardly likely to prove much of a deterrent.