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Comment htaccess: deny from .au = country blocking (Score 0, Troll) 106

by barwasp (#31157814) Attached to: Google Patents Country-Specific Content Blocking
Here is another technical prior art from the usenet (for the public record)

Usenet group: de.comp.lang.perl.cgi
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:27:42 +1000

Title:.htacess problem

Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news.tig.com.au!not-for-mail
From: "rodw"
Newsgroups: de.comp.lang.perl.cgi
Subject: .htacess problem
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:27:42 +1000
Organization: The Internet Group (Sydney)
Lines: 22
Message-ID:
NNTP-Posting-Host: p201-tnt7.syd.ihug.com.au
X-Trace: bugstomper.ihug.com.au 1002619553 5302 203.173.144.201 (9 Oct 2001 09:25:53 GMT)
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200

Hi all,

Im trying to block a country from viewing my site buy using .htaccess but am
having no luck. I am using the code below but when I put it on all domains
seemed to be blocked as I get a "500 internal error", any ideas?

AuthName "Blocking"
AuthType Basic


order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from .co.nz
deny from .net.nz
deny from .gov.nz

Rod

Comment Adsense patent from 2002 is prior art (Score 1) 106

by barwasp (#31157020) Attached to: Google Patents Country-Specific Content Blocking
Taken from Googe's own patent

For example, if the content of the advertisement includes "Buy honda cars at the lowest prices of the year!", the terms "honda" or "honda cars" may be extracted from that content. The targeting information may also include other demographic information, such as geographic location, affluence, etc. Thus, the targeting information is simply some information from which a topic may be derived.

. . .

Among the other things that could be provided by an advertiser through ad entry and management component 210 are the following: one or more advertising creatives (simply referred to as "ads" or "advertisements"), one or more set of keywords or topics associated with those creatives (which may be used as targeting information for the ads), geographic targeting information, a value indication for the advertisement, start date, end date, etc.

Comment AIDS Information-virus from 1989 is REAL prior art (Score 3, Funny) 394

by barwasp (#28021721) Attached to: Microsoft Patents the Crippling of Operating Systems
As invented and distributed by Dr Popp. Here is the story AND it crippled the operating system until money was paid!!!

According to accounts in the British press, in December 1989, Popp sent out his diskettes to attendees of the World Health Organization's international AIDS meeting. Labeled "AIDS Information -- Introductory Diskettes," the disks contained a Trojan devised by Popp.

After a certain number of reboots, a bug encrypted the hard disk's directory, hiding all files and flashing a message instructing users to send a couple hundred bucks to a postal box in Panama. (The Guardian reports that Popp had suffered a mental collapse after being turned down for a WHO job.)

There's some question as to whether this constituted blackmail. Soon after his arrest and extradition to England, where one medical organization reported having lost a decade's worth of research, Popp took to wearing a cardboard box on his head. Soon, he was pronounced unfit to stand trial.

Stranger still, Popp had packed a leaflet with the diskettes the offered the bluntest terms-of-use statement in computer history:

"These program mechanisms will adversely affect other program applications on microcomputers. You are hereby advised of the most serious consequences of your failure to abide by the terms of this license agreement: your conscience may haunt you for the rest of your life; you will owe compensation and possible damages to PC Cyborg Corporation; and your microcomputer will stop functioning normally.''

Forget all that evolution business! Popp should have been working for Microsoft!

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Comment Re:Where is the APC, (here is correct TFA address) (Score 1) 307

by barwasp (#27852935) Attached to: An Early Look At What's Coming In PHP V6
Briefly: Damn this isn't the right address

Longer version: Original TFA link didn't/doesn't work and the firefox didn't find on this page strings "URL" or "address" for pointing out the correct article link. BUT I saw that "working link"-post... So I read it and see nothing of APC is mentioned there( which is the most expected thing for me on PHP6). So... in doing a public a favor I repost the above "year old link" and wonder about APC. OK, the link isn't right thus there's still hope for APC to be there - maybe & sorry.

Comment Re:What's really behind Finlands IT success (Score 1) 229

by barwasp (#27296419) Attached to: Places Where the World's Tech Pools, Despite the Internet

Boneheaded as in stubborn, but not stupid.

Exactly ! And that is what the another poster (Louai) was explaining in detail with his erroneously 0-pointed comment.

A common expression amongst Finns is "Vaikka läpi harmaan kiven", "Even through gray rock". More elaborately put, if you are determined enough, you'll get there eventually, no matter the obstacles. There are other similar expressions, and even a word that sums it all up, sisu.

Comment What's really behind Finlands IT success (Score 1) 229

by barwasp (#27293617) Attached to: Places Where the World's Tech Pools, Despite the Internet

Far more, I think, is down to the character of the Finns. After being robbed, raped and pillaged by almost every country in Europe the Finns are very independent.

That isn't even wrong. But if the writer prefers to reason Finland's IT success with certain mental characteristics ... well writer would do it better by trying to explain it with "boneheadism" and I am joking less than you think.

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