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Comment Re:How about subversion? (Score 1) 64

Exactly, they use fake user agents, and ignore robots.txt

I run a small Calcudoku puzzle site, and recently had to take the forum offline because they were hitting it so hard the server load went up to 300+ (a normal high load is 3..).

For the past few months the crawlers are all from Chinese IPs.

I'm looking to create custom fail2ban rules to detect and block them.

Comment Re:Not a world championship (Score 1) 46

Not sure why the discussion is complicated.

Everybody knows the FIDE World Champion is not the strongest chess player in the world.

The mechanism is strange too.

Imagine in tennis, for example, one player who is "World Champion" goes downhill and slides to #25 in the world.

Then there is a tournament with 8 of the top players, and the one ranked #5 wins it.

Then at the end of the year there's a tournament with many matches between the #5 and #25 (so might as well cancel the ATP Tour finals), and the winner of that gets to call himself World Champion.

Seems like a good system, this should be introduced in every sport.

Comment Re:TIOBE Index (Score 1) 94

Can we PLEASE stop with the fucking TIOBE Index!? Its total bullshit. Its based on things like StackOverflow posts and Google results.

Amen to that. I still don't get why this is news just about every single month.

I'm guessing slashdot has a deal with Tiobe, so they get a cut of the ad revenue.

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