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	<title>{(something&#124;&#124;other).soft()} &#187; web</title>
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	<description>About Software Development And Other Stuff By Igor Zevaka</description>
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		<title>Feral bogans, police chases and .50 cal</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/03/23/feral-bogans-police-chases-and-50-cal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/03/23/feral-bogans-police-chases-and-50-cal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bogans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whatreallygrindsmygears]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought a solution to the road toll caused by people who think it's OK to steal cars could be so simple... <img src="/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ord_m2_mounted_lance_lg.jpg" alt="" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every time someone gets hurt in a police chase there are renewed calls for legislation to ban copps from engaging in pursuit. Of course, it also always brings the worst in trash media who are trying to give you a &#8220;balanced&#8221; view of the story.</p>

<p>Check out this SMH <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/fury-as-family-dies-after-highspeed-police-chase-20100321-qo6r.html?autostart=1">report</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>&#8220;Mr Oppelaar&#8217;s cousin, Jason Kelly, said: &#8221;I purely blame police for it. He&#8217;s getting chased and that&#8217;s what young people do. They get scared and they take off,&#8221; he told reporters.&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>

<p>It goes on:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Mr Oppelaar&#8217;s brother, Chris Mills, said: &#8221;You have to ask who&#8217;s responsible &#8230; in some part it&#8217;s the driver for doing the speeds he was doing, but mostly it comes down to the coppers &#8230; what good&#8217;s a stolen car?&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>

<p>And from Skye Webbe&#8217;s mother:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>&#8220;I can see he&#8217;s done wrong but it&#8217;s a petty little crime,&#8221; she told Radio 3AW. &#8220;</p>
</blockquote>

<p>A Current Affair, of course, takes the trash reporting award with this <a href="http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/police-chase-disasters/x7yeblq">gem</a>. I mean, asking a mum of a person who was in the car getting chased is quite balanced indeed. Here is what she said:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>&#8220;&#8230;maybe they [police] should face charges&#8230;I do blame him [Justin Williams] a little bit but I just think that if Police stopped their pursuit, they would all be alive today.&#8221;</p>
</blockquote>

<p>However I have little interest in dissecting A Current Affair&#8217;s reporting. We all know their target audience&#8217;s IQ is below 20 and that&#8217;s fine. What strikes me as outrageous is the common theme from both the innocent victim&#8217;s family and Justin and Skye&#8217;s families &#8211; that it&#8217;s kind of OK to steal cars. Seriously? &#8220;petty little crime&#8221;, &#8220;He&#8217;s getting chased and that&#8217;s what young people do&#8221;.</p>

<p>Here is a clue for all you brainless bogans:</p>

<h1>IT IS NOT OK TO STEAL CARS</h1>

<p>Now, there are  reasonable proposals to handle pursuits differently and they have some merit. Stopping pursuit and notifying police up ahead like they do is South Australia might work in some cases. However, it relies on police knowing that the car is &#8220;just taken for a joyride&#8221; (which apparently is a legit form of entertainment in Queenbeyan). I am not a fan of this approach and instead propose my own:</p>

<h1>.50 cal M2 Browning.</h1>

<p><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ord_m2_mounted_lance_lg.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Image courtesy of <a href="http://dummidumbwit.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/m2-browning-machine-gun/">Dummidumbwit’s Weblog</a></p>

<p>This is the kind of gun that is fitted to Army humvees and fires big ass rounds that could be used against infantry, light armoured vehicles and low flying planes.</p>

<p>It will only take a couple of rounds to maim a normal car and the gun will serve as a powerful deterrent. Imagine seeing a cop aiming a .50 cal at you in your rear view mirror. You will most likely have a bowel movement and stop the car immidiately. Police should also be give powers to use the gun liberally. Once they pick a good spot to disable the vehice, they should fire away and shred the prick who thought it might be fun to steal a car to pieces.</p>

<p>This way the pursuit can be terminated pretty much straight away, thus minimizing the risk to other road users. Surely, this increases the risk of the offending driver being injured, but I think that&#8217;s OK. I would call this &#8220;an accelerated evolutionary process&#8221;.</p>

<p>The only reason why there are so many joyriders around is because they know, that on the balance of probabilities, they can get away with it. With every police cruiser being equipped with a .50 cal I am sure that perception will change.</p>
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		<title>What Conroy&#8217;s tag cloud really looks like</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/02/26/what-conroys-tag-cloud-really-looks-like/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/02/26/what-conroys-tag-cloud-really-looks-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conroy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[streisand-effect]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a screenshot of what the now infamous Conroy&#8217;s tag cloud would look like without the &#8220;censorship&#8221; attempt: It&#8217;s certainly not hugely prominent and, frankly, I am disappointed about that. It would have been way funnier if it was the biggest tag in the cloud. Here is the greesemonkey script for those that feel <a href="http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/02/26/what-conroys-tag-cloud-really-looks-like/" rel="bookmark" title="Read on...">[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a screenshot of what the now infamous Conroy&#8217;s tag cloud would look like without the &#8220;censorship&#8221; attempt:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tagcloud.png"><img src="http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tagcloud.png" alt="" title="tagcloud" width="320" height="336" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-307" /></a></p>

<p>It&#8217;s certainly not hugely prominent and, frankly, I am disappointed about that. It would have been way funnier if it was the biggest tag in the cloud.</p>

<p>Here is the greesemonkey script for those that feel inclined to verify the screenshot. It&#8217;s very quicly hacked together and has the values hardcoded (which the original does too):</p>

<p><strong>Update</strong> I was going to editorialize on this a bit more but forgot to do so before publishing. The whole debacle is frankly ridioculous and ironically goes to show two things:</p>

<ul>
<li>If there is a capability to censor something, at some point it will be abused. In this case it was the censoring of the ministers site, but with a nation-wide ISP filtering scheme who is to say other unflattering pages will not suddely become &#8220;Refused Classification&#8221;.</li>
<li>When something is to be censored, it will be done in the most half-arsed naive way. The minister&#8217;s tag cloud was generated from what I suspect a hard-coded array of terms. It would have been absolutely trivial to simply remove the words &#8220;ISP Filtering&#8221;, instead of matching it, which exposed the whole thing.</li>
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// ==UserScript==
// @name           TagCloudUnhack
// @namespace      CONROY
// @description    Shows how the tag clound wuld look like without hiding ISP Filtering
// @include        http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/
// ==/UserScript==


function unique(x) {   
  tmp = new Array(0);   
  for(i=0;i&lt;x.length;i++) {      
    if(!contains(tmp, x[i])) {         
      tmp.length+=1;         
      tmp[tmp.length-1]=x[i];      
    }   
  }   
  return tmp;
}

function contains(x, e) {   
  for(j=0;j&lt;x.length;j++) {
    if(x[j]==e) {
      return true; 
    }
  }  
  return false;
}

function getTagClass(z) {   
  var tagClass = &quot;smallestTag&quot;;   
  if(z==smallest) {   
    tagClass=&quot;smallestTag&quot;;   
  } else if(z==largest) {   
    tagClass=&quot;largestTag&quot;;    
  } else if(z &gt;= large) {    
    tagClass=&quot;largeTag&quot;;    
  } else if(z &lt;= large &amp;&amp; z &gt;= medium) {    
    tagClass=&quot;mediumTag&quot;;    
  } else if(z &lt;= medium &amp;&amp; z &gt;= smallest) {    
    tagClass=&quot;smallTag&quot;;   
  }   
  return tagClass;
}



var a = 'NBN; Broadband; National Broadband Network; ABC; Broadcasting; National Broadcasters; SBS; Digital Switchover; Broadcasting; Digital Television; Youth Advisory Group; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; Internet; Budget; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; Internet; E-Health; Mobile Services; Digital Economy; Telephone Services; ICT; E-Health; Innovation; Broadband; Cyber-Bullying; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; Emergency Services; Mobile Services; Telephone Services; E-Health; Emergency Services; Digital Regions; NBN; Broadband; National Broadband Network; Internet; Australian Broadband Guarantee; Broadband; Digital Economy; Internet; Post; E-Security; Internet; Digital Switchover; ABC; Digital Television; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; Internet; E-Health; Emergency Services; Digital Regions; NBN; National Broadband Network; Digital Switchover; Digital Television; Mobile Services; Telephone Services; ABC; National Broadcasters; SBS; Emergency Services; Spectrum; Digital Switchover; Digital Television; 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Broadband; Digital Economy; National Broadband Network; Australian Broadband Guarantee; Broadband; National Broadband Network; Internet; NBN; National Broadband Network; ICT; E-Security; Mobile Services; Telephone Services; Australian Broadband Guarantee; Broadband; National Broadband Network; Online Content; Youth Advisory Group; Mobile Services; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; Internet; Digital Switchover; Digital Television; NBN; National Broadband Network; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; Telephone Services; Internet; National Broadband Network; Mobile Services; Telephone Services; Telephone Services; Emergency Services; Do Not Call Register; Telephone Services; Broadband; National Broadband Network; Australian Broadband Guarantee; Do Not Call Register; NBN; E-Security; National Broadband Network; Internet; Australian Broadband Guarantee; Do Not Call Register; E-Security; National Broadband Network; Media; ABC; Internet; Productivity; Digital Economy; Internet; Innovation; Youth Advisory Group; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; Internet; Digital Television; Digital Switchover; Broadcasting; Digital Television; Community Radio; Broadcasting; Budget; Digital Switchover; Digital Television; Australian Broadband Guarantee; Mobile Services; Broadband; Telephone Services; Internet; Australian Broadband Guarantee; Do Not Call Register; Broadband; E-Security; National Broadband Network; ABC; National Broadcasters; SBS; Digital Switchover; Broadcasting; Digital Television; E-Health; Innovation; Emergency Services; Broadband; Digital Economy; Post; Australian Broadband Guarantee; Do Not Call Register; NBN; Broadband; E-Security; National Broadband Network; Mobile Services; Telephone Services; Digital Economy; Mobile Services; Telephone Services; Telephone Services; NBN; Digital Economy; National Broadband Network; E-Health; Broadband; National Broadband Network; Mobile Services; Telephone Services; Digital Switchover; Broadcasting; Spectrum; Digital Television; Digital Switchover; Spectrum; Digital Television; Youth Advisory Group; Cyber-Safety; Internet; Innovation; Digital Economy; Digital Economy; Australian Broadband Guarantee; Broadband; National Broadband Network; Youth Advisory Group; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; Broadband; Digital Economy; Digital Switchover; ABC; Broadcasting; Digital Television; ICT; Broadband; E-Security; Digital Economy; NBN; Broadband; National Broadband Network; Productivity; Digital Economy; Mobile Services; Telephone Services; E-Security; ISP Filtering; Cyber-Safety; ';

var split = new Array();
split = a.split('; '); //string to array
var unique = unique(split);
/*unique.sort();*/ //sort alphabetically

var frequency = new Array();
var counts = new Array();
var largest = 0;
var smallest = 1;

/* Script creates an array and finds the most used tag */
for(var i=0; i&lt;unique.length; i++) {
   var mullet=0;
   unique[i] = unique[i].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') ;
   for(var j=0; j&lt;split.length; j++) {
      if (unique[i]==split[j]) {
          mullet=mullet+1;
      }
      frequency[i] = mullet;
   }
}

for(var d=0;d&lt;frequency.length;d++){
   largest=Math.max(largest,frequency[d]); //find largest
}
var diff = largest-smallest; //difference, smallest is always 1
var dist = diff/6; //distribution
var large = 1 + (dist*2);
var medium = 1 + dist;

// write out the tag cloud
if(unique.length != 0) {
//document.write('&lt;div id=\&quot;cloud-wrap\&quot;&gt;');
var out = &quot;&quot;;


//for(var i=0; i&lt;unique.length; i++)
for(var i=0; i&lt;=15/*&lt;-Important! increase this value by 1 everytime a keyword is excluded below*/; i++) 
{
    var z=0;
    for(var j=0; j&lt;split.length; j++) {
        if (unique[i]==split[j]) {
            z=z+1;
        }
        counts[i] = z;
     }
     var size = getTagClass(z);
     //Customise the tag-cloud to display what shows up
     //if (unique[i] == &quot;ISP Filtering&quot;)
     //{
    //   continue;
    // }
     out += ('&lt;a class=&quot;'+size+'&quot; href=\&quot;http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/search?q='+unique[i]+'&quot;&gt;'+unique[i]+'&lt;/a&gt; ');
  }
}

var tagcloud = document.getElementById('tag-cloud');
tagcloud.innerHTML=out;

</pre>
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		<title>I have a new pet hate browser</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/01/08/i-have-a-new-pet-hate-browser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/01/08/i-have-a-new-pet-hate-browser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[css]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firefox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hating IE6 is so 2003. I hate Chrome now. Maybe I am biased. I only used Chrome to test a layout that has a lot of transparency. It&#8217;s quite well known that webkit sucks a bit handling RGBA. But I am getting ahead of myself. Everyone kept going on about how fast Chrome after it <a href="http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/01/08/i-have-a-new-pet-hate-browser/" rel="bookmark" title="Read on...">[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hating IE6 is so 2003. I hate Chrome now. Maybe I am biased. I only used Chrome to test a layout that has a lot of transparency. It&#8217;s quite well known that webkit sucks a bit handling RGBA. But I am getting ahead of myself.</p>

<p>Everyone kept going on about how fast Chrome after it came out. My experience has been the opposite. A few months back every time I would start Chrome it would sit for half a minute, discovering proxy, I think. It hasn&#8217;t really altered my browsing experience once it got started. That was fixed a while back.</p>

<p>Now I have found more issues that actually make it the slower browser out of IE(!!!) and Firefox. Try browsing this site:</p>

<p><a href="24ways.org">24ways.org</a></p>

<p>Yeah. You can&#8217;t scroll for shit.</p>

<p>Fair enough, it&#8217;s a bug. That&#8217;s OK, we all write bugs. I would have completely not cared if not for yet another Chrome idiosynchrasy that just tipped me over the edge.</p>

<p>The layout that I am working on is largely inspired by 24ways.org, so it has a few semi-transparent elements, which of course don&#8217;t work in IE. As a workaround I am using one pixel PNGs with alpha channel. Supposedly this is the way to do it:</p>

<p><pre class="brush: css; title: ; notranslate">
.transparent {
  background: url(pngwithalpha.png);
  background: rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
}
</pre></p>

<p>What the browser is meant to do is to disregard the first <code>background</code> declaration and use the second if it supports RGBA colours. That&#8217;s what Firefox does&#8230; But no, Chrome loads those images anyway.</p>

<p>Fair enough, it has quirks. At least it would cache the images, right? <span style="font-size: x-large">WRONG!!!</span>. Unlike Firefox <strong>and</strong> IE, Chrome would request those image even though you don&#8217;t refresh the page. Both IE and Firefox, when you focus on the address bar and hit enter will retrieve the images from local cache. When you refresh, they would do an <code>If-Modified-Since</code> request. Chrome does an <code>If-Modified-Since</code> request regardless.</p>

<p>Actually, I lie. It doesn&#8217;t do the request regardless. It will do a status request for images that are visible straight away. If there is a background image that is in a <code>:hover</code> pseudo-class, it will retrieve that one from the local cache. Go figure.</p>

<p><a href="http://925html.com/code/rgba-ie-fallback/">Here</a> is an excellent and very detailed comparison of browser support for transparencies and pngs. Go Firefox!!!</p>
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		<title>I download and I vote (oh, and #iitrial is cool)</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2009/10/08/i-download-and-i-vote-oh-and-iitrial-is-cool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I &#8220;illegally&#8221; download copyrighted content. There are many reasons why I do that and for some time I felt a tiny bit guilty about it. I don&#8217;t any more. I am not THAT person to say that I buy more DVDs than ever before or that I ALWAYS buy the TV show DVD when <a href="http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2009/10/08/i-download-and-i-vote-oh-and-iitrial-is-cool/" rel="bookmark" title="Read on...">[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, I &#8220;illegally&#8221; download copyrighted content. There are many reasons why I do that and for some time I felt a tiny bit guilty about it. I don&#8217;t any more. I am not THAT person to say that I buy more DVDs than ever before or that I ALWAYS buy the TV show DVD when it comes out in Australia.</p>

<p>I download because I don&#8217;t have to pay for it. Simple as that. And no matter how much anti-anti-filesharing people bang on about studies about people who download also buy more stuff I don&#8217;t believe it. I simply don&#8217;t believe that I am in the minority. In fact I don&#8217;t personally know a single person that says that they buy the DVD when it&#8217;s available. As far as I am concerned it&#8217;s a forum rhetoric.</p>

<p>Many people support iinet in the whole ii vs. AFUCT ordeal because they want to be able to download stuff for free. Except they&#8217;d say it&#8217;s because of privacy concerns, ISPs shouldn&#8217;t be judge, jury and the executioner etc. They are still in denial.</p>

<p>Whilst I admittedly am infringing that does not make my support for iiNet less valid. I think iiNet have good a good chance at defending themselves from all the accusations because I believe that entertainment industry should not bully their way around protecting their failing business models. I believe my moral compass is about on par with most people, so that is an indication of <strong>us</strong> being right and <strong>them</strong> being wrong.</p>

<p>Technically I think that any ISP can stop or at least slow down a game changing percentage of &#8220;illegal&#8221; downloads to the point where downloading becomes a domain of super-geeks. In demanding something like that the movie studios are not THAT unreasonable. It can be done. That still doesn&#8217;t mean it should be done.</p>

<p>The industry is where it is now because of people&#8217;s creativity and technology that enables it. The technology changed but people will always be creative. It may kill entertainment <strong>industry</strong> (highly unlikely though) but it will not kill entertainment. If if it does, so be it. They are a bunch of pricks anyway.</p>

<p>I spent $80 on internet ($30 of which is phone, which I wouldn&#8217;t spend if i didn&#8217;t need to have a phone line). This is how much I am willing to spend on my entertainment. I download mainly shows and barely ever watch a movie. This is my budget. If there was a service out there that would give me the ability to check emails and watch a half a dozen episodes a week I&#8217;d get it. $3 per episode on iTunes??? Come on, you gotta be joking. I would also pay for a device/service that gives me one click easy access to anything I want. Without stupid time or region windows.</p>

<p>If I was Jason Calacanis and I had my own podcast I would say: &#8220;Dear TV/movie industry executive donkeys. Please stop treating us like stupid people. Internet has been around for decades now. Region windows do not make sense. Start doing things that make sense and give us a good way of accessing the content. Please someone clip this and put it up on YouTube.&#8221;</p>

<p>So when I say that I want to get stuff for free I actually am saying that there is an amount of money that I am prepared to pay each month (i.e. what is now spent on Internet) for access to stuff without feeling restricted. So yeah, please, entertainment industry executive donkeys, start making sense.</p>
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		<title>Binging the bong</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered what are the verbs associated with the search engine bing?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They discussed bing.com in the latest episode of <a href="http://twit.tv/202">This Week in Tech</a>. The was a brief mention that the name was genius &#8211; that it can be easily made a verb. As in &#8220;Lets bing that&#8221; &#8211; pointing out that Microsoft probably wants the name to become a generic like google. The joke was what would be the past tense &#8211; &#8220;bang&#8221;?</p>

<p>I thought that was a good point and I would like to expand on that. Let me draw a parallel to the verb &#8220;sing&#8221;. The past tense of that is &#8220;sang&#8221;, so the original suggestion that &#8220;bang&#8221; is the past tense of &#8220;bing&#8221; holds true. The present perfect tense would therefore be &#8220;bung&#8221;.</p>

<p>So, comparing to google we have:</p>

<p>Present perfect:
Google: &#8220;I&#8217;ve already googled that restaurant we are going to tonight and the menu&#8230;&#8221;
Bing: &#8220;I&#8217;ve already bung that restaurant we are going to tonight and the menu&#8230;&#8221;</p>

<p>Past:
Google: &#8220;I googled the restaurant we are going to tonight and the menu&#8230;&#8221;
Bing: &#8220;I bang the restaurant we are going to tonight and the menu&#8230;&#8221;</p>

<p>Or we could have more fun with it in the following context:</p>

<p>Google: &#8220;I googled your ex-boyfriend and he&#8217;s a bit of a loser&#8221;.
Bing: &#8220;I bang your ex-boyfriend and he&#8217;s a bit of a loser&#8221;.</p>

<p>Hmmmm&#8230;..</p>

<p>Still going with the &#8220;sing&#8221; comparision, the corresponding noun is &#8220;song&#8221;. So, in bing&#8217;s case it would be &#8220;bong&#8221;. That makes sense, you sing a song, so when you bing, you are binging the bong. They should rename &#8220;Search results&#8221; to &#8220;Bong&#8221; like so:</p>

<p><img src="http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/bingbongsmall.png" alt="bingbongsmall" title="bingbongsmall" width="440" height="511" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-30" /></p>
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		<title>Domain name squatting</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2009/07/07/domain-name-squatting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>igor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking around for a domain name for this site and also for another project that I want to start and invariably the best domain names have been taken. I can understand legitimate businesses having a domain name I have in mind, but 99% of the pages I tried were either parked or dead <a href="http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2009/07/07/domain-name-squatting/" rel="bookmark" title="Read on...">[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was looking around for a domain name for this site and also for another project that I want to start and invariably the best domain names have been taken.</p>

<p>I can understand legitimate businesses having a domain name I have in mind, but 99% of the pages I tried were either parked or dead with the domain name unavailable.</p>

<p>The best of the lot would have to be this page: <a href="http://iwant.com">iwant.com</a>. In case it changes by the time this gets around, the asking price was $15 million. It also listed the following domain names that have been sold recently for lots of dough:</p>

<p>1) Invest.com:                 $1.00 million
2) Topix.com:                  $1.00 million
3) Guy.com:                    $1.00 million
4) Fish.com:                    $1.02 million
5) Cruises.co.uk:             $1.10 million
6) Chinese.com:             $1.12 million
7) Kredit.de:                   $1.17 million
8 ) Scores.com:               $1.18 million
9) Vista.com:                  $1.25 million
10) Cameras.com:           $1.50 million
11) Tandberg.com:          $1.50 million
12) Datarecovery.com:    $1.65 million
13) Auction.com:             $1.70 million
14) Fly.com:                    $1.76 million
15) Seniors.com:             $1.80 million
16) Computer.com:          $2.10 million
17) Creditcards.com:       $2.75 million
18) Vodka.com:               $3.00 million
19) Candy.com:               $3.00 million
20) Wine.com:                 $3.30 million
21) Altavista.com:            $3.30 million
22) Korea.com:                $5.00 million
23) Asseenontv.com:        $5.00 million
24) Toys.com:                   $5.10 million
25) Casino.com:               $5.50 million
26) Business.com:            $7.50 million
27) Diamond.com:            $7.50 million
28) Porn.com:                   $9.50 million
29) Fund.com:                  $10.0 million
30) Sex.com:                    $12.0 million
31) Moneyusa.com:          $15.0 million (Not verified)</p>

<p>Out of the 16 of the above sites that I tried 4 were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_traffic">Type-in traffic</a> ad farms.</p>

<p>Am I missing something or is the whole internet advertising bubble full of hot air? Surely investing into a generic domain name for that much will not pay off in the matter of decades. I would imagine that in order to get $1 advertising dollar the site would have to make at least double that in revenue for the advertiser. When will cameras.com generate (at least) 2 million dollars of sales for people advertising on cameras.com? In about a thousand years, if the internet still exists then.</p>

<p>Going with the example of cameras.com urlappraisal values the site at $31K &#8211; <a href="http://www.urlappraisal.net/search.php?textSearch=cameras.com&amp;searchSubmit=Appraise">link here</a>. Seems like whoever forked off cool $1.5M paid too much. Can&#8217;t say I feel sorry for them.</p>

<p>Then again, the front page made by a cyber-squatter is hardly a reliable source of information, in which case this whole article becomes moot. The question still remains though &#8211; Does the internet advertising generate THAT MUCH revenue for the advertiser or is this some sort of inverse pyramid still powered by Google IPO?</p>
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