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tenlittlebullets) wrote2003-10-28 04:39 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2003-10-28 04:39 pm
Two things:
First of all:
Completely related to my last post, there is a kid who is going to go to my school second semester who was tagging around with one of my friends today to get a tour of the school. And he is so pretty. Think tight shirt, both ears pierced, hair with bleach and red highlights on top... unfortunately, he also sets off the ol' Gaydar like there is no tomorrow. Which is a shame, because it means the one boy in the world I have ever been instantly attracted to would probably have no interest in me.
He also sat right next to my current [female] crush in chorus, who happens to be at the opposite end of the room from the teacher. Bad me, staring at them when I should've been watching the conductor...
*reads over everything above* Dear God, somebody shoot me. Please.
Anyway.
In an interesting move that has Democrats and Slashdot readers alike screaming at them, the White House web site has blocked search robots from archiving a whole bunch of directories that end in /iraq. They're still viewable to the general public, but won't show up in search engine results and won't be archived by third-party sites. The general theory is that this is so any revisionism won't be detected--for example, a press release saying that combat operations were over in Iraq was amended to say 'major' combat operations--and was caught because someone compared the current version to the version archived by Google. And now they've blocked all these directories with /iraq at the end from archive robots. 1984-ish, huh?
Well, there's just one little problem. Which is that none of those directories exist. For example, /infocus/defense/iraq is blocked, but if you go to www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/defense/iraq, you get a 404 error. Same thing happens with all the other Iraq directories. And what's more, the actual directories with information on Iraq--such as /iraq and /infocus/iraq--haven't been added to the list.
The full list of directories that robots can't access is at WhiteHouse.gov/robots.txt. All the non-Iraq directories are simply text-only versions of other files, blocked to prevent duplicate results. But really, holiday/barney/iraq? What the fuck?
Can anyone explain why they'd prevent search engines from archiving Iraq-related directories that don't exist, and not prevent them from archiving the ones that do? All it's doing is fostering paranoia against them. I think someone in the whitehouse.gov staff is a few bats short of a belfry here...
Completely related to my last post, there is a kid who is going to go to my school second semester who was tagging around with one of my friends today to get a tour of the school. And he is so pretty. Think tight shirt, both ears pierced, hair with bleach and red highlights on top... unfortunately, he also sets off the ol' Gaydar like there is no tomorrow. Which is a shame, because it means the one boy in the world I have ever been instantly attracted to would probably have no interest in me.
He also sat right next to my current [female] crush in chorus, who happens to be at the opposite end of the room from the teacher. Bad me, staring at them when I should've been watching the conductor...
*reads over everything above* Dear God, somebody shoot me. Please.
Anyway.
In an interesting move that has Democrats and Slashdot readers alike screaming at them, the White House web site has blocked search robots from archiving a whole bunch of directories that end in /iraq. They're still viewable to the general public, but won't show up in search engine results and won't be archived by third-party sites. The general theory is that this is so any revisionism won't be detected--for example, a press release saying that combat operations were over in Iraq was amended to say 'major' combat operations--and was caught because someone compared the current version to the version archived by Google. And now they've blocked all these directories with /iraq at the end from archive robots. 1984-ish, huh?
Well, there's just one little problem. Which is that none of those directories exist. For example, /infocus/defense/iraq is blocked, but if you go to www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/defense/iraq, you get a 404 error. Same thing happens with all the other Iraq directories. And what's more, the actual directories with information on Iraq--such as /iraq and /infocus/iraq--haven't been added to the list.
The full list of directories that robots can't access is at WhiteHouse.gov/robots.txt. All the non-Iraq directories are simply text-only versions of other files, blocked to prevent duplicate results. But really, holiday/barney/iraq? What the fuck?
Can anyone explain why they'd prevent search engines from archiving Iraq-related directories that don't exist, and not prevent them from archiving the ones that do? All it's doing is fostering paranoia against them. I think someone in the whitehouse.gov staff is a few bats short of a belfry here...