SB Nation User Blog: banter

BE Malware?

banter — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:30:11 -0000

Got this google chrome warning when I clicked on today. You guys might want to have SBNation have a look at their banners.

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Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer! The website at www.bloodyelbow.com contains elements from the site creatives.more-banners.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer. For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for creatives.more-banners.com. Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful software online.

Five Ounces of Pain & plagiarism?

banter — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:18:57 -0000

Five Ounces of Pain is ripping off MMA Junkie

I know lots of sites recycle facts and quotes from other sites, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen as blatant a rip of one article as what 5 Ounces of Pain did with an MMA Junkie article yesterday. The whole thing is literally re-written paragraph by paragraph. The exact words may be different, but it’s still a total lift … without even the decency to link back to the original article!

Online plagiarism

Online plagiarism

Content scraping is a phenomenon of copy and pasting material from internet websites, affecting both established sites [7] and blogs[8].

Free online tools are becoming available to help identify plagiarism [9], and there is a range of approaches that attempt to limit online copying, such as disabling right clicking and placing warning banners regarding copyrights on web pages. Instances of plagiarism that involve copyright violation may be addressed by the rightful content owners sending a DMCA removal notice to the offending site-owner, or to the ISP that is hosting the offending site.

It is important to reiterate that plagiarism is not the mere copying of text, but the presentation of another's ideas as one's own, regardless of the specific words or constructs used to express that idea. In contrast, many so-called plagiarism detection services can only detect blatant word-for-word copies of text.

Dana White says Canadian fighter Georges St. Pierre was illegally greased

banter — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:19:56 -0000

"Do I think that he got greased? Yeah, I do," White told The Canadian Press prior to the UFC 95 weigh-in Friday at the Dominion Theatre. "Absolutely, 100 per cent, I think that that guy was rubbing grease on him.

"Do I think Georges was trying to cheat? Absolutely not at all. But that cornerman was rubbing grease on him. You cannot do that."

Was it needed?

"He didn't have to put grease on him. ... Georges St. Pierre was winning the fight, he was dominant in the standup and on the ground. To have a fight or a fighter like St. Pierre tainted over a stupidity, I hate it. It sucks."

Story Source I'm kind of tired of this whole story but its still important to follow it, IMO.

Tom Atencio addresses slow ticket sales rumor

banter — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:20:37 -0000

Source UG

Just wanted to come on here and respond to all the rumors going around that we have only sold 1200-1500 seats. First of all i have no idea where this information is coming from, but it could'nt be farther from the truth. In reality we are opening up more seating to accomodate the demand for tickets. This event is stacked from top to bottom, and i personally cant wait to see every fight! For those of you that can't make it out to the event be sure to watch the main card live on pay PPV as well as the complete undercard for free on HDNET.

THANKS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT!
Tom Atencio Affliction Entertainment Group