And The Gold Medal For Stupidity Goes To...
from the greedathlon dept
We've discussed before the asinine level of special protection Olympic organizers regularly demand for their trademarks and even plenty of common words, as well as event sponsors. However, organizers of the 2012 summer games in London have set the bar for stupidity even higher by apparently decreeing that it will only use security technology provided by paid sponsors. Even with the ridiculously high level of concern over security at these events, organizers won't choose the best solutions, just those provided by companies that have paid to sponsor the games. This means that, apparently, matters of identity management and authentication will be left up to Visa. Yes, that's the Visa that's a credit-card company for which data leaks, identity protection and authentication are in no way a problem. While we're handing out medals for stupidity, let's go ahead and give the silver to the site on which the original article appears for its annoying registration scheme. Visit the page once, and everything's cool. Visit it again, and you get hit with a demand to register, which seems like a really, really great way to encourage new visitors to the site to read more keep coming back.
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hrmm...
Visit the page once, and everything's cool. Visit it again, and you get hit with a demand to register, which seems like a really, really great way to encourage new visitors to the site to read more keep coming back.
Its not doing that now. Unless you were referring to a different site than the one you linked to.
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Still, it's a good site so I did, didn't cost anything and I used a disposable Gmail account so no problem with privacy.
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More of a reason...
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Damn
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Kinda like if Nike is the biggest shoe sponsor then you will see more Nike ads than Adidas, Rebbok and other shoe brands.
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I think a better analogy would be if they banned employees from wearing reeboks because reebok didnt sponsor the event.
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I'm not shocked.
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I missed that - I vote tiddlywinks for 2012
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GO X-Games, at least they have remained interesting.
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Unless some seriously huge changes are made within the next 5 years, London is going to be the world's largest gridlock when the Olympics come here.
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No comment just sleepy
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$$$$$$$$$$$
Will the Olympics be enough of an enticement to get a/some high-end security enterprise to pony up to provide the service?
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Infringement
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The real...
By special people.
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with NoScript and their site being denied, that stupid page looks wide as 3 monitors next to each other. You have to scroll WAAAAY to the right to see some text
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