{"id":113,"date":"2004-07-30T03:14:25","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T09:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2004\/07\/30\/these-jokers\/"},"modified":"2004-07-30T03:14:25","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T09:14:25","slug":"these-jokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2004\/07\/30\/these-jokers\/","title":{"rendered":"These jokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"exhibit a\" class=\"right\" title=\"exhibit a\" href=\"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/albums\/cosmo\/entry_niper4.thumb.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us\/aj\/Courses\/AJ_Courses_Page.htm\">These jokers<\/a> have been hotlinking a couple of my pictures for quite some time now.The traffic has risen above the noise with the new school year approaching and so I take a minute to contemplate my options.<br \/> Of course there&#8217;s always the option of ignoring it as I have been, and there are easily implementable technological means to stop it. I don&#8217;t really want to disallow hotlinking, because certainly it&#8217;s mostly used for good and not evil; this particular one just bugs me a little. I mean it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yosemite.cc.ca.us\/\">community college<\/a>! Every image on the page, except for my two, is hosted by the community college server. It&#8217;s just me that someone decided to punk out for bandwidth.  <br \/>I like <a href=\"http:\/\/hewgill.com\/photo\/\">gregh&#8217;s method<\/a> of adding a banner with copyright statement to the picture (I think this is a nice way to deal with the problem, but I can&#8217;t spend my whole life trying to copy all of gregh&#8217;s good ideas).  <br \/> <img alt=\"exhibit b\" class=\"left\" title=\"exhibit b\" href=\"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/albums\/bs\/img_1364.thumb.jpg\"> So obviously I&#8217;m thinking of replacing these two pictures with something more interesting. Thoughts that immediately spring to mind are things like just flipping them upside down, drawing stickmen in a similar pose, a text-star that says something like &#8220;Students get to kill a live goat in this class!!!&#8221; or &#8220;Personal cadaver required for final&#8221;. Oddly enough the size is noted in the page, so using a <a href=\"http:\/\/uberh4x0r.org\/~hoyhoy\/fc2upd.png\">full-size hoyhoy screenshot<\/a> won&#8217;t work. <a href=\"mailto:mick@lowdrag.org\">email me<\/a> your best (G-rated) ideas and if I&#8217;m still in a bad mood in a few days we&#8217;ll implement the funniest ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These jokers have been hotlinking a couple of my pictures for quite some time now.The traffic has risen above the noise with the new school year approaching and so I take a minute to contemplate my options. Of course there&#8217;s always the option of ignoring it as I have been, and there are easily implementable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}