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if bandwidth was properly spelled...

That it's politeness, and not something crasser.

But since the image is still hosted there, not a problem to fix. :)

But maybe it isn't. I doubt that Arianna personally did this. No doubt it was some propeller head in her employ, bleary-eyed from being up all night at SWIII premier.

Still, as you demonstrated, people hot-link at their peril. What she really did is give you some free real-estate on their home page.

How long is it going to take her to figure out that you could put ANY message you want on her website?

Amazing restraint Krempasky, I would have been much, much more creative.

Could have been tubgirl. (note: if you Google, consider yourself warned)

. . .for a nice little personal ad for Zsa Zsa Throatstomper herself:

WANTED:  Empty suit wanted to serve in capacity as husband/figurehead for powerful moonbat matriarch.  Must lack independent ideas but be able to make a somewhat convincing attempt to fake them at need.  Can work around any sexual identity issues.  Please send resume and cojones (if any) to zsazsathroatstomper@moonbatmail.com.

What pic did Arianna steal? Sorry guys, I'm not on Redstate 24-7 to keep track of these things. ;-)

Lower right, there is a nice little message to Ariana there on the image of the cloture petition.  It has been removed from her blog now @ 3:30.

This image was on her front page and it linked to a WaPo article.  You can see the image behind the RedState.org note in the screen capture at the top of this story.

Why did you do that?  Like an idiot, I went right to Google.  I'm still cringing....

I just looked at it too.  

I recommend skipping this one to everyone else.

I'm not sure you would have said no if they asked to use it? Would you have?

Seriously, it's not like someone will happen to notice that at image is hotlinked once the page is constructed. Once it's done it's out of mind. I see no reason to give them a day to figure it out.

For all the info and none of the visual pain, go read wiki's write-up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubgirl .

(It gets put in the same category ('List of shock sites') as goatse.cx, the site that caused geeknews site Slashdot to put the domain of all links in brackets after every link in comments.)

warned as stated below.

But wondering who linked to an, er, inappropriate sight in a comment on my blog (since deleted).  Krempasky, too much time on your hands today?

Bandwidth isn't cheap, and if an extremely popular media site "hotlinks" an image, it can completely screw RS over. Simple math yields a 6kb picture viewed by, let's say, 1000 people an hour, on there for a day, is 24 hours. 24x1000x6=144,000Kb, which is 144MB of bandwidth wasted. Not good at all.

Right-click on the images on the HuffingtonPost newswire and check the properties. Every image is hotlinked. I think they just have no idea how they're supposed to show images on the interweb. They just stick in an <IMG> tag, put in the URL--how hard could it be?

Will admit to partial understanding of transgression. And what would have the proper alternative have been?

They should have downloaded the image, and hosted it on their own server. Hotlinking is deliberately wasting other people's bandwidth.

But doesn't hotlinking drive people to a site, in this case, Redstate? Which is a good thing?

And, if the HP had done as you recommend, then would have also the polite thing to do have been to say, "Hat tip to Redstate?"

I've just always been vague on these things. Otherwise, I know lots. Really.

thx

In this case, the image was hotlinked - hosted on RedState, but displayed on HP. There was no corresponding link or hat tip to drive any traffic here.

This has happened to me on occasion. I keep a picture of the giant snow penis from Harvard for just such occassions.

After a warning, I rename the picture so they are hotlinking to the snow penis. It usually gets results.

I used to do the same thing with people who stole images off my website. There was a particular image that they always stole, so I replaced it with a giant (1024x768) Bush-Cheney 2004 banner.

Needless to say, the image was promptly deleted from the leechers' websites.