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Great catch...
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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I just wonder what sort of person wants to be known as an STD God.
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The sort of person who calls their daughter "Chlamydia" because they think it sounds exotic? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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LOL.
I guess they intended it to be the C++ namespace std. Although they ain't a god if all they do is copy other site's articles. That means they are fools that have delusions of grandeur.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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The legal hamsters have thrown down their enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Are you sure? I've just looked at the page again, and almost everything posted still seems to be stolen from CodeProject.
Only the last two items on the front page aren't stolen from CodeProject, and even those are stolen from somewhere else. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Some bugs take a few stomps to wipe out. Another boot incoming.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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For some reason, I suspect it won't be the last. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Probably. But I contacted a few other sites whose articles stdgod was also copying and provided them with examples and contact info. More boots will be dropping.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chu...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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King Arthur: Right. One... two... five.
Galahad: Three, sir.
King Arthur: Three.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'd like to suggest a new option for articles that need help: Contains dangerously wrong advice
For example, this article[^] contains code which claims to protect against SQL Injection, but in fact does nothing of the sort. I've tried to explain the problem to the author[^], but without success.
None of the other options for flagging the article apply, but I think it's wrong to leave an article containing such dangerously wrong advice published on the site, where other developers who don't understand the error will blindly copy the code and believe that they're protected.
Or, in other words, "Someone is wrong on the Internet!"[^] 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: None of the other options for flagging the article apply
I would go for the existant "extremly poor quality" or the "innacurate / misleading"
actually misleading would fit, don't you think?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Possibly. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Misleading / inaccurate is the one you want.
I'm adding this to Quick Answers, too.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Was somewhat surprised to see one of those questionable "Important Notice! Updated drivers are critical for your PC to function correctly! Check for drivers now!" ads in the header. Does a programming/computer using specialist website like CP want to be associated with such tactics? Most of us are knowledgeable enough to resist, but a newbie may get infected because they think CP really condones the product. 
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Did the ad have a little "x" in the top left? If so, click it and report it - we remove the crap ads ASAP. If it didn't then please take a screenshot and copy the URL and email it to me (chris@ codeproject).
Those ads aren't acceptable. I've asked our AdOps team to dig in and ensure they are blocked.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Did the ad have a little "x" in the top left?
I don't think it did, but it has rotated out so I can't be certain. If I see it again I'll do the screenshot and see if it will reveal any URLs without clicking.
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Thanks David.
We use a third party provider to backfill ads during slow times and we do our best to really trim them down to relevant ads, but unfortunately some slip through, hence our own "report this ad" system. Sometimes 3rd party ads simply don't appear in a form our system can spot. We had a meeting on this issue today and Yuriy's going to dig in and beef it up a little more.
Death to crappy ads.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Death to crappy ads.
Triple Yay! Now if we could get the rest of the web to follow suit...
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I'm trying.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Just sent an email with a possible malware infecter ad in the banner.
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We got your email and removed the ad - thanks for that.
It was a WinZip ad. We were a little baffled (and saddened) at that. We thought they were better than that.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Baffling. Unless there is a small chance Google has a redirect misdirect between banner and add (which doesn't make sense either)? I don't know, and you probably won't either, but the fact that many searches for popular and useful software turns up links to malware _before_ the actual software's site doesn't give me great faith in them. Nor does the fact that without verbatim search on, it is almost unusable for me. (But with verbatim it is fantastic.)
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Sent another questionable one your way...
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