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I recently updated my list of Seattle Tech Employers. All the way at the bottom is a link to Zoomingo, a local shopping site. When viewed on the iPhone, but not on Android, Windows nor Mac OS X, Zoomingo's Jobs page serves pr0n.
I attempted to contact Zoomingo through their contact page a few days ago but met with no response. I called the Domains by Proxy number listed in their WHOIS, only to reach a totally clueless customer service agent. He was generally nice about it, but quite confused.
"We only pass on your phone messages when they call in for it."
"Suppose they don't call in until a month from now. Are they going to be happy that a local sales website has been serving pr0n for a solid month?"
My understanding is that the Uniform Domain Dispute Resolution Policy requires up-to-date contact information in one's WHOIS record; I recall specifically that a domain was lost due to a stale postal address.
I don't have a problem with WHOIS privacy services but there should be a way for anyone who wants to reach the admin of a faulty server, to reach it immediately.
(My guess is that Zoomingo's jobs page depends on Javascript from some other domain, and that other domain's nameservers have been 0wnz0r3d.)
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday May 03 2015, @07:13AM
Mike, if you really want a good job, all you need to do is adapt a British (or any European country) accent. Then you can go to work for Google and get a good salary for taking a great UI web site and loading it with mystery meat navigation and broken links. Just like these guys: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/20/if-you-use-google-maps-be-ready-for-a-change-soon/ [theblaze.com]
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Sunday May 03 2015, @10:57PM
Am I blind, or is there now no way to actually PRINT off a Google Map? (Aside from CTRL-P)
Used to be you could preview and tweak the output before printing - it was a good thing.
Of course Google now always clutters up every map with boxes full of stuff that I don't need, and which just block off part of the screen.
Maybe it's a sign that Maps is about to offer a paid subscription version that actually does what it did two years ago?
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday May 04 2015, @07:41PM
As far as I know there is no direct way to print maps. The new UI is a bloated ugly piece of work. I did stumble across a way to save a map to disk this morning. but I don't know if it can be viewed as a jpg or bitmap, if it can it can be printed. I just haven't had the time to play around with it. Look at this video at the end of this article from Business Week: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-maps-brian-mcclendon-replaced-by-jen-fitzpatrick-2015-5 [businessinsider.com]
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:52AM
As google still operates as open source, there is now a fork of new Google maps that is working on restoring many of the great features of of the classic Google maps. This is a prototype so there may be somethings that need work.
https://github.com/barryhunter/classygmaps/ [github.com]
To see the UI and test it out:
http://gokml.net/maps [gokml.net]
When life isn't going right, go left.