krussell

Interesting, looks like the wikipedia title spells it Betteridge's with an apostrophe. %27 is the url encoding for the apostrophe and %25 is the url encoding for the %. So it looks like the link somehow got url encoded twice before it was shared resulting in the apostrophe becoming %27 and then the %27 becoming %2527 and producing a bad link.

Some common method of people finding and sharing that url must have had an issue where it incorrectly encoded the url twice. I wonder what it was :) .

Or perhaps the scraper has a bug where it is double url encoding the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines link?

You might be thinking of this old linux kernel bug where a gcc optimization that deleted null pointer checks resulted in a vulnerability https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1897 . There's a more interesting write up of the bug and patch at https://lwn.net/Articles/342330/ .

Ha, I also liked those shoes. Looks like the patent for the competing Reebok Pump also expired a few years ago: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5113599A . It's interesting to see that LA Gear filed for their Regulators patent 1 month before Reebok was granted the Pump patent.

You may be thinking of a similar vulnerability discovered with StartSSL's StartEncrypt tool - https://www.computest.nl/blog/startencrypt-considered-harmfu... .

I just noticed under the "Download Linear Algebra" section on http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/ , he gives a link to a paperback version of Linear Algebra on Amazon (ISBN-13: 978-0989897563).

It's not entirely true that "all the games you already had before the update don't go away". Although you could still play your current games, the multiplayer portions of those games required you to be connected to the PS network, which in turn required the latest firmware upgrade that removed Linux.

I stayed on the firmware with Linux and was fine with not being able to play new games but it did kind of suck that I couldn't play multiplayer games I'd already purchased.