[PMP]

Safari shows the non-BMW version, as well. (Safari is the Mac browser)

[Enkur]

IE 7 in Vista is showing the article with time stamp of 7:18pm and mentions the BMW.

[canucklion]

heard the radio news update, yip, it's a 61 year old man driving a BMW, he apparently tried to pass on the shoulder

[Gripster]

Originally Posted by canucklion

I think somehow IE is not getting the updated version of the story, look at the time stamps on the two browser, Firefox has 7:18pm with TWO reporters while IE has 3:38pm with only one reporter

Mr Bill Gate, fix your internet thingie

That's some crazy shit. Different stories with different browsers? wtf?

Must be them toobs getting clogged up on the interwebs I think.

[DasBlitz]

Just yesterday a somewhat old man(Not sure if he was 60 but maybe close) was driving an M5 and honked at me and flew by me. I sped up a bit but he was flooring it and going all over. I didn't need a ticket in a diff state so backed off.

Just shows the older guys can be as crazy if not more.

[0asis]

wow.. Canuck's right.. stupid toronto star. i read the 7pm update and i think others read the older 3pm.. thanks to Canuck for screen capping the correct article

[BMW2006]

It's 12:19 AM EST, and I get the same 3pm version from both browsers after clearing cache and cookies. I don't get it.

-BMW2006

[MadDog]

Originally Posted by canucklion

I think somehow IE is not getting the updated version of the story, look at the time stamps on the two browser, Firefox has 7:18pm with TWO reporters while IE has 3:38pm with only one reporter

Mr Bill Gate, fix your internet thingie

What''s really weird is that the first time I looked at the story (with IE), it talked about the BMW, and matched your Firefox screen cap. Now, when I look at the story, (with IE), it matches your IE screen cap. WTF ???

[toofasttooslow]

Not to worry. All of your browsers are correct, er incorrect...whatever.

A site like this uses a lot of load balancing and content offloading. They're just doing a piss poor job of it. See below...


First the firefox cap....

***********************************************
GET /adj/thestar/news;tile=1;sz=728x90;ord='%20+%20ord%20+%20'? HTTP/1.1
Host: ad.doubleclick.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/232846
Cookie: id=800000e89e4efe9
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: DCLK-AdSvr
Content-Type: application/x-javascript
Content-Length: 364
Content-Encoding: gzip


Now the IE cap...

************************************************** *8

GET /News/article/232846 HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Host: www.thestar.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: s_cc=true; s_sq=%5B%5BB%5D%5D; s_vnum=1186287140218%26vn%3D1; s_invisit=true; s_lastvisit=1183695140218; s_nr=1183696527890; s_vi=[CS]v1|468DC12B000050AB-A170BAC000046A8[CE]; BIGipServerTops_II_web_thestar=795846848.20480.000 0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:39:54 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa OUR BUS IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT DEM"
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Cache-Control: public
Expires: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:40:54 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Content-Length: 55665
**********************************

See all that shit in bold? That's IE session specific instructions to load balance off their BigIP/F5 load balancers. They figure a majority of the world uses IE, so they should load balance browser based sessions. I'm thinking based off of the browser user agent.Not an entirely bad practice as long as your web devs are not complete retards as it appears in this case. Simply put, they didn't update their references and now the stories are all wonky.

[Spool]

Firefox ftw...


at first i was like is sekzi dyslexic? the BMW was mentioned several times in the article...but further reading revealed other wise...

[toofasttooslow]

Going first to http://192.206.150.210 should get you to be able to read the story in IE. Go there, the link to the story should be on the front page...


Edit: Uggh, nevermind. Their load balancing is worse than I thought. If I knew the absolute entry point to the story I'd post it, but that would require more of my time, and frankly my givvadamn is about broken.

[karliejai]

WAHHHHHH?

[STE92VE]

Meanwhile, back at the ranch......

It seems some people never grow up when they get behind the wheel. I used to drive much more aggressively when I was younger, but now, less frequently.

[fer360]

As of this morning:

In Mac OS X, every browser I've tried shows the BMW version. They must have fixed the loading issue.

(I tried Safari, Netscape, IE and Firefox)

[Cabby]

It was really unneccessary to even mention the type of car he was driving. Did that add to the story at all?

[Tobizach]

Originally Posted by Cabby

It was really unneccessary to even mention the type of car he was driving. Did that add to the story at all?

They always mention type/brand of cars esp the ones that caused it.

[Bram335]

he was probably overdosed on Viagara to be driving like that.

[bronco]

Originally Posted by Bram335

he was probably overdosed on Viagara to be driving like that.

or maybe he hated that truck driver...

[montreal_bimmer]

moron

[ehhhwik]

Originally Posted by canucklion

heard the radio news update, yip, it's a 61 year old man driving a BMW, he apparently tried to pass on the shoulder

what a fu*king idiot

[ehhhwik]

Originally Posted by Bram335

he was probably overdosed on Viagara to be driving like that.

i guess all the blood that was suppose to be used in his brain to think properly went down under (at least for 4 hrs)

[darkcloud]

Originally Posted by STE92VE

Meanwhile, back at the ranch......

It seems some people never grow up when they get behind the wheel. I used to drive much more aggressively when I was younger, but now, less frequently.

Agreed. I'm over total aggressive driving. Not saying I'm not aggressive but when it comes to the point where I may harm myself, someone else or my car that's when I cut it off.

People driving aggressive in traffic or rush hour are just on Darwins waiting list. This guy just got lucky or maybe sold his soul