Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web 125
iago-vL writes "The Nmap Project recently posted an awesome visualization of the top million site icons (favicons) on the Web, sized by relative popularity of sites. This project used the Nmap Scripting Engine, which is capable of performing discovery, vulnerability detection, and anything else you can imagine with lightning speed. We saw last month how an Nmap developer downloaded 170 million Facebook names, and this month it's a million favicons; I wonder what they'll do next?"
Re:*sigh* (Score:5, Insightful)
If only I could find a way to make money off other people's stupidity...
Go into politics.
Re:*sigh* (Score:4, Insightful)
*sigh* If only I could find a way to make money off other people's stupidity...
Start a religion? I'm too honest, personally, but it's worked for others.
Re:*sigh* (Score:5, Insightful)
OTOH, sometimes it doesn't work out so well [wikipedia.org].
Re:And the big five are: (Score:3, Insightful)
It seems that Yahoo and MSN are tied up (at least visually they're of the same size).
What I'm genuinely curious about is why is Microsoft website is so popular (the icon is as big as the one for Twitter)? I can understand MSN and Bing, but what are people doing browsing microsoft.com so much? I thought that maybe it's Hotmail, but no, it's got a different icon...
Re:And the big five are: (Score:1, Insightful)
I'm continuously surprised that Yahoo is still around, somehow relevant, and popular.
SVG favicons, please! (Score:1, Insightful)
16x16 (or 32x32) favicons are really too ugly when zoomed in...
Why is amazon.com so small? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Trinity (Score:1, Insightful)
I'm tired of this meme. There was nothing wrong with Matrix 2 and 3, except for being overly long (like Star Wars Return of the Sominex). The story would have worked better as a single movie.
What are you talking about? The first movie hinted at a philosophy that moved beyond the metaphor of a computer generated virtual reality feeding off human power.
If you go back and watch the first one you can write so many fantastic endings that would have been consistent... In fact I was sure I had it figured out before the first movie's credits had rolled - that the matrix itself had been created as an incomplete structure that required the human element for continued viability, but also was instructed to preserve the genetics in the most certain manner possible through $GALACTIC_HORROR (ie: blissfully unaware).
The Neo's of that world were ultimately symbolic of the philosophers in ours, waking up at various points throughout history to supply the needed recalibration of the symbol sets through which the sleepers' perspectives remain relative and largely immediate despite a horrifying, larger than anything man-made reality that does appears deaf & dumb to life itself.
In short, I thought it was a generation ship novella come to life on the big screen. I was excited for the first sequel, and it turned out to be the second fastest walk-out on my resume (Titanic being the first, LOTR II & III being the third and fourth).
This would have explained every aspect of the Matrix's construction. The second two movies were supposed to be about the relationship between humanity and a reality that only appears continuous from the perspective of a human that is still in possession of the spark of life - and the value judgments that separate inherent from utility approaches to decisions governing the continuation of the species.
It was plain as day. Anyhow, the second two movies had no philosophical depth.