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Media mistakes
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Black Hole
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Safari says that's a dodgy site!
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It isn't dodgy, just not https. It's the donation site for the Yorkshire Wildlife Park at Doncaster. It begins, with the same mistakes repeated once more further down:
One species in question being people who do not proof read anything? 3 mistakes in one sentence?
MAKE A MONTHLY DONATION
Buy making a monthly donation to Yorkshire Wildlife Park Foundation, you’re helping to conserve and protect the world’s most at risk species’.One species in question being people who do not proof read anything? 3 mistakes in one sentence?
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Black Hole
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Well...
The browsers (Chrome as well) get very upset. They don't do that for http. What you've got here is a web page served as https but with an incorrect certificate, so they don't have a webmaster who knows his job either.
I am struggling to find a third.
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Opera lets me proceed, but having an insecure site ask for donations is a no-no for me. I think the problem is that getting a valid certificate is not easy, and it used to cost money too, don't know if it still does. I have self-certified experimental sites before, but anyone can do that.
I just checked and a certificate is around $5.55 a year for a personal user, no idea if a charity can get one cheaper. Personally, I treat these the same way as I would ground rent, ie,
Edit: They have corrected the mistakes, but with a different URL.
Buy making a monthly donation to Yorkshire Wildlife Park Foundation, you’re helping to conserve and protect the world’s most at risk species’.
At-risk
Species is both singular and plural, what is the apostrophe for? Does the writer think that any nown ending in an s has to have an apostrophe, like a possessive???
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Black Hole
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I think the need for a hyphen in "at-risk" is debatable.
These days it's no problem at all, and free. But it isn't a case of not having a certificate, the problem is that the certificate is for the wrong URL.
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Please tell, I am rusty on such things.
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at-risk adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com
Definition of at-risk adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
One example leads to another. Protext?
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Black Hole
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Google "free https".
My current host has a setup process on the control panel; previously a certificate was obtained from Let's Encrypt (my current host appears in their sponsors list).
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Theatres decimated ahead of London’s Tier 3 move, playwright says
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Give me strength! This usage is becoming more and more common. The meaning of decimate has been decimated.
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Black Hole
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But are you not also decimating decimate by your use of decimate (as am I), unless these instances are 1 in 10?
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I need another acorn.
Black Hole
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Your wish...
EEPhil
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This sort of reminds me of something I may have said here before. A professor (in the days when professor meant something - these days a senior lecturer is a professor) I knew in Electrical Engineering was a stickler for correct usage and used to say (about some type of electric motor) that the field was orientated not oriented (or was it the other way around?) because the latter meant to become a Chinaman. Eventually he realised he was wrong. The number of people who misuse decimate - and I bet I'm one of them.
MikeSh
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When I was doing electrical engineering a popular song at the time was "Turning Japanese".
Black Hole
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Surely not! One only acquires the title Professor when appointed to a professorial seat by the university board, presumably having been the most qualified candidate.
gomezz
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When Humax re-introducing jump direct to play point on their Youview boxes they did so by by using the number keys to jump in 10% intervals: 1 =10%, 2 = 20% etc. I at first called them tenthtiles but apparently there is already a word for them which is deciles.