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Title: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: The Coach on February 25, 2009, 12:10:26 PM
Hahahahahahahahahaha!


The vice president made a techie gaffe Wednesday as he asked an aide to tell him a Web site's "number," stirring questions online whether he knows how the Web works.



Vice President Joe Biden, tasked with overseeing the $787 billion stimulus package, has been having a little trouble with his "numbers."

During an interview on CBS' "Early Show" on Wednesday, Biden told viewers to check out a government-run Web site tracking stimulus spending, but admitted he was embarrassed because he couldn't remember the site's "number."

"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?" he asked an aide standing out of view. "I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed."

Biden, who seemed to indicate that he thought the Internet worked like a giant telephone, sounded an unusually Luddite note inside an administration often heralded for its mastery of the Web.

Click here to see the gaffe.

Web sites, as much of the "Early Show" audience may have been aware, are generally referred to by their URLs or addresses. The one Biden was searching for was Recovery.gov, which he announced moments later when reminded of the proper address.

Bloggers wondered aloud whether the vice president knew how to use the Web, though some correctly pointed out that Web sites do indeed use a number system, and are identified by their numeric Internet Protocol address.

A spokeswoman for the vice president had not offered comment by the time this article was published.

Biden isn't the first politician to make a serious flub concerning the ways of the Internet -- former Sen. Ted Stevens called it a "series of tubes" in a now-famous address on the floor of the Senate.

But this wasn't even Biden's first error involving the name of the Web site. During a nationally televised address to the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Feb. 20, he directed the assembled leaders to visit the stimulus site -- but sent them to the wrong one.

"We've already set up a Web site, Recovery.com, which will show where and how the money is being spent," he said, apparently unaware that the government has its own domain. Before a government tweak last Friday, Recovery.com directed Web users to a commercial research company.

Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: donrhummy on February 25, 2009, 12:24:40 PM
While he probably mispoke, he was technically correct. A web site's actual address/location IS a number. An IP address is a numerical identification for a web site's location. The web address you type in (such as getbig.com) actually has to be translated to a number by what's called DNS. For example, getbig.com is at 216.237.124.242.
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: The True Adonis on February 25, 2009, 12:29:29 PM
While he probably mispoke, he was technically correct. A web site's actual address/location IS a number. An IP address is a numerical identification for a web site's location. The web address you type in (such as getbig.com) actually has to be translated to a number by what's called DNS. For example, getbig.com is at 216.237.124.242.
I bet Coach knows the DNS number for Sticky Studs.
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: tendonitis on February 25, 2009, 12:31:52 PM
dumbest member of the senate one heartbeat away

i wonder if he knows the web number for the hairclub for men
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: Option D on February 25, 2009, 12:31:57 PM
I bet Coach knows the DNS number for Sticky Studs.


i would be willing to say it was a fact
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: The Coach on February 25, 2009, 12:35:18 PM
As opposed to you with that pic of the tranny you're latched onto hahahahahhahahahah!
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: benz on February 25, 2009, 12:35:19 PM
actually coach she's not wrong, number/name is right, websites can be accessed in both ways.

fail
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: Mars on February 25, 2009, 12:38:18 PM
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: CT_Muscle on February 25, 2009, 12:38:36 PM
While he probably mispoke, he was technically correct. A web site's actual address/location IS a number. An IP address is a numerical identification for a web site's location. The web address you type in (such as getbig.com) actually has to be translated to a number by what's called DNS. For example, getbig.com is at 216.237.124.242.

I guess it is the roach I mean coach who doesnt know shit about the web  :D
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: 240 is Back on February 25, 2009, 12:53:45 PM
There's no place like 127.0.0.1

donrhummy is right on this one.  If you want to mislead someone into clicking a link, you use the number and not the name, for example.

While he probably mispoke, he was technically correct. A web site's actual address/location IS a number. An IP address is a numerical identification for a web site's location. The web address you type in (such as getbig.com) actually has to be translated to a number by what's called DNS. For example, getbig.com is at 216.237.124.242.
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: Dan-O on February 25, 2009, 12:55:13 PM
URL's, IP's, what-evvvvvvvvver--who's kidding whom?  You guys all know Biden is about as smart as a mud fence and not just in technological matters.

I just about spit out my dinner last night when I heard Obama say "Nobody messes with Joe!" ::)
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: The Coach on February 25, 2009, 01:00:36 PM
actually coach she's not wrong, number/name is right, websites can be accessed in both ways.

fail

So I guess he should have givin the IP address ::)??
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: LurkerNoMore on February 25, 2009, 01:02:34 PM
Typical backfire.

But did he say which one of the internets it was on?  Maybe one of the many that Bush reads?
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: nicky.smth on February 25, 2009, 01:02:46 PM
So I guess he should have givin the IP address ::)??

Coach loves study studs...


He's the moosejay of the westcoast, just ask sergiopump..he'll tell ya
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: Dan-O on February 25, 2009, 01:03:39 PM
So I guess he should have givin the IP address ::)??

Yes...  I'm sure Biden must have been referring to the IP "number." ::)
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: Mons Venus on February 25, 2009, 01:16:32 PM


Pace yourself Sticky Studs, 8 years is a LONG time! :P:-*
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: Option D on February 25, 2009, 01:24:11 PM
Pace yourself Sticky Studs, 8 years is a LONG time! :P:-*
lol
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: The True Adonis on February 25, 2009, 01:28:53 PM
lol
Coach will be melted down in the course of years, reduced to nothing more than anal beads and posing trunks drenched in a pile of goo.
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: Soul Crusher on February 25, 2009, 02:24:46 PM
While he probably mispoke, he was technically correct. A web site's actual address/location IS a number. An IP address is a numerical identification for a web site's location. The web address you type in (such as getbig.com) actually has to be translated to a number by what's called DNS. For example, getbig.com is at 216.237.124.242.

Yeah, ok.
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: CT_Muscle on February 25, 2009, 02:58:07 PM
Coach will be melted down in the course of years, reduced to nothing more than anal beads and posing trunks drenched in a pile of goo poo.

 ;)
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: MB_722 on February 25, 2009, 03:05:08 PM
hahahahahahaha


hook line and sinker.


Falling for another red herring bullshit story.

Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: Option D on February 25, 2009, 03:47:45 PM
Hahahahahahahahahaha!


The vice president made a techie gaffe Wednesday as he asked an aide to tell him a Web site's "number," stirring questions online whether he knows how the Web works.



Vice President Joe Biden, tasked with overseeing the $787 billion stimulus package, has been having a little trouble with his "numbers."

During an interview on CBS' "Early Show" on Wednesday, Biden told viewers to check out a government-run Web site tracking stimulus spending, but admitted he was embarrassed because he couldn't remember the site's "number."

"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?" he asked an aide standing out of view. "I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed."

Biden, who seemed to indicate that he thought the Internet worked like a giant telephone, sounded an unusually Luddite note inside an administration often heralded for its mastery of the Web.

Click here to see the gaffe.

Web sites, as much of the "Early Show" audience may have been aware, are generally referred to by their URLs or addresses. The one Biden was searching for was Recovery.gov, which he announced moments later when reminded of the proper address.

Bloggers wondered aloud whether the vice president knew how to use the Web, though some correctly pointed out that Web sites do indeed use a number system, and are identified by their numeric Internet Protocol address.

A spokeswoman for the vice president had not offered comment by the time this article was published.

Biden isn't the first politician to make a serious flub concerning the ways of the Internet -- former Sen. Ted Stevens called it a "series of tubes" in a now-famous address on the floor of the Senate.

But this wasn't even Biden's first error involving the name of the Web site. During a nationally televised address to the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Feb. 20, he directed the assembled leaders to visit the stimulus site -- but sent them to the wrong one.

"We've already set up a Web site, Recovery.com, which will show where and how the money is being spent," he said, apparently unaware that the government has its own domain. Before a government tweak last Friday, Recovery.com directed Web users to a commercial research company.



QUIET HOMO!!
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: nzmusclemonster on February 25, 2009, 03:50:17 PM
QUIET HOMO!!

I never knew you were one to throw stones in glass houses......
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: benz on February 25, 2009, 03:53:46 PM
So I guess he should have givin the IP address ::)??

technically, yes, because if the ns is fucked it wont resolve the name, actually, do you think people configure internet backbones like "hey gimme that coach.getbig.com domain please" ?

its all about numbers big guy, maybe you are too old for the era of technology :)
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: 24KT on February 25, 2009, 07:17:55 PM
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Aw... poor Coachie, he just can't seem to win can he?
Don't worry slugger, ...keep eating your wheaties, ...and drinking those protein shakes,
...and I'm sure you'll hit one out of the park, ...someday.
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: JOCKTHEGLIDE on February 26, 2009, 12:17:16 AM
dumbest member of the senate one heartbeat away

i wonder if he knows the web number for the hairclub for men
DUDEYOU DONT KNOW,,,IF HE SAID IT HIMSELF DURING STEROID BOARD,,,"IF I TOOK STEROIDS I WOULD BE A WORLD CALASS BASKETBALL PLAYER RIGHT NOW"
Title: Re: Biden Asks For Web Site's 'Number'
Post by: Nordic Superman on February 26, 2009, 01:31:58 AM
While he probably mispoke, he was technically correct. A web site's actual address/location IS a number. An IP address is a numerical identification for a web site's location. The web address you type in (such as getbig.com) actually has to be translated to a number by what's called DNS. For example, getbig.com is at 216.237.124.242.

Sorry don't buy this because I've never heard anyone in the industry refer to a websites IP address as a "websites' number"; that's after 2 years at university and 5 in the field in numerous countries.