i've actually seen it catch things that norton missed (and yes, both were up to date at the time. this was on a customer's machine - i install AVG as a habit).
i get no system slowdown with AVG, AND it only runs as a single service (two if you let it auto update). Norton . . . lord, it runs like eleventy billion processes.
i use Sygate Personal Firewall, AVG, Lavasoft AdAware, and Spybot S&D on my Windows 2000 box, and the only thing that ever infected me was freaking blaster. Sygate caught it as it was trying to get out, but the RPC vulnerability let Blast sneak past my firewall on the way in.
There was a patch available at the time - but i had just rebuilt my box and didn't have all 900 patches in place yet. i actually got infected WHILE downloading patches. go figure.
one, PS2 games lately have been absolute garbage. i'm sure someone could argue that this isn't the case, but you'd have to be damned persuasive to convince me of that point. From what i can see, most games these days are unoriginal crap based on movies, cookie-cutter FPS titles, mangled 3D rehashes of once great side-scrollers, etc. sure, there's stuff coming out like pandora tomorrow and omnimusha 3 . . . i'm not saying that there aren't good titles. i'm just saying that there's a peculiar abundance of gut-wrenchingly awful releases spamming up the catalogue. when someone gets suckered into spending money on a crap title like that, they get all jaded and bitter. it happens.
two, the internet makes it very easy for me to buy used games in near perfect condition. i don't have to pay 54 bucks for a 6 month old game, i can just go get it online somewhere for cheap. and even without the internet, gamestop is doing just fine in the resale business.
and three, (drumroll) MMORPGS. why isn't anyone considering the impact of these? get hooked on just one of these and your life will go to hell around you while you immerse yourself in the title. if you are in one of these things, i think you'll notice that your time spent buying or playing other games is markedly decreased simply because you are spending so much time playing the latest final fantasy title or whatEVER. with traditional RPGs, there is no real replay value, SO if you want more, you buy a sequel. with MMORPGS, there is really no end and no reason to do much of anything else. the same could be said of things like UT2004 - if you're playing that, you probably aren't playing other games unless you just need to decompress for a while.
i would think, in the absence of hard numbers, that the effect of mod chips on sales would be minimal at best. but hey, it's always easiest to blame those god D#$% consumers when your games don't sell like you declare, in your wisdom, that they should.
actually, no, you can't buy your favorite death metal at all.
according to tech tv, wal-mart had pretty crappy selection oustide of popular mucic. With the upgrade, they've added a few exclusive country titles, but for death metal, you're still screwed (censored or not).
whorray?!??!
i'm scared of anything that wal-mart puts online after seeing their fantabulous "walmart connect" internet service. Imagine the old free ISPs like net-zero (with the movies that run while you connect) being genetically spliced with AOL 2.0, and then crapped all over by that happy wal-mart smiley face. then imagine that they make you pay for it.
Ask any taxpayer, they'll tell you "yes indeed". Why should government employees have jobs for life, with generous benefits and retirement packages when real workers - you know, the people who actually foot the bill - don't?
while i agree that some taxpayers might feel this way, i would like to point out two things:
1 - State employees are tax-payers, including those stripped of a job. Arkansas employs a lot of people.
2 - There is a very real discrepancy in the wages between the private sector and our state government. The benefits you speak of really aren't there. An increasing number of our employees are on "1000 hour contracts", and get no benefits whatsoever. those of use who work full time at least have some insurance - but it sucks. Our wages have been frozen also. In other words, no matter how long i work in my current position i will never get a raise. As a Webmaster/Database Analyst, i make $13.83/hr before taxes. Feel free to compare that to the private sector if you like. Monster.com is a good place to start.
i think perhaps you are confusing us with federal jobs, which have awesome benefits, excellent job security, and comparatively good pay with regular step increases. Of course, i can't speak for other states.
btw: when i worked at wal-mart as a dept manager in college, i made 7 bucks an hour - but i had decent insurance, a 401(k) plan, and stock options. i got three raises while i worked there. i don't think "taxpayers" have a lot to be jealous of in state government here.
well, think about it. why not WMP? is there any technology out there growing faster than digital media right now?
The RIAA and their counterparts can sue whoever they like to protect cds as a viable distribution method (this is what they really want to do, regardless of what anyone says), but digital content is here right now and it isn't going away. I think everyone knows this.
The EU is picking this particular "feature" of Windows to blast MS on simply because of its relevance to future markets. And besides . . . why do you think MS bitched so much about having to take it off? If it was an innocent thing, they wouldn't have built it into the OS as a component (they did do that, yes? I know for sure IE is) AND they would have just taken it off when asked to do so.
. . . (state government don't lay off employees). ..
yeah, unless you work in arkansas. and i do. our state government just got bitch slapped by the supreme court (because of a BADLY malformed, outdated, and unconstitutional school system). Suddenly the government had to come up with several hundred million dollars - and guess where they started?
I still remember the day that they sent fully a quarter of the employees at several buildings home with no notice. they just met them at the door and said, "sorry, you don't work here anymore." Security escorted them to their desks, stood there while they cleaned them out, then walked them back out of the building.
IF microsoft is going to try to buy AOL (and who says they are?), i don't think it's so much set in stone that they'll actually do anything to it.
i say this because, in the automotive world at least, competition with oneself is a common tactic.
take ford/lincoln/mercury for instance. many of the cars are practically identical, using the same parts with only minor body style differences in some cases. they are all owned by the same company. while it seems idiotic or suicidal to compete with oneself, all three of these companies are actually profitable (though perhaps not very).
microsoft could buy AOL and not do much of anything to it on the surface. in the minds of many customers, these would still be entirely different companies. AOL users might hate msn messenger and glorify AIM. Maybe microsft would spin up Navigator and present it as an "alternative browser". Like with Ford an Mercury, people would percieve a difference in the products that may or may not be there; but in the end, all the money is going to MS.
one thing that's always bothered me about these machines is that, if they can't make a vote out (can't even see the ink maybe?), they tend to simply discard it. in this case, there were nearly 7K ballots that were not counted (if i understand the article).
why couldn't the database on the back end be configured to flag any ballots that seemed irregular for inspection? for instance, if the counting machine recorded ballot #41768 as being entirely blank, this could be flagged and brought to the attention of poll workers, who would then read the ballot and adjust the results accordingly (under intense supervision, with data noting who did the changes, and a saved copy of the original results).
this requires a paper-based ballot system. but totally electronic voting with no hard copies is a really bad idea in the first place
you are a jackass. way to correct someone else with inaccurate information you jerk.
i am very much tempted to quote something about beams and motes in your eyes, but i am afraid that i would get it WRONG because i am YOU and you're a fsking retard.
in conclusion, please slap yourself/me and apologize.
you still get points for knowing that Solomon authored the book - though you did spell his name wrong (or perhaps this is just an alternate spelling?)
i'm not certain that there IS no book of Salomon in perhaps the Koran or maybe in some of the Jewish holy books, but i am certain that it isn't in "the Bible".
History Lesson = Free Obsessive Need to Correct Obscure Factual Errors = Priceless
i've decided, after reading several other unrelated stories here on slashdot, that this sort of thing doesn't go far enough.
want something really badass? combine these communicators with the "campus ghosts" concept. throw in a gps. tie it all back in to a huge server farm in the bowels of some university.
now you can smack your communicator and address the computer (with it's awexome speech recognition capabilities and limited AI) directly, and ask it for directions; or maybe just what's on the menu at the cafe, or if there are any books left in a particular subject at the bookstore.
you could smack it up and set it to "record mode" so that it picked up your professor's lecture, and then later you could grep through it verbally, or have the text or audio file uploaded to your desktop. set reminders on the thing, ask it for definitions of words or have it call off a formula to you, or send the text to your pda.
hell, you could even ask it for a weather report or world news.
of course, this is largely based on "Prime Intellect" from the online novel of the same name - uh . . . only, without all the reality warping and stuff.
i'm just sayin . . . hurry up with the future. i need a little electronic elf to keep up with my crap and make sure i don't kill myself in some dumbass fashion.
i never understood why someone didn't just build a roughly tube shaped robot with two independently controlled treads at its center, spaced about 2 or 3 inches apart.
it would be ludicrously simple to build, could not be flipped, would have next to nothing on it that could be broken, and could wreak havoc by quickly spinning and smashing things with weapons attached to the ends of the tube.
i get so sick of those gimpy saucerbots and flippers. how about a little creativity, m?
while our function is important, it isn't "critical", in that, should we completely shut down, no one would actually die.
having said that, i should now like to point out that we have two procedures in place to ensure that we do not experience a power outage:
one is an enormous CAT generator that is tested every tuesday and thursday. the lights blink for a moment, that's all. regular tests of any back-up power system are certainly advisable.
the second is an enormous bank of batteries. the main function of this is as sort of a universal UPS, keeping the computers from going down while the generator gets up. granted, it won't last long, but it is SOMETHING.
they can blame anyone they want for the failure of the generators, but, barring outright sabotage immediately before the power outage, i'd say this entire fiasco is the result of piss poor testing procedures. one could have any number of back-up generators in reserve . . . but if they aren't tested ROUTINELY, this is the sort of crap that can and does happen.
i've actually got firebird, but i wasn't aware that those particular extensions were available for it. i assume i can get them on Sourceforge or freshmeat or something?
An AC mentioned this above, but it's worth noting:
Opera will disable/enable plug-ins with one click, and yes, that includes windows media and flash. i have mine set up this way, as well as animated gifs turned off and javascript disabled unless i request it.
I know everyone is in love with Mozilla, but honestly, what's not to love about Opera? i'm HOOKED on the mouse gestures and the ability to emulate a text-browser if i feel nostalgic.
also, it's available for linux (though i haven't tested it on a linux box).
if the OBD interface is standard, what exactly are these mechanics paying to update?
there are actually four standard interfaces: ISO, VPW, PWM or KWP 2000. They all use a 16-pin connector, but the similarity ends there. a different scanner is required for each.
though the interface is "standard", the codes and "quirks and bugs related to specific models" are largely not. this, i believe, is what congress is addressing.
smells a lot like some of the browser bullshit i have to put up with every day. yeah, there's a "standard". yay.
enforced open source for cars but not for computers, eh congressman? well that's a damned double standard!
lets stick to our guns and let the dealerships charge the independent service shops for "special training" to learn the codes, then sell them the "diagnostic tools" at grossly inflated prices.
i thought gateway was on the verge of bankruptcy maybe 6 months ago. i was actually happy when i heard they were tanking . . . and now they've dropped nearly 300 million on eMachines? what?
here in my office (government), we had very little trouble with mydoom or any of its variants - but netsky.d, for whatever reason, was slipping through. this was on march 2, so for a few hours, we had a lot of people calling the helpdesk and complaining about the "weird beepy noises" coming from their computers.
the exchange server is configured to catch most of this crap, delete the attachments, etc. - but if ANY of it gets through to a user, the attachment WILL get opened.
the hell of it is, our security advisor sends out DAILY network alerts, telling people EXPLICITLY what to look for, what NOT to do under any circumstances, right down to the various subject lines and attachment names that these worms will manifest with. she couldn't be any clearer in her instructions if she walked into their individual offices and handed them a stone tablet, engraved by the hand of God himself and saying "Thou shalt not clicketh upon this thing."
the typical excuses we hear are something along the lines of "b-but . . . it came from a guy i know? he wouldn't send me a virus?"
person: judge storm! judge storm! the people of slashdot are badly misinterpretting item 4 to mean that SCO may only sue their own customers!
JS: mmm . ..
person: judge storm? shouldn't we correct them?
JS: no . . no, i'm going to allow this one.
person: but-
JS: SILENCE! my position is unassailable. now bring me a goblet of cheese and all 25 episodes of "Berserk". i need to do some thinking on more important matters . . . such as how that CAN'T be the LAST episode, can it?!?!? Griffith, you BASTARD!!!
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ok, here goes. In no particular order:
1> Winamp 5
2> Python
3> AVG
4> AdAware
5> SpyBot S&D
6> Sygate Personal Firewall
7> Firefox
8> Trillian
9> Pyboticide
10> Irfanview
I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned Irfanview - it's free and it kicks ass.
i use AVG at home and i love it.
i've actually seen it catch things that norton missed (and yes, both were up to date at the time. this was on a customer's machine - i install AVG as a habit).
i get no system slowdown with AVG, AND it only runs as a single service (two if you let it auto update). Norton . . . lord, it runs like eleventy billion processes.
i use Sygate Personal Firewall, AVG, Lavasoft AdAware, and Spybot S&D on my Windows 2000 box, and the only thing that ever infected me was freaking blaster. Sygate caught it as it was trying to get out, but the RPC vulnerability let Blast sneak past my firewall on the way in.
There was a patch available at the time - but i had just rebuilt my box and didn't have all 900 patches in place yet. i actually got infected WHILE downloading patches. go figure.
look, sales are down for three reasons:
one, PS2 games lately have been absolute garbage. i'm sure someone could argue that this isn't the case, but you'd have to be damned persuasive to convince me of that point. From what i can see, most games these days are unoriginal crap based on movies, cookie-cutter FPS titles, mangled 3D rehashes of once great side-scrollers, etc. sure, there's stuff coming out like pandora tomorrow and omnimusha 3 . . . i'm not saying that there aren't good titles. i'm just saying that there's a peculiar abundance of gut-wrenchingly awful releases spamming up the catalogue. when someone gets suckered into spending money on a crap title like that, they get all jaded and bitter. it happens.
two, the internet makes it very easy for me to buy used games in near perfect condition. i don't have to pay 54 bucks for a 6 month old game, i can just go get it online somewhere for cheap. and even without the internet, gamestop is doing just fine in the resale business.
and three, (drumroll) MMORPGS. why isn't anyone considering the impact of these? get hooked on just one of these and your life will go to hell around you while you immerse yourself in the title. if you are in one of these things, i think you'll notice that your time spent buying or playing other games is markedly decreased simply because you are spending so much time playing the latest final fantasy title or whatEVER. with traditional RPGs, there is no real replay value, SO if you want more, you buy a sequel. with MMORPGS, there is really no end and no reason to do much of anything else. the same could be said of things like UT2004 - if you're playing that, you probably aren't playing other games unless you just need to decompress for a while.
i would think, in the absence of hard numbers, that the effect of mod chips on sales would be minimal at best. but hey, it's always easiest to blame those god D#$% consumers when your games don't sell like you declare, in your wisdom, that they should.
just my 2 cents.
actually, no, you can't buy your favorite death metal at all.
according to tech tv, wal-mart had pretty crappy selection oustide of popular mucic. With the upgrade, they've added a few exclusive country titles, but for death metal, you're still screwed (censored or not).
whorray?!??!
i'm scared of anything that wal-mart puts online after seeing their fantabulous "walmart connect" internet service. Imagine the old free ISPs like net-zero (with the movies that run while you connect) being genetically spliced with AOL 2.0, and then crapped all over by that happy wal-mart smiley face. then imagine that they make you pay for it.
Ask any taxpayer, they'll tell you "yes indeed". Why should government employees have jobs for life, with generous benefits and retirement packages when real workers - you know, the people who actually foot the bill - don't?
while i agree that some taxpayers might feel this way, i would like to point out two things:
1 - State employees are tax-payers, including those stripped of a job. Arkansas employs a lot of people.
2 - There is a very real discrepancy in the wages between the private sector and our state government. The benefits you speak of really aren't there. An increasing number of our employees are on "1000 hour contracts", and get no benefits whatsoever. those of use who work full time at least have some insurance - but it sucks. Our wages have been frozen also. In other words, no matter how long i work in my current position i will never get a raise. As a Webmaster/Database Analyst, i make $13.83/hr before taxes. Feel free to compare that to the private sector if you like. Monster.com is a good place to start.
i think perhaps you are confusing us with federal jobs, which have awesome benefits, excellent job security, and comparatively good pay with regular step increases. Of course, i can't speak for other states.
btw: when i worked at wal-mart as a dept manager in college, i made 7 bucks an hour - but i had decent insurance, a 401(k) plan, and stock options. i got three raises while i worked there. i don't think "taxpayers" have a lot to be jealous of in state government here.
well, think about it. why not WMP? is there any technology out there growing faster than digital media right now?
The RIAA and their counterparts can sue whoever they like to protect cds as a viable distribution method (this is what they really want to do, regardless of what anyone says), but digital content is here right now and it isn't going away. I think everyone knows this.
The EU is picking this particular "feature" of Windows to blast MS on simply because of its relevance to future markets. And besides . . . why do you think MS bitched so much about having to take it off? If it was an innocent thing, they wouldn't have built it into the OS as a component (they did do that, yes? I know for sure IE is) AND they would have just taken it off when asked to do so.
. . . (state government don't lay off employees). . .
yeah, unless you work in arkansas. and i do. our state government just got bitch slapped by the supreme court (because of a BADLY malformed, outdated, and unconstitutional school system). Suddenly the government had to come up with several hundred million dollars - and guess where they started?
I still remember the day that they sent fully a quarter of the employees at several buildings home with no notice. they just met them at the door and said, "sorry, you don't work here anymore." Security escorted them to their desks, stood there while they cleaned them out, then walked them back out of the building.
doesn't that give you a warm, fuzzy feeling?
I'd always heard that a watermelon was a berry. how bout that, eh?
IF microsoft is going to try to buy AOL (and who says they are?), i don't think it's so much set in stone that they'll actually do anything to it.
i say this because, in the automotive world at least, competition with oneself is a common tactic.
take ford/lincoln/mercury for instance. many of the cars are practically identical, using the same parts with only minor body style differences in some cases. they are all owned by the same company. while it seems idiotic or suicidal to compete with oneself, all three of these companies are actually profitable (though perhaps not very).
microsoft could buy AOL and not do much of anything to it on the surface. in the minds of many customers, these would still be entirely different companies. AOL users might hate msn messenger and glorify AIM. Maybe microsft would spin up Navigator and present it as an "alternative browser". Like with Ford an Mercury, people would percieve a difference in the products that may or may not be there; but in the end, all the money is going to MS.
just a thought.
in the vein of easily auditable results -
one thing that's always bothered me about these machines is that, if they can't make a vote out (can't even see the ink maybe?), they tend to simply discard it. in this case, there were nearly 7K ballots that were not counted (if i understand the article).
why couldn't the database on the back end be configured to flag any ballots that seemed irregular for inspection? for instance, if the counting machine recorded ballot #41768 as being entirely blank, this could be flagged and brought to the attention of poll workers, who would then read the ballot and adjust the results accordingly (under intense supervision, with data noting who did the changes, and a saved copy of the original results).
this requires a paper-based ballot system. but totally electronic voting with no hard copies is a really bad idea in the first place
Dear subjectstorm:
you are a jackass. way to correct someone else with inaccurate information you jerk.
i am very much tempted to quote something about beams and motes in your eyes, but i am afraid that i would get it WRONG because i am YOU and you're a fsking retard.
in conclusion, please slap yourself/me and apologize.
sigh . . . sorry bout that. *smacks
yeah . .
actually, that's in proverbs.
you still get points for knowing that Solomon authored the book - though you did spell his name wrong (or perhaps this is just an alternate spelling?)
i'm not certain that there IS no book of Salomon in perhaps the Koran or maybe in some of the Jewish holy books, but i am certain that it isn't in "the Bible".
History Lesson = Free
Obsessive Need to Correct Obscure Factual Errors = Priceless
for the $700 - $800 price tag, you could buy:
a portable dvd player price = $200
a gba sp platinum and games price = $150
an i-pod price = $300
and still have enough cash left to buy some new shoes and a crapload of quesadillas . . . if you're into that sort of thing.
I wonder how long it will be until kids in Japan are touching cellphones together and watching them fight it out.
"AHA! my PDA defeat your N-GAGE, AHA!"
i've decided, after reading several other unrelated stories here on slashdot, that this sort of thing doesn't go far enough.
want something really badass? combine these communicators with the "campus ghosts" concept. throw in a gps. tie it all back in to a huge server farm in the bowels of some university.
now you can smack your communicator and address the computer (with it's awexome speech recognition capabilities and limited AI) directly, and ask it for directions; or maybe just what's on the menu at the cafe, or if there are any books left in a particular subject at the bookstore.
you could smack it up and set it to "record mode" so that it picked up your professor's lecture, and then later you could grep through it verbally, or have the text or audio file uploaded to your desktop. set reminders on the thing, ask it for definitions of words or have it call off a formula to you, or send the text to your pda.
hell, you could even ask it for a weather report or world news.
of course, this is largely based on "Prime Intellect" from the online novel of the same name - uh . . . only, without all the reality warping and stuff.
i'm just sayin . . . hurry up with the future. i need a little electronic elf to keep up with my crap and make sure i don't kill myself in some dumbass fashion.
i never understood why someone didn't just build a roughly tube shaped robot with two independently controlled treads at its center, spaced about 2 or 3 inches apart.
it would be ludicrously simple to build, could not be flipped, would have next to nothing on it that could be broken, and could wreak havoc by quickly spinning and smashing things with weapons attached to the ends of the tube.
i get so sick of those gimpy saucerbots and flippers. how about a little creativity, m?
i work in a network control center.
while our function is important, it isn't "critical", in that, should we completely shut down, no one would actually die.
having said that, i should now like to point out that we have two procedures in place to ensure that we do not experience a power outage:
one is an enormous CAT generator that is tested every tuesday and thursday. the lights blink for a moment, that's all. regular tests of any back-up power system are certainly advisable.
the second is an enormous bank of batteries. the main function of this is as sort of a universal UPS, keeping the computers from going down while the generator gets up. granted, it won't last long, but it is SOMETHING.
they can blame anyone they want for the failure of the generators, but, barring outright sabotage immediately before the power outage, i'd say this entire fiasco is the result of piss poor testing procedures. one could have any number of back-up generators in reserve . . . but if they aren't tested ROUTINELY, this is the sort of crap that can and does happen.
i've actually got firebird, but i wasn't aware that those particular extensions were available for it. i assume i can get them on Sourceforge or freshmeat or something?
An AC mentioned this above, but it's worth noting:
Opera will disable/enable plug-ins with one click, and yes, that includes windows media and flash. i have mine set up this way, as well as animated gifs turned off and javascript disabled unless i request it.
I know everyone is in love with Mozilla, but honestly, what's not to love about Opera? i'm HOOKED on the mouse gestures and the ability to emulate a text-browser if i feel nostalgic.
also, it's available for linux (though i haven't tested it on a linux box).
hope you'll give it a shot.
if the OBD interface is standard, what exactly are these mechanics paying to update?
there are actually four standard interfaces: ISO, VPW, PWM or KWP 2000. They all use a 16-pin connector, but the similarity ends there. a different scanner is required for each.
though the interface is "standard", the codes and "quirks and bugs related to specific models" are largely not. this, i believe, is what congress is addressing.
smells a lot like some of the browser bullshit i have to put up with every day. yeah, there's a "standard". yay.
no. no they weren't.
if i recall correctly, that was a concept car designed "by women for women". A bit sexist perhaps; certainly ridiculous - but hey, go girl power.
Volvo explicitly stated in the article that they had neither the desire nor the intent to ever place that vehicle into production.
enforced open source for cars but not for computers, eh congressman? well that's a damned double standard!
lets stick to our guns and let the dealerships charge the independent service shops for "special training" to learn the codes, then sell them the "diagnostic tools" at grossly inflated prices.
fair is fair after all. NO CHEATING!
wtf?
i thought gateway was on the verge of bankruptcy maybe 6 months ago. i was actually happy when i heard they were tanking . . . and now they've dropped nearly 300 million on eMachines? what?
did their plasma screens really sell THAT well?
i must have missed something here.
here in my office (government), we had very little trouble with mydoom or any of its variants - but netsky.d, for whatever reason, was slipping through. this was on march 2, so for a few hours, we had a lot of people calling the helpdesk and complaining about the "weird beepy noises" coming from their computers.
the exchange server is configured to catch most of this crap, delete the attachments, etc. - but if ANY of it gets through to a user, the attachment WILL get opened.
the hell of it is, our security advisor sends out DAILY network alerts, telling people EXPLICITLY what to look for, what NOT to do under any circumstances, right down to the various subject lines and attachment names that these worms will manifest with. she couldn't be any clearer in her instructions if she walked into their individual offices and handed them a stone tablet, engraved by the hand of God himself and saying "Thou shalt not clicketh upon this thing."
the typical excuses we hear are something along the lines of "b-but . . . it came from a guy i know? he wouldn't send me a virus?"
sigh.
person: judge storm! judge storm! the people of slashdot are badly misinterpretting item 4 to mean that SCO may only sue their own customers!
.
JS: mmm . .
person: judge storm? shouldn't we correct them?
JS: no . . no, i'm going to allow this one.
person: but-
JS: SILENCE! my position is unassailable. now bring me a goblet of cheese and all 25 episodes of "Berserk". i need to do some thinking on more important matters . . . such as how that CAN'T be the LAST episode, can it?!?!? Griffith, you BASTARD!!!