What's that? Allowing anybody that wants to to upload anything they want to makes it hard for you to keep up with finding and signing the copyright holders?? Wow, I wonder if napster ever had that problem... I know ebaumsworld has no problem with that, since they just made their terms say "if you upload it, that means you must own it, therefore we now own it"
JotSpot is actually a pretty great wiki. It's not as widely-used as mediawiki, of course (since mediawiki is an application, not a service), but it has a lot of powerful features. The most notable feature is forms.
Forms allow you to tag a page as a particular type, and each type has some meta data associated with it, as well as a view. So it's like a database and a wiki in one, but much easier. It allows an admin user to set up data types and what fields should be included, and then the actual content writers can just fill in the fields to create the data. We used it last year for MIT Mystery Hunt. We had a form defined for "Puzzle" to include the name of the puzzle, a URL if appropriate, the category, type of puzzle, a text field for the solution and a bool to indicate that it was solved, in addition to a "wiki" space to put any notes about the solution and work in progress, like a normal wiki. JotSpot has scripting built in so that you can easily create dynamic pages that list off (for example): Puzzles completed, puzzles not-completed, all puzzles of a particular type, puzzles in a certain category, etc. It makes it really easy to keep track of what is done and what still needs doing. I'm sure this logic can apply to plenty of other applications as well. Try doing that with mediawiki!
We can only hope that myspace puts as much effort into this feature as they did into all the other great and well-designed features on their site. BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
I notice errors when the show itself goes dark or low-light. Usually the most suspenseful part when a character goes into a dark room suddenly, it skips ahead a few minutes. For the most part, I don't see any errors. I typically leave the commercial skips on automatic, but if it errors, I skip back and set the commercials to "Notify", which puts a small OSD indicator at the top that it thinks it is in a commercial, and how long is left in it. I have a remote key mapped to "commercial skip" that I can push at that point to go ahead and skip it. That way for those not-quite-perfect skips, I can wait until I see the commercial start before skipping.
Another great feature is the 30/5 second skips. If you skip forward, it will be by default in 30 second increments, but skipping backwards will be 5 second. Once you skip backwards by 5 seconds, the forward will also be 5 seconds. It lets you hit the key a few times to get to the end of the commercial, then easily adjust back to where the show starts. That's in addition to the fast-forward which assumes you will overshoot and corrects for your reaction time by backing up a few seconds when you hit play.
Google Video and YouTube are the SAME THING. The only difference is that google actually takes down copyrighted video when people post it to google videos and youtube doesn't. I don't see any reason why video.google can't merge with youtube and fix youtubes problems.
If the interviewer had asked questions that weren't prejudiced and biased to begin with, we might have gotten a good article out of it. The interviewer was just a crybaby that was angry at the person who cheated and wanted to post mean things about them.
If he had asked questions that weren't so accusatory, it could have been a good read. Some of those questions weren't even questions. For example, Cheaters are mainly made up of people who lack the dexterity to play the game honestly. Did your inability to play the games well in the first place lead you to begin cheating? is basically just saying "you suck at this game so you cheat!" instead of actually saying something professional. He could have said "Some people believe cheaters do it to make up for a lack of skill. Do you think that's the case?" which would allow the interviewee to comment on the community as a whole. Or even the open-ended questions like "Why do you cheat?" and "why do you think most cheaters do it?"
I would have liked to see more detailed questions, like hours of gameplay while cheating, hours of gameplay without cheats, both compared to hours preparing, installing, testing, developing cheats. The cheating itself might be more of a game for these people than actually playing the game. Is there a lot of money involved in cheats? Do they get threatened in real life as a result of cheating? Do they cheat at other things that aren't online games (board games, poker, sports, etc). Do online game cheaters do anything illegal in real life?
This makes me want to interview a some online game cheaters myself to get the real story not this whack-job's biased review.
The article basically says that if you put effort into comparing prices of every other purchase, you could save a lot more money. Here are some of the reasons why people shop for good gas prices and not other things:
1). Everyone needs gas. A lot of it. Sure we all need red peppers, but not $50 a week in red peppers. The more money something costs and the more frequently we buy it, the more inclined we are to want to save money on it. And the more value. If you save $1 every time you buy 3 red peppers, is that really going to add up? You'd have to be a red-pepper fiend...
2). Convenience. If Shaws, Stop n Shop and Market basket all posted the price of the items I typically buy on GIANT SIGNS I CAN READ FROM THE ROAD, I'd be much more likely to pick one store over another for that product. As it stands, by the time I get out of my car, get into the store, get a cart and go up and down the aisles to find what I need to buy, there's no way I'm going to go to another store to save 10 cents, or even a dollar. If I'd known before going in, I might have, though. I personally spend more money on gas than groceries, so it still makes sense.
3). Free Money!. Cashback bonus cards give you money. It's free. Why wouldn't you want free money?
yes, but the CNN article posted here on slashdot was about Jesse Sullivan, which is old news. Claudia Mitchell is only mentioned as a side note in the fourth paragraph, and even then, she is only mentioned as who Sullivan was attending a news conference with (one single sentence).
Maybe if the article said "First Woman to Receive Bionic Arm!" and it actually mentioned her, interviewed her, etc, that might be news.
Agreed, the ability to expand individual comments without having to reload the page is something that has been needed for awhile now. Quite often I'll be browsing at 3, and there will inevitably be a really funny or informative reply to a thread that was not modded quite so highly. So as a result, I'll need to load the parent up in a new tab. Or vice-versa, a well-modded comment will have some low-modded responses that I'll want to read. Extra tab for each, BAH!
You can technically find a tool that will let you place checkboxes + radio buttons, etc pretty easily, but you'll find that the visual design of those elements are what require the HTML and CSS skills. You're better off just drawing them how you want them to look and letting the HTMK/CSS gurus actually do all the coding, otherwise all the work you do making them look how you want will have to be redone anyway in code.
"Known as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, the prestigious Fields Medal was awarded to four people under the age of forty that you wouldn't want to get trapped on an elevator with...."
He then goes on to disprove some of Grigory Perelman's more famous conjectures using a donut.
In my days of fast food, it was pretty clear that a tin can was more intelligent than a store manager.
My favorite was when the outdoor freezers broke (in the middle of winter). The store manager decided that rather than leave the food in the broken freezer (in the dead of winter) that he would have the crew (me) bring all of the food inside. The reasoning was that once you bring in things like hamburger buns, you put a sticker on them that says they are good for X days. Of course, nobody could explain to him why X would be a much larger number if you just didn't bring them in out of the freezer at all.
It would probably be really good to have a computer planning out how many people to have on the shift at any given time. The managers at the restuarant I worked at had a tendency to figure out which employees were better and keep less people on when they are working. A computer wouldn't be smart enough to abuse the better employees to get the job of two people out of them on one paycheck. Then again, the opposite could be true - the computer might not realize that just because a person CAN do a particular job doesn't mean that they are any good at it...it could accidentally schedule all the tards on the same shift and meyhem would ensue!
Police already do that on their own - when they are just driving around, they do plate searches on vehicles that are doing something suspicious, look suspicious, are driving late at night, racial profiling, etc. For whatever reason they want, basically. They can't pull you over without you doing something illegal, however, so unless your plate has something illegal associated with it, it's the same as ever.
I imagine this automated system is more intended to be an aid to the police officer rather than a completely autonomous system. They just drive around doing their normal rigamarole, and then the little beeper goes off and says "See that car up there? It was reported stolen this morning". As far as the lesser crimes, like expired insurance, registration, etc, I am all for it. Far too many people are driving with illegal plates, no insurance, etc on purpose with no care for the law. People who innocently forget are probably better off for this system, since the cops will catch their lapse sooner, hopefully within the window of a warning instead of 6 months later.
No, but impersonating a federal investigator for the purpose of tracking down and tampering with a witness, obstruction of justice, and unlawfully interfering with an ongoing case are. (If you'd RTFA)
Just looking at the site you can see that very minimal thought went into the design. I can only imagine that LESS thought went into the infrastructure supporting that ugly abomination.
I wouldn't call the 1960s a long time ago, There are still plenty of people alive now who were alive then.
But I agree. They need to make a distinction between real racism and just racial differences. Black people have black skin and white people have white skin. No amount of magical anti-racism laws will change that. The ads aren't racist at all. The point of using a black and white woman was to show the difference between the black and white PSP, not slavery roles! They probably made sure they used women just for the purpose of trying to prevent that imagery from showing up (since of course it is the Man who was the slave and slaveowner). Does that make it sexist?
As for affirmative action, I put that into the "Do you want EQUAL rights or EXTRA rights?" I lump woman's rights into the same thing. really any group that thinks they aren't being treated fairly. There should not be a law for any group giving them MORE rights than others, just laws preventing their rights from being taken. Quotas and scholarships for minorities are really just punishing the student who does not have the "advantage" of being a minority as well as putting the school or workplace at a disadvantage by requiring them to hire/accept based on race and not qualifications (If you are required to hire 10% minorities, what of only 5% of your qualified applicants are minority?) Race should be IGNORED in the application process, not corrected for.
I was recently driving into Boston for dinner, meeting people at the restaurant at 6pm. The meters are 2 hour max until 8pm, after which they are free. I got there at about 5pm. So instead of being able to be early for my dinner arrangement, I had to make sure I got back to the meter at the stroke of 6pm to feed 2 hours worth of quarters in to make sure it would last until 8pm, and thus last for as late as I needed. If I could have fed that meter via cellphone, I could have done it from right outside the restaurant very easily.
Now this does go against the point of the metered parking, which is temporary, 2 hour maximum...but the fact that it is free after 8pm is something that a parking garage can't offer. 2 hours at a meter is also significantly cheaper than 2 hours in a garage, so it's better any way you slice it (plus the garages here are all very-low-clearance, and I don't fit)
To answer your question, I think they actually state somewhere in their rules that if there are two identical bids, the first one placed wins, so if you place a $20 bid 3 days before an auction ends and I come along in the last 30 seconds and place a $20 bid, you still win the auction for $20.
I think the reason sniping really works is as such. There are three types of bidders: The kind who place a bid and keep an eye on it to make sure they win, the kind that bid something low early and forget about it, and the kind of bidder who bids at the last second.
Let assume that most auctions on the site have either no bids at all, or a number of type A or B bidders. The price is probably pretty stable if there are a few days or even just hours left, and there is probably a type A sitting on it. If you come along and put a bid on it, that will make you the high bidder. Everyone else that sees this (including the person watching the auction that they were winning even if they are just the "forgot about it" type - they get an email saying they were outbid, reminding them). They are prompted to come back and decide if they want to bid again. Each bid is another jump in price, which can skyrocket if both bidders really want it.
The snipe works by allowing the type A or B bidder to sit on their auction thinking that they've won it, even though their maximum bid is just barely above their current price. The sniper comes in and makes a larger bid on it and wins before A gets to bid again.
Yes, it seems silly, but it makes perfect sense. If you want a product for $20, you bid $20 on it right away and wait for it to finish to see if you won, or you can wait until the last second and still bid $20. Waiting until the last second will probably give you more of a chance to keep the price below $20, since nobody is competing with you.
Anybody who complains about being sniped is an idiot. If they didn't want to be sniped, they should have put their max price in to begin with. If it goes over that price, that means that it's more than they wanted to pay. Make the decision of how much you want to spend BEFORE bidding, and don't let the other bidders change your mind.
That all being said, I do like the idea of the extending deadline. An auction should have a minimum and maximum deadline. It has to go > X days, but each bid adds 10 minutes or 15 minutes, or even an hour onto the time until there are no more bids or until it reaches Y (where Y is probably 6 hours or more longer than X). That solves the problem of an auction that needs a hard cutoff as well as the problem of wanting to allow an auction to continue if there is interest.
Futurama does have order to it, and I can't think of any time where it just leave you right where you started with no explanation. Some examples of things that carry between episodes:
- Nibbler shows up and sticks around, the order of those episodes has some significance - Leela's parents are discovered, then are characters on the show after that. - Farnsworth's clone is created and is in future episodes.
Just to name a few.
typically everything that happens is straightened out by the end of the episode as needed. It's just not in the typical cartoon genre to have numerous-episode-arcs, because reruns are not often shown in order.
And PS, the "OMG PONIES! AND NEW FUTURAMA EPISODES!!" is *really* old news. I assume this number of episodes is really just the dvds that were mentioned months ago. It's been on adult swim bumps for awhile now.
Saying "firefox plugin" is not enough if you don't plan on supporting ALL versions of firefox. You need to specify "windows only" so we can lump it in with the rest of the windows VoIP crap.
Fixed:At the time of the advisory, there was no patch for the vulnerability. But by later on Monday, Yahoo said it had come up with a fix for the flaw, which it said had affected very few of its customers.
I have to say I agree with the low threat level. All the virus does is propogate and collect email addresses, and only on yahoo. If you have a yahoo email address, you're getting spam anyway, so how will you even know the difference?
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What's that? Allowing anybody that wants to to upload anything they want to makes it hard for you to keep up with finding and signing the copyright holders?? Wow, I wonder if napster ever had that problem... I know ebaumsworld has no problem with that, since they just made their terms say "if you upload it, that means you must own it, therefore we now own it"
JotSpot is actually a pretty great wiki. It's not as widely-used as mediawiki, of course (since mediawiki is an application, not a service), but it has a lot of powerful features. The most notable feature is forms.
Forms allow you to tag a page as a particular type, and each type has some meta data associated with it, as well as a view. So it's like a database and a wiki in one, but much easier. It allows an admin user to set up data types and what fields should be included, and then the actual content writers can just fill in the fields to create the data. We used it last year for MIT Mystery Hunt. We had a form defined for "Puzzle" to include the name of the puzzle, a URL if appropriate, the category, type of puzzle, a text field for the solution and a bool to indicate that it was solved, in addition to a "wiki" space to put any notes about the solution and work in progress, like a normal wiki. JotSpot has scripting built in so that you can easily create dynamic pages that list off (for example): Puzzles completed, puzzles not-completed, all puzzles of a particular type, puzzles in a certain category, etc. It makes it really easy to keep track of what is done and what still needs doing. I'm sure this logic can apply to plenty of other applications as well. Try doing that with mediawiki!
We can only hope that myspace puts as much effort into this feature as they did into all the other great and well-designed features on their site. BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
I notice errors when the show itself goes dark or low-light. Usually the most suspenseful part when a character goes into a dark room suddenly, it skips ahead a few minutes. For the most part, I don't see any errors. I typically leave the commercial skips on automatic, but if it errors, I skip back and set the commercials to "Notify", which puts a small OSD indicator at the top that it thinks it is in a commercial, and how long is left in it. I have a remote key mapped to "commercial skip" that I can push at that point to go ahead and skip it. That way for those not-quite-perfect skips, I can wait until I see the commercial start before skipping.
Another great feature is the 30/5 second skips. If you skip forward, it will be by default in 30 second increments, but skipping backwards will be 5 second. Once you skip backwards by 5 seconds, the forward will also be 5 seconds. It lets you hit the key a few times to get to the end of the commercial, then easily adjust back to where the show starts. That's in addition to the fast-forward which assumes you will overshoot and corrects for your reaction time by backing up a few seconds when you hit play.
A nuclear bomb made from pinball machine parts.
According to Spamhaus, These emails originated from e360insight marketing.
Google Video and YouTube are the SAME THING. The only difference is that google actually takes down copyrighted video when people post it to google videos and youtube doesn't. I don't see any reason why video.google can't merge with youtube and fix youtubes problems.
Agreed, that interview was absolutely awful.
If the interviewer had asked questions that weren't prejudiced and biased to begin with, we might have gotten a good article out of it. The interviewer was just a crybaby that was angry at the person who cheated and wanted to post mean things about them.
If he had asked questions that weren't so accusatory, it could have been a good read. Some of those questions weren't even questions. For example, Cheaters are mainly made up of people who lack the dexterity to play the game honestly. Did your inability to play the games well in the first place lead you to begin cheating? is basically just saying "you suck at this game so you cheat!" instead of actually saying something professional. He could have said "Some people believe cheaters do it to make up for a lack of skill. Do you think that's the case?" which would allow the interviewee to comment on the community as a whole. Or even the open-ended questions like "Why do you cheat?" and "why do you think most cheaters do it?"
I would have liked to see more detailed questions, like hours of gameplay while cheating, hours of gameplay without cheats, both compared to hours preparing, installing, testing, developing cheats. The cheating itself might be more of a game for these people than actually playing the game. Is there a lot of money involved in cheats? Do they get threatened in real life as a result of cheating? Do they cheat at other things that aren't online games (board games, poker, sports, etc). Do online game cheaters do anything illegal in real life?
This makes me want to interview a some online game cheaters myself to get the real story not this whack-job's biased review.
The article basically says that if you put effort into comparing prices of every other purchase, you could save a lot more money. Here are some of the reasons why people shop for good gas prices and not other things:
1). Everyone needs gas. A lot of it. Sure we all need red peppers, but not $50 a week in red peppers. The more money something costs and the more frequently we buy it, the more inclined we are to want to save money on it. And the more value. If you save $1 every time you buy 3 red peppers, is that really going to add up? You'd have to be a red-pepper fiend...
2). Convenience. If Shaws, Stop n Shop and Market basket all posted the price of the items I typically buy on GIANT SIGNS I CAN READ FROM THE ROAD, I'd be much more likely to pick one store over another for that product. As it stands, by the time I get out of my car, get into the store, get a cart and go up and down the aisles to find what I need to buy, there's no way I'm going to go to another store to save 10 cents, or even a dollar. If I'd known before going in, I might have, though. I personally spend more money on gas than groceries, so it still makes sense.
3). Free Money!. Cashback bonus cards give you money. It's free. Why wouldn't you want free money?
yes, but the CNN article posted here on slashdot was about Jesse Sullivan, which is old news. Claudia Mitchell is only mentioned as a side note in the fourth paragraph, and even then, she is only mentioned as who Sullivan was attending a news conference with (one single sentence).
Maybe if the article said "First Woman to Receive Bionic Arm!" and it actually mentioned her, interviewed her, etc, that might be news.
Agreed, the ability to expand individual comments without having to reload the page is something that has been needed for awhile now. Quite often I'll be browsing at 3, and there will inevitably be a really funny or informative reply to a thread that was not modded quite so highly. So as a result, I'll need to load the parent up in a new tab. Or vice-versa, a well-modded comment will have some low-modded responses that I'll want to read. Extra tab for each, BAH!
So, in summary, Discussion2 = awesome!
CNN Reported on this way back in March, what's changed between then and now??
More information on Jesse Sullivan
Or better yet, lets Digg the story posted 174 days ago!
I really need to stop carrying that thing around...
In short, no.
You can technically find a tool that will let you place checkboxes + radio buttons, etc pretty easily, but you'll find that the visual design of those elements are what require the HTML and CSS skills. You're better off just drawing them how you want them to look and letting the HTMK/CSS gurus actually do all the coding, otherwise all the work you do making them look how you want will have to be redone anyway in code.
Ze Frank says it best.
"Known as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, the prestigious Fields Medal was awarded to four people under the age of forty that you wouldn't want to get trapped on an elevator with...."
He then goes on to disprove some of Grigory Perelman's more famous conjectures using a donut.
In my days of fast food, it was pretty clear that a tin can was more intelligent than a store manager.
My favorite was when the outdoor freezers broke (in the middle of winter). The store manager decided that rather than leave the food in the broken freezer (in the dead of winter) that he would have the crew (me) bring all of the food inside. The reasoning was that once you bring in things like hamburger buns, you put a sticker on them that says they are good for X days. Of course, nobody could explain to him why X would be a much larger number if you just didn't bring them in out of the freezer at all.
It would probably be really good to have a computer planning out how many people to have on the shift at any given time. The managers at the restuarant I worked at had a tendency to figure out which employees were better and keep less people on when they are working. A computer wouldn't be smart enough to abuse the better employees to get the job of two people out of them on one paycheck. Then again, the opposite could be true - the computer might not realize that just because a person CAN do a particular job doesn't mean that they are any good at it...it could accidentally schedule all the tards on the same shift and meyhem would ensue!
Police already do that on their own - when they are just driving around, they do plate searches on vehicles that are doing something suspicious, look suspicious, are driving late at night, racial profiling, etc. For whatever reason they want, basically. They can't pull you over without you doing something illegal, however, so unless your plate has something illegal associated with it, it's the same as ever.
I imagine this automated system is more intended to be an aid to the police officer rather than a completely autonomous system. They just drive around doing their normal rigamarole, and then the little beeper goes off and says "See that car up there? It was reported stolen this morning". As far as the lesser crimes, like expired insurance, registration, etc, I am all for it. Far too many people are driving with illegal plates, no insurance, etc on purpose with no care for the law. People who innocently forget are probably better off for this system, since the cops will catch their lapse sooner, hopefully within the window of a warning instead of 6 months later.
No, but impersonating a federal investigator for the purpose of tracking down and tampering with a witness, obstruction of justice, and unlawfully interfering with an ongoing case are. (If you'd RTFA)
Just looking at the site you can see that very minimal thought went into the design. I can only imagine that LESS thought went into the infrastructure supporting that ugly abomination.
I wouldn't call the 1960s a long time ago, There are still plenty of people alive now who were alive then.
But I agree. They need to make a distinction between real racism and just racial differences. Black people have black skin and white people have white skin. No amount of magical anti-racism laws will change that. The ads aren't racist at all. The point of using a black and white woman was to show the difference between the black and white PSP, not slavery roles! They probably made sure they used women just for the purpose of trying to prevent that imagery from showing up (since of course it is the Man who was the slave and slaveowner). Does that make it sexist?
As for affirmative action, I put that into the "Do you want EQUAL rights or EXTRA rights?" I lump woman's rights into the same thing. really any group that thinks they aren't being treated fairly. There should not be a law for any group giving them MORE rights than others, just laws preventing their rights from being taken. Quotas and scholarships for minorities are really just punishing the student who does not have the "advantage" of being a minority as well as putting the school or workplace at a disadvantage by requiring them to hire/accept based on race and not qualifications (If you are required to hire 10% minorities, what of only 5% of your qualified applicants are minority?) Race should be IGNORED in the application process, not corrected for.
I was recently driving into Boston for dinner, meeting people at the restaurant at 6pm. The meters are 2 hour max until 8pm, after which they are free. I got there at about 5pm. So instead of being able to be early for my dinner arrangement, I had to make sure I got back to the meter at the stroke of 6pm to feed 2 hours worth of quarters in to make sure it would last until 8pm, and thus last for as late as I needed. If I could have fed that meter via cellphone, I could have done it from right outside the restaurant very easily.
Now this does go against the point of the metered parking, which is temporary, 2 hour maximum...but the fact that it is free after 8pm is something that a parking garage can't offer. 2 hours at a meter is also significantly cheaper than 2 hours in a garage, so it's better any way you slice it (plus the garages here are all very-low-clearance, and I don't fit)
To answer your question, I think they actually state somewhere in their rules that if there are two identical bids, the first one placed wins, so if you place a $20 bid 3 days before an auction ends and I come along in the last 30 seconds and place a $20 bid, you still win the auction for $20.
I think the reason sniping really works is as such. There are three types of bidders: The kind who place a bid and keep an eye on it to make sure they win, the kind that bid something low early and forget about it, and the kind of bidder who bids at the last second.
Let assume that most auctions on the site have either no bids at all, or a number of type A or B bidders. The price is probably pretty stable if there are a few days or even just hours left, and there is probably a type A sitting on it. If you come along and put a bid on it, that will make you the high bidder. Everyone else that sees this (including the person watching the auction that they were winning even if they are just the "forgot about it" type - they get an email saying they were outbid, reminding them). They are prompted to come back and decide if they want to bid again. Each bid is another jump in price, which can skyrocket if both bidders really want it.
The snipe works by allowing the type A or B bidder to sit on their auction thinking that they've won it, even though their maximum bid is just barely above their current price. The sniper comes in and makes a larger bid on it and wins before A gets to bid again.
Yes, it seems silly, but it makes perfect sense. If you want a product for $20, you bid $20 on it right away and wait for it to finish to see if you won, or you can wait until the last second and still bid $20. Waiting until the last second will probably give you more of a chance to keep the price below $20, since nobody is competing with you.
Anybody who complains about being sniped is an idiot. If they didn't want to be sniped, they should have put their max price in to begin with. If it goes over that price, that means that it's more than they wanted to pay. Make the decision of how much you want to spend BEFORE bidding, and don't let the other bidders change your mind.
That all being said, I do like the idea of the extending deadline. An auction should have a minimum and maximum deadline. It has to go > X days, but each bid adds 10 minutes or 15 minutes, or even an hour onto the time until there are no more bids or until it reaches Y (where Y is probably 6 hours or more longer than X). That solves the problem of an auction that needs a hard cutoff as well as the problem of wanting to allow an auction to continue if there is interest.
Futurama does have order to it, and I can't think of any time where it just leave you right where you started with no explanation. Some examples of things that carry between episodes:
- Nibbler shows up and sticks around, the order of those episodes has some significance
- Leela's parents are discovered, then are characters on the show after that.
- Farnsworth's clone is created and is in future episodes.
Just to name a few.
typically everything that happens is straightened out by the end of the episode as needed. It's just not in the typical cartoon genre to have numerous-episode-arcs, because reruns are not often shown in order.
And PS, the "OMG PONIES! AND NEW FUTURAMA EPISODES!!" is *really* old news. I assume this number of episodes is really just the dvds that were mentioned months ago. It's been on adult swim bumps for awhile now.
... No, it doesn't work in linux
Saying "firefox plugin" is not enough if you don't plan on supporting ALL versions of firefox. You need to specify "windows only" so we can lump it in with the rest of the windows VoIP crap.
Fixed: At the time of the advisory, there was no patch for the vulnerability. But by later on Monday, Yahoo said it had come up with a fix for the flaw, which it said had affected very few of its customers.
I have to say I agree with the low threat level. All the virus does is propogate and collect email addresses, and only on yahoo. If you have a yahoo email address, you're getting spam anyway, so how will you even know the difference?