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Actually, it's not a glitch. Experts exchange wants to have their cake and eat it too.

They want to show up in google search results, but they want people to pay for the answers. However, for the relevant text to be included in google's index, they have to make it available on the page for everyone -- they're not allowed to show google different content from what you get when you click on the link. That's called "cloaking", and google has cracked down on it hard for a few years.

So, experts exchange formats their page like this:
The original question
"Pay to see the first answer"
"Pay to see the second answer"
"Pay to see the third answer"
What looks like a giant page footer footer
more footer
more footer
more footer
more footer
more footer
The original question
The actual content of the first answer
The actual content of the second answer
The actual content of the third answer
Here's an example Note the "premium members only" crap at the top, the giant "footer", and the *real* answers at the bottom.
This way, google indexes the real content at the bottom of the page, but most people see the fake content at the top of the page, and the "footer", and give up before scrolling down to the real content at the bottom.
It's kinda scummy.

You sir (or maddam) are brilliant. I lack mod points today, so I will instead simply reply and quote everything you said in the hopes of getting more visibility to your hack

Thanks for the thought, but I'm not worried about stomping other signals, I'm worried about my several-thousand-$ wireless rigs all becoming useless when gPhone sets up a tower across the street. I have 10 channels of wireless going into the mix board now (2x AKG, 8x Sony WRT system)and I'll replace 'em if and when I have to, but HDTV already chased me from VHF into the UHF spectrum. If DTV chases me out of UHF, I just want to know where I've got to go next. I don't mean to flame, I obviously was ambiguous in my post, and want to clarify.

I use several wireless microphones that operate in the UHF 66 to 69 range, high 700 Mhz to low 800s. Is that part of the spectrum that's going to be "vacated" next year? Any other audio guys who know more about the impact, what gear I should be buying to replace the old stuff?

If you want employ in Boulder, drop me a line. We're a small ( 50) person company that thinks like you do. gmail, address is OldSchoolGeek

... And it's almost done loading Flight Sim!

Because it's fun to have intermediate progress goals.

Or was this a trick question?

Scratch that -- the changes show up, it just seems to take a little while.

I now pronounce this Damn Spiffy!

My work is located about 150 meters from where google says it is, and I can move the marker, and it says "Changes Saved", but the marker immediately snaps back to its old location. And no, my company isn't registered with google.

<AOL>Me Too</AOL>

Tried using Firefox (2.0.0.9) and IE (7.0.5730.11) and got the same results. My house marker moved about 75 feet, but snapped back immediately. Close browser, open and search for the same address and it's still at the original location.
Ah well... maybe in the next release

Except I use Google Maps to measure bike commute distances, so 'optimal route' for me isn't the same as 'optimal route' for a car or truck driver.

I worked for Labs for a few years, and telecommuted. I'm really glad that I'm not still in that gig today.

Of course, my home is in Colorado, and my boss was in New Jersey, so the recall would have been a bitch!

Believe it or not, but in one of those "life coincidences", pi is a safe approximation. Take the number of watts your equipment, lighting, etc., use, multiply by pi, and that's the # of btus of cooling. Don't forget to include 100 watts per person for body heat.

It'll be 90F degrees outside, and you'll be a cool 66F.

And if that doesn't work, you can always tell your VP that you were taking your numbers from some guy named TrollTalk on ./
I'm sure he'll understand.

Crap! How did you guess my super-secret domain?

Sadly, they don't seem to have any programming that doesn't completely suck.

Man, you came up with that link really fast.

/just sayin'

Sounds like a bunch of dusty re-runs from decades past. From TFA:

The shows are organized into six genre-themed channels (with two more to launch this summer), including:

- LOL TV: Laugh Out Loud with everyone's favorite comedies from Welcome Back, Kotter, which made a household name out of John Travolta to the slapstick antics of Cousin Balkai and Larry in Perfect Strangers as well as the Emmy-winning Chico and the Man, Hangin' With Mr. Cooper and Head of the Class.

- Dramarama TV: Fans will enjoy the unaired "lost" pilot of juicy soap Falcon Crest and all the drama of five-time Emmy nominated Sisters, plus there's Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Spenser: For Hire and the family favorite Eight Is Enough.

- Toon Topia TV: Kids and adults alike will flock to animated fare such as Beetlejuice, Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid, The New Adventures of Batman, and Histeria!

- Heroes and Horrors TV: Sci-Fi and Horror come together in heroic proportions with Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Babylon 5, Wonder Woman, V and Freddy's Nightmares.

- What a Rush TV: Rev up for plenty of action-adventure when East meets West in Kung Fu, plus La Femme Nikita, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Dark Justice and The Fugitive.

- Vintage TV: Fans find all-time favorites such as Growing Pains with heartthrob Kirk Cameron, F-Troop, The F.B.I., Maverick and Alice.

For US$12,000, I'd take a day off and fly out to the contest judge's place to show them in person.

Why is this so difficult?

I really need to stop reading bash.org
God as my witness, I though you were demanding "Gameboy Ghey"

Portal Google's results, with your own google adwords for revenue.
Give out trinkets to increase the adword view counts.
Make an 'affiliates program' similar to the freeiPods.com thing to spread the word.
Not half bad, if you ask me.

... and it's totally owned by Belkin.

But I'm not complaining, I'm honestly just jealous.

What's creepier -- flirting with her brother, or flirting with the guards?

A friend of mine took one of those really old 5.25" hard drives apart. The magnets were huge and amazingly powerful. He lost them when he held them about a foot apart in each hand, dropped them both, and they slammed together so hard that they shattered. True story.

If your friend ever gets another drive, keep the magnets. Wrap them in a few layers of gaffer's tape (part to protect them, and part to keep all other objects a few mm away) and they make great studfinders. You just sweep over the wall until the magnet is ripped out of your hand. Wherever the magnet is stuck to the wall -- there's a sheetrock screw, and there's the wall stud right behind it!
Which is exactly what I was doing yesterday, marking spots to hang things on the wall.

But I linked to the Jetta TDI. It's not a hybrid, it's a diesel
Although I flubbed the numbers -- it's a 45MPG car, not a 70MPG. Still 50% better than the 30MPG benchmark in the parent post.

Not lying, just stupid.
A bit more googling makes it look like lifetime milage on the TDI is in the 45mpg range, with a few folks reporting *best tank milage* of 51mpg. (that's extrodinary, noteworthy, NOT every tankfull)

But still not 70MPG by any stretch, sorry for posting before googling.

No one has made a [practical] vehicle that runs much above the 40 mpg mark (that I know of).

70MPG good enough?

You mean, like these gamers? (SFW)