heresiarch @270: if you have the hero kick the dog, I'd read it. :)
By the sounds of it, you can fix the problem by reinstalling Zone Alarm. It sounds as though Zone Alarm makes its own copy of several core windows DLL files, and when MS release a patch that changes those files it gets screwed up. Uninstall Zone Alarm, install the update, then reinstall Zone Alarm should make it work fine.
Serge @147: I had the misfortune to read the novels after first seeing Suchet play the character, but to me the way he plays it has always seemed a perfect fit with the way Christie wrote it.
Kevin Reid @149: I think the term you don't know is "external angle".
Random open thread question: can somebody tell me how necessary it is for F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack novels to be read in order. I have acquired two of them (Conspiracies and Hosts) from a local second hand shop and am wondering whether I should read these to find out if I like the series and then order the rest, or just bite the bullet and pay full price for the first one. I tried to skim the wikipedia article, but it seems a bit too spoilery for my tastes. I've been left with the impression that it might be OK for some of the books but not others... does that sound sensible?
Tavella@124: [BoingBoing] deny things that are true -- Cory claiming never to have criticized Digg over the AACS key
I've seen this asserted multiple times during these discussions. Frequently, there's a link to this article. Oddly enough, I don't see Cory criticising Digg here. In fact, it seems to me to be fairly complimentary on how Digg handled a sticky legal situation, while criticising AACS-LA for generating that situation. Nor do I see criticism in any of the other top few results for 'site:boingboing.net aacs digg' on google. So if you want to insist that Cory did criticise Digg, please point out a specific criticism he made.
NelC @1: I misread that as "messing with saliva".
Whereas my first thought was that we might be in for some interesting recipes. Wrong species of salvia, it turns out. Oh well.
Xopher @100: but then an expert can waltz in 4/4
I once tricked some friends into attempting to waltz to the Stranglers' Golden Brown. Fun to watch, that was. 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,4... :)
R. M. Koske @101: I strongly suspect that tango is considered very sexy in part because Argentine tango is the most obviously dom/sub ballroom there is.*
Your comment reminded me of this. :)
Rob Rusik @139: Another movie he directed, Brainstorm, was originally designed to highlight a projection technology he was promoting. The movie was about recording experiences [...]
I had entirely forgotten that film. Thanks for reminding me of its existence... now I must find a copy to watch it again.
Quoting Cox's blog (one of the entries Teresa linked to): "I always have mixed emotions about events like the one last week at the Museum of Television & Radio on the “blending of news and viewsâ€Â." Sic.
Why would I trust as a representative of bloggers somebody who has demonstrated so little attention to his own blogging that he hasn't bothered to learn how to avoid screwing up the character encodings on his entries in new and innovative ways?
(For the technically minded: he has apparently created the document in UTF-8, uploaded it as if it were ISO-8859-1, and his server has then converted the meaningless ISO-8859-1 to equally meaningless UTF-8 for presentation to readers. Clever.)
Bruce Cohen @98: These guys sell water cavitation heaters which, although they no longer make the claims, they originally sold as producing "over unity" ouput (i.e. the heat energy output was higher than the electrical energy input). Back when I first saw them discussed in the mid 90s, there was a lot of talk about zero point energy as the source of this heat. See here to see the kind of thinking that was going on.
Heresiarch @102:
That was the only part of the cichlid example that sounded off to me: anti-social behavior gets worse as size decreases? That's never been my experience. Generally, the larger the community, the worse the anti-social behavior gets.
While those of us here who have kept cichlids seem to agree that this is rather unusual for them, I have seen something similar to this behaviour elsewhere. If you keep two rats in a cage, one of them becomes dominant and, depending on the rat's personality, will often bully the other repeatedly. Sometimes the problem can be alleviated by introducing new rats to the cage... the power structure becomes more fluid, and the fights are distributed between more rats, so it's less the case that one is the bully and the other is the victim. There's no actual change of behaviour, but the effect of the behaviour when the number of victims to choose from is small is worse.
Speaking as one who has kept cichlids in the past, I must say I never really noticed this behaviour pattern. But then, there are many species of cichlidae and I only tried a few of them.
What's this comment thread about?
Oh, yeah, dumb politicians getting caught.
It's getting boring.
My favourite of recent years was the UK case of John Hemming. Not least because he subsequently considered running as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Not boring in the slightest.
The fact that the mistress in queston was an old friend of mine has very little to do with it.
Re the beer names sidelight... last night I was drinking Vicar's Ruin, which I think ought to qualify. :)
Did the zombies eat the last month's worth of postings instead...?
"If you're a user, it will recommend a site to you if one or more people similar to you have voted for it." So Patrick's not similar to people who like Making Light...?!
Charlie @78: the technique you suggest was tried for a while at groklaw, but attracted some negative comments on other forums when the deleted posts were discovered. I don't believe they're doing it any more. See here for the opinion of one poster who had their comments treated this way.
Responses to various comments in reverse order of posting...
Terry @586: You should read the archives of the _last_ edit war. This is nothing compared to when MrkYrk was in full swing.
TexAnne @558: Personally, as a southerner, I would only use "shite" as an adjective, although I'm aware the usage is somewhat different in the north. And I may be unusual as a southerner in using it at all.
Ethan @534: This may be considered a spoiler for the series, so I'll ROT13 it: Jra Fcrapre'f Hxvnu Bertba abiryf ner nobhg na nyvra qrgrpgvir. Not sure about any of the other aspects you mention, though, because I've yet to read any of them.
Ethan @532: I've noticed that in recent years the whole phenomenon of band-reuniting-after-years-inactive has transformed from being reliably awful to being almost, but not quite, reliably good. The Eagles? I haven't heard their latest album yet, but some of the stuff played in a radio interview with Don Henley I caught over christmas sounded good.
(Responding to myself)
Although, I'm not sure the pause that a reasonable person will take on seeing such a warning is large enough to be measured effectively across the Internet, as page load/resubmit times will probably vary more.
You could time on the client site, but this would be inherently untrustable (i.e., a determined troll could easily subvert it). I'm not sure if this is a fatal flaw or not.
Abi, I'm convinced it's a pointless standard. "Their" works fine, at least in the uncontroversial cases like that one. It's when you're talking about a specific individual of undisclosed gender things start getting hairy...
As for whether checking the delay between warning and posting, I think you're right this would make a useful metric in many cases, as long as the trolls were generally unaware of how the system worked. Otherwise, it would only catch genuinely angry people. There are also obvious cases where trolls would get through anyway (e.g. when they are browsing multiple sites at once and switching between windows instead of waiting for refreshes). But it would be generally useful, I think.
Terry: there are many variants of Mao, and some don't require silence. That said, the silence does contribute to the atmosphere IMO.
Because it hasn't been mentioned yet: Robotech_Master interviews Phil and Kaja Foglio.
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