WORKSFORME, Safari 4.0 DP 5526.11.2 although admittedly that's not a hot-off-the-press nightly.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 10:46 AM on June 22, 2008

The URL contains ".../vintage_ads/..." so I'm assuming an overzealous ad filter has helpfully removed the link and text. Adjust whatever you use to block ads.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 7:34 PM on May 7, 2008

There's a Norton ad blocking product that's notorious for doing this kind of thing silently. That might be what you have. Turn it off and see what happens.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 10:11 PM on May 7, 2008

With the quality of the garbage they're slapping his name on, Pete must be rolling over in his grave. His gold and diamond-encrusted, billion dollar grave. I'd strongly suggest going with the stavros program here: A thing having "Norton" or "Symantec" in the name has a mark of not just low quality, but a mark of warning against use.

"Software Firewalls: The Bane of my Existence, and Proof that the Devil Exists.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 7:56 AM on May 8, 2008

Peter's body may well be up and about, doing the various things that millions of take-the-money-and-run dollars can do for you. I should hope it is, otherwise it'd have been a terrible shame to have sold the rights to paste his name all over inferior products for nothing.

But the Norton I know is dead and buried.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 8:12 AM on May 9, 2008

Have you seen the cover of his assembly language book circa 1987? I've got one of those on the shelf and it's pretty much the same thing. I'll be the first person to admit Pete milked his name for all it's worth.

It's unfortunate that Symantec keeps milking it, because it's not worth anything any more.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 6:15 PM on May 9, 2008

I'll stop trotting this out soon, I promise. But first, please allow me to run the gag into the ground. Thanks.

Your post advocates a:
[ ] community moderated
[X] technical
[ ] social
[ ] legislative
[ ] economic
[X] authoritarian
[ ] free-for-all
solution to crappy Ask MetaFilter comments.

I'm afraid it won't work due... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 12:09 PM on March 19, 2008

It's for the best.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 12:24 PM on March 19, 2008

"I've done it on occasion, checked back, joke gone, system worked, made more work for someone, slept well."

The system worked, sure, but the question is: Why exercise it unnecessarily?

HEY EVERYONE!!!!
"CLEAN UP" AFTER YOURSELFS
ESPECIALLY THE MICROWAVE "AREA"
YOUR MOTHER DOESN'T WORK HERE!!!
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 8:33 PM on March 19, 2008

"...it lends itself to such a "case closed" reception."

Half-baked technical fixes to address fundamentally social problems are just about the most perfect example of something to put a picture of next to the definition of "case closed."

PROBLEM: Being a dick isn't good for Ask Metafilter.
PROPOSED SOLUTION: Make explaining that to users -- after the fact, no less -- the job of three... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 1:50 PM on March 20, 2008

"Only a few short months (years?) ago, we were gnashing our teeth and rebelling against the very heavy handed moderation on the green"

Who is this "we," kemosabe? Let's try again.

People who were wrong were gnashing their teeth and rebelling against moderation on the green.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 6:41 AM on March 18, 2008

Weird. He wanted to know why his attempts to talk to her were unproductive and how to be productive about it. A valid answer is "being a choad about it gets in the way of having a productive conversation." There are two problems, and his is the one he should solve first if he honestly wants to sort the situation out.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 8:17 AM on March 16, 2008

"not the ones who post to hear themselves talk (you know who you are)"

Pipe down, you.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 12:46 AM on March 16, 2008

The thing you are asking for is called "threading." It's been asked for before and turned down before, so I'm not sure what you think has changed. Personally I like threading, but a lot of people don't for what seem to be valid reasons. Matt's been one of those people when this last came up.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 6:21 AM on January 4, 2008

I, uh, would be more than happy to help anyone give the gift of, um, a nice Earth-friendly virtual data center packed to the gills with servers that don't exist and draw no more electricity than the host environment and SAN. Give the gift of eco-riffic data center consolidation! It's good for manageability and it's good for the planet!
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 11:03 PM on November 26, 2007

Unchecked growth will kill us all.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 11:20 AM on November 23, 2007

"Why isn't there a policy against YouTube-only Posts?"

Because your tastes don't dictate what's good or bad for the site as a whole?

If taste mattered, we'd long, long, long since have banned news and politics posts, because those are FAR more irritating than somebody linking to a bad re-encode of Chocolate Rain with audio sync problems.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 8:04 PM on November 20, 2007

The title, like tagging, is metadata. In this case, it's the title of a microdocument: the question. The problem is that there are just enough people out there who simply won't conceptualize their question as a microdocument in need of metadata. For them, it's a question. They're asking something. Personally, I agree with them.

The fundamental error here is that the application -- Ask -- depends functionally on the metadata. It shouldn't.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 8:36 PM on November 12, 2007

"I just want a wider comment box."

It's resizable. The default size is a pretty lame choice, sure, but if you want WIDER! NOW! you can just resize the thing.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 7:44 AM on November 8, 2007

As time goes on I'm more and more useless around here but my very own comment about how to cook is probably the most useful thing I've ever contributed to MetaFilter.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 7:13 PM on October 30, 2007

I never heard back from the guy who illustrated the EMS elephant, and nobody appears to know where to find more stickers. I'll probably have the sticker reproduced one of these days, but am resigned that it will look like crap.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 11:04 AM on October 5, 2007

DO WANT.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 11:15 AM on September 27, 2007

Dammit, I'm turning into a one-trick pony.

Your post advocates a:
[ ] community moderated
[X] technical
[X] social
[ ] legislative
[ ] economic
[ ] authoritarian
[ ] free-for-all
solution to crappy MetaFilter posts.

I'm afraid it won't work due to:
[ ] the King of the Shitpile problem
[X] the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 2:56 PM on September 26, 2007

Please include links to both the normal and print versions of an article, or, if you must choose just one, the print version.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 2:32 PM on September 25, 2007

Nothing?
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 11:56 AM on September 20, 2007

Y'know, loq, I find myself in agreement with you more often than not by quite a wide margin. But in this case I'm just not seeing the phenomenon you're seeing. Is stuff getting closed more often? Yeah, that's obvious enough. However, it isn't clear that these are bad closures. Pretty much everything I've seen closed lately has been for a legitimate reason: a couple of jokey duplicates, some "please use the thread," and a side order of "the question is answered.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 7:37 AM on September 12, 2007

That's not plagiarism, it's what's called "lazy formatting." Irksome, sure, but not criminal.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 7:18 AM on September 6, 2007

Can we have a flag for willful ignorance now?
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 8:57 AM on September 2, 2007

Ooo, I've been itching to do this! Finally my chance!

Your post advocates a:
[ ] community moderated
[X] technical
[ ] social
[ ] legislative
[ ] economic
[ ] authoritarian
[ ] free-for-all
solution to crappy MetaFilter posts.

I'm afraid it won't work due to:
[ ] the King of the Shitpile... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 2:21 PM on August 31, 2007

"But I once thought, what would happen if rather then trying suppress this, embrace it?"

You'd get Slashdot and Digg and K5. All of which, it's worth noting, suck largely because of the point systems being used in preference to deleting noise and secondarily because of active gaming of the point systems. The reason admins of such sites worry about gaming is twofold: not only does it actually happen, but it reduces the quality of the site.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 8:52 AM on September 2, 2007

Wait, what?
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 9:27 PM on August 21, 2007

Same as in town.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 11:24 PM on August 18, 2007

I don't think MetaTalk was intended to be used as a half-assed front page to try out your dodgy political post.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 6:59 PM on August 13, 2007

"Ok, the front page it is."

Yep. Better deleted there than grinding on here!
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 8:24 PM on August 13, 2007

"- smoking hot dudes/ladies"

Crap.

"- dumb stuff I find amusing"

SCORE!
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 8:01 PM on August 9, 2007

"Thoughts?"

Your post advocates a:
[x] community moderated
[x] technical
[ ] social
[ ] legislative
[ ] economic
[ ] authoritarian
solution to crappy MetaFilter posts.

I'm afraid it won't work due to:
[x] the King of the Shitpile problem
[ ] Matt doesn't have time
[ ] the code... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 7:43 PM on August 8, 2007

Slightly improved version for future use.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 9:17 PM on August 8, 2007

It could have been worse. You could have advocated busting up the camera instead of the co-workers!
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 2:37 PM on July 31, 2007

The problem around here isn't excessive editing or culling of comments. The problem around here is insufficient culling of comments.

The current policy -- such as it is -- is sufficiently lax that certain people get the impression they have some inalienable right to be disruptive assholes because they think it's funny or righteous or "important." It's time to prove them wrong.

Vote Hammer of Jessamyn in 2008
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 10:51 AM on August 1, 2007

"The moderation is heavy handed now when compared to when there was just Matt"

The number of shitheels is higher than when moderation was done by only Matt.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 12:55 PM on August 1, 2007

"I'm, at this point, playing devil's advocate and that everything I'm saying should be taken with a grain of salt"

Try saying what you mean instead of being a shit-disturber. People will surely have a lot more respect for you.

(What is it with the willful ignorance games around here lately?)
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 12:46 PM on July 29, 2007

I don't always agree with the guy, but lately whenever I read something that's Damned Fine there's been a fair chance of seeing his name below it. Count me among the nice thing-sayers.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 11:17 AM on July 29, 2007

Sure sounds nice, except that the resources used to grant pony requests (mathowie, pb)(the Metafilter application application and database servers) are not the same resources that are used to post quality links...
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 5:00 PM on July 25, 2007

"I didn't categorize the topic as being a "best of the web"

In which case, please don't post it to MetaFilter. That's the point you appear to be missing: it doesn't fit the description (the fairly loose "best of the web" standard) of something that needs to be posted.

That you think the information you posted is important is distinct from it being appropriate to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 6:28 PM on July 18, 2007

. . .
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 11:12 AM on July 17, 2007

"Encourages?"

Did you actually consider reading what I wrote? It seems most of those who've hurled that accusation at me failed to actually read the answer I gave, and instead got hung up on the fact that one time, once, a guy who was essentially bullying me with his camera over the course of an hour or so got shut down.

Anyone who follows my suggestion as written -- not as you imagine it's written, but the actual... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 6:06 PM on July 9, 2007

"Is it possible that your camera-shattering response might have been appropriate to your unique circumstance, but that the anecdote was nonetheless ill-considered in the context of that thread?"

I don't know. Let's stop skimming, read and find out, shall we?

"Perhaps my advice would have been more palatable if I didn't include the entire spectrum of response from polite, to firm, to avoidance, to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 6:21 PM on July 9, 2007

I'm growing weary of people playing the willful ignorance card, and no doubt my protestations are getting exhausting to read. Therefore I'll make my final comment about this matter and leave it alone.

"Taking someone's camera from them by force and destroying it is ... [a] breathtakingly dumb way to deal with people."

This is absolutely and without debate true! With the exception of a certain rare type of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 6:57 PM on July 9, 2007

That was a good thread for one reason and one reason only: It smoked out the completely insane people who think "couple" can mean "three." For that alone we as a community should be thankful.
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 11:39 AM on June 30, 2007

What exactly is so loony about wanting to work less? That sounds like a damned fine idea to me. Admittedly pseudoscientific hokum seems to me to have been a bit more prominent in the last year or so, but even that isn't so terribly pronounced an effect. But I don't see where "I want to work less and spend fewer dollars as a result" even registers on the hokum scale.

Did you mean to link to something else?
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 7:54 PM on June 23, 2007