Cap'n Refsmmat

The session information doesn't update because the system doesn't realize that the bot went on--it thinks it's still looking at the page. If the bots kept the session information, vB would realize "this is the same as the guy viewing thread x, so change the who's online to make him here."

It's because they don't handle session cookies properly so vBulletin thinks there's a bunch, when it's actually one or two.

That is, singlehandedly, the world's ugliest webbrowser. I downloaded it, seriously. Why can't you even maximize the individual windows? Keeping them so small means it looks TERRIBLE. Nothing fits in the little windows. If you're only viewing one site, then 3/4 of the window is WASTED. Then there's no options menu, no password manager, and 4 identical toolbars for each window. Looks like you made it with a GUI Visual Basic maker.

Eventually it will.

It's a Yahoo! search robot. I think blike installed a mod that allows you to see them when they crawl the site.

I think Pangloss' sense of satire is getting rather liberal in its applications.

What happens if we haven't watched any of them?

I believe I responded to this already.

That's not the way it works. Stealth reduces the effective radius that the radar can operate in. If a radar network thinks they can detect any normal aircraft, then a F-22 will be able to fly through the gaps--it has to be much closer before being detected. The F-117 pioneered a system where radar sites could be programmed in, and the aircraft would fly itself around them automatically.

I think the point, however, is that even the F-35's air superiority capabilities will be far better than any other enemy aircraft, so the difference isn't that bad.

I think, due to the way his post is worded, this person comes to him, not vice versa. It may be impossible to avoid him (they work at the same place, etc) or perhaps this person makes a point of coming and bugging the crap out of the original poster.

I think the most fun thing to do--not necessarily the best-- would be to look up a load of words that he wouldn't know, and then use them to insult him. e.g. "Would you like me to defenestrate you?" ("Would you like me to throw you out the window?")

Physics: The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Read carefully.

What is this "secret service" mentioned on your page? Anyways, I'd be glad to help the instant I get this bloody summer reading project over with (i.e. today). I'd be able to do some moderating, some articles (depending on what they are) and perhaps some coding, although you shouldn't trust me with that.

Thanks dave, but Aeternus gave me a nifty solution for it as well. Works rather nicely. I should get myself to learn proper regex some day.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4298814.stm The third space tourist ever has launched in a Soyuz and is headed for a 10-day stay at the ISS. I think this again is going to spark a lot of debate among space-program skeptics, saying that "if all we're doing is flying tourists, what's the point of the ISS?" Frankly I don't know if NASA should be a tourist destination. It would be rather entertaining to have a billionaire on a Mars flight, but I don't know why they wasted cargo space on a dinky Soyuz just because someone forked over enough money. Opinions?

I think we'd have to design it so it wouldn't be "asking for money." I agree that begging makes a site look bad, so we'd have to carefully engineer it. I'll see what regulations other sites have on paid subscribers and how they handle the system.

I wish I had this law in Michigan. I could have shot one of my neighbors and got away with it. That's the problem--if someone bugs you, you can shoot them. As long as you can say "He's pissing in his back yard!* He's going to infiltrate our children with his evil! So I killed him!" *This segment was intended to represent one person, living or dead, non-coincidentally.

That's the flaw with most of these arguments--it wouldn't be eternal night or day, it would be like the North or South Poles, with 6-month cycles of sun or night. It would help regulate the temperatures some.

I'm trying to achieve a better BBCode parser (for my wiki) using regex to do tables. At the moment, I have a table command and such, but it does not allow attributes like a real table. What I want is a simple preg function that allows the parser to detect a [table] tag and convert it directly to html, including any attributes inside it (all of the attributes are converted raw). The same goes for [row], [data], and [heading] commands, but those would simply be tweaked versions of the table tag. Anybody willing to help?

We'd have to get more news to email. Also people would say "well, I can get the news without email, so I don't need it." Perhaps we could use RSS to get a whole bunch more news to aggregate together. That would make it more worthwhile.

"If it looks too disgusting to be true, it probably is." The live vital signs thing is especially silly. It's just a GIF I think.

Okay, I'll concede the first point on feeling superior. I think we'd have to look on other paid-subscription forums such as webhostintalk to see how they deal with it. As for your other points, I suppose I agree with your points 1 and 4, as they are easily abused features. Nice to know you actually considered it though.