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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: March 15, 2014, 06:25:03 PM »

OMG BITCOIN SURE GOT TOLD

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Satellites

« on: March 15, 2014, 11:46:56 AM »

That's what a circular orbit looks like when projected onto a mercator style map.  On the flat earth map that wave type pattern just becomes a circle above the earth, just as it does around a spherical earth.  I'm at work right now or I'd whip up a graphic for you.

Crude as hell, but here you go:



It's a bit epicyclic, but that's to be expected.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Previous/next page buttons please

« on: March 15, 2014, 11:00:12 AM »

Well, that was already an option. Apparently, SMF has two modes of displaying page links:

• one that displays an untruncated list of all pages with arrows, e.g. « 1 2 3 4 5 »
• one that tries to truncate the pages like 1 ... 5 and has no arrows

The truncating behaviour breaks for people who don't have JavaScript enabled, so I consider getting rid of this to be a benefit. Then again, it might get problematic with very long threads. We'll see how it works, and if it gets annoying, I'll look at hacking the two modes together. For the time being, the little arrows will now take you back and forth.

EDIT: I just realised how terrible this will be if a thread/board grows too much. Definitely just a temporary solution.

I think I managed to solve this. Pages should now truncate while still having the «/» arrows. While I'm reasonably confident that this code works, please let me know if you notice any strange behaviour.

Out of curiosity, do people think that « and » is a good way to mark these buttons? Should they be more visible? This is what they look like right now:


And here's an example of how they could be bigger and clearer:


Or we could make them images. I don't know if there's even a demand for that idea, but if there is, I'm open to suggestions.

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Announcements / Re: New backup system

« on: March 14, 2014, 11:53:26 AM »

Keep in mind that it's essentially impossible to make private messages hard for admins to read without requiring the users to share some type of encryption key or password through other means than this forum (which we would necessarily have to have no control over). If someone implemented encryption but the keys were stored on the server, we could just use them to decrypt your messages.

The same goes for any other communication platform where messages are stored on the server, including Facebook and your GMail account.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 14, 2014, 08:37:59 AM »

vidya game design

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Flat Earth Tool Set

« on: March 13, 2014, 12:17:05 AM »

How does a one word reply like "nope" not qualify as low content posting?

Irrelevant.

This isn't S&C. Get out of my Tool thread.

Yes, markjo, please stop derailing threads.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Flat Earth Tool Set

« on: March 12, 2014, 06:45:32 PM »

Or is that too much to hope for from the management? 

You may have missed that (although I'd be surprised, given that you were involved in the discussion), but forum staff are held to the same standards as any other poster, not higher.

Perhaps if you were to reply with meaningful responses, rather than with vague, one word answers, then there might not be so much confusion and the discussion could proceed in a productive manner.

I'm very sorry that you feel that way. My post was pretty clear, and if you don't know what "nope" means, well, that's your problem, not mine.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Flat Earth Tool Set

« on: March 12, 2014, 09:03:27 AM »

Basic maths tells us that it would not be possible to put 10 capital cities of the world on a flat scale map and maintain the actual distances between each one.

You're more than welcome to demonstrate that. So far, all you've contributed to this forum is a bunch of unsubstantiated claims and straw man attacks. Don't expect people to take you seriously.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: March 12, 2014, 08:01:55 AM »

Wasn't it just a few decades ago that scientists knew conclusively that we were heading towards another ice age?

Yup, global cooling was all the rage in the 1970s and 1980s. Then they decided that the Earth isn't cooling up, but instead warming up. When people started asking about it, they said that an impending ice age is fully compatible with global warming.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-prediction-perils-111927
http://web.archive.org/web/20051119045242/http://sepp.org/glwarm/sciaddheat.html

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia Invades Ukraine

« on: March 12, 2014, 07:59:45 AM »

There is much more to this matter...

I do agree that, to some extent, this was probably planned and is part of a larger plan. However, I do not see how Tomlinson is relevant. Could you clarify?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?

« on: March 12, 2014, 07:56:28 AM »

Or maybe they found someone who wanted to buy a 777 at a discount.

Ryan Air.

Well, y'know, they do want to start providing transcontinental flights...

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Flat Earth Tool Set

« on: March 12, 2014, 07:55:04 AM »

You said they would not be different, so must be the same.

I did not say that. I said that your statement of "they must be different" is false.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 11, 2014, 06:38:57 PM »

Kotaku is tumblr for video games

sig'd for truth

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Caps lock

« on: March 11, 2014, 01:03:21 PM »

All passwords in the world are case-sensitive.

Incorrect.

Please refrain from attempting to derail S&C posts. Consider this a warning.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: March 11, 2014, 08:49:54 AM »

Wait, people still give a shit about Kotaku?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?

« on: March 11, 2014, 08:14:19 AM »

Silly Malaysians thought the Earth is round and ran out of fuel

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Caps lock

« on: March 11, 2014, 02:35:08 AM »

You're wrong, password here is not case sensitive.

What on Earth are you talking about?

I meant that when you type in an incorrect password, and it says "incorrect password", you make it say "incorrect password. Remember that passwords are caps sensitive, check your caps" or something similar to that. I'd assume it would be very easy since it would just be changing the text of the page when typing an incorrect password, but I could be wrong.

Why would we do that? There are many reasons why a password can be wrong, why should we give special attention to one? All passwords in the world are case-sensitive.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Amanda Knox guilty again.

« on: March 11, 2014, 12:39:18 AM »

A court of law doesn't seem to agree with you.

I'm surprised you didn't pick up on the sarcasm in my post.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Flat Earth Tool Set

« on: March 11, 2014, 12:07:06 AM »

Please explain why distances must be the same on different shaped surfaces.

Why would I try explaining something I didn't say or claim? That'd be a silly thing for me to do, and it's a very silly thing for you to request.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Flat Earth Tool Set

« on: March 10, 2014, 10:27:52 PM »

Flat earth distances must be different to round earth ones.

Nope.