Quick Test

To see if new posts are also plagued by this sudden and mysterious incapacity to leave comments.



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Lektu
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Lektu
10 years ago

Testing…

db
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db
10 years ago

maybe, maybe not.

Howley
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Howley
10 years ago

Linux, Unix, rulez all the rest (except haiku) are flaming pieces of spyware loded crap. Ehumph, er….Testing test, test…..

chris
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chris
10 years ago

So you tried to taunt the NSA, and the computer mysteriously stopped working…

NSA Agent #4
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10 years ago

No no, everything is fine. Just pretend we aren’t here.

FBI Surveillance Van Operator
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FBI Surveillance Van Operator
10 years ago

Nothing weird from here.

Vague, Yet Menacing, Government Agency
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Vague, Yet Menacing, Government Agency
10 years ago

Please continue.

Not The NSA
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Not The NSA
10 years ago

Take off your tinfoil hats guys. Only weird internet nerds worry about stuff like that.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
10 years ago

chris,

dun-dun-DAAAHHHH!

CIA Opretive 271
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CIA Opretive 271
10 years ago

Mr. Watts,

We found some things that worry us about the building you live in. There seems to be some problems with the foundation and plumbing. Please contact the relevant parties (numbers included in the annon. e-mail on C’s machine). The electrical and the comm systems are “O.K.” but it looks like you ISP is not supplying you with the bandwidth you contracted for.

P.S. Love the new novel. Big Fan. As soon as it publishes I will pay you for the copy I have.

Peter D
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Peter D
10 years ago

I notice a lot of blogs disable posts on comments over a certain number of days old (to discourage spam, which seems to hop on to old pages in the hopes that people don’t monitor). I’d just assumed you started following the same policy.

The line at the bottom says it’s powered by WordPress… maybe it’s nothing you did but they did an update and turned that feature on by default, and you have to go into your settings there to turn it off?

Nestor
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10 years ago

Yes that was my assumption too, there’s a setting in “discussion” I think, that closes comments after X days.

whoever
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whoever
10 years ago

Don’t they automatically stop accepting new posts after some length of time? Or is it based on last three posts?

Funny how we make such a big deal out of the voyeurs when there’s all the thugs and psychos roaming about freely.

ken
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ken
10 years ago

Since this is such a non-specific post, I have a question that hopefully won’t appear too out-of-place…

I notice that I can pre-order Echopraxia from Amazon now, with a publish date of August 26, 2014. However, I’d love to lay my hands on a signed copy.

Since you won’t be returning to the States anytime soon, is there a chance that you might offer a few signed copies to the faithful minions of your Squid Army?

Just askin’ before I go ahead and click “pre-order” on that Amazon page.

whoever
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whoever
10 years ago

PS: Finally had the chance to read the BtR essay in full this evening. Probably should read it again, but why start behaving responsibly now?

Peter’s definition of dystopia really strikes home. Not in some farflung future, but in the recent past. For example, the increase in the use of drones (one of which lead to Scahill’s book and film Dirty Wars due to its use to assassinate a US citizen; a practice currently being discussed for use again:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/obama-administration-weighs-drone-attack-against-us-terror-suspect/

) was due to the decision that it was morally superior to torturing the wives and children of men accused of terrorism in foreign CIA prisons in front of them.

The other obvious question is about the inherent state of humanity on the “good/evil” scale. I think there’s the question as to how well we actually know the “vast majority” of people we’ve met. Have we encountered them on a sinking boat with limited escape boats or failing planes with a shortage of parachutes? That’s when you get the real face of people you encounter, not when they can afford to show you their social mask. The rest is just a Rorschach test or a blank face like Hello Kitty upon which we project our own thoughts, feelings onto those we encounter. How many Edward Snowdens and Barrett Browns do we see? Too damn few.

My two cents.

01
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01
10 years ago

Do you have a comment-management plugin working, the one which gives you little circles near post names ?

I suggest you do a full backup, install that beast, and see what it displays with regards to comments.

It appears to me that comments on old posts have become disabled as opposed to merely closed (IIRC, wordpress-wise that’s two different states)

Nestor
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10 years ago

You might have some sort of malware, wordpress is like the windows of the website world, popular and ubiquitous so it gets all the hack attempts. I’ve detected some on my sites when stuff went screwy with plugins in strange ways.

Joe
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Joe
10 years ago

This is completely unrelated, but I just wanted to draw some people to True Detective. What Blindsight is to science fiction, True Detective is to televised crime dramas.

A six-minute long tracking shot has gotten most of the attention so far – but deservedly so. But if you had told me five years ago that a TV show starring the male lead of Failure to Launch would be exploring the deepest depths of existential dread and psychological horror while asking the viewer to take seriously the possibility that humanity is just an tortured aberration I would have laughed my head off.

Daniel
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Daniel
10 years ago

Since the commenting system is being problematic in the other thread, I’ll repost my question here:

Mr Watts

Why can I get a Kindle edition of Maelstrom, but not Starfish or Behemoth? I know I can download them free, but I would rather pay so you get some money, and I want the convenience of the cloud rather than having to carry around dead tree (I move a lot for work). Is it some sort of rotating availability on Amazon’s end? Dispute with the publisher? Your choice?

Thank you

– Daniel

Daniel
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Daniel
10 years ago

And True Detective is completely amazing. 1 more episode of the 2nd act, then the final 2 for the 3rd, I have no idea how they are going to wrap this all up.

Shame that Cohle won’t get any more monologues though.

whoever
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whoever
10 years ago

More off-topicness, but since PW is busy and has conquered the Poland scifi segment, I thought I’d point out that Hungary may be a good next market in part due to the awesomely wild artwork that came out of marketing the Star Wars films. Have to scroll down about 1/3 to see where they start. Am wishing some of what’s there was actually in the films or, really, any film.

http://io9.com/incredibly-weird-star-wars-posters-you-probably-havent-1521987518

Jeremy C
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Jeremy C
10 years ago

Hey, look what I found on Amazon today:

http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Planets-Science-Anthology-Chaosium/dp/1568823932

I looked on Chaosium’s website and still couldn’t find the Extreme Planets Anth on there. And I do not like their website, it seems they intentionally made things hard to find?

whoever
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whoever
10 years ago

A Glenn Greenwald must-read for anyone who wants to see how the greedy a-holes who run their government actually operate. “How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

Seruko (Free Candy Inside Van)
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Is it possible your banner/protest thing had a misplaced div or something? Do you back up your style sheets? It’s quite possible activating/deactivating your banner broke the old layout, which is saved in posts made prior to the banner but still lets you write posts correctly. Probably want to look in your WordPress -> appearance -> editor -> comments section and make sure that looks like that same there as in your old posts. I have no idea.
But looking at your source for your old posts I see they’re missing the code for comments after the last Use generated comment. Compare lines after say 600 ish on
view-source:https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=4657#comments

with

641 ish on
view-source:www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=4624
The previous poster was right where you probably ought to save what you have and then try to re apply your theme.

Sheila
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Sheila
10 years ago

Daniel,

I think you can get the cloud convenience feature if you use personal documents with amazon. I save copies of all the ebooks I get from stores other than amazon in my documents and can fetch them on my kindle. what I’d really like is to run my own personal service to deliver ebooks… too lazy.