I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, or whether the new VS has got it covered. This nasty virus that's killing so many of our vids and I expect will continue to do so... does this also mean that people are losing their rankings?

If so, I propose that no matter how many sifted videos you have left, it shouldn't affect the achievement that members have already made. It could become very disheartening if people are continually getting busted down the ranks, especially for those who enjoy the aspect of gentle competition here on the sift.

Really, if you've sifted a video, that should be the important thing, you've done what you set out to do, and all this copyright douchebollocks can get to fuck

I'm sure I speak for a lot of us, old-timers, when I say...

stop giving @rasch187 so much work!

If anyone @blankfist or quotes me or even leaves a message on my profile page, Siftie doesn't send out the appropriate email. Well, by golly, he's bad news, I tell ya. What gives? Why I outta!

"The values of the figure of merit shown (mdn (min, max)) are n=3, 1 (1, 2); n=4, 60 (190, 50); n=5, 50 (40, 90); and n=6, 140 (60, 300)."

I hate this sentence is it right?

Ladies and gentlemen of the sift (but mainly ladies)...

I'm planning a trip to the US at the moment, and figured while I'm there, why not try to get some of the north-eastern Americans together into one place?
Right now my plan is to be there around early September, but that plan is flexible at the moment, and can be modified if we can get a large enough number of people at a different date.

So, if you live in the general area, or within travel distance (what that is is up to you. I'm going to be traveling halfway around the world ) and feel like meeting your fellow sifters, post here and let's get this going!

	Chrome	(14 votes)
	Firefox	(31 votes)
	IE	(0 votes)
	Safari	(1 vote)
	Seamonkey or one of those other ones	(5 votes)
A total of 51 votes have been cast on this poll

Vote and tell us why.

OK, so here is the story.

My wife used to do some transcription work for a company.
Upon starting the job, they supplied us with a computer - all set up and ready with all the needed programs and such.
We paid for the computer - all rent to own type of thing.

So now, many years later, my wife hasn't worked for them in over 4 years and she recently got a new computer.
So I've taken the old one, added new RAM and basically was getting it ready for one of my kids to use. It runs great and is much faster than it ever was.

I figured I would run the system restore program and re-instate it to it's regular factory settings.
(Win XP Pro - HP Compaq - Install files on a partition of the hard drive )

So I did! And it went flawlessly.
Except for one thing... As I booted it up, it goes to the windows log-in screen and wants passwords to access it.
I guess what has happened is the company went in an frigged with the install files.

I remember back when we got it (vaguely) that we had to input a code that came with the instruction sheets my wife needed to get started working for this company. I have all the "computer discs and documents" that came with the computer but my wife has long thrown out her papers on starting with her new company (it's been maybe 7 years). We then changed the user password to something else and never looked back.

The admin user/password doesn't even show/come up unless I'm in safe mode - then I can access it - or at least see where to enter the user&pw - If I knew what they were.

Now I want into our computer and we are locked out!
I tried a program called "OPHCrack" which is all over the internet as being a great tool - but it failed to get me in.

I need some suggestions. This is a silly thing but the computer is mine - I have full rights to use it and I am getting frustrated!

Help me Obi Wan - you're my only help!

Hi!

Is it me or does VideoSift forgets login after upgrading (internally with its updater) Mozilla's SeaMonkey versions? For example, I went from v2.0.5 to v2.0.6 (came out yesterday and I upgraded earlier today) and noticed VS didn't remember me so I had to manually log in. Same thing happened with previous version upgrades and on other Windows computers (did not check Mac OS X and Debian/Linux yet). Do you guys see this with Firefox too (v3.6.7 came out yesterday)?

Thank you in advance.

I know I haven't contributed much to the sift in a while, but I'm still a pretty frequent lurker, and today I learned something that I thought you guys might find interesting.

It appears that VideoSift is a valid autocomplete word on android devices. I assume this is just being populated from google's search data, but still it's pretty cool that the site warrants an inclusion in what is essentially a list of common english words.

Every now and then for the last couple of months, when I try to watch a video posted from youtube, I'll get a video like what you see above -- the video appears to be shifted down and/or zoomed in, making the pause button and all the other stuff on the bottom of the youtube video completely disappear. This happens maybe once out of every ten videos.

Am I the only one having this issue? Is it a Videosift problem, or a Sarzy problem?

I became a sifter for a little 2 years ago. Now that I check, I find Lucky's post (http://happy.videosift.com/talk/MintBBB-in-the-Weekly-Top-Users) that's dated 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago. My first sifing milestone After that I was sifting like a crazed person, got my crown and burned out about a year ago.

I took a looong break. I was gone about a year, but now I am back. At first I was a bit disoriented with some of the new channels and changes - backup embeds, badges.. But I started sifting, because I missed VS And because Choggie is gone, again. Hope for good. Nothing personal, chogster, but I do not want to be in VS if you are still here. You were not mean to me, actually you were quite nice, but I do love my DH NetRunner and you and him didn't get along to say it nicely..

ANYWAY!

I just want to thank everybody who has welcomed me back.. who was asking me to come back during my break.. who has been voting for my weird selection of videos and checking out my pqueue Who's upvoting and commenting and making me feel good to be back!

I cannot ask for a better start! I saw people having badges and was wondering if I'd ever get any, now that I've been gone. But it didn't seem to be a problem. I've even gotten a bunch of #1 videos, and now I feel guilty for coming back and doing so great!

Don't hate me because I am beautif.. I mean successful! Just kidding!!!!

Again, I just wanted to say thanks for your support and for the warm welcome. I hope to be sifting for a long time and trying not to go crazy and burn out! Oh, and me and Net have been on vacation for the last 2 weeks. That's why I have been able to grab good embeds every morning Back to work tomorrow (part time tho, yay!), so I might slow down.

I will promise to try to vote for more stuff, and even *gasp* comment every now and then. Try, that's all!

Love you all!

- Mint

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Oy vey!

Yesterday VideoSift went down for several hours due to a power outage at our hosting provider. For some reason, a new technical issue arose on one of our servers and after spending several hours (and ruining all my plans for this lovely weekend day ) I was finally able to get the site back up and running, and at full speed...

We apologize for the horrifying last day without your VideoSift fix, but that's the nature of the IT beast. Forces of digital nature can't be helped.

Now every get back to your normal Sifting day. Monocle smile.

WTF is going on? I can navigate to some pages with relative ease, while others are slow to load, or they don't load at all. Specifically, when I click on a video title, the page NEVER loads.

It took 57.327 seconds for the home page to load.
It took 3.3596 seconds for me to navigate from the home page to the Sift Talk page.
It took 3.5374 seconds for me to navigate from the Sift Talk page to my profile page.
It took 57.4651 seconds to navigate back to the home page.
It took 4.0043 seconds to navigate back to my profile page.
It took 57.455 seconds to navigate to my Comments Posted page.
And clicking on a video title on ANY page gives me a '502 Bad Gateway' error, after taking at least a minute of loading just to get that damn message.

Is anyone else experiencing this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. And it isn't a browser issue, because the same thing happens on all my browsers (Chrome, Opera, Firefox, yadda, yadda, yadda).

Think about the children!

May I rest in peace. ✝

EDIT:
Actually, I see there are no new emoticons... my Google Chrome was set on slightly increased zoom. You can behold the terrifying difference in emoticons here: http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3905/93306447.jpg

Worthy of long intellectual discussion - for certain.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6734
"The picture that everyone has long been waiting to see became available after 3:25 pm (Eastern) yesterday afternoon, when BP closed the choke lines on the 3-ram stack, and oil stopped flowing into the Gulf."

I had a huge rant in a oil-spill related video yesterday, (bill nye / cnn) which I responded to this:

"BP experienced MAJOR SETBACKS yesterday 7/15/2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/14/gulf-oil-still-gushing-aft_n_645559.html"


I don't know how many damn times one has to scream and scream about NEVER listening to Huffington Post or any of these other sensationalist media outlets - both on the left and the right - who don't know fuckall of what they're talking about, and are more interested in blaring freak-out headlines about the end of the world, just to get up their clicks.

But holy, fuckin', hell!

THEOILDRUM DOT COM

I've said it time and time and time and time and time again, and STILL people are quoting HuffPost, TPM, Reason, Politico etc. Corexit? Do you really want to get your information about disperants from some loud-mouth radio douchebag with a list of verifiable nonsense? Do you really want to believe some random dumbass showing oil on his driveway, or would you rather listen to people who have titles like "Director of The School of Natural Resources and Environment" and who specialize in chemical disperants?

As you see from the quote above, as of yesterday, the oil stopped gushing into the GOM. If people were getting their information from the proper sources, instead of bent, sensationalised bullshit, people, and especially sifters, could become not only more informed, but also help stop misinformation by correcting their friends and coworkers etc.

But instead, people have been screaming about "Obama isn't doing anything!" (totally false) "Obama dropped the ball!" (totally false) "Obama let BP call the shots" (totally false) - and now, what we have to deal with is the vast majority of the US voting public believing verifiable lies cooked-up by the people who want to see Obama and the Democrats fail. And every one of you who believes any of the above shit should be ashamed of yourself.

Steven Chu fired some fucking GAMMA RAYS into the bottom of the ocean floor, to see just what the hell was happening. He did that at almost DAY ONE. Yes, Steven Chu, the Energy Secretary appointed by Obama. But listening to the comments here at VS, that never happened.

The program that has now shut off the oil, was designed by and approved by the Obama administrations team. The team did include people from the very corporations who made this mistake, including BP, Halliburton and others. But also had some of the brainiest mechanical engineers and chemical scientists on the planet. But listening to the comments here at VS, it's as if Bush was in charge and appointed the fucking Arabian Horse Prince (heckuva job brownie) to head this all up.

So please, next time there is some really intensely fuckedup situation on our planet somewhere, get your facts in order. Don't listen to the media noise-machine, don't pay any attention to the bickering and sniping back-and-forth of clueless pundits trying to gain political points.

James Carville anyone?

That guy was one of the very worst of this entire episode. Pushing complete bullshit every chance he could get. But people still were all "well, you know, he does have a point!" Yeah, if his point is to get his smug face on the teevee eight times a day.

I actually expect a lot better from the people here at VS. In my 2 or 3 years here I've learned there's one hell of a lot of smart motherfuckers, and aside from a couple of short-sighted political partisans, I've come to expect a lot of insight about any number of issues. Which is what has made me infuriated.

If anyone wants to follow the rest of this situation, please please please please please please please please please:
http://www.theoildrum.com/

Can't imagine catchy titles? This is 4 u! Type in the subject (noun for you english geeks), the computer makes it pop!

http://linkbaitgenerator.com/index.php

Alexa shows nothing since mid-June. There's now a whole bunch of videos that need to be called dead.