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One upon a time, movies were released in different countries at different times. This could be done because there was no easy way to copy and store away a movie. If you lived in Italy, you could wait up to two years before you saw a popular movie. Then two things happened: it became easy to copy and store movies; and everybody in the world suddenly became interconnected. The regional segregation has ended: the only ones to believe that it's still there are the dinosaurs from a past era.
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Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal"
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(Score: 3, Funny) by pTamok on Tuesday June 09 2015, @10:20AM
As have I, by mistake.
(Score: 2) by Ryuugami on Tuesday June 09 2015, @10:47AM
Holy crap, the entire interface is tiny O_o
And getting tinier. Had to ctrl+wheel to even see the text I'm typing. Any way to fix this? For now I'll try to put a few closing tags here.
If a random comment (or TFS) with an unclosed tag can wreak havoc on the entire site, that's a major bug :/
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(Score: 2) by Ryuugami on Tuesday June 09 2015, @10:49AM
For now I'll try to put a few closing tags here.
Didn't work :(
Seems like you can't close a tag that was left open from another comment.
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Tuesday June 09 2015, @12:51PM
Intuitive attempt :)
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(Score: 2) by lentilla on Tuesday June 09 2015, @03:23PM
If you are having difficulties with the size of input boxes (particularly with <textarea> elements), may I suggest you find a suitable browser extensions? I'm using the GPL-licensed "It's All Text" [mozilla.org] here in my Iceweasel (aka Firefox). I edit my submission in Emacs (pick your favourite editor) and when I'm finished it gets dumped back into the browser. I get all the functionally of my regular editor and I still get to use the web like a "normal" person.
You might have a point about the size of this particular text-entry box but it's a fact of life that the majority of people will be mildly dissatisfied with anything that is designed to consensus. (Consensus being the point at which the majority isn't unhappy.) I'm content provided that the consensus hasn't arrived at a "solution" that prevents me from working around it easily so I won't complain too much unless I am actively prevented from working around the annoyance.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Ryuugami on Tuesday June 09 2015, @03:44PM
Thanks for the help, but I don't have any problems with the default size :)
There was a bug (well, two bugs) with unclosed tags in the summary and comment subjects being applied to everything below it, including the input boxes. On top of that, subjects weren't filtered for tags at all, so arbitrary tags could be used there... including <script>. Whoops.
In this particular case, after three or four layers of <small> the text became too tiny to comfortably read, hence my comment about trying to close the tags (it failed; perhaps I should've put them in the subject instead of in the comment body).
Thanks to a swift action from the devs (thank you guys, you're the best), at least the subject filtering bug seems to have been patched before any damage was done. Well, except for a bunch of comments that were demonstrating the bug but no longer do so :)
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